He was one of the most influential poet of Maithili and Hindi. Besides poems, he also wrote a number of short stories, novels and travelogues. He was awarded with Sahitya Academy Award for his book "P…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own Eng…
Girish Raghunath Karnad (Konkani : गिरीश रघुनाथ कार्नाड, Kannada : ಗಿರೀಶ್ ರಘುನಾಥ್ ಕಾರ್ನಾಡ್) (born 19 May 1938) is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada l…
Omaprakāśa Vālmīki or Omprakash Valmiki (30 June 1950 – 17 November 2013) was an Indian Dalit writer and poet. well known for his autobiography, Joothan, considered a milestone in Dalit literature…
डॉ. राही मासूम रजा का जन्म १ अगस्त १९२७ को एक सम्पन्न एवं सुशिक्षित शिआ परिवार में हुआ। उनके पिता गाजीपुर की जिला कचहरी में वकालत करते थे। राही की प्रारम्भिक शिक्षा गाजीपुर में हुई और उच्च शिक्षा के ल…
Amrita Pritam (Punjabi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, امرتا پریتم ) was considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist. She was the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who…
विष्णु प्रभाकर का जन्म उत्तरप्रदेश के मुजफ्फरनगर जिले के गांव मीरापुर में हुआ था। उनके पिता दुर्गा प्रसाद धार्मिक विचारों वाले व्यक्ति थे और उनकी माता महादेवी पढ़ी-लिखी महिला थीं जिन्होंने अपने समय मे…
Mannu Bhandari was born on April 3, 1931, in Bhanpura, Madhya Pradesh, India. She attended school in Ajmer and later she graduated from Calcutta University in 1949, followed by an M.A. degree in Hindi…
गजानन माधव 'मुक्तिबोध' (१३ नवंबर १९१७ - ११ सितंबर १९६४) हिन्दी साहित्य की स्वातंत्र्योत्तर प्रगतिशील काव्यधारा के शीर्ष व्यक्तित्व थे। हिन्दी साहित्य में सर्वाधिक चर्चा के केन्द्र में रहने वाले मुक्ति…
Friedrich Max Müller, K.M. (Ph.D., Philology, Leipzig University, 1843)—generally known as Max Müller or F. Max Müller—was the first Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University, and an Ori…
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…
Jaishankar Prasad, a most celebrated personality related to the modern Hindi literature and Hindi theatre, was born at 30th January in the year 1889 and died at 14th January in the year 1937. He was a…
Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায়) was an Indian filmmaker and author of Bengali fiction and regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Beng…
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…
Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' (September 23, 1908 – April 24, 1974) was an Indian Hindi poet, essayist, patriot and academic,[1][2] who is considered as one of the most important modern Hindi poets. He reme…
निराला का जन्म बंगाल में मेदिनीपुर ज़िले के महिषादल गाँव में हुआ था। उनका पितृग्राम उत्तर प्रदेश का गढ़कोला (उन्नाव) है। उनके बचपन का नाम सूर्य कुमार था। बहुत छोटी आयु में ही उनकी माँ का निधन हो गया। …
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…
