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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.
The Bandit Queen of India: 2006: L. K. Advani: My Country My Life: 2008: V. R. Krishna Iyer: Wandering in Many Worlds: 2009: Abhinav Bindra: A Shot at History: 2011: I K Gujral: Matters of Discretion: 2011: Arjun Singh: A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time: 2012: Hay House Verghese Kurien: The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance: 2012 ...
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.
The famous Bengali linguist Hara Prasad Shastri discovered the palm leaf Charyapada manuscript in the Nepal Royal Court Library in 1907. 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 ...
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (Bengali pronunciation: [orundʱoti rae̯]; born 24 November 1961) [1] is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. [1]
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 ...
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The following is a list of ancient Indian writers, originating from the Indian subcontinent. Many writers contributed to the large body of early Indian literature (here roughly taken to predate the 13th century Delhi Sultanate ), consisting of poetry, drama, and writings on religion, philosophy, linguistics, mathematics and many other topics.