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Spectrum Chart - 590 : Indian Writers/Authors 2
1. Khushwant Singh - Khushwant Singh was
an Indian novelist, lawyer, journalist and politician. As a writer,
he was best known for his trenchant secularism, humour, sarcasm and
an abiding love of poetry. His assessment and comparison of social
and behavioural traits of people from India and the West is full of
outstanding wit. Khushwant Singh was decorated with the Padma Bhushan
in 1974. In 2007, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, the
second-highest civilian award in India.
2. Chetan Bhagat - Chetan Bhagat is an
Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and
motivational speaker, known for his English-language dramedy novels
about young urban middle-class Indians. Chetan Bhagat published his
first novel first novel 'Five Point Someone' in 2004 and this very
first venture took him to the peaks of fame and popularity. He never
confined his literary talents to just writing novels. As a
responsible social person, he also writes columns in newspapers,
citing and dwelling on various social and national issues. Many of
his columns were noticed by parliamentarians and triggered serious
discussions in the Indian Parliament.
3. Ramchandra Guha - Ramachandra Guha is
an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include
environmental, social, political and cricket history. He has written
a lot on India's democracy, Indian society and also about the past
and present of India in his books and essays. Guha was valued as one
of the major historians of the late twentieth and early twenty first
centuries. In 2009, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan.
4. Arundhati Roy - Arundhati Roy is an
Indian author who is best known for her novel The God of Small Things
(1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. This
novel became the biggest-selling book by a non expatriate Indian
author. Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things,
in 1992, completing it in 1996. The book is semi-autobiographical and
a major part captures her childhood experiences in Aymanam. She has
written numerous essays on contemporary politics and culture.
5. Shashi Tharoor - Shashi Tharoor is an
Indian politician and a former diplomat who is currently serving as
Member of Parliament of India. Tharoor is also an acclaimed writer,
having authored 15 bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction since
1981, all of which are centred on India and its history, culture,
film, politics, society, foreign policy and more.
6. Vikram Seth - Vikram Seth is an Indian
novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books.
Vikram Seth has published six books of poetry and three novels. In
1986, Vikram Seth wrote The Golden Gate, his first major work. Seth's
collections of poetry such as Mappings and Beastly Tales are notable
contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon. He has
received several awards including Padma Shri, Sahitya Akademi Award,
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book
Award.
7. Anita Nair - Anita Nair is an Indian
English-language writer. She wrote her first book, a collection of
short stories called Satyr of the Subway. The book won her a
fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Ladies
Coupé, Mistress, Lessons in Forgetting, Idris: Keeper of the Light
are few other known books written by Anita Nair.
8. Amit Chaudhuri - Amit Chaudhuri is an
Indian English author and academic. He has written numerous novels,
short stories, poems and critical essays in English. His novels have
won several major awards and he has received international critical
acclaim. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, Indian
government's highest literary honour, in 2002 for his novel A New
World.
9. Jhumpa Lahiri - Jhumpa Lahiri is a
famous Indian American author of Bengali origin. Her first novel,
"The Namesake" was a major national bestseller and was
named the New York Magazine Book of the Year. Jhumpa Lahiri became
the first Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize when she won the 2000
Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book "Interpreter Of
Maladies". Lahiri is a member of the President's Committee on
the Arts and Humanities, appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama.
10. Salman Rushdie - Salman Rushdie is a
British Indian novelist and essayist. Salman Rushdie began his
writing career began with Grimus, which was published in 1975. He
gained literary fame with his second novel "Midnight's
Children", which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his
fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical
realism with historical fiction, his work is concerned with the many
connections, disruptions and migrations between Eastern and Western
civilisations.
11. Vikas Swarup - Vikas Swarup is an
Indian writer and diplomat of India. He is best known as the author
of the novel Q & A, adapted in film as Slumdog Millionaire, the
winner of Best Film for the year 2009 at the Academy Awards &
Golden Globe Awards. His debut novel, Q & A was critically
acclaimed in India and abroad, this international best-seller has
been translated into 43 different languages. Six Suspects (2008) &
The Accidental Apprentice (2013) are the novels written by Swarup.
12. Shobha De - Shobhaa De is an Indian
columnist and novelist. De is best known for her depiction of
socialites and sex in her works of fiction, for which she has come to
be known as the "Jackie Collins of India". In the 1980s,
she contributed to the Sunday magazine section of The Times of India.
In her columns, she used to explore the socialite life in Mumbai
lifestyles of the celebrities. At present, she is a freelance writer
and columnist for several newspapers and magazines.
13. Robin Sharma - Robin Sharma is a
Canadian self-help writer and leadership speaker, best known for his
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari series. He initially also
self-published The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, which was then picked
up for wider distribution by Harper Collins and became a Canadian and
international bestseller. He has since published 11 other books, and
founded the leadership training firm Sharma Leadership International.
In 2007, an independent survey of business people named Sharma as one
of the most influential leadership gurus in the world.
14. Vikram Chandra - Vikram Chandra is an
Indian-American writer. His first novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain,
won the 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Love
and Longing in Bombay (1997), a collection of short stories won the
Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and was short-listed for the
Guardian Fiction Prize. It was well received by international press
and media.
15. Kiran Desai - Kiran Desai is an Indian
author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker
Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. Her first
novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and
received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie. It
won the Betty Trask Award. She was awarded a 2013 Berlin Prize
Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.
16. Raj Kamal Jha - Raj Kamal Jha is an
internationally acclaimed novelist. Jha's first novel, The Blue
Bedspread won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First
Book and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Jha's novels
have been translated into more than a dozen European languages,
including French, German, Italian, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish,
Spanish and Finnish. His short stories have appeared in French and
German anthologies as well. His work has been featured in several
international literary festivals.
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