List of Hindus - Writers / Poets

Writers / Poets

Ancient times to 19th century

  • Paravastu Chinnayya Soori, Telugu poet
  • Aathreya, Telugu poet
  • Auvaiyar, Saivite saint and Tamil poet
  • Kalidasa, Sanskrit poet, wrote the play Sakuntala
  • Kambar, Tamil poet, translated Ramayana into Tamil
  • Subramanya Bharathy, Tamil poet, anti-colonialist writer
  • Tulsidas, Hindi poet, translated Ramayana into Hindi
  • Kanaka Dasa
  • Purandara Dasa
  • Kumara Vyasa
  • Akka Mahadevi
  • Adikavi Pampa
  • Vyasatirtha
  • Allama Prabhu
  • Sant Tukaram
  • Sant Eknath
  • Sant Dnyaneshwar

20th century

  • Rabindranath Tagore, writer, 1913 Nobel Literature Prize Winner
  • V.S. Naipaul, writer, Nobel Literature Prize winner
  • Aldous Huxley, novelist, author of Brave New World
  • Arun Kolatkar, poet
  • Bharati Mukherjee, US author
  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Christopher Isherwood, writer
  • Eknath Easwaran, Malayali-American author
  • Gopal Baratham, Singapore writer (also, leading neurosurgeon)
  • Harivanshrai Bachchan, Hindi poet, father of Amitabh Bachchan
  • Prof. Karmegha Konar, Tamil poet
  • Jayakanthan, Tamil writer, Jnanpith awardee
  • Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize winner for "Interpreter of Maladies"
  • Kalhana
  • Kamala Markandaya, poet
  • Kannadasan, Tamil poet & lyricist, known as kavi arasu (king of poets)
  • R.K. Laxman, cartoonist & humorist
  • Manil Suri novelist
  • Mahadevi Verma, Hindi poet
  • Mulk Raj Anand
  • Munshi Premchand, Hindi novelist
  • Pudhumaipithan, influential and revolutionary Tamil writer
  • R.K. Narayan, English short-story writer, Malgudi tales
  • J.D. Salinger, novelist
  • Shashi Tharoor, author of The Great Indian Novel
  • Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi poet
  • Vikram Seth, English novelist, poet
  • Vayalar Ramavarma – Malayalam poet
  • Savitri Devi Mukherji – writer and devotee of Adolf Hitler
  • Gopalakrishna Adiga
  • U. R. Ananthamurthy
  • Kappe Arabhatta
  • Amoghavarsha
  • Basava
  • Bhavageete
  • D. R. Bendre
  • Chamarasa
  • Chikkupadhyaya
  • Gangadhar V. Chittal
  • Dinakara Desai
  • Manu V. Devadevan
  • Subbanna Ekkundi
  • Gangadevi
  • M. Govinda Pai
  • Janna
  • Gourish Kaikini
  • Chandrashekhara Kambara
  • Shivarama Karanth
  • Kayyar Kinhanna Rai
  • Kuvempu
  • S. Manjunath
  • A. N. Murthy Rao
  • Nagavarma I
  • Nagavarma II
  • K. S. Narasimhaswamy
  • K. S. Nissar Ahmed
  • Sri Ponna
  • Rajasekhara
  • Samethanahalli Rama Rao
  • Ranna
  • Rudrabhatta
  • Mamta Sagar
  • Sarvajna
  • Shishunala Sharif
  • Shivakotiacharya
  • G. S. Shivarudrappa
  • B. M. Srikantaiah
  • T. N. Srikantaiah
  • Tirumalamba
  • Manoj Das, Oriya Poet
  • Brajanath Ratha, Oriya Poet

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