| Yandamuri Veerendranath | |
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| Born | November 14, 1948 Rajolu, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Period | 1970–present |
| Genres | thriller, playwright, novelist, Film director |
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Yandamuri Veerendranath (Telugu: యండమూరి వీరేంద్రనాథ్), (b. 14 November 1948) is a renowned Telugu novelist. 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.
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Yandamuri Veerendranath was born in Rajolu, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh to Chakrapani, an Income Tax Department employee, and Narasamaamba.
He received his schooling in Khammam, Kakinada, Rajahmundry, Jammalamadugu, Anantapuram and Hyderabad. He did his Bachelor of Commerce degree in Kakinada. In 1972 he completed his Chartered Accountancy at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. During his school days, he worked as a tutor to support himself.
Yandamuri Veeerendranath is a multi-faceted personality, being a playwright, novelist, film director, and personality development motivator.
In Telugu literature during the 1960s and 1970s, female writers like Yaddanapoodi Sulochana Rani were dominating the scene, because most of the readers were female. This led to sidelining of the male writers. Some male writers wrote stories and novels using female pen names. Yandamuri reversed these trends and came up with his first novel "Rushi". He stole the limelight with Tulasi Dalam without using any pen name. This book became a best seller. He wrote about 50 novels including Vennello Aadapilla and Antarmukham. His works were translated into several languages, namely Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, English, Hindi, and Marathi.
His personality-development book Vijayaniki 5 Metlu (Success in Five Steps) created an all time record in Telugu literature, by generating sales worth 20,000,000 rupees.
He started Saraswati Vidya Peetham in Kakinada by investing 10,000,000 rupees to educate the poor tribal students in academics as well as personality development.
Yandamuri married Anugeetha on 10 March 1974. They have a son Praneeth, who received his MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration in France. His son pursued Chartered Accountancy from ICAI.
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 secon d film with Chiranjeevi by name, "Stuvartpuram Police Station". Both the films were based on his own novels. But, were not well-received by audience. Hence, Veerendranath reverted to writing, at which he is second to none. Currently, he is writing a weekly serial in Saakshi 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.
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