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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