Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad is an Indian writer and politician. He is the Chairman of the A.P. Hindi Academy; Professor in Hindi at Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India, and is a former Rajya Sabha Member.[1] He received the fourth highest Indian civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 2003,[2] followed by the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010.[3][4] The Government of India honoured him again in 2016 with the Padma Bhushan, the third highest Indian civilian award.[5]
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