Navin Manogaran is a Malaysian Tamil writer. He currently runs an e-magazine by the name of Vallinam. In 2010, he received the Young Talent Award from the Malaysian state of Selangor. In 2019, he received the Tamil Literary Garden of Canada Award. Read More To date he has written and published more than fifteen books.  His novel Peichi (2019) stirred controversy within the Indian community, resulting in a ban by the Malaysian government in 2020. As a publisher, Navin has published thirty-nine Malaysian Tamil literary works, from poetry, fiction, non fiction and anthologies. He has also produced sixteen documentaries on Malaysian Tamil literary pioneers.