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Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar (1880 – 1942) [1] was a Tamil writer of detective fiction in the 1940s.. He is one of the pioneer in detective story writing in Tamil language. [2] ...
He wrote a total of eight detective novels. They were reprinted several times and sold thousands of copies. Rajambal saw 23 reprints, Chandrakantha 13, Mohanasundaram 12, Anandakrishnan 10, Rajendran 9 and Varadharajan 2. Taken together, his novels sold more than 70,000 copies. Rajambal was made into a play. It was made into a film twice - in ...
Her novels contain practical solutions for the problems women encounter in daily life. [6] She wrote 26 novels in the Telugu language and translated more than 300 novels from other languages to Telugu, publishing them in five volumes under the title Navala Parichayalu. [1] [4] She was a member of Central Board of Film Certification for 11 years ...
Indra Soundar Rajan was an expert on South Indian Hindu traditions and mythological lore. He was employed in TVS Group of Companies before becoming a full-time writer. His stories typically deal with cases of supernatural occurrence, divine intervention, reincarnation, and ghosts; many stories foreground the conflict between rationalism, faith, and superstition.
[1] [2] He wrote more than 1,500 short stories and over 50 novels [1] that included several translated works from English such as Papillon and some Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer novels. [2] [3] He was the first person to write a Tamil historical novel (Naan, Krishna Devarayan) in first-person narrative, inspired by the English novel I Claudius.
Gamperaliya (The Transformation of a Village) is a novel written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickremasinghe [2] and first published in 1944. Wickremasinghe subsequently wrote Kaliyugaya and Yuganthaya, as a trilogy encompassing three generation of the same family and the changing society, culture and economic environment of Sri Lanka between the early and mid 20th century.
Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram (English: The Life of Prathapa Mudaliar), ,written in 1857 and published in 1879, was the first novel in the Tamil language. [1] Penned by Samuel Vedanayagam Pillai (1826-1889), it was a landmark in Tamil literature, which had hitherto seen writings only in poetry.
The first horror novel in Telugu Chavu Tappite Chalu was also written by him. [1] He worked as a journalist for a magazine called Telugu Cinema. Later he ran a literatary journal called Manjusha. He is best known for his detective novels. [8] He wrote 75 detective novels and close to 20 social novels. Close to 1 million copies of his novels ...