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75 Best Indian Authors and their Books in English (2020 Update)
Mulk Raj is one Indian author whose every book is highly recommended. KHUSHWANT SINGH. Khushwant Singh is one of the greatest Indian writers and journalists of all times. A versatile genius, he has been a lawyer, an information officer, a journalist, an editor and an MP. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974, which he returned in 1984 to ...
Indian English literature
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 Dutt followed by Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo.
R.K. Narayan
Died: May 13, 2001, Madras (aged 94) Notable Works: "Swami and Friends". R.K. Narayan (born October 10, 1906, Madras [Chennai], India—died May 13, 2001, Madras) was one of the finest Indian authors of his generation writing in English. Reared by his grandmother, Narayan completed his education in 1930 and briefly worked as a teacher ...
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Ashwin Sanghi ranks among India's highest-selling English fiction authors. Type of writer: Novelist, essayist, short story writer. Notable Works in Indian Writing: The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, The Krishna Key, The Sialkot Saga, Keepers of the Kalachakra and The Vault of Vishnu in the Bharat Series.
Top 10 Famous Indian English Novelists
Anu Raga on December 03, 2014: nice. India is home to a variety of celebrated novelists who write in English. Celebrated contemporary authors include Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, Anita Nair, Chetan Bagat, and Jeet Thayyil. Read on for information about these top authors (and more!).
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.
List of Indian writers
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.
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3. Chetan Bhagat. Chetan Bhagat is a modern author, columnist, screenwriter, and television personality, especially known for his books geared toward young readers from the Indian middle class. He's one of the most popular writers in the country and his books sold over 7 million copies all over the world (he writes primarily in English). The New York Times called him "the biggest-selling ...
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English
Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English ...
Indian literature
The earliest Indian literature took the form of the canonical Hindu sacred writings, known as the Veda, which were written in Sanskrit.To the Veda were added prose commentaries such as the Brahmanas and the Upanishads.The production of Sanskrit literature extended from about 1500 bce to about 1000 ce and reached its height of development in the 1st to 7th centuries ce.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri. Published on 5 Apr. 2022. One of the most critically acclaimed and respected writers in the field of Indian English fiction, Nilanjana Sudeshna 'Jhumpa' Lahiri was born on 11 July 1971 to Bengali parents in London, before moving to and growing up in Rhode Island, USA. Educated in English from Columbia University and with MA ...
Indian Writers in English
Mulk Raj Anand, R.K.Narayan and Raja Rao were among the earliest Indian novelist writing in English, who began to write in the early thirties. Mulk Raj Anand (b.1905), best known for his short story 'The Lost Child', has written numerous works of prose, poetry and drama. His novels ' Coolie ' (1933), ' Untouchable ' (1935) and ...
The Sunset Club. Sahibs who loved India. Delhi A Novel. The Free Thinker's Prayer Book. 5- R.K Narayan. r.k Narayan. R.K Narayan is an eminent Indian English novelist. He was born in 1906 in Madras. R stands for his village name- Rasipuram and K stand for the name of his father Krishnaswami Iyer.
An Introduction To Contemporary Indian Literature In 10 Writers
Agha Shahid Ali. Author of A Walk Through the Yellow Pages (1987), The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987), A Nostalgist's Map of America (1991), The Country Without a Post Office (1997), Agha Shahid Ali is among the premiere English language poets born in 20th century India. The Kashmiri poet who moved to the United States later in his life is ...
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Born in 1955, Ananda grew up alongside Writers Workshop, sitting in on the Sunday morning adda and observing the group's struggles as well as their resilience. "They carried on regardless," he said, "because English is an Indian language.". Rather than be deterred, P. Lal took Bose's public condemnation, which appeared in a 1963 ...
Indian Women Writers in English Literature
The important theme of her work is reactions of the westernised protagonist and their conventional Indian families to the subject of arranged marriage and romantic love. The major women writers who have started writing after 1980s are Shashi Depshapande, Gita Hiraharan, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.
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1. Dilip Kumar: The Definitive Biography by Bunny Reuban. "This is the story of Dilip Kumar, an introverted and inhibited youth who metamorphosed into a thespian par excellence by the sheer dint of his determination, perseverance and capability.". Dilip became the face of Indian cinema and produced several notable films.
7 Introduction/Background/Evolution of Indian English Poetry
Indian English literature reveals that the impact of the West in shaping its foundations. The growth of Indian English literature is the attempt of a re-awakened national spirit to find a new mode of self-expression. William Jones who founded the Bengal Asiatic Society as early as 1784, H.T.Colebrooke who authored "Degist of Hindu Law on ...
Indian poetry in English
Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore , Sri Aurobindo , Sarojini Naidu , Michael Madhusudan Dutt , and Toru Dutt , among others.
Biographies of Indians (106 books)
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The Bandit Queen of India: 2006: L. K. Advani: My Country My Life: 2008: V. R. Krishna Iyer: Wandering in Many Worlds: 2009: Abhinav Bindra: A Shot at History: 2011: I K Gujral: Matters of Discretion: 2011: Arjun Singh: A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time: 2012: Hay House Verghese Kurien: The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance: 2012 ...
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Mulk Raj is one Indian author whose every book is highly recommended. KHUSHWANT SINGH. Khushwant Singh is one of the greatest Indian writers and journalists of all times. A versatile genius, he has been a lawyer, an information officer, a journalist, an editor and an MP. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974, which he returned in 1984 to ...
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 Dutt followed by Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo.
Died: May 13, 2001, Madras (aged 94) Notable Works: "Swami and Friends". R.K. Narayan (born October 10, 1906, Madras [Chennai], India—died May 13, 2001, Madras) was one of the finest Indian authors of his generation writing in English. Reared by his grandmother, Narayan completed his education in 1930 and briefly worked as a teacher ...
Ashwin Sanghi ranks among India's highest-selling English fiction authors. Type of writer: Novelist, essayist, short story writer. Notable Works in Indian Writing: The Rozabal Line, Chanakya's Chant, The Krishna Key, The Sialkot Saga, Keepers of the Kalachakra and The Vault of Vishnu in the Bharat Series.
Anu Raga on December 03, 2014: nice. India is home to a variety of celebrated novelists who write in English. Celebrated contemporary authors include Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Aravind Adiga, Anita Nair, Chetan Bagat, and Jeet Thayyil. Read on for information about these top authors (and more!).
Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 7, 1941, Calcutta) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, essayist, and painter who introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit.
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.
3. Chetan Bhagat. Chetan Bhagat is a modern author, columnist, screenwriter, and television personality, especially known for his books geared toward young readers from the Indian middle class. He's one of the most popular writers in the country and his books sold over 7 million copies all over the world (he writes primarily in English). The New York Times called him "the biggest-selling ...
Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English ...
The earliest Indian literature took the form of the canonical Hindu sacred writings, known as the Veda, which were written in Sanskrit.To the Veda were added prose commentaries such as the Brahmanas and the Upanishads.The production of Sanskrit literature extended from about 1500 bce to about 1000 ce and reached its height of development in the 1st to 7th centuries ce.
Jhumpa Lahiri. Published on 5 Apr. 2022. One of the most critically acclaimed and respected writers in the field of Indian English fiction, Nilanjana Sudeshna 'Jhumpa' Lahiri was born on 11 July 1971 to Bengali parents in London, before moving to and growing up in Rhode Island, USA. Educated in English from Columbia University and with MA ...
Mulk Raj Anand, R.K.Narayan and Raja Rao were among the earliest Indian novelist writing in English, who began to write in the early thirties. Mulk Raj Anand (b.1905), best known for his short story 'The Lost Child', has written numerous works of prose, poetry and drama. His novels ' Coolie ' (1933), ' Untouchable ' (1935) and ...
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The Sunset Club. Sahibs who loved India. Delhi A Novel. The Free Thinker's Prayer Book. 5- R.K Narayan. r.k Narayan. R.K Narayan is an eminent Indian English novelist. He was born in 1906 in Madras. R stands for his village name- Rasipuram and K stand for the name of his father Krishnaswami Iyer.
Agha Shahid Ali. Author of A Walk Through the Yellow Pages (1987), The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987), A Nostalgist's Map of America (1991), The Country Without a Post Office (1997), Agha Shahid Ali is among the premiere English language poets born in 20th century India. The Kashmiri poet who moved to the United States later in his life is ...
Born in 1955, Ananda grew up alongside Writers Workshop, sitting in on the Sunday morning adda and observing the group's struggles as well as their resilience. "They carried on regardless," he said, "because English is an Indian language.". Rather than be deterred, P. Lal took Bose's public condemnation, which appeared in a 1963 ...
The important theme of her work is reactions of the westernised protagonist and their conventional Indian families to the subject of arranged marriage and romantic love. The major women writers who have started writing after 1980s are Shashi Depshapande, Gita Hiraharan, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.
1. Dilip Kumar: The Definitive Biography by Bunny Reuban. "This is the story of Dilip Kumar, an introverted and inhibited youth who metamorphosed into a thespian par excellence by the sheer dint of his determination, perseverance and capability.". Dilip became the face of Indian cinema and produced several notable films.
Indian English literature reveals that the impact of the West in shaping its foundations. The growth of Indian English literature is the attempt of a re-awakened national spirit to find a new mode of self-expression. William Jones who founded the Bengal Asiatic Society as early as 1784, H.T.Colebrooke who authored "Degist of Hindu Law on ...
Indian English poetry is the oldest form of Indian English literature. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English poetry followed by Rabindranath Tagore , Sri Aurobindo , Sarojini Naidu , Michael Madhusudan Dutt , and Toru Dutt , among others.
Post a comment ». Comments. No comments have been added yet. post a comment ». 106 books based on 21 votes: Ambedkar by Gail Omvedt, Playing It My Way: My Autobiography by Sachin Tendulkar, Wings of Fire: An Autobiography by A.P.J. ...
The Bandit Queen of India: 2006: L. K. Advani: My Country My Life: 2008: V. R. Krishna Iyer: Wandering in Many Worlds: 2009: Abhinav Bindra: A Shot at History: 2011: I K Gujral: Matters of Discretion: 2011: Arjun Singh: A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time: 2012: Hay House Verghese Kurien: The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance: 2012 ...