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Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry (Telugu: పెనుమర్తి విశ్వనాథశాస్త్రి) (2 May 1929 – 25 December 1998) was a famous Telugu writer and editor.[1] His pen name is "Ajanta".

He was born in Kesanakurru village in West Godavari district. After primary education at Narsapuram, he graduated and worked in different magazines in Hyderabad and Chennai. He has worked as Chief Sub-editor of Andhra Prabha daily magazine in Vijayawada. He followed in the line of Srirangam Srinivasa Rao and rose to dizzy heights.

He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his Telugu-language poetic work "Swapna Lipi" in 1997.

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  1. ↑ Ajanta, Luminaries of 20th Century, Part I, Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005, pp: 7-8.


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