Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and…
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master…
Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien…
Craig Ringwalt Thompson (b. September 21, 1975 in Traverse City, Michigan) is a graphic novelist best known for his 2003 work Blankets. Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and…
Chetan Bhagat writes op-ed columns for English and Hindi newspapers, including Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar, focusing on youth and issues based on national development. Bhagat is also a motivatio…
Sudha Murty was born in 1950 in Shiggaon in north Karnataka. She did her MTech in computer science, and is now the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. A prolific writer in English and Kannada, she …
Kota Shivaram Karanth was a Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker. He was described as the "Rabindranath Tagore of Modern India who has been one …
Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa widely known by the pen name Kuvempu was a Kannada writer and poet, widely regarded as the greatest poet of 20th century Kannada literature. He is immortalised by some of h…
Jiddu Krishnamurti was born on 11 May 1895 in Madanapalle, a small town in south India. He and his brother were adopted in their youth by Dr Annie Besant, then president of the Theosophical Society. D…
Jayanth Kaikini is an Indian poet, short stories author and a lyricist working in Kannada cinema. ಜಯಂತ ಗೌರೀಶ ಕಾಯ್ಕಿಣಿ(ಜನನ : ೨೪,ಜನವರಿ, ೧೯೫೫) ಕನ್ನಡದ ಸಮಕಾಲೀನ ಕಥೆಗಾರರಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಮುಖರು. ಜಯಂತ್ ರ ಕತೆ-ಕಾವ್ಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ…
K.P. Purnachandra Tejaswi was a prominent Kannada writer, novelist, photographer, ornithologist, publisher, painter and environmentalist. He made a great impression in the "Navya" period of Kannada li…
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove (soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was…
Born in South Korea and educated at Berkeley, Harvard, and Princeton, he received formal monastic training from Haein monastery, in South Korea. He taught Asi…
Hephzibah Jesudasan was born in 1925 in Pulipanam, in Nagercoil district, in Tamil Nadu, India. She had her early education in a village school and later went to Burma with her father for a few years.…
Jogi Girish Rao Hatwar ಹುಟ್ಟೂರು ಮಂಗಳೂರಿನ ಸುರತ್ಕಲ್ ಸಮೀಪದಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಹೊಸಬೆಟ್ಟು. ಹತ್ವಾರ್ ಮನೆತನಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದ ಜೋಗಿ ಓದಿದ್ದು ಗುರುವಾಯನಕೆರೆ ಮತ್ತು ಉಪ್ಪಿನಂಗಡಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ. ತಂದೆ ಶ್ರೀಧರರಾವ್ ಕೃಷಿಕರು. ತಾಯಿ ಶಾರದೆ. ಹಿರಿಯ ಸೋದರ ಹತ್ವಾ…
