# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oyyarathu-chandu-menon
# Generated: 2026-08-16T01:12:08.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oyyarathu-chandu-menon"
name: "Oyyarathu Chandu Menon"
slug: "oyyarathu-chandu-menon"
description: "Oyyarathu Chandu Menon was a Malayalam language novelist. He is the author of Indulekha, the first major novel in Malayalam published in 1889."
tagline: "Indian writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Chandu_Menon.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1847-01-09"
deathDate: "1899"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6713780918727916
  historical:           4.877538666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ഒ. ചന്തുമേനോൻ"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump