# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-v-raman-pillai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:41.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-v-raman-pillai"
name: "C. V. Raman Pillai"
slug: "c-v-raman-pillai"
description: "Cannankara Velayudhan Raman Pillai, also known as C. V., was one of the major Indian novelists and playwrights and a pioneering playwright and novelist of Malayalam literature. He was known for his historical novels such as Marthandavarma, Dharmaraja and Ramaraja Bahadur; the last mentioned considered by many as one of the greatest novels written in Malayalam."
tagline: "Indian, Malayalam language novelist and playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CVs60thbirthday.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1858-05-19"
deathDate: "1922-03-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.19
  momentum:             3.950486295313882
  historical:           4.434056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "C. V. Raman Pillai"
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    title: "സി.വി. രാമൻപിള്ള"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пиллаи, Раман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ச. வே. இராமன் பிள்ளை"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump