3. INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Indian English Literature
refers to the body of work by writers in
India who write in the English language and
whose native or co-native language could
be one of the numerous languages of India.
It is also associated with the works of
members of the Indian diaspora.
4. It is frequently referred to
as Indo-Anglican literature. As a category,
this production comes under the broader
realm of postcolonial literature- the
production from previously colonised
countries such as India.
The major Indian English
writers are R.K. Narayan, Sir Salman
Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Chetan Bhagat,
Babhani Battacharya, Anita Desai, Vikram
Seth, Raja Rao, Aravind Adiga, Kiran Desai
etc.
5. R.K. NARAYAN
R.K.Narayan (10 October 1906- 13 May
2001), was an Indian writer, best known for his
works set in the fictional South Indian town of
Malgudi. He is one of three leading figures of early
Indian English literature and is credited with
bringing the genre to the rest of the world.
6. MAJOR WORKS
Swami and Friends
The Bachelor of Arts
The English Teacher
A Tiger for Malgudi
Next Sunday
My Days
Gods, Demons and Others
The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
Malgudi Days
An Astrologer’s Day and Other Stories
A Horse and Two Goats etc…
7. AWARDS AND HONOURS
Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Sahitya Akademi Award
Filmfare Award for the Best Story
A C Benson Medal
Honorary Doctorates
Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature
Other Awards and Honours
8. ARUNDHATI ROY
Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24
November 1959) is an Indian author who is best known
for her novel The God of Small Things 1997), which won
the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. She is also a
political activist involved in human
rights and environmental causes.
9. MAJOR WORKS
The God of Small Things
The End of Imagination
The Cost of Living
The Greater Common Good
Power Politics
War Talk
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Broken Republic
Walking With the Comrades etc…
10. AWARDS AND HONOURS
The Man Booker Prize
Global Exchange Human Rights Award
Sahitya Akademi Award
Norman Mailer Prize
Sydney Peace Prize
Other Awards and Honours
11. SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE
Sir Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947)
is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second
novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in
1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian
subcontinent. He is said to combine magical
realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with
the many connections, disruptions, and migrations
between Eastern and Western civilizations.
12. MAJOR WORKS
Grimus
Midnight's Children
Shame
The Satanic Verses
The Moor's Last Sigh
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Fury
East, West
The Best American Short Stories
Mohandas Gandhi etc…
13. AWARDS AND HONOURS
Aristeion Prize (European Union)
Arts Council Writers' Award
Author of the Year (British Book Awards)
Author of the Year (Germany)
Booker Prize for Fiction
Booker of Bookers
English-Speaking Union Award
Golden PEN Award
Mantua Prize (Italy)
James Joyce Award
India Abroad Lifetime Achievement Award (USA)
Other Awards And Honours
14. CHETAN BHAGAT
Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is an
Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, television
personality and motivational speaker, known for his
English-language novels about young urban middle-
class Indians. A noted public intellectual, Bhagat also
writes columns about the youth, career development and
current affairs, for The Times of India (in English)
and Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi).
15. MAJOR WORKS
Five Point Someone (2004)
One Night @ the Call Center (2005)
The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008)
2 States(2009)
Revolution 2020 (2011)
What Young India Wants (2012)
Half Girlfriend (2014)
Making India Awesome (2015)
16. AWARDS AND HONOURS
Society Young Achiever' award in 2004
Publisher's Recognition award in 2005
Bhagat in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most
Influential People 2010
Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay 2014- Kai Po
Che
CNN-IBN Award in the field of Entertainment for the
year 2014
17. RAJA RAO
Raja Rao (8 November 1908 –
8 July 2006) was an Indian writer of English language
novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted
in Hinduism. Rao's wide ranging body of work, spanning
a number of genres, is seen as a varied and significant
contribution to Indian English literature, as well as World
literature.
18. MAJOR WORKS
Kanthapura
The Serpent and the Rope
The Cat and Shakespeare: A Tale of India
Comrade Kirillov
The Cow of the Barricades
The Policeman and the Rose
Changing India: An Anthology
Tomorrow
The Little Gram Shop
Javni
India—A Fable etc…
19. AWARDS AND HONOURS
Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Sahitya Akademi Award
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Other Awards and Honours
20. BHABANI BHATTACHARYA
Bhabani Bhattacharya (10 November
1906 –10 October 1988) was an Indian writer,
of Bengali origin, who wrote social-realist fiction. In
his mid-thirties Bhattacharya began writing fiction
set in historically and socially realistic contexts. He
wrote in English, his chosen medium following the
advice of two prominent literary figures.
21. MAJOR WORKS
Some Memorable Yesterdays
So Many Hungers!
Indian Cavalcade
He Who Rides a Tiger
The Golden Boat
Towards Universal Man
A Goddess Named Gold etc…
AWARDS
Sahitya Akademi Award
Other Awards
22. ANITA DESAI
Anita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is
an Indian novelist. Anita Mazumdar to a German mother,
Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D.N. Mazumdar
. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker
Prize three times. She began to write in English at the
age of seven and published her first story at the age of
nine.
23. MAJOR WORKS
The Artist of Disappearance
The Zigzag Way
Diamond Dust and Other Stories
Fasting, Feasting
Baumgartner's Bombay
In Custody
The Village by the Sea
Clear Light of Day
Games at Twilight
Fire on the Mountain
The Peacock Garden
Bye-bye Blackbird
Voices in the City etc…
24. AWARDS AND HONOURS
Padma Bhushan
Sahitya Akademi Award
Benson Medal of Royal Society of Literature
Alberto Moravia Prize for Literature
Neil Gunn Prize
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Shortlisted, Booker Prize for Fiction
Other Awards and Honours
25. VIKRAM SETH
Vikram Seth was born on 20 June
1952 to Leila Seth, the first woman judge on
the Delhi High Court, and her husband Prem.
Internationally recognized as a writer and poet,
Vikram Seth has published six books of poetry and
three novels.
26. MAJOR WORKS
The Golden Gate
A Suitable Boy
An Equal Music
A Suitable Girl
The Humble Administrator's Garden
All You Who Sleep Tonight
Beastly Tales
Three Chinese Poets
At Evening
The Frog and the Nightingale
A Doctor's Journal Entry
Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems
The Eagle and The Beetle etc…
27. AWARDS AND HONOURS
Padma Sree
Commonwealth Poetry Prize
Sahitya Akademi Award
Irish Times International Fiction Prize
Commonwealth Writers Prize
WH Smith Literary Award
Crossword Book Award
Order of the British Empire
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
The 25 Greatest Global Living Legends In India
Other Awards and Honours
28. ARAVIND ADIGA
Aravind Adiga was born in Chennai on
23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha
Adiga. Adiga began his journalistic career as a financial
journalist. He was hired by TIME, where he remained
a South Asia correspondent for three years before going
freelance. During his freelance period, he wrote The
White Tiger. He currently lives in Mumbai.
29. MAJOR WORKS
The White Tiger
Between the Assassinations
Last Man in Tower
