Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad is an Indian writer and politician. He is the Chairman of the A.P. Hindi Academy; Professor in

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

Andhra University Andhra University ( IAST: ''Āndhra Vișvakalāpariṣhat'') is a public university located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1926. History King Vikram Deo Verma, the Maharaja of Jeypore was one of the bigge ...

, Visakhapatnam, India, and is a former

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

Member. He received the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of the

Padma Shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

in 2003, followed by the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

in 2010. The Government of India honoured him again in 2016 with the

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...

, the third highest Indian civilian award.

Literary works

* ''Attadugu nundi Agrasthanam varaku'' * ''Doctor Karan Singh'' (biography) * ''Draupadi'' * ''Harivamsrai Bachhan'' (biography) * ''Kathanala Venuka Kathalu'' * ''Mana Governor Narayanadutt Tiwari'' * ''Puchalapalli Sundarayya'' (biography) * ''Satyabhama'' (novel) * ''Pakisthan lo Padi Rojulu''

Awards

- 2003 *

- 2010 * Ganga Sharan Singh Award - 2012 *

- 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Prasad, Yarlagadda Lakshmi Rajya Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education 1953 births Living people People from Krishna district Hindi-language writers Telugu-language writers Writers from Andhra Pradesh Andhra University faculty Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation Hindi–Telugu translators