Background
Rajaram was born in Damalcheruvu village of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh state.
Rajaram was born in Damalcheruvu village of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh state.
Rajaram worked as Telugu teacher at Zilla parishath high school of Damalcheruvu and wrote stories to prominent Telugu dailies. In the span of over five decades he wrote many short stories depicting the lives of middle-class or lower-middle-class people in Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh. His collection of short stories include Madhurantakam Rajaram kathalu, Halikulu Kushalama et cetera and he has also tested other genre of writing such as plays.
In its citation, Sahitya Akademi said that "Madhurantakam Rajaram Kathalu is recognized as a masterpiece of Indian short fiction in Telugu for its faithful delineation of the outer and inner life of the rustic folk, its proper employment of dialect, its total comprehension of social and existential reality and its directness and force of narration." 1968 Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Academy Award for Short stories.
1968 Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Academy Award for Short stories Tanjore Tamil University Award for Translations 1990 Kondepudi Srinivasa Rao Sahiti Satkaram by Arasam Guntur 1991 Gopichand Sahiti satkaram (Hyderabad) 1993 Sahitya Academy Award for Short stories 1994 Honorary Doctorate by Sri Krishnadevaraya University 1996 Prathibaamoorthi Puraskaaram by Appa Josyula-Vishnu Bhotla Foundation (United States of America).
