Kottayam Pushpanath
 Pushpanathan Pillai better known by the pseudonym Kottayam Pushpanath (Malayalam: കോട്ടയം പുഷ്പനാഥ്) is a prolific Malayali author most noted for his detective novels in Malayalam language. He has also written mainstream novels science fiction and horror fiction and translated Bram Stoker's Dracula into Malayalam.Most of Pushpanath's work appeared during the period of the 1970s and 1980s.