Kothainayaki Ammal
Composer, Deceased Person
1901 – 1960
Who was Kothainayaki Ammal?
Vaithamanithi Mudumbai Kothainayaki Ammal was a Tamil writer, novelist and journalist who is remembered as the first woman to occupy the editorial board of a Tamil magazine. She wrote 115 books and she published monthly Tamil magazine, Jaganmohini.
Vai. Mu. Kothainayaghi was the first female writer in Tamil, to write a detective novel. She had a multifarious personality and she excelled in fields like public speaking, social service, fiction writing and was a keen Freedom Fighter too. She was hailed as “Queen of Fictions” by her contemporary authors. However she was not well recognized in the books on the history of Tamil literature.
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