Velcheru Narayana Rao is an Indian author, critic, and literary translator.
[1] Velcheru Narayana Rao was born in Ambakhandi village of Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh.
[2] In 1971, Narayana Rao was appointed a lecturer in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
[3] Narayana Rao has translated several Telugu language books into English including Gurajada Apparao's Kanyasulkam as Girls for Sale: Kanyasulkam, A Play from Colonial India and Allasani Peddana's Manu Charitramu as The Story of Manu.
He has co-authored books with David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmanyam such as God on the Hills: Temple Songs from Tirupati and Textures of Time: Writing History in South India.