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Recent writers in India such as Arundhati Roy and David Davidar show a direction towards contextuality and rootedness in their works. Arundhati Roy, a trained architect and the 1997 Booker prize winner for her The God of Small Things, calls herself a "home grown" writer. Her award-winning book is set in the immensely physical landscape of Kerala.
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.
The most internationally famous Bengali writer is Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his work "Gitanjali". He wrote the national anthem of India and Bangladesh namely, "Jana Gana Mana" and "Amar Sonar Bangla", respectively. He was the first Asian who won the Nobel Prize.
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. [2] He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award.
Khushwant Singh FKC (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician.His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956 (made into film in 1998), which became his most well-known novel.
Gurajada Apparao (1862–1915), poet, writer and playwright who wrote the first Telugu play, Kanyasulkam; also an influential social reformer sometimes called Mahakavi ("the great poet") Gurram Jashuva (1895–1971), a dalit poet and writer and producer of All India Radio, awarded "Padma Bhushan" by the Govt of India, known for poetry on social ...
Book Subject Area Topic Collection Language Author Date Reign of Reign Age Geographic Region Modern Name of Geographic Region Notes Rig Veda: Hindu hymns about various gods, scientific revelations and references to historic events. Part 1 of the four part Hindu canon. Veda/Samhita: Sanskrit: No concrete information available, but attributed to ...
Jana Begum (17th century), early female writer of a commentary on the Qur'an; Pupul Jayakar (1915–1997), biographer, non-fiction writer on handicrafts; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927–2013), acclaimed German-born British novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, grew up in India