U
Atreya Sarma is the Chief Editor of the popular international journal, Muse India and
also a Contributing Editor for Telugu
Literature
Interested
in literature, U Atreya Sarma is into writing poetry, freelance editing,
book-reviewing and translating. His output – over 250 poems and 450 writings
(articles, editorials, reviews, forewords, translations) mostly in English and
a sprinkling in Telugu – has appeared in various print/online media and
anthologies. A freelance editor with 18 years of experience, he is Chief Editor
of Muse India e-journal (www.museindia.com) since November 2016, having joined
its team since November 2009; he was Editor (Fiction) up to Mar-Apr 2017 issue;
and continues to handle Reviews, News & Events, Telugu Literature sections.
His past editorship includes Bharatiya Pragna monthly and Cyberhood
weekly. He is also the official critic
of Metverse Muse, an international journal of metrical poetry from
Visakhapatnam.
As
Contributing Editor (Telugu Literature), he has so far presented four
exhaustive features on Telugu Literature in Muse India.
He
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).
Atreya
Sarma has edited eight books: Celebrating Creativity: HLF 2010 (An anthology of
poems/ short stories by 76 writers); Souvenir: HLF 2010; Lung Care and Long
Life by Dr Shyam Sunder Raj (2012); Memoirs & Musings of an IAS Officer by
KV Natarajan, IAS (Retd) (Menaka Prakashan, 2013); Turquoise Tulips (a
collection of short stories) by the USA-based Dr Ashok Patwari (Authors Press
2015); Prolegomena and Transformative Articles on Literary Translation by Dr
VVB Rama Rao (Authors Press, 2015); Femininity: Poetic Endeavours (Authors
Press, 2016); and another book.
Sarma’s
translation of 16 Telugu short stories by a senior and prominent writer Dr
Mallemala Venugopala Reddy under the title Salt of the Earth (2013) has been
acclaimed by reviewers. As a panellist, he has translated into English 6 out of
36 chapters of Jnan Pith awardee Viswanatha Satyanarayana’s Telugu mega novel
Veyipadagalu under the title Thousand Hoods, under the aegis of the Hyderabad
based Viswanatha Sahitee Peetham (2015). Apart from this, he has translated many
individual poems, short stories and articles from Telugu into English.
Atreya’s
first collection of English poems, Sunny Rain-n-Snow, came out in May 2016.
Atreya
Sarma has been, since 2013, featuring and encouraging poets through his weekly
column ‘Wordsmith’ in The Hans India, a Hyderabad based English daily
circulated in AP & Telangana states.
He
has also guest-edited a feature ‘India @ 70’ for the Setu magazine
(http://www.setumag.com/p/setu-home.html), Aug 2017.
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.
While
his home base is Hyderabad, Atreya Sarma lives between Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
Email:
atreyasarma@gmail.com
HYDERABAD
ADDRESS:
U
Atreya Sarma, 30-265-24/405, SS Manasa Priya Apts, St No.3, 1st Cross, Geetha
Nagar Colony, Old Safilguda, HYDERABAD - 500 056. Mob: 9000106464
BENGALURU
ADDRESS:
U
Atreya Sarma, CC 502, Shriram Smrithi Apts, Bidaraguppe PO, Sarjapura-Attibele
Road, BENGALURU - 562 107. Mob. 9000106464