Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar (1880 – 1942) was a
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
People, culture and language
* Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka
** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Ind ...
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 (1935 film),
.
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.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Iyengar, Vadavur
Tamil-language writers
Tamil writers
Indian male novelists
1880 births
1942 deaths
20th-century Indian novelists
20th-century Indian male writers