Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry

Penumarti Viswanatha Sastry (2 May 1929 – 25 December 1998), also known as "Ajanta", was a Telugu writer and editor.

[1] 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.

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