Tripuraneni Gopichand

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| name = Tripuraneni Gopichand
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| pseudonym = Tripuraneni Gopichand
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1910|9|8}}
| birth_place = [[Angaluru]], [[Krishna district]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1962|11|2|1910|9|8}}
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| occupation = Novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, editor, film director
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| citizenship = [[India]]
| education = [[Law]]
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* Pandita Parameswara Sastri Veelunama
* [[Asamardhuni Jivayatra]] (1947)
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| spouse = Sakuntala devi
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| father = [[Tripuraneni Ramaswamy]]}}
| children = Tripuraneni Pramila, Ramesh Babu, Rajani, Ramgopal, Nalini, [[Sai Chand]]
| relatives = [[Pitcheswara Rao Atluri]]
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'''Tripuraneni Gopichand''' (8 September 1910 – 2 November 1962) was a [[Telugu language|Telugu]] short story writer, novelist, editor, essayist, playwright, film director, and a radical humanist. Gopichand was the son of renowned social reformer and play writer [[Tripuraneni Ramaswamy]]. Gopichand, inspired by [[M. N. Roy|M.N.Roy's]] Radical Humanism, became the first state secretary of the [[Radical Democratic Party (India)]] Andhra Pradesh.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scientific humanism|date=3 November 2010|url=http://zolaleila.blogspot.com/2010/11/radical-humanist-movement-in-india-with.html}}</ref> His second novel ''[[Asamardhuni Jivayatra]]'' (''Bungler: A Journey Through Life''), was the first [[psychological novel]] in [[Telugu literature]].<ref>{{cite web|title=DVNarasaRaju &TGopichand-Writers|publisher=Lamakaan|date=2 November 2013|url=http://www.lamakaan.com/events/851|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224053021/http://www.lamakaan.com/events/851|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 February 2014}}</ref> Gopichand was posthumously awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi]] Award for ''Pandita Parameswara Sastri Veelunama'' in 1963, the first Telugu novel to win this award.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/showSearchAwardsResult.jsp?year=&author=&awards=AA&language=TELUGU |title=Sahitya Akademi.Awards.Telugu |publisher=Sahitya-akademi.gov.in |date= |accessdate=26 February 2014}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/79827107/Asamardhuni-Jeeva-Yatra-By-Tripuraneni-Gopichand |title=Asamardhuni Jeeva Yatra By Tripuraneni Gopichand |publisher=Scribd.com |date= |accessdate=26 February 2014}}</ref> His novels typically features gloomy, incomplete, unsatisfied and unsatisfying protagonist tortured by a sense of [[Guilt (emotion)|guilt]].<ref name="Anjaneyulu1964">{{cite journal|last=Anjaneyulu|first=D.|title=A Novel of Modern Andhra|journal=[[Indian Literature (journal)|Indian Literature]]|date=1964|volume=7|issue=2|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|publication-place=New Delhi|pages=23|issn=0019-5804|jstor=23329244}} {{closed access}}</ref>

His novel "Asamardhuni Jeeva Yatra", is part of the syllabus for APPSC examinations in Telugu literature as an optional subject.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}

A postal stamp in his honour was released by the Government of India on his 100th birthday.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://philamirror.info/2011/09/08/indiastamp-on-tripuraneni-gopichand-today/tripuraneni-gopichand-stamp/ |title=tripuraneni gopichand stamp | Phila-Mirror |publisher=|date=8 September 2011 |accessdate=26 February 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Special Correspondent |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article2443555.ece |title=‘Literature is social documentation' |publisher=The Hindu |date=11 September 2011 |accessdate=26 February 2014}}</ref>

==List of Writings==

===Novels===
* ''Parivartanam''
* ''[[Asamardhuni Jivayatra]]'' (first psychoanalysis novel in Telugu)
* ''Merupula Marakalu''
* ''Pandita Parameswara Sastry Veelunaama''
* ''Yamapasam''
* ''Cheekati Gadulu''
* ''Sidhilalayam''
* ''Gadiya Padani Talupulu''
* ''Gatinchanigatam''
* ''Pillatemmera''
* ''Premopahatulu''

===Non-fiction===
* ''Tatvavettalu''
* ''Postu Chaiyani Uttarulu''
* ''Maku Unnayi Swagataalu''
* ''Vubhayakusalopari''

==Filmography of Telugu films==
* Chaduvukunna Ammayilu (1963) (Dialogues)
* Dharmadevatha (1952) (Dialogues)
* Priyuralu (1952) (Story, Dialogues and Direction)
* Perantalu (1951) (Director)
* Lakshmamma (1950) (Director)
* [[Gruhapravesam]] (1946) (Story)
* Raithubidda (1939) (Dialogues)

== Family tree ==
{{Tree list}}
* [[T._Ramaswamy_Choudary]]
**[[Tripuraneni_Gopichand]]
***[[Tripuraneni Sai Chand (Actor)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|id=0329731|name=Tripuraneni Gopichand}}

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[[Category:1910 births]]
[[Category:1962 deaths]]
[[Category:Telugu people]]
[[Category:Telugu writers]]
[[Category:People from Krishna district]]
[[Category:Screenwriters from Karnataka]]
[[Category:Indian humorists]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]
[[Category:Indian male screenwriters]]
[[Category:Kannada screenwriters]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:Novelists from Karnataka]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian screenwriters]]

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