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This is a list of notable writers who come from India or have Indian nationality. Names are sorted according to surname. Names are sorted according to surname. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Arundhati Roy. Among the later writers, the most notable is Salman Rushdie, born in India and now living in the UK.Rushdie, with his famous work Midnight's Children (Booker Prize 1981, Booker of Bookers 1992, and Best of the Bookers 2008), ushered in a new trend of writing.
G. A. Kulkarni (Gurunath Abaji Kulkarni), or known simply as "GA" (10 July 1923 – 11 December 1987), was an Indian Sahitya Akademi Award winner [1] Marathi writer of short stories. GA grew up in Belgaum. After earning his master's degree, he taught English at JSS College in Dharwad for about 30 years. [2] He had very strong liking for Dharwad ...
His works like the Vishakha (1942), a collection of lyrics, inspired a generation into the Indian freedom movement, and is today considered one of the masterpieces of Indian literature. [ 3 ] He was the recipient of the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi for Natsamrat , Padma Bhushan (1991) [ 4 ] and the Jnanapith Award in 1987.
Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956) [1] is an Indian writer.He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. [3]
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Indian male writers and Category:20th-century Indian women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Mehrunnisa Parvez (1944–), Hindi novelist, short story writer and Padma Shri awardee; Madhur Kapila (1942–), art critic, Hindi writer, recipient of the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for contribution to literature; Mohan Rana (1964–), Hindi poet and philosopher; Mridula Garg (1938–), short story writer and novelist
Sant Singh Sekhon (1908–1997) was an Indian playwright and fiction writer associated with Punjabi literature. He is part of the generation of Indian authors who mark the transition of India into an independent nation, scarred by the tragedies of partition .