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Kottayam Pushpanath | |
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| Born | Pushpanathan Pillai 1937 |
| Died | 2018 (aged 80–81) Kottayam, India |
| Resting place | CSI Cathedral Cemetery, Kottayam, India |
| Occupation | Teacher, Novelist |
| Language | Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Relatives | Rayan Pushpanath (Grandson) |
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Kottayam Pushpanath was an Indian author known for his contributions to detective fiction writing in Malayalam.[1] He has been called the "father of Malayalam fiction" and the "Arthur Conan Doyle of India". While incorporating ideologies and supernatural elements creatively in horror story writing, he primarily focused on plausible crime stories that motivated readers to become detectives themselves and solve the mysteries.
In 1968, he released his first novel, Chuvanna Manushyan, a scientific thriller, and went on to write over 350 works, including mainstream novels, science fiction, and horror fiction, during the 1970s and 1980s.
- ^ "Kottayam Pushpanath is dead". The Hindu. 2 May 2018. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 7 August 2023.