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MAJOR INDIAN ENGLISH WRITERS

INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Indian English Literature refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian diaspora.

It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglican literature. As a category, this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial literature- the production from previously colonised countries such as India.

The major Indian English writers are R.K. Narayan, Sir Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Chetan Bhagat, Babhani Battacharya, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Raja Rao, Aravind Adiga, Kiran Desai etc.

R.K. NARAYAN

R.K.Narayan (10 October 1906- 13 May 2001), was an Indian writer, best known for his works set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early Indian English literature and is credited with bringing the genre to the rest of the world.

MAJOR WORKS Swami and Friends The Bachelor of Arts The English Teacher A Tiger for Malgudi Next Sunday My Days Gods, Demons and Others The Ramayana The Mahabharata Malgudi Days An Astrologer’s Day and Other Stories A Horse and Two Goats etc…

AWARDS AND HONOURS Padma Vibhushan Padma Bhushan Sahitya Akademi Award Filmfare Award for the Best Story A C Benson Medal Honorary Doctorates Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature Other Awards and Honours

ARUNDHATI ROY

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born

24 November 1959) 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. She is also a political activist involved in human rights and environmental causes.

MAJOR WORKS The God of Small Things The End of Imagination The Cost of Living The Greater Common Good Power Politics War Talk Capitalism: A Ghost Story Broken Republic Walking With the Comrades etc…

AWARDS AND HONOURS The Man Booker Prize Global Exchange Human Rights Award Sahitya Akademi Award Norman Mailer Prize Sydney Peace Prize Other Awards and Honours

SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE

Sir Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947)

is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.

MAJOR WORKS

Grimus Midnight's Children Shame The Satanic Verses The Moor's Last Sigh The Ground Beneath Her Feet Fury East, West The Best American Short Stories Mohandas Gandhi etc…

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Aristeion Prize (European Union) Arts Council Writers' Award Author of the Year (British Book Awards) Author of the Year (Germany) Booker Prize for Fiction Booker of Bookers English-Speaking Union Award Golden PEN Award Mantua Prize (Italy) James Joyce Award India Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award

(USA) Other Awards And Honours

CHETAN BHAGAT

  Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is an

Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television personality and motivational speaker, known for his English-language novels about young urban middle-class Indians. A noted public intellectual, Bhagat also writes columns about the youth, career development and current affairs, for The Times of India (in English) and Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi).

MAJOR WORKS

Five Point Someone (2004) One Night @ the Call Center (2005) The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008) 2 States(2009) Revolution 2020 (2011) What Young India Wants (2012) Half Girlfriend (2014) Making India Awesome (2015)

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Society Young Achiever' award in 2004

Publisher's Recognition award in 2005

Bhagat in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People 2010

Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay 2014- Kai Po Che

CNN-IBN Award in the field of Entertainment for the year 2014

 

RAJA RAO

Raja Rao (8 November

1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism. Rao's wide ranging body of work, spanning a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World literature.

MAJOR WORKS

Kanthapura The Serpent and the Rope The Cat and Shakespeare: A Tale of India Comrade Kirillov  The Cow of the Barricades The Policeman and the Rose  Changing India: An Anthology  Tomorrow  The Little Gram Shop Javni India—A Fable etc…

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Padma Vibhushan

Padma Bhushan

Sahitya Akademi Award

Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Other Awards and Honours

BHABANI BHATTACHARYA

Bhabani Bhattacharya (10 November 1906 –10 October 1988) was an Indian writer, of Bengali origin, who wrote social-realist fiction. In his mid-thirties Bhattacharya began writing fiction set in historically and socially realistic contexts. He wrote in English, his chosen medium following the advice of two prominent literary figures.

MAJOR WORKS

Some Memorable Yesterdays So Many Hungers!  Indian Cavalcade  He Who Rides a Tiger  The Golden Boat  Towards Universal Man  A Goddess Named Gold etc…

AWARDS Sahitya Akademi Award Other Awards

ANITA DESAI

Anita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist. Anita Mazumdar to a German mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D.N. Mazumdar . As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She began to write in English at the age of seven and published her first story at the age of nine.

MAJOR WORKS The Artist of Disappearance The Zigzag Way Diamond Dust and Other Stories Fasting, Feasting Baumgartner's Bombay In Custody The Village by the Sea Clear Light of Day  Games at Twilight  Fire on the Mountain  The Peacock Garden Bye-bye Blackbird  Voices in the City etc…

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Padma Bhushan Sahitya Akademi Award Benson Medal of Royal Society of Literature Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature Neil Gunn Prize Guardian Children's Fiction Prize Shortlisted, Booker Prize for Fiction Other Awards and Honours

VIKRAM SETH

Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila Seth, the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court, and her husband Prem. Internationally recognized as a writer and poet, Vikram Seth has published six books of poetry and three novels.

MAJOR WORKS The Golden Gate A Suitable Boy An Equal Music A Suitable Girl The Humble Administrator's Garden All You Who Sleep Tonight Beastly Tales Three Chinese Poets At Evening The Frog and the Nightingale A Doctor's Journal Entry Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems  The Eagle and The Beetle etc…

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Padma Sree Commonwealth Poetry Prize Sahitya Akademi Award Irish Times International Fiction Prize Commonwealth Writers Prize  WH Smith Literary Award Crossword Book Award  Order of the British Empire Pravasi Bharatiya Samman The 25 Greatest Global Living Legends In India Other Awards and Honours

ARAVIND ADIGA

Aravind Adiga was born in Chennai

on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga. Adiga began his journalistic career as a financial journalist. He was hired by TIME, where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During his freelance period, he wrote The White Tiger. He currently lives in Mumbai.

MAJOR WORKS

The White Tiger

Between the Assassinations

Last Man in Tower

AWARDS AND HONOURS

The Man Booker Prize

Other Awards And Honours