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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 ...
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.
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] She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes. [6]
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 ...
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.
Ruskin Bond. Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, was published in 1956, and it received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children. [1] He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for Our ...
Pankaj Mishra, The Times Literary Supplement. International Books of the Year, 3 December 2004:10 Nissim Ezekiel is considered to be a pioneering figure in modern Indian English Poetry.His first book, A Time to Change, was published in 1952. The significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath ...