Benny Daniel (born on 18 May 1971), better known by his pen name Benyamin, is an Indian writer in Malayalam from Kerala.

His magnum opus novel Aadujeevitham has been adapted by director Blessy into a film,The Goat Life.

Benyamin was born on 18 May 1971 in the village of Njettoor, Kulanada near Pandalam in Pathanamthitta district in the southern part of Kerala.

In 2008, the work Aadujeevitham was published, which became a huge success and a turning point, through which he became a more active and well-known writer.

Goat Days (Aadujeevitham), his most famous novel, portrays the life of Najeeb, an Indian labourer and how he survives the hardships and tortures in Saudi Arabia.

In Yellow Lights Of Death (Manjaveyil Maranagal), the author unexpectedly receives half of a story by email from a young man named Christy Andraper.

[3] The English translation of the novel won the inaugural JCB Prize for Literature, the richest literary award in the country.