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Spectrum Chart - 560 : Indian Writers/Authors 1
1. Rabindranath Tagore - Rabindranath
Tagore is regarded as one of the greatest writers in modern Indian
literature. Bengali poet, novelist and educator, he won the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1913. His first book, a collection of poems,
appeared when he was 17. Tagore’s reputation as a writer was
established in the United States and in England after the publication
of Gitanjali, Song Offerings, in which Tagore tried to find inner
calm and explored the themes of divine and human love. The poems were
translated into English by Tagore himself. He produced poems, novels,
stories, a history of India, textbooks, and treatises on pedagogy.
2. Munshi Premchand - Munshi Premchand was
regarded as the greatest writer in Hindi Literature. He is one of the
most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent and is regarded as
one of the foremost Hindustani writers of the early twentieth
century. A novel writer, dramatist & story writer he has been
referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" by some Hindi writers.
His works include more than a dozen novels, around 250 short stories,
several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works
into Hindi. Godaan, Bazaar-e-Husn, Karmabhoomi, Shatranj ke khiladi
were some of his notable works.
3. Jaishankar Prasad - Jaishankar Prasad
is one of the most famous figures in modern Hindi literature as well
as Hindi theatre. He is considered one of the Four Pillars (Char
Stambh) of Romanticism in Hindi Literature, along with Sumitranandan
Pant, Mahadevi Verma and Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'. His style of
poetry can at best be described as "touching". His dramas
are considered to be most pioneering ones in Hindi. The majority of
them revolve around historical stories of Ancient India. Some of them
were also based on mythological plots. He also wrote a small number
of novels like titli, kankal etc.
4. R. K. Narayan - R. K. Narayan full name
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, is an Indian writer, best
known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of
Malgudi. He is a leading author of early Indian literature in
English. Narayan's writing technique was unpretentious with a natural
element of humour about it. It focused on ordinary people, reminding
the reader of next-door neighbours, cousins and the like, thereby
providing a greater ability to relate to the topic. Narayan won
numerous awards during the course of his literary career. His first
major award was in 1958, the Sahitya Akademi Award for The Guide.
When the book was made into a film, he received the Filmfare Award
for the best story. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in
Literature multiple times, but never won the honour.
5. Mulk Raj Anand - Mulk Raj Anand was an
Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of
the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers
of Indo-Anglian fiction, he was one of the first India-based writers
in English to gain an international readership. Anand is admired for
his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of being
classic works of modern Indian English literature, noted for their
perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and their analyses
of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune. He was a recipient of
the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.
6. Kiran
Nagarkar - Kiran Nagarkar is an Indian novelist, playwright, film and
drama critic and screenwriter both in Marathi and English, and is one
of the most significant writers of post colonial India. Amongst his
works are Saat Sakkam Trechalis (tr. Seven Sixes Are Forty Three)
(1974), Ravan and Eddie (1994) and the epic novel, Cuckold (1997) for
which he was awarded the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award in English by the
Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. Kiran Nagarkar
was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany,
described as the 'highest tribute Germany can pay to individuals'.
7. Anita Desai - Anita Desai is an Indian
novelist. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker
Prizethree times, she received a Sahitya Academy Award in 1978 for
her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Academy, India's
National Academy of Letters, she won the British Guardian Prize for
The Village by the Sea. In 1993, her novel 'In Custody' was adapted
into an English film. It won the 1994 President of India Gold Medal
for Best Picture.
8. V. S. Naipaul - Sir Vidiadhar
Surajprasad Naipaul, is a Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winning British
writer known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago,
his bleaker later novels of the wider world and his autobiographical
chronicles of life and travels. He has published more than 30 books,
both of fiction and nonfiction, over some 50 years.
9. Rohinton Mistry - Rohinton Mistry is an
Indian-born Canadian. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize
for Literature in 2012. His short-story collection "Tales from
Firozsha Baag" was published in Canada in the year 1987.
Rohinton Mistry bagged the Commonwealth Writers Prize for this book.
"A Fine Balance", another novel published in the year 1996
depicts the State of Emergency in India.
10. Gita Mehta - Gita Mehta is an Indian
writer. The subject of both her fiction and non-fiction is
exclusively focused on India, its culture and history and the Western
perception of it. Her works reflect the insight gained through her
journalistic and political background. Her books have been translated
into 21 languages and been on the bestseller lists in Europe, the US
and India.
11. Satyajit Ray - Satyajit Ray was an
Indian Bengali filmmaker. He was also a fiction writer, publisher,
illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film
critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed
at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth and Professor Shonku,
the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional
characters created by him. Ray wrote an autobiography about his
childhood years, Jakhan Choto Chilam (1982), translated to English as
Childhood Days. He also wrote essays on film, published as the
collections: Our Films, Their Films (1976), Bishoy Chalachchitra
(1976) and Ekei Bole Shooting (1979).
12. Ram Charan - Ram Charan is an
Indian-American business consultant, speaker and writer. He has
authored 15 books since 1998 that have sold over 2 million copies in
more than a dozen languages. Execution, which he co-authored with
former Honeywell CEO Larry Bossidy in 2002, was a No.1 Wall Street
Journal bestseller and spent more than 150 weeks on the New York
Times bestseller list.
13. Kunal Basu - Kunal Basu is an Indian
author of English fiction. Kunal Basu is one of the very few Indian
practitioners of historical fiction. He has published four novels, a
collection of short stories, written a few screen plays and copious
volumes of (mostly unpublished) poetry.
14. Shashi Deshpande - Shashi Deshpande is
an award-winning Indian novelist. She published her first collection
of short stories in 1978 and her first novel, 'The Dark Holds No
Terror', in 1980. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel
That Long Silence in 1990 and the Padma Shri award in 2009. Her novel
Shadow Play was shortlisted for The Hindu Literary Prize in 2014.
15. Ruskin Bond - Ruskin Bond is an Indian
author of British descent. Most of his works are influenced by life
in the hill stations at the foothills of the Himalayas, where he
spent his childhood. His first novel, The Room On the Roof, was
written when he was 17 and published when he was 21.
16. Upamanyu Chatterjee - Upamanyu
Chatterjee is a published author and best known for his novel
English, August, also adapted into an acclaimed film of the same
title. Chatterjee has written a handful of short stories of which
"The Assassination of Indira Gandhi" and "Watching
Them" are particularly noteworthy. His best-selling novel,
'English, August : An Indian story' was published in 1988 and has
since been reprinted several times. In 2004, he was awarded the
Sahitya Akademi Award for The Mammaries of the Welfare State. The
novel Way To Go was shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award in
2010.
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