John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter, and filmmaker whose prolific career left an indelible mark on popular culture and speculative fiction. Raised on Long Island, he displayed a…
Anita Desai was born in 1937. Her published works include adult novels, children's books and short stories. She is a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delh…
A well-known name in Hindi literature, Nirmal Verma is known mainly for his fictional works. Born on April 3, 1929, he obtained a M.A. in history from Delhi University. He studied Czech at the Orienta…
Kamleshwar (कमलेश्वर) was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and scriptwriter for Hindi cinema and television. Among his most well- known work are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang…
कृष्णा सोबती (१८ फ़रवरी १९२५, गुजरात (अब पाकिस्तान में)) हिन्दी की कल्पितार्थ (फिक्शन) एवं निबन्ध लेखिका हैं। उन्हें १९८० में साहित्य अकादमी पुरस्कार तथा १९९६ में साहित्य अकादमी अध्येतावृत्ति से सम्मा…
Vinod Kumar Shukla (born 1 January 1937) is a modern Hindi writer known for his surreal style that often borders on magic-realism and sometimes move beyond it. His works include the novels Naukar ki K…
Phanishwar Nath 'Renu' (4 March 1921 – 11 April 1977) was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era. He is the author of Maila Anchal, whi…
लखनऊ विश्वविद्यालय के विज्ञान स्नातक मनोहर श्याम जोशी ‘कल के वैज्ञानिक’ की उपाधि पाने के बावजूश्द रोजी-रोटी की खातिर छात्र जीवन से ही लेखक और पत्रकार बन गए। अमृतलाल नागर और अज्ञेय - इन दो आचार्यों का …
Munshi Premchand (Hindi: मुंशी प्रेमचंद) was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent,and is regarded as one of…
Divya Prakash Dubey is India’s first of now many ‘Hinglish’ writers, An Engineer and a MBA by education, a former-AGM, Marketing in a telecom company and now a content editor in leading TV Channel, th…
कश्मीर के बारामूला में पैदा हुए मानव कौल, होशंगाबाद (म.प्र.) में परवरिश के रास्ते पिछले 20 सालों से मुंबई में फ़िल्मी दुनिया, अभिनय, नाट्य-निर्देशन और लेखन का अभिन्न हिस्सा बने हुए हैं। अपने हर नए नाट…
श्रीलाल शुक्ल (31 दिसम्बर 1925 - 28 अक्टूबर 2011) हिन्दी के प्रमुख साहित्यकार थे। वह समकालीन कथा-साहित्य में उद्देश्यपूर्ण व्यंग्य लेखन के लिये विख्यात थे।
Usha Priyamvada (Hindi: उषा प्रियंवदा) is the nom-de-plume of Usha Nilsson (née Usha Saksena; 1930, Kanpur – ), an Indian-born American emerita professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Wi…
Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಷ್ತಾಕ್, born 1948) is an activist, lawyer and writer from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She writes in the Kannada language and her works have also been published in Urdu…
