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Mallikarjun Vudutha (born 31 October 1992) is a Telugu short story writer, best known for his book Nallagonda Kathalu (2020).

Childhood and early life
Mallikarjun was born in Nalgonda, Telangana, India, to Muthyalu and Mariah. He is the youngest of the four children in his family with two sisters and one brother. He was raised a small town boy and moved to Hyderabad city after his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering in 2014.

Mallikarjun attended Vivekavardhini high school in Nalgonda town and later went to Pragathi junior college and then graduated from Nalgonda Institute of technology and science.

Career
Mallikarjun started his career as a movie journalist in Mallemala Entertainments. He later worked as features editor in the popular Telugu newspaper Sakshi and as sunday magazine editor in Darwaja magazine, Velugu Newspaper.

His first book, Irani Cafe, was a collection of short stories which received a huge applause in the Telugu literature community and earned him a place as new age writer in Telugu. After the success of his first book, Mallikarjun wrote his cult following book, Kagitam Padavalu, a collection of love stories, mostly based in the busy lives of Hyderabad city. In 2020, his stellar work Nallagonda Kathalu, 'Stories from a small town childhood', was published and became a huge success for its nostalgic writing style and Telangana dialect.

All his books were published by Aju publications.