Shan Karuppusamy (Shanmugam K) is an award-winning Tamil writer from Perundurai, Tamilnadu. He's been writing poems, columns and short stories in Tamil magazines (both online and print) for around 7 years. He has published 8 books so far.

He has won the Sujatha award for the year 2016 for the Internet writers category. His first novel, Vettattam (2017) had been adapted for the feature film NOTA (2018), released in both Tamil and Telugu. He worked on the screenplay for the movie along with director Anand Shankar. A techie by profession with a passion towards storytelling..

His short story ‘Thangam’ has been adapted for Netflix’s first Tamil anthology for the portion that is directed by Sudha Kongara. He wrote the script and the lyrics for the project. His highly acclaimed second novel Ponni is a historical fantasy thriller based on gold mining..

He is currently working on the sequel for the novel. Enemy a bi-lingual is set to be released in 2021, in which he wrote the screenplay and dialogues.