Dr Yandamoori Veerendranath Life Story at IMPACT'17 Hyderabad

Yandamoori Veerendranath (Telugu: యండమూరి వీరేంద్రనాథ్) is a Telugu novelist.[1] Hailing from Andhra Pradesh state in India, he influenced younger generations with his socially relevant writings. In his writings he addresses many of the important social problems in India like poverty, prejudices, and superstitions, and encourages people to be socially responsible. He successfully bridges the idealistic and the popular styles of literature.
Many of his novels have been made into motion pictures in Telugu. He also directed two motion pictures in Telugu, the first being "Agnipravesam", starring Yamuna, and the second film with Chiranjeevi by name, "Stuvartpuram Police Station". Both the films were based on his own novels but were not well received by audiences. Hence, Veerendranath reverted to writing. Currently, he is writing a weekly serial in Sakshi Sunday magazine "Funday", by name "Dega Rekkala Chappudu".
In addition to financial success, he has won many awards for his work. His first film as a dialogue writer won a best regional award from the President of India.
Sahitya Academy Award for Raghupati Raghava Rajaram in 1982.
Nandi Award as Best Director for the serial Vennello Adapilla in 1996.
Nandi Award as Best Socially Relevant Film Director for Vijayam vaipu payanam in 2002 and many more.