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.

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

• 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

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
• Shahnaz Fatmi

• 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

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

• 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

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