Vaithamanithi Mudumbai Kothainayaki Ammal familiarly known as Vai Mu Ko, was a Tamil writer, novelist, and journalist who was the first woman to occupy the editorial board of a Tamil magazine. She wrote 115 books and published a monthly Tamil magazine, Jaganmohini. Kothainayaki was the first female writer in Tamil to write a detective novel.
She was interested in a variety of topics and excelled in fields like public speaking, social service, music composition, and fiction writing. Kothainayaki was also a feminist and a freedom fighter. She was hailed as the "Queen of Fictions" by contemporary authors. However, Kothainayaki was not well recognized in books about the history of Tamil literature. She was diagnosed with lung tuberculosis. Kothainayaki died on 20 February 1960.
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