Ampasayya Naveen

24. Best Prose Writer Award by Telugu Rakshana Vedika, hyderabad in 2014.

23. Jashuva Award as Best Prose Writer By Jashuva Research Centre of Telugu academy,Hyderabad,2013.

21. Life Time Achievement Award from Samskruthi,Guntur,2012.

22. Best Short Story Writer Award by Avancha Soma Sunder Literary Trust(Pithapuram) in 2012.

6. Asmadeeyulu - Tasamadeeyulu (Warangal: Pratyusha Publications, 2011). This collection includes 10 short stories.

20. Life Time Achievement Award from Abyudaya Foundation, Kakinada, 2011.

19. Vishista Literary Award by Pothana Vignana Kendram, warangal,2010

5. Bandhitulu (Warangal: Pratyusha Publications, 2009). This collection includes 18 short stories.

17. Sahitya Akademi's ‘Writer in Residence’ fellowship for six months, 2009.

18. Shantidoota Award by World Peace Society, Warangal, 2009.

04.Bandhavyalu depicts the changing social and family relationships in the Telangana region against the background of various movements like the separate Telangana agitation, Naxalite armed struggle, etc., during the past twenty five years.It has been made into a TV serial of 260 episodes and telecast by Doordarshan from January 2007.

4. Nishkriti (Warangal: Pratyusha Publications, 2007). This collection includes 10 short stories.

28. Raktha Kasaram (Pool of Blood) : Raktha Kasaram was serialized in Vijaya Viharam (monthly). This novel deals with the contemporary problem of Naxalism in Telangana. It depicts the sociology-economic reasons for the spread of this movement and how innocent lives are lost in the war between the police and the Naxalites. This novel created a big stir in literary circles when it was published in the form of a book in March 2006.

29. America America : America America is a travel-novel based on Naveen's experience and observation of the life of the Telugu people in America. This novel proceeded from his visit to the United States in 2006 at the invitation of ATA (American Telugu Association).

3. From Anuradha with Love (Warangal: Pratyusha Publications, 2005). This collection includes 23 short stories.

Dr. 'Ampasayya' Naveen is a Telugu novelist. He is an Osmania University alumni, and his college life at OU inspired his first novel, Ampasayya. His novel Kala Rekhalu won the Sahitya Academy Award in 2004.

14. Telugu University's Pratibha Puraskaram in the short story and novels section, 2004.

15. Honorary Doctorate by Kakatiya University, Warangal, 2004.

16. Shahitya Akademi, New Delhi, award for Kalarekhalu in 2004.

13. Pulikanti Krishna Reddy Sahiti Sanskriti's Life Time Achievement Award, 2002, Thirupati.

11. Raavi Shastry Award, Hyderabad for the year 2000.

12. Member of the Jury, Nandi Awards Committee, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, 2000.

13. Sankellu (Chains) : Sankellu tells the story of an idealist who values freedom but feels that he is in chains. He struggles to liberate himself from bondages like marriage, tradition, etc. Sankellu was made into a TV serial and was telecast by Gemini TV for thirteen weeks in 1999.

2. Enimido Adugu (Warangal: Pratyusha Publications, 1999). This collection includes 21 short stories.

10. Jyesta Literary Award, Visakhapatnam, in 1999, for best translation into English of his short story “Bali” as “Sacrifice.”

27. Drukkonalu (View Points) : Published in Andhra Bhoomi as daily serial in 1998. This novel is an experiment in a new narrative technique. An incident takes place (a woman is said to have been raped in a dental clinic kept by a quack) and the people involved in the incident — a reporter, a police officer, the victim, the quack, etc. — give different versions of the same incident. The truth, however, seems to elude the observer.

1. Life in a College (Hyderabad; Vishalandhra Publishing House, 1998). 2nd edition. This collection includes 15 short stories.

9. Vishala Sahitya Academy Award, Jagtial, in 1998 for lifetime achievement.

8. Senior Fellowship for two years (Oct. 1997 to Sept. 1999) awarded by the Department of Culture, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, New Delhi, for writing a trilogy of novels depicting the fifty years of socio-economic and political history of Telangana from 1944 to 1995.

Naveen, a college lecturer by career worked in the Education Department of Government of Andhra Pradesh for 32 years. He retired as Principal, Government Degree College for Women, Waranagal in July 1996. Naveen actively involved in the ‘Film Society’ movement in Karimnagar and Warangal and contributed a lot to spread the awareness of good cinema among the people of these towns. Naveen married to Anasuya and blessed with daughter Swapna and two sons Sathish and Shashi Kiran. Naveen pursuing his writings from Hanamakonda, Warangal.

03. Antasravanthi is the last one of the trilogy. In this novel the married life and career of the protagonist Ravi is depicted. It has won for Naveen the prestigious Telugu University Award for the best novel in 1995.

Many honours, awards and accolades came Naveen's way. His novel Antasravanti won for him the Telugu University's Best Novel Award for 1994. The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India awarded him a Senior Fellowship during 1997-98 to write a trilogy of novels. Crowning upon all the awards came the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Kalarekhalu in 2004. Earlier in the same year Kakatiya University (Warangal, A.P.) honoured him with a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) at its 16th Convocation. In 2000 Naveen had the honour of serving as a member of the jury appointed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh to decide the Nandi Awards for feature films. He had also served as a member of the Academic Senate of Kakatiya University for three years (2006-2009). His fame has travelled abroad as evidenced by the invitation in 2006 by the ATA (American Telugu Association). During his visit to the United States Naveen delivered lectures at various locations in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Columbia, Chicago and Detroit. He received Gopichand's National Literary Award in the year 2010 which was awarded to Mahaswetha Devi in the previous year i.e. 2009. Naveen was selected under writers and scholars in Residency Scheme started by Central Sahitya Akademy, New Delhi and was awarded fellowship during the year 2009.

7. Best Novel Award for the year 1994 to Antasravanthi (Inner Stream) by Pottisriramulu Telugu University (formerly known as AP Sahitya Akademi Award).

5. Best Short Story Prize to “Chera” (Bondage) by Andhra Jyothi (weekly), 1987.

4. Best Short Story Prize to “Thera” (Curtain) by Andhra Prabha (weekly), 1986.

3. Best Short Story Prize to “Dadi” (Attack) by Pallaki (weekly), 1985.

2. Best Short Story Prize to “Bali” (Sacrifice) by Swathi (monthly), 1984.

6. Best Novel Prize to Dagudu Muthalu (Hide and Seek) by Swathi (monthly), 1978.

Naveen's works have always enjoyed enormous popularity with both common readers and critics. A gripping and eminently readable style and deep insight into human mind and the dynamics of social relations are their strong points. His works are also remarkable for their bold treatment of contemporary issues of our society. His Cheekati Rojulu (Dark Days) graphically depicts the atrocities committed by the state on the innocent citizens of India during the infamous Emergency of 1975-77. His Women's College and Vichalitha (The Disturbed) perceptively treats the discrimination and injustice being meted out to women in India. Bondhavyalu (Relationships) depicts the altered socio-economic scenario in Telangana during twenty five years between 1970-1995.

1. Best Short Story Prize to “Hatya” (murder) by Andhra Jyothi (weekly), 1973.

05.Kalarekhalu is a sociology -autobiographical novel based on the Telangana struggle against the imperialist regime. The novel is unique in its picturization of the struggle of suppressed humanity. The author has successfully captured the sentiments of populace in the throes of liberating themselves. The novel adds magnificently to Indian fiction in Telugu.Kalarekhalu depicts the social, political and cultural history of Telangana (the northern region of Andhra Pradesh) from 1956 to 1994. This novel won the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for year 2004. In its citation, the Sahitya Akademi mentioned "

06. Chedirina Swapnalu, in sequence to the other two novels of the Telangana Tetra-logy, reflects the social and political history of the people of Telangana since 1947.

Born on 24 December 1941 as Dongari Mallaiah in a middle class agricultural family at Vavilala, a village in Palakurthy mandal, Warangal district of Telangana. He has taken to pen name ‘Naveen’ as began his literary journey fifty years ago. Naveen influenced the generations of Telugu readers over the last five decades with his 28 widely acclaimed novels, more than 70 short stories collected in five volumes and countless literary articles, essays on films, reviews, newspaper columns and middles. His most important contribution to the Telugu fiction is the introduction of the ‘stream of consciousness’ mode of narration which helps in probing and understanding the psyche of the characters. His novels Ampashayya (Bed of Arrows), Mullapodalu (Thorn Bushes) and Antasravanti (Inner Stream), which are popularly known as the ‘Ravi Trilogy,’ have brought the stream of consciousness technique to near perfection in Telugu fiction.

Naveen has published a large number of critical articles, some of them in English, on Telugu fiction, films and other art forms. He wrote his second trilogy, known as the Telangana Trilogy– consisting of Kalarekhalu (Contours of time), Chedirina Swapnalu (Dreams Gone Sour), and Bandhavyalu – against the backdrop of the social history of Telangana from the early 1940s to the early 1990s. This is, by common consensus, the most authentic fictional account of the life and history of Telangana, a part in the state of Andhra Pradesh.