KV Mohankumar

KV Mohankumar is a distinguished novelist and short story writer. A member of the Indian Administrative Service, he has written fifteen books and is the author of best-selling novels in Malayalam like Ushnaraashi (Manhunt: The Seashore Saga of the Punnapra-Vayalar Uprising), Sradhasesham (Beyond Salvation), Jaaranum Poochayum (Paramour and the Cat) and Ezhamindrium (The Seventh Sense). Pranayathinde Moonnamkannu (The Third Eye of Love), a fictionalised philosophical quest based on Tantric Buddhism bagged several literary awards in Malayalam. Manhunt is a translation of Ushnaraashi - Karappurathinte Ithihasam which received the 2018 Vayalar Ramavarma Literary Prize.