Kottayam Pushpanath was an Indian author known for his contributions to detective fiction writing in Malayalam.

[1] He has been called the "father of Malayalam fiction" and the "Arthur Conan Doyle of India".

[2] After finishing TTC from Cambridge Nicholson Institute (CNI) Kottayam, he started his career as a teacher at Kodiyathoor School in Kozhikode.

[5] Many of his works have been translated into different Indian languages such as Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Gujarati and Bengali.

Kottayam Pushpanath has also translated Bram Stoker’s world-renowned Gothic horror novel Dracula[6] and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles into Malayalam.