# Liste indischer Schriftsteller

Liste indischer Schriftsteller, Dichter, Literaturschaffender

## A

* Abdul Khan Din
* George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1848–1881)
* Aravind Adiga (* 1974), Booker-Prize-Träger
* Vishal Agarwal
* Ahmed Rida Khan
* Akhandanand
* Amar Nath Kak
* Amaru (ca. 6.–8. Jh.), Sanskrit
* U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932–2014), Kannada
* Sukumar Azhikode (1926–2012), Malayalam

## B

* Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907–2003), Hindi
* Rupa Bajwa
* Chandrakant Bakshi
* V. Balakrishnan (1932–2004), Malayalam
* S. N. Balagangadhara (* 1952)
* Banabhatta
* Ashok Banker
* Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908–1994), Malayalam-Romancier
* Samit Basu
* Abhijit Bhaduri
* Chetan Bhagat (* 1974), Englisch
* S. L. Bhairappa
* Bharata Muni
* Dharamvir Bharati (1926–1997), Hindi
* Bhartrihari (um 5.–7. Jh.), Sanskrit
* Ruskin Bond (* 1934), Englisch
* Rajsekhar Bose
* Sasthi Brata (1939–2015)

## C

* Mario Cabral e Sa
* Lokesh Chandra (* 1927)
* Vikram Chandra (* 1961)
* Chandrakanta
* Aroup Chatterjee
* Rimi B. Chatterjee
* Upamanyu Chatterjee (* 1959)
* Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–1894)
* Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938)
* Amit Chaudhuri (* 1962), Englisch
* Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (1897–1999)
* Dilip Chitre (1938–2009)
* Deepak Chopra (* 1946)
* Ismat Chughtai
* Ismat Chugtai
* Col Karan Kharb
* Richard Crasta (* 1952)

## D

* Bhim Singh Dahiya
* Hamid Dalwai (1932–1977)
* Abdul Majid Daryabadi
* Kamala Das
* Ullas Das
* Abha Dawesar (* 1974)
* Shobhaa De (* 1948)
* Anita Desai (* 1937)
* Kiran Desai (* 1971)
* Mahadev Desai
* Narayan Desai
* G. V. Desani
* Gauri Deshpande
* Shashi Deshpande
* Devaki Nandan Khatri
* Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016)
* Dharampal (1922–2006)
* Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (* 1956)

## G

* Jayant Gandhi
* Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012)
* Amitav Ghosh (* 1956)
* Sita Ram Goel (1921–2003)
* V. K. Gokak
* Ram Gopal (* 1925)
* Babu Gulabrai
* Rohit Gupta
* Swaraj Prakash Gupta (1931–2007)
* Gurdial Singh

## H

* E. Harikumar
* Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850–1885)
* Kaka Hathrasi
* Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
* Ranjit Hoskoté (* 1969)
* Krishna Hutheesing
* Qurratulain Hyder (1927–2007)

## I

* Kancha Ilaiah
* Anosh Irani (* 1974)
* Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar
* Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar (1891–1986)

## J

* Ali Sardar Jafri
* Rashid Jahan
* Meenakshi Jain
* Jayakanthan (1934–2015)
* Radhika Jha (* 1970)
* Raj Kamal Jha (* 1966)
* Manu Joseph (* 1974), Englisch
* Manohar Shyam Joshi (1933–2006)

## K

* Kabir (1440–1518)
* Kalidasa (bl. um 400), Dramatiker, Schöpfer des Sakundala
* Bhau Kalchuri
* Kalhana (bl. 12. Jh.)
* Srinivasan Kalyanaraman
* Kamleshwar
* Amita Kanekar (* 1965)
* Yashavant Kanetkar
* Jaswant Singh Kanwal
* K. Shivaram Karanth
* M. Karunanidhi (1924–2018)
* Zameer Hassan Kazmi
* Ravindra Kelekar (1925–2010)
* Ayub Khan-Din
* Khurram Murad (1932–1996)
* Khushwant Singh (1915–2014), Romancier
* Kishori Charan Das
* Narendra Kohli
* Krishan Chander
* M. Krishnan Nair
* Gurunath Abaji Kulkarni
* Deepak Kumar
* Satish Kumar
* Kumaran Asan

## L

* Bihari Lal (1595–1663)
* Kishori Saran Lal (1920–2002)
* Purushottama Lal (‚P. Lal‘; 1929–2010)

## M

* Madhan
* Mahipati
* Sake Dean Mahomet (1759–1851)
* Binoy Majumdar
* Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888–1980)
* Manohar Malgonkar
* Amulya Malladi
* Kamala Markandaya (1924–2004)
* Mirza Ghalib (1797–1869), Urdu-Dichter
* Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938)
* Dom Moraes (1938–2004)
* Maulana Manazir Ahsan Gilani
* Maulvi Abdul Haq
* Pankaj Mishra (* 1969)
* Mohan Rakesh (1925–1972)
* Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri
* Dhan Gopal Mukerji
* Bharati Mukherjee
* Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
* Vijaya Mulay
* Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004)
* Sudha Murty

## N

* Kiran Nagarkar (1942–2019)
* C. M. Naim
* M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1933–2024)
* Nand Kishore Acharya
* Harsh Narain (1921–1995)
* R. K. Narayan (1906–2001)
* Shoba Narayan
* C. Narayanareddy
* Natthan Singh
* Gopal Das Neeraj
* Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964)
* Jaswant Neki
* Nirmal Verma (1929–2005)
* Nitish Sengupta
* Sister Nivedita (1867–1911)

## P

* Ranya Paasonen (* 1974), indische Autorin, lebt in Finnland
* Balji Nath Pandit (1916–2007)
* M. P. Pandit
* K. Ayyappa Panicker
* Sumitranandan Pant, Hindi-Dichter
* K. Madhava Panikkar (1895–1963)
* Pannalal Patel
* Harishankar Parsai
* Pash (1950–1988)
* Swaraj Paul
* Pavanan
* Phanishwarnath Renu
* Pitcheswara Rao Atluri
* Poornachandra Tejaswi
* S. K. Pottekkatt
* Vishnu Prabhakar (1912–2009)
* Ravindra Prabhat (* 1969)
* Devendra Prabhudesai
* Uday Prakash (* 1952)
* Premchand (1880–1936)
* Anant Priolkar (1895–1973)
* Amrita Pritam

## R

* Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004)
* N. S. Rajaram
* Rajendra Yadav (1929–2013)
* Vayalar Ramavarma
* Ramesh Menon
* Rangeya Raghav
* Sujatha Ramdorai (* 1962)
* Raja Rao (1908–2006)
* S. R. Rao (1922–2013)
* Anita Rau Badami (* 1961)
* Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri (1863–1915)
* Kethu Viswanatha Reddy
* Yvette Rosser (* 1952)
* Arundhati Roy (* 1961)
* Dilip Kumar Roy (1897–1980)
* Salman Rushdie (* 1947), Booker-Prize-Träger

## S

* P. Sachidanandan
* Bhisham Sahni
* Samaresh Majumdar
* Kottarathil Sankunni
* Vilas Sarang
* Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958)
* Annabhau Sathe (1920–1969)
* Nandini Satpathy (1931–2006)
* Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1895–1976)
* Vikram Seth (* 1952), englischsprachiger Romancier, Dichter
* Kaikhosru Dadhaboy Sethna (1904–2011)
* Vishnu Sharma
* H. V. Sheshadri (1926–2005)
* Tarabai Shinde (1850–1910)
* Arun Shourie (* 1941)
* Geetanjali Shree (* 1957)
* Vinod Kumar Shukla (* 1937)
* Frank Simoes
* Bhai Vir Singh
* Jagjit Singh
* Khushwant Singh (1915–2014)
* Shumona Sinha (* 1973)
* Sadguru Sivananda Murty
* Sivasankari
* Indira Soundarajan
* Sri Lal Sukla
* B. M. Srikantaiah
* Subramaniya Bharati (1882–1921)
* Shri Purohit Swami
* B. G. L. Swamy
* Ram Swarup (1920–1998)
* Vikas Swarup (* 1963)

## T

* T. Padmanabhan
* Rabindranath Thakur (1861–1941), Literaturnobelpreis 1913, Dichter der indischen Nationalhymne
* Shrikant G. Talageri (* 1958)
* Gurbachan Singh Talib (1911–1986)
* Vijay Tendulkar (1928–2008)
* Jamling Tenzing Norgay (* 1966)
* Thomas Thomas
* Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
* Mark Tully
* Tulsidas (um 1532/43–1623), Dichter, Schöpfer des Ramayana in Hindi

## U

* Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer (1877–1949)
* Umasvati

## V

* Abdul Vaheed (‚Kamal‘; * 1936)
* Krishna Baldev Vaid (1927–2020)
* Ruth Vanita (* 1955)
* Vayalar Ramavarma, Malayalam-Dichter
* Mahadevi Varma (1907–1987)
* Vembu Vikiraman
* Bhagwati Charan Verma
* O. V. Vijayan

## W

* Benjamin Walker
* Shashi Warrier

## Y

* Anand Yadav
* Yashpal

## Z

* Paul Zacharia (* 1945)
* Sajjad Zaheer (1905–1973)