Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar

Vaduvur Duraisami Iyengar (1880 – 1942) 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 (1935 film), Menaka (1955 film).

In 1920 he started a journal called "Manoranjini". The aim of the journal was to propagate the importance of women's education.

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