Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar
Vadavur Duraisami Iyengar was a Tamil writer of detective fiction in the 1940s.
He is one of the pioneer in detective story writing in Tamil language. 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, Menaka.
In 1920 he started a journal called "Manoranjini". The aim of the journal was to propagate the importance of women's education.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.
