Kalpatta Narayanan (born January, 1952) is an Indian novelist, short story writer, essayist, columnist, and a poet of Malayalam literature. He is known for his novel, Ithramathram and a number of poetry anthologies and other literary contributions. He is a recipient of several awards including Basheer Literary Award, Ayyappan Puraskaram and the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism.
The most brilliant Malayalam Non-fiction book I've read, from a literary point of view. Contains 36 essays on various themes/topics. Some of the sentences in this just scream pure genius !!!