Indian writer
Muttathu Varkey |
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| Born | (1913-04-28)28 April 1913
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| Died | 28 May 1989(1989-05-28) (aged 76) |
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| Occupation(s) | Novelist, poet |
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| Notable work | - Oru Kudayum Kunjupengalum
- Paadaatha Painkili
- Azhakulla Seleena
- Mayiladum Kunnu
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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]
- ^ Muttathu Varkey at puzha.com
- ^ George, K. M. (1968). A survey of Malayalam literature. Asia Pub. House. ISBN 9780210227350.
- ^ 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.