Tallapaka Tirumalamma

Tallapaka Tirumalamma, popularly called Timmakka, was a Telugu poet of the fifteenth century and is regarded as the first woman to write poetry in Telugu. Born into a Niyogi Brahmin family, she became the first wife of the singer-poet Annamacharya.

Her surviving work, the Subhadra Kalyanam, is a dvipada kavya of some 1170 poems based on Nannaya's Telugu Mahabharata. It retells the marriage of Arjuna and Subhadra, filling the Sanskrit story with Telugu domestic life and humor.