Peddibhotla Subbaramaiah

Peddibhotla Subbaramaiah is a Telugu short-story writer from Vijayawada.[1] His short story collection Peddibhotia Subbaramaiah Kathalu (Vol. 1) was selected for Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu for 2012.[2][3]

Early life

Subbaramaiah was born in Guntur in 1938, the son of a railway station master. He went to school in Ongole. For college he came to Vijayawada and became a student of Viswanatha Satyanaryana, the author of Veyipadagalu, and a lecturer of SRR and CVR College.[4]

Subbaramaiah served as a lecturer in Andhra Loyola College for 40 years and retired in December 1996.

He started writing in 1959.[5] "The plight, and the jealousies of the middle class are the raw material of my stories", he says.[1]

The author has written more than 200 stories.

Works

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Sahitya Akademi Award for Vijayawada writer". The Hindu. 2012-12-25. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
  2. "Sahitya Akademi Awards for 24". The Hindu. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
  3. "Sahitya Akademi : Poets Dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2012" (PDF). Sahitya-akademi.gov.in. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
  4. "Sahitya Akademi Award for writer Subbaramaiah". The Hindu. 2012-12-25. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
  5. "Peddibhotla gets sahitya award for short story". Deccan Chronicle. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
  6. "Telugu Book Reviews". Cpbrownacademy.org. Retrieved 2013-08-16.
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