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Top 10 Famous Indian Authors

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May 4, 2021

Since ancient times, India has been praised for its art, literature, and writing. In India, there are over twenty different languages spoken, as well as literature written in these languages. Indians, on the other hand, not only take pride in the diversity of their languages, but they also have a strong command of the English language. As a result, a large number of writers can be identified when it comes to Indian literature, so here’s an effort to condense the list down to a simple number of ten: the Indian authors who must be recognised and whose books should be read.

KHUSHWANT SINGH

Khushwant Singh, a prominent Indian writer and journalist, was born on February 2, 1915, in Hadali, Undivided India (now a part of Pakistan). Singh’s weekly column, “With Malice Against One and All,” was one of the most widely read in the world, appearing in many Indian newspapers. Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, satire, and abiding love of poetry. He is an influential post-colonial novelist writing in English. His contrasts of Westerners and Indians’ social and behavioural traits are laced with biting wit.

ARUNDHATI ROY

Arundhati Roy is an activist and writer from India who works on topics of social justice and economic injustice. She has since published two screenplays and numerous collections of essays, as well as winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel The God of Small Things. In 2002, the Lannan Foundation awarded her the Cultural Freedom Prize for her work as an activist.

ARAVIND ADIGA

Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) in 1974 and raised in Mangalore in India’s south. He went to Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College in Oxford for his education. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and The Times of India, among other publications. In 2008, his debut novel, The White Tiger, was awarded the Man Booker Prize for literature. It was accompanied by the publication of Between the Assassinations, a compilation of short stories. Last Man in the Tower, his second book, was released in 2011. Selection Day, his most recent book, was released in 2016.

VIKRAM SETH

Vikram Seth is a poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children’s author, biographer, and memoirist who lives in India. He did his fieldwork in China and translated Hindi and Chinese poetry into English during his doctoral studies at Stanford. Returning to Delhi via Xinjiang and Tibet, he published From Heaven Lake: Travels Via Sinkiang and Tibet (1983), which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Seth has stated that he is perplexed that his readers frequently assume an unwelcome degree of personal familiarity with him as a result of his published material being replete with un- or thinly-veiled information as to the personal lives of himself and his intimates related in a highly engaging narrative voice.

SHASHI THAROOR

Shashi Tharoor represents Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram constituency in the Indian Parliament. He previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations and as the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs. He has served on the Board of Overseers of Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is also a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University and an advisor to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.

ANUJ DHAR

Anuj Dhar is an Indian author and former journalist who has written many books about Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s life. Anuj Dhar’s book “Netaji Rahasya Gatha,” which was written in Hindi, is one of his most well-known works. The books discuss the mystery surrounding Subhash Chandra Bose’s death, specifically whether he died in a plane crash or whether he was alive and living under a false identity. The title of the book has been changed from ‘India’s Biggest Cover-up’ to ‘India’s Biggest Cover-up’ in English.

PRATIBHA RAY

Pratibha Ray, a former professor of education and a member of the Odisha Public Service Commission, is one of India’s most prolific fiction authors, writing in her native language of Odia. She is the author of many novels, travelogues, short storey, poetry, and essay collections. She has received the Jnanpith Award, the Moorti Devi Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Padma Shri from the Indian government for her contributions to Indian literature. Monalisa Jena was born in the Indian state of Odisha. She has written a number of books in a variety of genres, including two collections of short stories, three collections of poetry, and many volumes of translations.

ASHWIN SANGHI

Ashwin Sanghi

Ashwin Sanghi, an entrepreneur by day and a novelist by night, possesses all of the required credentials for an Indian businessman. Schooling at the Cathedral and John Connon School, as well as a B.A. in Economics from St. Xavier’s College and an M.B.A. in Finance from Yale School of Management. Ashwin has a parallel career as a fiction writer in addition to becoming a businessman. ‘The Rozabal Line,’ Ashwin’s first book, was self-published in 2007 under the pseudonym Shawn Hagins. Ashwin is currently working on his third book, which is still untitled but discusses ancient Indian market strategies. In addition, Ashwin is pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at Bangor University in Wales. Ashwin, his wife Anushika, and their eight-year-old son Raghuvir live in Mumbai

VINEET BAJPAI

He is, without a doubt, India’s most famous English-language author. Teenagers and octogenarians read his books with similar enthusiasm. He’s a crowd-pleaser at literary festivals and a regular on the bestseller lists.His business books are as well-received as his novels, which have a cult following. He was named one of the top 75 Indian writers of all time. He is also the Founder & Chairman of Magnon\TBWA and Magnon eg+.

CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a poet and an award-winning author. The Indian experience, contemporary America, women, globalisation, culture, myth, and the pleasures and challenges of living in a multicultural world are among her themes. Her fiction has appeared in over 50 publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her prose has been included in more than 50 anthologies. Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi, and Japanese are among the 29 languages into which her works have been translated. She was born in India and lived there until 1976 when she moved to the United States from Calcutta. She went on to earn a Master’s degree in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley.