# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kottayam-pushpanath
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:33:37.944Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kottayam-pushpanath"
name: "Kottayam Pushpanath"
slug: "kottayam-pushpanath"
description: "Kottayam Pushpanath  was an Indian author known for his contributions to detective fiction writing in Malayalam. He has been called the \"father of Malayalam fiction\" and the \"Arthur Conan Doyle of India\". While incorporating ideologies and supernatural elements creatively in horror story writing, he primarily focused on plausible crime stories that motivated readers to become detectives themselves and solve the mysteries."
tagline: "Malayalam novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ktmpushpananath_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938"
deathDate: "2018-05-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.16
  momentum:             4.520547945205479
  historical:           6.612312
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "كوتايام پوشپاناث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "कोट्टायम पुष्पनाथ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "കോട്ടയം പുഷ്പനാഥ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kottayam_Pushpanath"
    title: "Kottayam Pushpanath"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "கோட்டயம் புஷ்பநாத்"
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    title: "కొట్టాయం పుష్పనాథ్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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