15 Facts About Ravuri Bharadhwaja

Ravuri Bharadhwaja wrote 37 collections of short stories, seventeen novels, four play-lets, and five radio plays.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja had done several odd jobs but later worked in weeklies and in All India Radio.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja Bharadwaja was born as the eldest child to Ravuri Bharadhwaja Kottayya and Mallikamba in his maternal village.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja was brought up in his native village, Tadikonda in Guntur district.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja was supported by friendly and kind villagers for food, working as a farm labour, a construction worker and other menial jobs- which became subjects of his later stories.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja received honorary doctorates, a Central Sahitya Akademi award and ultimately the Jnanpith award.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja was only the third Telugu writer to be honoured with the country's highest literary award.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja was awarded the 48th Jnanpith award for the year 2012 which was announced on 17 April 2013 for his contribution to Telugu literature through many notable works.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja was born in Moguluru village, Krishna District in the house of his maternal grandparents.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja was educated till Class 7 only, in his native Tadikonda in Guntur district.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja got honorary doctorates from Andhra, Nagarjuna, Vignan and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universities for his literary prowess.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja has been twice awarded the State Sahitya Academy Award for Literature and in 1983 was the winner of the Central Sahitya Academy Award.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja 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.

Ravuri Bharadhwaja has 37 collections of short stories, 17 novels, six short novels for children and eight plays to his credit.