List of Indian writers
List of Indian writers, poets, writers
A.
- Abdul Khan Din
- George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1848-1881)
- Aravind Adiga (* 1974), Booker Prize winner
- Vishal Agarwal
- Ahmed Rida Khan
- Akhandanand
- Amar Nath Kak
- Amaru (approx. 6th - 8th centuries), Sanskrit
- UR Ananthamurthy (1932-2014), Kannada
- Sukumar Azhikode (1926-2012), Malayalam
B.
- Harivanshrai Bachchan (1907-2003), Hindi
- Rupa Bajwa
- Chandrakant Bakshi
- V. Balakrishnan (1932-2004), Malayalam
- SN Balagangadhara (* 1952)
- Banabhatta
- Ashok bankers
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908–1994), Malayalam novelist
- Samit Basu
- Abhijit Bhaduri
- Chetan Bhagat (* 1974), English
- SL Bhairappa
- Bharata Muni
- Dharamvir Bharati (1926-1997), Hindi
- Bhartrihari (around 5th – 7th centuries), Sanskrit
- Ruskin Bond (* 1934), English
- Rajsekhar Bose
- Sasthi Brata (1939-2015)
C.
- Mario Cabral e Sa
- Lokesh Chandra (* 1927)
- Vikram Chandra (* 1961)
- Chandrakanta
- Aroup Chatterjee
- Rimi B. Chatterjee
- Upamanyu Chatterjee (* 1959)
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838-1894)
- Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938)
- Amit Chaudhuri (* 1962), English
- Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (1897-1999)
- Dilip Chitre (1938-2009)
- Deepak Chopra (* 1946)
- Ismat Chughtai
- Ismat Chugtai
- Col Karan Kharb
- Richard Crasta (* 1952)
D.
- Bhim Singh Dahiya
- Hamid Dalwai (1932–1977)
- Abdul Majid Daryabadi
- Kamala Das
- Ullas Das
- Abha Dawesar (* 1974)
- Shobhaa De (* 1948)
- Anita Desai (* 1937)
- Kiran Desai (* 1971)
- Mahadev Desai
- Narayan Desai
- GV Desani
- Gauri Deshpande
- Shashi Deshpande
- Devaki Nandan Khatri
- Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016)
- Dharampal (1922-2006)
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (* 1956)
G
- Jayant Gandhi
- Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934-2012)
- Amitav Ghosh (* 1956)
- Sita Ram Goel (1921-2003)
- VK Gokak
- Ram Gopal (born 1925)
- Babu Gulabrai
- Rohit Gupta
- Swaraj Prakash Gupta (1931-2007)
- Gurdial Singh
H
- E. Harikumar
- Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850-1885)
- Kaka Hathrasi
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
- Ranjit Hoskoté (* 1969)
- Krishna Hutheesing
- Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007)
I.
- Kancha Ilaiah
- Anosh Irani (* 1974)
- Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar
- Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar (1891-1986)
J
- Ali Sardar Jafri
- Rashid Jahan
- Meenakshi Jain
- Jayakanthan (1934-2015)
- Radhika Jha (* 1970)
- Raj Kamal Jha (* 1966)
- Manu Joseph (* 1974), English
- Manohar Shyam Joshi (1933-2006)
K
- Kabir (1440-1518)
- Kalidasa (bl. Around 400), playwright, creator of Sakundala
- Bhau Kalchuri
- Kalhana (bl. 12th century)
- Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
- Kamleshwar
- Amita Kanekar (* 1965)
- Yashavant Kanetkar
- Jaswant Singh Kanwal
- K. Shivaram Karanth
- M. Karunanidhi (1924-2018)
- Zameer Hassan Kazmi
- Ravindra Kelekar (1925-2010)
- Ayub Khan-Din
- Khurram Murad (1932–1996)
- Khushwant Singh (1915-2014), novelist
- Kishori Charan Das
- Narendra Kohli
- Krishan Chander
- M. Krishnan Nair
- Gurunath Abaji Kulkarni
- Deepak Kumar
- Satish Kumar
- Kumaran Asan
L.
- Bihari Lal (1595–1663)
- Kishori Saran Lal (1920–2002)
- Purushottama Lal ('P. Lal'; 1929-2010)
M.
- Madhan
- Mahipati
- Sake Dean Mahomet (1759-1851)
- Binoy Majumdar
- Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888-1980)
- Manohar Malgonkar
- Amulya Malladi
- Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004)
- Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869), Urdu poet
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938)
- Dom Moraes (1938-2004)
- Maulana Manazir Ahsan Gilani
- Maulvi Abdul Haq
- Pankaj Mishra (* 1969)
- Mohan Rakesh (1925–1972)
- Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
- Vijaya Mulay
- Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)
- Sudha Murty
N
- Kiran Nagarkar (1942-2019)
- CM Naim
- MT Vasudevan Nair
- Nand Kishore Acharya
- Harsh Narain (1921-1995)
- RK Narayan (1906-2001)
- Shoba Narayan
- C. Narayanareddy
- Natthan Singh
- Gopal Das Neeraj
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)
- Jaswant Neki
- Nirmal Verma (1929-2005)
- Nitish Sengupta
- Sister Nivedita (1867-1911)
P
- Ranya Paasonen (* 1974), Indian author, lives in Finland
- Balji Nath Pandit (1916-2007)
- MP Pandit
- K. Ayyappa Panicker
- Sumitranandan Pant , Hindi poet
- K. Madhava Panikkar (1895–1963)
- Pannalal Patel
- Harishankar Parsai
- Pash (1950–1988)
- Swaraj Paul
- Pavanan
- Phanishwarnath Renu
- Pitcheswara Rao Atluri
- Poornachandra Tejaswi
- SK Pottekkatt
- Vishnu Prabhakar (1912-2009)
- Ravindra Prabhat (* 1969)
- Devendra Prabhudesai
- Uday Prakash (* 1952)
- Premchand (1880-1936)
- Anant Priolkar (1895–1973)
- Amrita Pritam
R.
- Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)
- NS Rajaram
- Rajendra Yadav (1929-2013)
- Vayalar Ramavarma
- Ramesh Menon
- Rangeya Raghav
- Sujatha Ramdorai (* 1962)
- Raja Rao (1908-2006)
- SR Rao (1922-2013)
- Anita Rau Badami (* 1961)
- Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri (1863-1915)
- Kethu Viswanatha Reddy
- Yvette Rosser (* 1952)
- Arundhati Roy (born 1961)
- Dilip Kumar Roy (1897–1980)
- Salman Rushdie (* 1947), Booker Prize winner
S.
- P. Sachidanandan
- Bhisham Sahni
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Kottarathil Sankunni
- Vilas Sarang
- Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958)
- Annabhau Sathe (1920–1969)
- Nandini Satpathy (1931-2006)
- Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1895–1976)
- Vikram Seth (* 1952), English-speaking novelist, poet
- Kaikhosru Dadhaboy Sethna (1904-2011)
- Vishnu Sharma
- HV Sheshadri (1926-2005)
- Tarabai Shinde (1850-1910)
- Arun Shourie (born 1941)
- Vinod Kumar Shukla (* 1937)
- Frank Simoes
- Bhai Vir Singh
- Jagjit Singh
- Khushwant Singh (1915-2014)
- Shumona Sinha (* 1973)
- Sadguru Sivananda Murty
- Sivasankari
- Indira Soundarajan
- Sri Lal Sukla
- BM Srikantaiah
- Subramaniya Bharati (1882-1921)
- Shri Purohit Swami
- BGL Swamy
- Ram Swarup (1920-1998)
- Vikas Swarup (* 1963)
T
- T. Padmanabhan
- Rabindranath Thakur (1861–1941), Nobel Prize for Literature 1913, poet of the Indian national anthem
- Shrikant G. Talageri (* 1958)
- Gurbachan Singh Talib (1911–1986)
- Vijay Tendulkar (1928-2008)
- Jamling Tenzing Norgay (* 1966)
- Thomas Thomas
- Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
- Mark Tully
- Tulsidas (around 1532 / 43–1623), poet, creator of the Ramayana in Hindi
U
- Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer (1877-1949)
- Umasvati
V
- Abdul Vaheed ('Kamal'; * 1936)
- Krishna Baldev Vaid (1927-2020)
- Vayalar Ramavarma , Malayalam poet
- Mahadevi Varma (1907-1987)
- Vembu Vikiraman
- Bhagwati Charan Verma
- OV Vijayan
W.
Y
Z
- Paul Zacharia (* 1945)
- Sajjad Zaheer (1905–1973)