As Contributing Editor
(Telugu Literature), he has so far presented five exhaustive features on Telugu
Literature in Muse India.
His past editorship
includes two print journals – Bharatiya Pragna monthly and Cyberhood
weekly.
Atreya Sarma has a
collection of English poems, Sunny Rain-n-Snow (Partridge 2016). It was
among the three poetry collections shortlisted for the Cochin Litfest Poetry
Prize 2019.
As a collaborator, he has
composed in English the profiles of 132 modern Telugu Stalwarts for the
bilingual book Marapuraani Maanikyaalu (2010) (with wordy &
pictorial sketches in Telugu by BNIM, a noted writer & artist).
As a freelance editor,
Atreya Sarma has edited 13 books: (1) Celebrating Creativity: HLF 2010
(An anthology of poems/ short stories by 76 writers); (2) Souvenir: HLF 2010;
(3) Lung Care and Long Life by Dr Shyam Sunder Raj (2012); (4) Memoirs
& Musings of an IAS Officer by KV Natarajan, IAS (Retd) (Menaka
Prakashan, 2013); (5) Turquoise Tulips (a collection of short stories)
by the USA-based Dr Ashok Patwari (Authors Press 2015); (6) Prolegomena and
Transformative Articles on Literary Translation by Dr VVB Rama Rao (Authors
Press, 2015); (7) Femininity: Poetic Endeavours (Authors Press, 2016);
(8) ‘Oka prasthaanam’ (translated into Telugu by Varanasi Nagalakshmi of
‘A Journey’ a collection of poems rendered into English by Mantha Ravi from
Narendra Modi’s Gujarati original) (awaiting publication); (9) Horror Scope
(a collection of short stories) by Australia-based VP Gangadharan (Authors
Press, 2019); (10) Poets Renowned and Poets Flourishing by Dr VVB Rama
Rao (Authors Press, 2019); (11) Robinhood of Chitrakoot & Other Stories
(awaiting publication) by Dr Ashok Patwari; (12) A fictional autobiography by
Gian Singh Shatir (in the pipeline/ jinxed?); (13) Retreat and Other
Short Stories by Dr Ashok Patwari (Austin
Macauley Publishers LLC, 2019).
As
a translator from Telugu to English, Atreya Sarma has translated many
individual poems, short stories and articles besides 5 major books: (1) Salt
of the Earth (2013) — translation of 16 short stories by a senior and
prominent writer Dr Mallemala Venugopala Reddy. (2) Thousand Hoods
(Viswanatha Sahitee Peetham, 2015/2018) — translation of Jnan Pith awardee
Viswanatha Satyanarayana’s 36-chapter mega novel ‘Veyipadagalu’ (6 chapters, 9
to 14 by Atreya Sarma, as one of the 5-member panel). (3) Merciless Dark:
The Mystery of the Eclipse Island (Vol. 1 of the multiple volume ‘Merciless
Dark’) by Harisshva D V (White Falcon, 2019) — trans-creation of unpublished
Telugu manuscript. (4) Dr V L Dutt: Glimpses of a Pioneer’s Life Journey
(2021), reflections of Dr V L Indira Dutt, CMD of The KCP Ltd covering the life
& work of her husband Dr V Lakshmana Dutt, a leading industrialist,
transcribed (along with Ambika Ananth). (5) My Sublime Saviour (editing,
adapting & trans-creating of the unpublished Telugu original manuscript of
Dr Kampalle Ravichandran – awaiting publication).
Atreya Sarma had for over
5 years (Jun 2013 to Jul 2018) featured and encouraged poets through a weekly
column ‘Wordsmith’ in The Hans India, a Hyderabad based English daily.
He has guest-edited two
Features – ‘India @ 70’ for Setu magazine (Aug 2017); and ‘Animal
Poetics’ for Teesta Review (May 2022).
He holds an MA (English
Litt), a PG Dip (Mass Communications & Telugu Translation Techniques), a BA
(English Litt, Sanskrit Litt, History) and BSc (Botany, Zoology, Chemistry),
and CAIIB (Part I) with mid-level managerial experience in SBI.
He is on the Advisory
Board of Teesta: An International Journal of Poetry; and was the
official critic of Metverse Muse, an international journal of metrical
poetry from Visakhapatnam until Sep 2019.
He has received five literary
awards — ‘Setu Award for Excellence 2017’; ‘Shambhabi Samman 2019’;
International Sufi Centre (Bengaluru)for “Distinguished Contribution to Indian
English Poetry” (2020); Setu Special Award for Excellence 2020;
Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav for Literary Merit by the Department of Culture,
Government of India (at its Hyderabad event on 03 Apr 2022).
Email: atreyasarma@gmail.com
(Updated, 27 Oct 2022)
