Ravuri Bharadhwaja

Education He was born in Moguluru village, Krishna District in the house of his maternal grandparents. He was educated till Class 7 only, in his native Tadikonda in Guntur district. However his books are used as course works in B.A, M.A and there have even been several PhD degrees awarded for research on his works. He got honorary doctorates from Andhra, Nagarjuna, Vignan and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universities for his literary prowess.

Awards Bharadhwaja has been twice awarded the State Sahitya Academy Award for Literature and in 1983 was the winner of the Central Sahitya Academy Award. In 1968, he was the inaugural recipient of the Gopichand Literary Award. He was conferred the Rajalakshmi Award for Literature in 1987 and the Lok Nayak Foundation's Literary Award in 2009. In 2013, Ravuri Bharadhwaja became the third Telugu author to be conferred the Jnanpith award for his contribution to Telugu literature.

Works He has 37 collections of short stories, 17 novels, six short novels for children and eight plays to his credit. Phantomy quintette and other stories, Translator Purush, India Balaji Grandha Mala, 1970 Love's labour lost and other stories, Rāvūri Bharadvāja, Translator Purush, M. Seshachalam, 1975 Ad infinitum: featurised poetic story, Rāvūri Bharadvāja, Balaji Grandhamala, 1987 Kaumudi translated by Navnit Madrasi, 1988 Un Aankhon ki katha: (short story). Bharatiya Jnanpith, 1991 Ripple-marks: readings from Bharadwaja's Eegiac pentad