Kalpatta Narayanan (born January 1952) is an Indian novelist, short story writer, essayist, columnist, and a poet of Malayalam literature.

Narayanan was born in January 1952 to Palukkappil Sankaran Nair and Narayani Amma at Kottathara, a village near Kalpetta in Wynad district of the South Indian state of Kerala.

[5] In 2013, Narayanan received the Ayyappan Puraskaram for his anthology, Oru Mudanthante Suvishesham.

[9] His book, Kavithayude Jeevacharithram was selected for the 2017 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism.

[10] In 2018, he received Padmaprabha Literary Award for his outstanding contribution to the Malayalam literature.