Satyam Sankaramanchi

{{Short description|Indian writer (1937–1987)}}

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| birth_place = Amaravathi village, Guntur district

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| notableworks =Amarāvati Kathalu, Ākhari Prēmalēkha

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Satyam Sankaramanchi (3 March 1937 – 1987) was an Indian storyteller, born in the 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.

Amaravati Kathalu is regarded by Mullapudi as one of the best short story series in Telugu.{{Citation needed|date=August 2014}} P. S. MurthyP. S. Murthy was the head of the Department of English at Adoni College until June 1996. {{Cite web |title=Department of English: Genesis |url=http://www.adonicollege.com/ADONI/Department%20of%20English.html |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903080712/http://www.adonicollege.com/ADONI/Department%20of%20English.html |archivedate=3 September 2014 |publisher=Adoni College}} mentions that Amaravati Kathalu is one of the best volumes of short stories in Telugu.{{Cite encyclopedia|author=Murthy, P. S.|year=1992|title=Short Story (Telugu)|editor=Lal, Mohan|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Volume V, sasay to zorgot|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|pages=4074–4076, [https://books.google.com/books?id=KnPoYxrRfc0C&pg=PA4076 page 4076]|isbn=81-260-1221-8}} D. Anjaneylu mentions that it is a notable work.{{Cite journal|author=Anjaneylu, D.|year=1980|title=Telugu: Variety and Wish Fulfilment|journal=Indian Literature|volume=23|issue=6|pages=80–87, page 83|jstor=23330262}}

His short story "The Flood" has been translated into English.{{Cite news|title=The Flood: A shortstory|date=1 July 2001|newspaper=The Hindu Sunday Magazine |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0107/01070240.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726164913/http://www.hinduonnet.com/folio/fo0107/01070240.htm|archivedate=26 July 2008|url-status=usurped}} Some of his stories were also televised by the movie maker Shyam Benegal as a series called Amravathi Ki Kathayen.{{Cite journal|author=Agarwal, Amit|year=1994|title=Teletalk: Shyam Benegal all set to return to DD's National Network|journal=India Today|volume=19|issue=15 January|page=204|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/shyam-benegal-all-set-to-return-to-dds-national-network/1/292656.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903183802/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/shyam-benegal-all-set-to-return-to-dds-national-network/1/292656.html|archivedate=3 September 2014|url-status=live}} Died on April 21 1987