Malayalam-language literature

literary texts written in Malayalam, a South-Dravidian language

Annual literature festival

Aithihyamala or Ithihyamala () (Garland of Legends) is a collection of century-old stories from Kerala that cover a vast spectrum of life, famous persons and events. It is a collection of legends numbering over a hundred, about magicians and yakshis, feudal rulers and conceited poets, kalari or Kalaripayattu experts, practitioners of Ayurveda and courtiers; elephants and their mahouts, tantric experts.