Chaitanya Pingali
“Chaithanya Pingali is a writer, lyricist, and screenwriter whose work bridges the worlds of literature and cinema. She is the author of Chittagong Viplava Vanithalu, a biographical fiction on women revolutionaries, which won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (2016) and was later translated into Kannada by Sa. Raghunath. Her second book, Manasulo Vennela, is a collection of short stories.
She has translated four children’s books into Telugu for the National Book Trust of India, contributing to young readers’ literature in regional languages.
In the Telugu film industry, Chaithanya has penned lyrics for ten songs and written for four feature films. Her debut song “Oosupodu” (Fidaa) earned the Radio Mirchi Music Award. She is currently working on a historical novel and a Telugu feature film.”
