Children’s books

Santanu Kumar Acharya

b. 1933Odia writer

Sunil Gangopadhyay

1934–2012Award-winning and bestselling Bengali poet and author (1934-2012)

Satyajit Ray

1921–1992filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)

Ajit Cour

b. 1934writer

Jerry Pinto

b. 1966poet and writer

Moti Nandi

1931–2010writer and journalist

Samaresh Majumdar

1942–2023Bengali writer (1944–2023)

Sanjib Chattopadhyay

b. 1936writer

Sugathakumari

1934–2020poet and activist (1934-2020)

Vaidehi

b. 1945writer

Dash Benhur

b. 1953Odia writer

Gopi Kottoor

b. 1956poet

Kumarpal Desai

b. 1942Gujarati writer from India

Bimal Kar

1921–2003writer (1921-2003)

Samaresh Basu

1924–1988Bengali writer (1924-1988)

Vikram Seth

b. 1952novelist and poet

Leela Majumdar

1908–2007author of children’s books (1908–2007)

Pannalal Patel

1912–1989Gujarati author from India

Shashi Deshpande

b. 1938writer

Bhisham Sahni

1915–2003writer, playwright, and actor (1915-2003)

Damodar Mauzo

b. 1944writer (born 1944)

Dhirendra Mehta

b. 1944Gujarati author

M. K. Sanu

1928–2025writer

Mridula Garg

b. 1938writer

Nirendranath Chakravarty

1924–2018Popular contemporary Bengali poet

Ramakrushna Nanda

1906–1994(Odia) writer

Ruskin Bond

b. 1934writer of British descent (born 1934)

Vijaydan Detha

1926–2013writer (1926–2013)

Premendra Mitra

1904–1988writer and film director

Dhiruben Patel

1926–2023writer (1926–2023)

Krutibas Nayak

b. 1955writer

Sunita Jain

1940–2017writer (1940-2017)

Venita Coelho

b. 1966writer from Goa

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

1899–1970writer (1899–1970)

Anita Nair

b. 1966writer

Atul Chandra Hazarika

1903–1986writer

Karnail Singh Somal

b. 1940writer

Kavimani Desigavinayagam Pillai

1876–1954Tamil poet, writer and children’s literature pioneer from Tamil Nadu

Ku. Alagirisami

1923–1970Tamil writer

Prabir Ghosh

1945–2023writer & rationalist

B. Kalyani Amma

1883–1959writer

Basharat Peer

b. 1977Kashmir born American journalist, commentator and author

Pandurang Sadashiv Sane

1899–1950Marathi author, teacher, social activist, and freedom fighter from Maharashtra, India

Sharda Mehta

1882–1970Gujarati writer, social worker and educationist (1882-1970)

Hafiz Karnataki

Urdu writer from India

Abid Surti

b. 1935author, painter, cartoonist, journalist, environmentalist, playwright and screenwriter

Ala. Valliyappa

1922–1989tamil children’s literature poet (1922–1989)

Anupama Niranjana

1934–1991writer

Arun Manilal Gandhi

1934–2023Indian-American social activist (1934–2023)

Arvind Gupta

b. 1953Populariser of science and toy-maker young IIT engineer

Chandiroor Divakaran

b. 1946writer

Chitra Gajadin

b. 1954author of poetry, drama and prose

Era Natarasan

b. 1964writer of children’s books

G. Venkatasubbaiah

1913–2021lexicographer (1913–2021)

Hansa Jivraj Mehta

1897–1995reformist, social activist, freedom-fighter and educator and writer of India

Harikrishna Pathak

1938–2025Gujarati poet from India

Hasu Yajnik

1938–2020Gujarati novelist from India

Javaregowda

1915–2016Kannada writer, folklorist, scholar (1915-2016)

Jaya Madhavan

b. 1972illustrator and writer

Jaybhikhkhu

1908–1969Gujarati author from India

Joravarsinh Jadav

1940–2025folklorist

Jugal Hansraj

b. 1972actor

Karabi Deka Hazarika

b. 1953writer

Khyrunnisa A.

author, speaker, academic and columnist

Leela Nambudiripad

1934–2021writer

M.R. Chandrasekh Aran

1929–2024author and critic

Nandini Bajpai

author

Neelam Saxena Chandra

b. 1969writer

Paipra Radhakrishnan

b. 1952writer

Palliyara Sreedharan

b. 1950writer

Poile Sengupta

b. 1948writer

Prabha Kiran Jain

b. 1963writer

Priya A. S.

b. 1967writer

Rajith Kumar

public speaker, university professor, educational counselor, writer, and activist

Saniyasnain Khan

b. 1959Writer

Sippy Pallippuram

b. 1943Sippy Pallippuram

Sreekumari Ramachandran

b. 1950writer

Tridib Kumar Chattopadhyay

b. 1958Bengali author and editor

Uma Krishnaswami

b. 1956American writer

Usha Upadhyay

b. 1956Gujarati author

Usha Yadav

educationist

V. Balakrishnan

1932–2004writer (1932–2004)

Vaisakhan

b. 1940India writer (born 1940)

Vandana Singh

b. 1950writer

Yoseph Macwan

1940–2022Gujarati writer from India

Jivram Joshi

1905–2004Gujarati language author of children’s literature