Muttathu Varkey

Muttathu Varkey
Born(1913-04-28)28 April 1913
Died28 May 1989(1989-05-28) (aged 76)
Occupation(s)Novelist, poet
Notable work
  • Oru Kudayum Kunjupengalum
  • Paadaatha Painkili
  • Azhakulla Seleena
  • Mayiladum Kunnu

Muttathu Varkey (28 April 1913 – 28 May 1989) was an Indian novelist, short story writer, and poet of Malayalam.[1][2] He was best known for a genre of sentiment-filled romantic fiction known as painkili (janapriya) novel in Malayalam literature, named after his famous novel Paadatha Painkili.[3]

  1. ^ Muttathu Varkey at puzha.com
  2. ^ George, K. M. (1968). A survey of Malayalam literature. Asia Pub. House. ISBN 9780210227350.
  3. ^ Ancy Bay 2015. "At the End of the Story: Popular Fiction, Readership and Modernity in Literary Malayalam", in Satheese Chandra Bose and Shiju Sam Varughese (eds.). Kerala Modernity: Ideas, Spaces and Practices in Transition, Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, pp. 92-108.