ACHARYA KOLAKALURI ENOCH, Padma Shri awardee and Colonel (honorary) of the Government of India; Vice Chancellor (S.V. University, Tirupati); principal (S.K. University Ananthapur); Professor of Telugu, Emeritus Professor of UGC and Writer in Residence of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi has been a poet, short story writer, novelist, dramatist, literary critic and researcher besides being a translator and biographer, with 104 literary works to his credit. Dr Enoch has been championing the cause of the neglected, the Dalits, the women, the backward classes, the tribes and religious minorities in his literary pursuits.His writings have been awarded by the Government of India and Andhra Pradesh and literary and cultural organizations including the Andhra Pradesh Sahitya Akademi for a short story (1987), a play (1989) literary criticism (1998). He received the 2015 Moortidevi Award of Jnanpith, New Delhi for the novel, Ananta Jeevanam. He received the national Sahitya Akademi award for Vimarshini in 2018. His works have been translated into Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Manipuri, Odiya, English, German and French. Scholars have worked on his writings for doctoral and postdoctoral research. His works have been prescribed for study at the undergraduate and postgraduate level by Indian universities.