Koonan Thoppu is a novel written by Sahitya Akademi awarded writer Thoppil Muhammed Meeran. First published in 1993, the novel has impacted numerous readers over the years. Meeran writes with extreme nuance about a world he knew by experience. Standing opposite to the realm of imagination, Meeran still took Tamil literature to a novel terrain. Filled with as many thorns as flowers, he created a new school of progressive literature, that invited readers to re-examine themselves.