List of Indian writers
List of Indian writer, poet, literary creator
A
- Abdul Vaheed ` Kamal '
- George Robert Aberigh - Mackay
- Aravind Adiga ( b. 1974 ), English
- Vishal Agarwal
- Ahmed Rida Khan
- Akhandanand
- Amar Nath Kak
- Amaru (approx. 6 - 8th century), Sanskrit
- Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962 ), English
- U. R. Ananthamurthy ( born 1932 ), Kannada
- Annabhau Sathe
- Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar
- Sukumar Azhikode (1926-2012), Malayalam
B
- Harivanshrai Bachchan (1907-2003), Hindi
- Chandrakant Bakshi
- V. Balakrishnan (1932-2004), Malayalam
- Balji Nath Pandit
- Banabhatta
- Ashok Banker
- Samit Basu
- Abhijit Bhaduri
- Chetan Bhagat ( born 1974 ), English
- S. L. Bhairappa
- Bharata Muni
- Bharatendu Harishchandra
- Dharamvir Bharati (1926-1997), Hindi
- Bhartrihari (approx. 5 - 7th century), Sanskrit
- Bihari Lal
- Ruskin Bond ( b. 1934 ), English
C
- Mario Cabral e Sa
- Vikram Chandra
- Chandrakanta ( author)
- Aroup Chatterjee
- Rimi B. Chatterjee
- Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay
- Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri
- Dilip Chitre (1938-2009)
- Deepak Chopra
- Ismat Chughtai
- Ismat Chugtai
- Col Karan Kharb
D
- Bhim Singh Dahiya
- Abdul Majid Daryabadi
- Kamala The
- The Ulla
- Abha Dawesar
- Shobha De ( 1947)
- Anita Desai
- Kiran Desai
- Mahadev Desai
- Narayan Desai
- G. V. Desani
- Gauri Deshpande
- Shashi Deshpande
- Devaki Nandan Khatri
- Mahasweta Devi
G
- Jayant Gandhi
- Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Amitav Ghosh
- V. K. Gokak
- Babu Gulabrai
- Rohit Gupta
- Gurdial Singh
B
- Qurratulain Haider
- Hamid Dalwai
- E. Harikumar
- Kaka Hathrasi
- Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
- Ranjit Hoskoté ( b. 1969 )
- Krishna Hutheesing
I
- Kancha Ilaiah
- Anosh Irani ( born 1974 )
- Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar
J
- Ali Sardar Jafri
- Rashid Jahan
- Jayakanthan
- Radhika Jha (born 1970 )
- Raj Kamal Jha (born 1966 )
- Manohar Shyam Joshi (1933-2006)
K
- Kabir
- Kalidasa, playwright, creator of Sakundala
- Bhau Kalchuri
- Kalhana
- Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
- Kamleshwar
- Amita Kanekar
- Jaswant Singh Kanwal
- K. Shivaram Karanth
- Zameer Hassan Kazmi
- Ravindra Kelekar
- Khurram Murad
- Khushwant Singh, novelist
- Kishori Charan Das
- Narendra Kohli
- Krishan Chander
- M. Krishnan Nair (Author)
- Gurunath Abaji Kulkarni
- Deepak Kumar ( historian )
- Satish Kumar
- Kumaran Asan
L
- Braj Basi Lal
- P. Lal
M
- Madhan
- Mahipati
- Sake Dean Mahomet
- Binoy Majumdar
- Manohar Malgonkar
- Amulya Malladi
- Kamala Markandaya (1924-2004)
- Mirza Ghalib, Urdu poet
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Dom Moraes (1938-2004)
- Maulana Manazir Ahsan Gilani
- Maulvi Abdul Haq
- Pankaj Mishra
- Mohan Rakesh
- Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri
- Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
- Vijaya Mulay
- Mulk Raj Anand
- Sudha Murty
N
- Kiran Nagarkar (1942 )
- C. M. Naim
- M. T. Vasudevan Nair
- Nand Kishore Acharya
- R. K. Narayan
- Shoba Narayan
- C. Narayanareddy
- Natthan Singh
- Gopal Das Neeraj
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Jaswant Neki
- Nirmal Verma
- Nitish Sengupta
- Sister Nivedita
P
- Ranya Paasonen, Indian author, lives in Finland ( b. 1974 Madras)
- M. P. Pandit
- K. Ayyappa Panicker
- Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi poet
- Pannalal Patel
- Harishankar Parsai
- Pash
- Swaraj Paul
- Pavanan
- Phanishwarnath Renu
- Pitcheswara Rao Atluri
- Triumvirate poets of modern Malayalam
- Poornachandra Tejaswi
- S. K. Pottekkatt
- Devendra Prabhudesai
- Premchand
- Amrita Pritam
R
- Mulk Raj Anand
- N. S. Rajaram
- Rajendra Yadav (1929-2013)
- Vayalar Ramavarma
- Ramesh Menon
- Rangeya Raghav
- Raja Rao
- Anita Rau Badami
- Kethu Viswanatha Reddy
- Richard Crasta
- Arundhati Roy
- Dilipkumar Roy
- Rupa Bajwa
- Salman Rushdie - Booker Prize
- Ravindra Prabhat
S
- P. Sachidanandan
- Bhisham Sahni
- Samaresh Majumdar
- Kottarathil Sankunni
- Vilas Sarang
- Sasthi Brata
- Nandini Satpathy
- Vikram Seth, English-language novelist, poet
- Shashi Warrier
- Shivani
- Shobha De
- Arun Shourie
- Frank Simoes
- Bhai Vir Singh
- Jagjit Singh (Author)
- Khushwant Singh
- Sadguru Sivananda Murty
- Sivasankari
- Indira Soundarajan
- Sri Lal Sukla
- B. M. Srikantaiah
- Subramaniya Bharati
- Sujatha
- Shri Purohit Swami
- B. G. L. Swamy
- Vikas Swarup
T
- T. Padmanabhan
- Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, poets of the Indian National Anthem
- Shrikant G. Talageri
- Tarabai Shinde
- Vijay Tendulkar
- Jamling Tenzing Norgay
- Thomas
- Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
- Mark Tully
- Tulsidas, poet, creator of the Ramayana in Hindi
U
- Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer
- Umasvati
- Upendrakishore Ray
- Uday Prakash
V
- Vaikom Muhammad Basheer - Malayalam novelist
- Vayalar Ramavarma - Malayalam poet
- Mahadevi Varma
- Vembu Vikiraman
- Bhagwati Charan Verma
- O. V. Vijayan
- Vinod Kumar Shukla
- Vishnu Prabhakar
- Vishnu Sarma
- Viswanatha Satyanarayana
W
- Benjamin Walker
Y
- Anand Yadav
- Yashavant Kanetkar
- Yashpal
Z
- Paul Zacharia
- Sajjad Zaheer