Ravula Suryanarayana Murty (born 22 December 1935) is an Indian writer and poet, an administrator and journalist.
Murty began his career at age 19 in 1954 as the editor of Janasakti, a pro Congress party daily published from Kakinada, where he worked for four years.
These works were entrusted to him by the Gandhi Sahitya Prachuranalayam headed by Mallavarapu Venkata Krishna Rao, former education minister in the composite Madras state, and were published in the early 1960s.
Other major works include Padmavathi Srinivasam, Mallepoolu, and Bhagavad Gita, copies of which are sold in millions, and a Telugu version of French novelist Émile Zola's Shame.
During early 1990s Smt.Aruna was awarded a PhD in literature by the Telugu department of Sri Venkateswara University, Titupati, for her thesis on Murta's literary works and life.
Later his services were utilized by the Medical and Health Department as mass education and information officer at Chittoor.
During his career as a public servant, he took training at S.E.O's Training Centre, Community Development Department, Gopalapur-on-sea (Orissa), Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Coimbatore(Tamil Nadu), Central Health Education Bureau, New Delhi and the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, New Delhi.
He has supervised the production of audio cassettes of Balaji Pancharatna Mala, sung by the famous vocalist of Karnataka music Smt.
Murty has produced a dance ballet Padmavathi Srinivasam directed by the Kuchipudi exponent Vempati China Satyam and performed by Smt.