马兰·V. ·纳拉亚南，印度国家文学院总理事会成员。1950年出生于印度，毕业于印度泰米尔纳德邦的马杜赖大学，随后在美国佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔的佛罗里达大学攻读新闻学。他是印度著名的泰米尔语和英语双语作家，在全球泰米尔裔读者中知名度较高。2017年，曾被印度语言学会授予创新奖，同时，他还是新加坡管理大学李光前商学院的研究员，也是唯一一位获此殊荣的印度人。曾于2014年至2016年连续3年应邀参加在中国海南省博鳌举办的博鳌论坛，作为重要嘉宾参加了媒体领袖圆桌会议并作了主题发言，特别是2016年，他还参与了以“一带一路”沿线国家媒体发展与合作为主要议题的研讨。

Maalan V. Narayanan is an eminent bilingual (Tamil and English) writer, celebrated by the Tamil community across the globe. He is awarded with the coveted ‘Krititva Samagra Samman’ (award for wholesomeness in creativity) of Bharaiya Basha Parishad (Indian Languages council) in 2017. Born in India in 1950, he graduated from Madurai University, Tamilnadu and later pursued his higher studies in journalism at University of Florida, Gainesville, US. He is also a Lee Kong Chian Research Fellow of Singapore, the first and the only Indian to receive that honour. He is member of the General Council of Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of letters). He was invited to the Round Table of Media Leaders held at Boao China for 3 successive years 2014, 2015. and 2016 o discuss various topics related to SilK Route.