death_date birth_place citizenship nationality ethnicity name birth_date genre article_title birth_name occupation
1987 amaravati , andhra pradesh india indian hindu satyam sankaramanchi 3 march 1937 writer satyam sankaramanchi
 te శంకరమంచి సత్యం -lrb- '' Śaṃkaramaṃci satyaṃ '' -rrb- writer
satyam sankaramanchi

satyam sankaramanchi -lrb- 3 march 1937 -- 1987 -rrb- was a storyteller , born in the tiny village of amaravati near guntur city , in andhra pradesh , india .
the stories he told wove a whole new world around the tiny village of amaravati .
his style was very similar to that of the russian writer anton chekhov .
`` amaravati kathalu '' is regarded by mullapudi as one of the best short story series in telugu .
p. s. murthy mentions that `` amar-tavati kathalu '' is one of the best volumes of short stories in telugu .
d. anjaneylu mentions that it is a notable work .
his short story `` the flood '' has been translated into english .
some of his stories were also televised by the movie maker shyam benegal as a series called `` amravathi ki kathayen '' .
