Lists 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