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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.
t. e. Indian English literature (IEL), also referred to as Indian Writing in English (IWE), is the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language but whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. Its early history began with the works of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio and Michael Madhusudan ...
Anindita Ghose. Bishwanath Ghosh (writer) Jitendra Thakurdas Gianchandani. Agnes Giberne. Piyush Goel. Jyoti Gogte. Namita Gokhale. Shanta Gokhale. Ram Gopal (author)
Sahitya Akademi Award for English Award for contributions to English literature Awarded for Literary award in India Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, Government of India Reward(s) ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200) First awarded 1960 Last awarded 2022 Highlights Total awarded 51 First winner R. K. Narayan Most Recent winner Anuradha Roy Website sahitya-akademi.gov.in Part of a series on Sahitya Akademi Awards ...
from the BBC programme Bookclub, 2 October 2011. [5] Suzanna Arundhati Roy (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]
Anita Desai FRSL (born Anita Mazumdar; 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. [2][3] She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya ...
A. J. Thomas (born 1952), poet, editor. A. K. Ramanujan (1929–1993), poet and scholar of Indian literature who wrote in both English and Kannada. Abhay K (born 1980), poet, diplomat, writer, author and artist. Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001), Kashmiri-American poet writing in English.
Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. The Serpent and the Rope (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India, established him as one of the finest Indian prose stylists and won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1963. [1]