India
See also: Indian literature- Aravind Adiga (1974–)
- Ahmed Ali (1910–1994), English, Urdu
- Mulk Raj Anand, English
- Chaudhry Afzal Haq, Urdu, English, Hindi
- Manik Bandopadhyay, Bengali
- Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali
- Bibhutibhushan Banerjee, Bengali
- Tarashankar Banerjee, Bengali
- Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, Kannada
- Ramavriksha Benipuri, Hindi
- Ruskin Bond, English
- Buddhadev Bose, Bengali, English
- Samaresh Bose, Bengali
- Nirendranath Chakraborty, Bengali
- Vikram Chandra, English
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894), Bengali
- Upamanyu Chatterjee, (born 1959), English
- Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), Bengali
- Amit Chaudhuri, (born 1962), English
- Rajkamal Choudhary, Hindi
- Jibanananda Das, Bengali
- Manoj Das,Oriya
- David Davidar
- Shobhaa De, English
- Anita Desai, English
- Kiran Desai, English
- P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi
- Eunice De Souza (born 1940), English
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Michael Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali, English, French
- Lalon Fakir, Bengali
- Sunil Gangopadhyay, Bengali
- Amitav Ghosh, English
- Subodh Ghosh, Bengali
- Buddhadev Guha, Bengali
- Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912) Bengali
- Kaji Nazrul Islam, Bengali, Persian, Arabic
- Raj Kamal Jha, English
- T P KAilasam, Kannada
- Amita Kanekar
- Umar Alisha Kavisekhara Telugu
- Datta Raghunath Kavthekar (1901–1979) Marathi
- Prakash Kona
- Kuvempu, Kannada
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Pankaj Mishra
- Rohinton Mistry, English
- Narendranath Mitra, Bengali
- Gopinath Mohanty,Oriya
- Jagadish Mohanty, (born 1951) Oriya
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Bengali
- Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) Marathi & English
- R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English
- Bhalchandra Nemade (born 1938) Marathi
- Dibyendu Palit, Bengali, English
- Surender Mohan Pathak, Hindi
- Moncy Pothen, English
- Sugan Prabhu
- Munshi Premchand (1880–1936), Hindi
- Jay Purandare, English
- Indra Bahadur Rai (1927) Nepali
- Rajashree, English
- Raja Rao, English
- Satyajit Ray, Bengali
- Arundhati Roy, English
- Rammohan Roy, Bengali, English, Sanskrit
- Salman Rushdie, (born 1947), English
- Sarojini Sahoo, (born 1956) Oriya
- Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit
- Vilas Sarang (born 1942) Marathi & English
- D.Selvaraj, Tamil
- Samar Sen, Bengali, English
- Fakir Mohan Senapati,Oriya
- Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali also poet, painter, philosopher & Nobel laureate
- Shashi Tharoor, English
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bengali
- Vijayakrishnan, Malayalam
- Harilal Upadhyay, (22-January-1916, 15-January-1994) Gujarati
- Kannan G, English
- Kalki Krishnamurthy . Tamil
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