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Telugu poet K Siva Reddy has been picked for the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018. He has been awarded for his tremendous work Pakkaki Ottigilite which is a collection of poetry. www.gradeup.co 13 K Siva Reddy was born in 1943 in a farmer family in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district. He is considered as one of the most renowned modern poets in Telugu. Siva Reddy has even published critical essays on poetry. Pakkaki Ottigilite was published in the year 2016. It is an anthology of 104 poems in blank verse. It includes the responses of the poet over the years to social change, the evolution of his own self, and his dynamicr elationship with the world.