Ampasayya Naveen - A writer par excellence
It was an evening to remember for the literary connoisseurs, and of course for the Telugu novelist and Sahitya Akademi award winner Ampasayya Naveen who turned 75 on Saturday. To add more to the occasion, it also happened to be the release of his latest work Premaku Aavali Teeram, a biographical novel based on famous writer Chalam.
​Warangal: It was an evening to remember for the literary connoisseurs, and of course for the Telugu novelist and Sahitya Akademi award winner Ampasayya Naveen who turned 75 on Saturday. To add more to the occasion, it also happened to be the release of his latest work Premaku Aavali Teeram, a biographical novel based on famous writer Chalam.
Born in Vavilala village that incidentally sandwiched between two illustrious villages Bammera and Palakurthy that gave birth to two great poets of the land Pothana and Somanathudu, Dongari Mallaiah, famed as Naveen, created a niche for himself in the literary world way back in 1966 with his first work Ampasayya, a novel that reflected socio-political scenario of his college days in the backdrop of Osmania University.
By profession an economics lecturer, Naveen inadvertently wrote his novels that excogitated ‘stream of consciousness' a narrative technique that was mastered by the 20th Century Irish writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce.
Naveen, who along with Ganta Ram Reddy and V Narsimha Reddy, ran a quarterly magazine – Srujana, is a contemporary and best friend of revolutionary writer P Vara Vara Rao, poets Nagilla Rama Sastry and Basiri Sambasiva Rao.
His work Kalarekhalu (Contours of time) has earned him Sahitya Akademy award in 2004. This apart, his works include 32 novels and 86 short stories, besides publishing a whole lot of articles in magazines and newspapers including The Hans India.
As part of Naveen’s birthday celebration, Ampasayya Literary Trust organised a programme in which Vavilala Subba Rao released the Premaku Avali Teeram and the Commissioner of Police G Sudheer Babu released Palapitta, a special edition on Naveen writings at Haritha Hotel here on Saturday.
