Tallapaka Tirumalamma or Timmakka (15th century) was a Telugu poet who wrote Subhadra Kalyanam in Telugu. She was wife of singer-poet Annamacharya and was popularly known as Timmakka.
Biography Timmakka was born into a Niyogi Brahmin family. She is considered as the first Telugu woman poet.Timmakka at Telugu women author list
Timmakka's main work, Subhadra Kalyanam with 1170 poems, is about the marriage of Arjuna and Subhadra, characters in Hindu epic Mahabharata. She presented the Telugu nativity and culture in the story taken from Sanskrit epic.
See also
Molla, another early female poet in Telugu
References
External links A compilation of Telugu poets A list of almost all Telugu women poets Telugu women poets in Last 1000 years Tirmula pages on Tallapaka family AnnamayyaKeerthanalu ( Lyrics for Sri Annamacharya Sankeerthanalu in Telugu and English)