# List of Indian writers

This is a list of notable writers who come from India or have Indian nationality. Names are sorted according to surname.
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* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X

## A

* Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
* Amit Abraham
* Aravind Adiga
* Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi
* Saeed Ahmad Akbarabadi
* Syed Mujtaba Ali
* Aga Shahid Ali
* B. R. Ambedkar
* Anand
* Anurag Anand
* Mulk Raj Anand
* Asloob Ahmad Ansari
* Lalithambika Antharjanam
* M. P. Appan
* Anjana Appachana
* A. Ayyappan
* Sukumar Azhikode
* Atul Kumar Rai

## B

* Harivansh Rai Bachchan
* Urvashi Bahuguna
* C. V. Balakrishnan
* P. K. Balakrishnan
* Balakumaran
* Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
* Manik Bandopadhyay
* Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
* Ashok Banker
* Vaikom Muhammed Basheer
* Kunal Basu
* Rajshekhar Basu
* Ratan Lal Basu
* Samit Basu
* Sutapa Basu
* Rambriksh Benipuri
* Abhijit Bhaduri
* Chetan Bhagat
* Jagadish Bhagwati
* Mannu Bhandari
* Thoppil Bhasi
* Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
* Suchitra Bhattacharya
* Ram Prasad Bismil
* Ruskin Bond
* Jagadish Chandra Bose
* Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

## C

* Neelam Saxena Chandra
* Satyapal Chandra
* Vikram Chandra
* Subhash Chandran
* Upamanyu Chatterjee
* Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
* Harindranath Chattopadhyay
* Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
* Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
* Shakti Chattopadhyay
* Sitaram Chaturvedi
* Amit Chaudhuri
* Nirad C. Chaudhuri
* Rajat Chaudhuri
* Anuja Chauhan
* Gopal Chhotray
* Pavan Choudary
* R. Chudamani
* Ismat Chugtai
* Balachandran Chullikkadu

## D

* Debashis Chatterjee
* Bakhtiar Dadabhoy
* Indira Dangi
* Gurucharan Das
* Kamala Das
* Parichay Das
* Manoj Das
* Durjoy Datta
* Esther David
* David Davidar
* Shobha De
* Anurupa Debi
* Mohan Deep
* Bhabananda Deka
* Nalini Prava Deka
* Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi
* Anita Desai
* Kiran Desai
* Purushottam Laxman Deshpande
* Abdul Qavi Desnavi
* Venu V. Desom
* Mukul Deva
* Ashapurna Devi
* Mahasweta Devi
* Nirupama Devi
* Swarnakumari Devi
* Vish Dhamija
* Payal Dhar
* Kewal Dheer
* Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
* Kartar Singh Duggal
* Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
* T.K. Doraiswamy

## E

* Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan

## F

* Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi

## G

* Narayan Gangopadhyay
* Sunil Gangopadhyay
* Madan Gopal Gandhi
* Mridula Garg
* K. M. George
* Amitav Ghosh
* Bishwanath Ghosh
* V. V. Giri
* Manazir Ahsan Gilani
* Shantanu Gupta
* Indira Goswami
* Teji Grover
* Ramchandra Guha
* Gulzar
* Rajan Gurukkal
* Akshat Gupta
* Victor Ghoshe

## H

* Surjit Hans
* Sri Krishna Rai Hridyesh
* Baby Halder
* Hari Kumar K
* Rafiq Husain
* Qurratulain Hyder

## I

* Imayam
* Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer

## J

* Kamalakanta Jena
* Radhika Jha
* Raj Kamal Jha
* Ramesh Chandra Jha
* Jeyamohan
* Jayakanthan
* Janardhana Maharshi
* Ki. Va. Jagannathan
* C. L. Jose
* Arun Joshi
* Anees Jung

## K

* N. N. Kakkad
* Kakkanadan
* Akbar Kakkattil
* Binod Kanungo
* Manju Kapur
* Pawan Karan
* Madhur Kapila
* Shiv Khera
* Kalki Krishnamurthy
* Thiru. V. Kalyanasundaram
* Swati Kaushal
* P. Kesavadev
* Ki. Rajanarayanan
* Kovilan
* Kuvempu
* Nitin Kushalappa
* Mukul Kesavan
* Uma Krishnaswami
* Kannadasan
* Kusumagraj
* Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi
* U. A. Khader
* Masud Husain Khan
* Moniruddin Khan
* Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
* Ramendra Kumar
* Priya Kumar

## L

* Jhumpa Lahiri
* P. Lankesh
* La Sa Ra

## M

* Madhan
* Leela Majumdar
* Rafeeq Mangalassery
* Amulya Malladi
* Kiran Manral
* V. J. Mathews
* Rooma Mehra
* Sudha Menon
* Jyotsna Milan
* Rohinton Mistry
* Bimal Mitra
* Ashoka Mitran
* Qazi Athar Mubarakpuri
* P. F. Mathews
* Oyyarathu Chandu Menon
* Dantu Muralikrishna
* Shaiju Mathew
* Shailesh Matiyani
* Suketu Mehta
* Laxmi Narayan Mishra
* Pankaj Mishra
* Ruchita Misra
* Gopinath Mohanty
* Jagadish Mohanty
* Kanhu Charan Mohanty
* Surendra Mohanty
* Sudha Murthy
* Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay

## N

* Nanjil Nadan
* Amrit Lal Nagar
* Kiran Nagarkar
* Vijay Nahar
* Sarojini Naidu
* V. S. Naipaul
* Anita Nair
* M. T. Vasudevan Nair
* Gopi Chand Narang
* R. K. Narayan
* Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri
* Era Natarasan
* Anand Neelakantan
* Bhalchandra Nemade
* Zafar Ahmad Nizami
* Charu Nivedita
* Akshay Nair

## P

* Mrinal Pande
* Srinu Pandranki
* Meghna Pant
* Indira Parthasarathy
* Vasudha Patil
* Basharat Peer
* Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
* Joygopal Podder
* S. K. Pottekkatt
* Jayshankar Prasad
* Ajay Prabhakar
* Ravindra Prabhat
* Tapan Kumar Pradhan
* Uday Prakash
* R. Prasannan
* Maitreyi Pushpa
* Munshi Premchand
* Amrita Pritam
* Nalini Priyadarshni
* Pudhumaipithan

## Q

* Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri
* Syed Azhar Shah Qaiser

## R

* Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
* Pankaj Rag
* Pa. Raghavan
* Tushar Raheja
* Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman
* Kuber Nath Rai
* Sara Rai
* Viveki Rai
* Christopher Raja
* C. Rajagopalachari
* Rajashree
* Anil K. Rajvanshi
* Malik Ram
* S. Ramakrishnan
* Sundara Ramasami
* Raja Rao
* Shukhalata Rao
* Vakkantham Suryanarayana Rao
* Abdul Rasheed
* Brajanath Ratha
* Pratibha Ray
* Satyajit Ray
* Sukumar Ray
* Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
* Keshava Reddy
* Syed Mehboob Rizwi
* Arundhati Roy
* Purabi Roy
* Salman Rushdie
* Rachana Shah

## S

* Padma Sachdev
* Shashi Bhushan Sahai
* Gita Sahgal
* Sarojini Sahoo
* Nandini Sahu
* Sandilyan
* Ashwin Sanghi
* Sankar (writer)
* Gnani Sankaran
* Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan
* Kottarathil Sankunni
* Acharya Ramlochan Saran
* Debashis Sarkar
* Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
* Mandakranta Sen
* Fakir Mohan Senapati
* Vikram Seth
* Amit Shankar
* Pandit Devendranath Sharma
* Gaurav Sharma
* Lakshmi Raj Sharma
* Pandit Nalin Vilochan Sharma
* Partap Sharma
* Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Ram Avatar Sharma
* Ram Karan Sharma
* Ram Sharan Sharma
* Ram Vilas Sharma
* Preeti Shenoy
* Hemant Shesh
* Acharya Shukla
* Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar
* Vandana Shiva
* Nina Sibal
* Melanie Silgardo
* Balmiki Prasad Singh
* Karnail Singh Somal
* Kedarnath Singh
* Khushwant Singh
* Nikita Singh
* Preeti Singh
* Ravinder Singh
* Rustam Singh
* Srijan Pal Singh
* Vijendra Narayan Singh
* Indra Sinha
* Indradeep Sinha
* Mridula Sinha
* Sithara S.
* Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran
* Subha (writers)
* Sujatha
* Padma Rao Sundarji
* Sri Lal Sukla
* Vikas Swarup
* Neelakshi Singh

## T

* Abanindranath Tagore
* Debendranath Tagore
* Dwijendranath Tagore
* Hara Kumar Tagore
* Jyotirindranath Tagore
* Rabindranath Tagore
* Satyendranath Tagore
* Rajesh Talwar
* Bhikhari Thakur
* Amish Tripathi
* Vijay Tendulkar
* Tanikella Bharani
* Shashi Tharoor
* Aroon Tikekar
* Gajendra Thakur
* Anshuman Tiwari
* Mark Tully
* Ira Trivedi

## U

* Thrity Umrigar
* Harilal Upadhyay

## V

* Vaidehi
* Vaisakhan
* Atal Bihari Vajpai
* Amit Varma
* Vannadhasan
* Yandamuri Veerendranath
* Nidudavolu Venkatarao
* S. Venkatesan
* Nirmal Verma
* Vijayakrishnan
* O. V. Vijayan
* Rishi Vohra
* Mahadevi Verma

## W

* Raza Naqvi Wahi

## Y

* Kulpreet Yadav
* Yashpal