Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry

He was born in Kesanakurru village in West Godavari district. After primary education at Narsapuram, he graduated and worked in different magazines in Hyderabad and Chennai.^{[citation needed]} He has worked as Chief Sub-editor of Andhra Prabha daily magazine in Vijayawada. He followed in the line of Srirangam Srinivasa Rao.^{[citation needed]}

He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his Telugu-language poetic work "Swapna Lipi" in 1997.^{[citation needed]}