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Kundalatha (or Kundalata, Malayalam: കുന്ദലത) is a novel by Appu Nedungadi, published in 1887. It is considered to be the first Malayalam novel.
During early 20th century, Malayalam received outstanding novels, either as translations or adaptations of Western literature. Important among them include Kerala Varma Valiya Koi Thampuran's Akbar (translation of Van Linberg Broaver's Dutch novel of the same title, 1894), independent translations of Samuel Johnson's Rasselas by Pilo Paul (1895) and Kanaran (1898), Robinson Crusoe by C. V ...
Appu Nedungadi (11 October 1863 – 6 November 1933) was an Indian writer and banker best known as the author of Kundalatha, which was published in 1887, making it the first novel published in the Malayalam language. He was associated with several literary publications including Kerala Pathrika, Kerala Sanchari and Vidya Vinodini. [3]
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The first novel conceived and published in Malayalam was Appu Nedungadi's Kundalatha (1887). [75] Though Kundalatha is not considered a major novel, it gets the pride of place as the first work in the language having the basic characteristics of a novel. O. Chandhu Menon's Indulekha was the first major novel in Malayalam language.
His 1889 work, Indulekha, was the first Malayalam fictional work which met with all the requisite characteristics of a novel according to widely accepted Malayalam literary convention. [7] It is not the first novel per se, as Kundalatha (a much inferior work) by Appu Nedungadi pre-dates it by two years.
His other volumes of poetry include "Canaries on the Moon" (2002), "Portraits of the Space We Occupy" (2007) and "Available Light: New and Collected Poems"(2017) "Available Light" is a collection of 360 poems written over 25 years and includes new poems appended with those from his previous 4 volumes in poetry.
Kādambarī is a romantic novel in Sanskrit. It was substantially composed by Bāṇabhaṭṭa in the first half of the 7th century CE, who did not survive to see it through completion. The novel was completed by Banabhatta 's son Bhushanabhatta, according to the plan laid out by his late father.