Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad is an Indian writer and politician. He was the Chairman of the A.P. Hindi Academy, Professor in
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...
at
Andhra University
Andhra University is a public university located in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 1926. It is graded as an A++ institution by NAAC receiving a score of 3.74 on a scale of 4.
History
King Vikram Deo Verma, the Mah ...
, Visakhapatnam, India, and is a former
Rajya Sabha
Rajya Sabha (Council of States) is the upper house of the Parliament of India and functions as the institutional representation of India’s federal units — the states and union territories.https://rajyasabha.nic.in/ It is a key component o ...
from Andhra Pradesh. In 2019, Andhra Pradesh Government appointed him as the Chairman of three posts namely., ie Andhra Pradesh Official Language Commission, Andhra Pradesh Hindi Academy and Andhra Pradesh Telugu Bhasha Abhivriddhi Samstha.
Following the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister's proposal to change the name of
Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences (
NTRUHS) to
Dr. YSR University of Health Sciences (
YSRUHS), Mr Prasad announced his resignation as the Chairman of all the three posts.
He was sentimentality and emotionally attached to former Chief Minister
N. T. Rama Rao.
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
*
Padma Shri
The Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī'', lit. 'Lotus Honour'), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. In ...
- 2003
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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 ...
- 2010
*
Ganga Sharan Singh Award - 2012
*
Padma Bhushan
The Padma Bhushan (IAST: ''Padma Bhūṣaṇa'', lit. 'Lotus Decoration') 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 Januar ...
- 2016
References
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Rajya Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Telugu
1953 births
Living people
People from Krishna district
Hindi-language writers
Telugu-language writers
Writers from Andhra Pradesh
Academic staff of Andhra University
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education
Hindi–Telugu translators