Vempalli Gangadhar

Vempalli Gangadhar is a researcher, poet and writer from Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. He has been awarded Sahitya Akademi's Yuva Puraskar for 2011 for his short-story collection "Molakala Punnami". Gangadhar's Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar win makes him one of 16 authors to have won the award.