Kethu Viswanatha Reddy

Kethu Viswanatha Reddy (10 July 1939 – 22 May 2023), also known as Ketu Visvanathareddi, was an Indian short story writer, novelist, and essayist. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu in 1996 for his short story Kethu Viswanatha Reddy Kathalu. Kethu Viswanatha Reddy was a writer whose works have been translated into modern Indian languages such as Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, as well as into English and Russian. Reddy worked many variations on the theme of rural transformation in southern Andhra Pradesh, including its famines, factions, and industrialization. His first short story Anaadivaallu was published the journal Savyasaachi.