Narayana Rao (author)
# Narayana Rao (author)

Velcheru Narayana Rao is an Indian author, critic, researcher, translator and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for Department of South Asian Studies. His work is primarily focused on Telugu literature for which he received the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in February 2021.

He was born West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. He obtained his MA from Andhra University and later obtained a diploma in linguistics from Osmania University in 1970.

## Work

Rao has translated several Telugu language books into English including Gurajada Apparao's Kanyasulkam as Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam A Play from Colonial India and Allasani Peddana's Manu Charitramu as The Story of Manu. He has co-authored books with David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmanyam such as God on the Hills: Temple Songs from Tirupati and Textures of Time: Writing History in South India. He also wrote a books on Telugu poetry titled Hibiscus on the Lake: Twentieth Century Telugu Poetry from India.

