Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar

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] His protagonist, Digambara Samiar, was a sanyasi or holy man on a mission to fight crime. Some of his works are made into movies such as Menaka (1935 film),^[3]^[4] Menaka (1955 film).^[5]

In 1920 he started a journal called "Manoranjini". The aim of the journal was to propagate the importance of women's education.^[6]

Works

His novels are

Purna cantirotayam Part-1,2,3,4,5
Kumbakonam vakkil Part-1,2,
Maya Vinotha Parathesi Part-1,2,3,
Menaka Part-1,2,
Soundarya Kokilam Part-1,2,3,
Mathana kalyani Part-1,2,3,
Vidhyasagaram,
Vasantha Mallika.

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