Veerappa Moily's Ramayana Mahaniveshanam, which is considered as the best Kannada translation of the Ramayana after Kuvempu's, has won him a Moortidevi Award. One of the most prestigious literary awards after the Bharatiya Jnanpitha award, it is presented every year for a contemplative or creative work which expresses, underlines and illumines human values rooted in the broad vision of Indian philosophy and cultural heritage.

Moily has been awarded the 21^st Moortidevi Award. His 5-volume magnum opus was released in 2007 when he was the Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Commission. The selection committee comprised former Sahitya Akademi secretary, K. Satchidanandan, Jnanpith awardee and Sanskrit scholar, Satyavarat Shastri, former Moortidevi awardee, Pratibha Ray, eminent linguist Vrishabha Prasad Jain and eminent authors, Sahu Akhilesh Jain and Ravindra Kalia.

A critically acclaimed author, Moily has published several novels, poems, plays and a collection of articles, apart from the Ramayana Mahaniveshanam. His novels in Kannada have been translated into various languages and even made into a telefilm directed by M.S. Sathyu.

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