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Fahmida Riaz
Writer
Fahmida Riaz (1945–2018) was a Progressive Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, translator, and human-rights activist. Born in Meerut in pre-Partition India, and rais...
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Mannu Bhandari
Writer
Mannu Bhandari (1931–2021) is one of the most significant writers of the Hindi Nayi Kahaani movement. The characters in her stories belong to the small but ra...
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Senthil Jaganathan
Writer
Senthil Jaganathan was born on August 20, 1987 in Panampalli village in Tamil Nadu’s Mayiladuthurai district. At present he resides in Chennai and is working ...
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Chandra
Writer
Chandra (b. 1977) is a poet, short story writer and film director. Her short story collection include Poonaigal Illatha Veedu (2007), Kaattin Perunganavu (2009...
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Jeyamohan
Writer
Jeyamohan is a pre-eminent writer in modern Tamil literature. His works of fiction examine fundamental human questions while being rooted in the spiritual, cult...
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Nirmal Verma
Writer
Nirmal Verma (1929 – 2005) was a Hindi writer, translator and critic. A pioneer of the Nayi Kahani (New Story) literary movement in the post-independence Hind...
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Abdul Rasheed
Writer
Abdul Rasheed (born 1965) is a versatile writer, poet, editor, translator, and blogger who writes in Kannada. Hailing from Coorg and educated in Mysore, he has ...
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Bimal Kar
Writer
Bimal Kar was born in Taki, West Bengal, in 1921. He authored dozens of Bengali classics that remain popular today. Kar is known for his compelling characters, ...
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Sameena Nazir
Writer
Sameena Nazir is one of the most important voices in contemporary Urdu fiction, as well as an accomplished theatre, film and TV actress, director, playwright an...
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K.C. Narayanan
Writer, Critic, Editor
K.C. Narayanan is a writer, literary critic and editor. He has held editorial roles with prominent newspapers in Kerala, including Mathrubhumi and Bhashaposhini...
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Azhagiya Manavalan
Translator, Writer
Azhagiya Manavalan is a Tamil translator and essayist. He has translated Malayalam critic P.K. Balakrishnan's work on the art of the novel, 'Novel: Siddhiyum Sa...
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Madhavikutty / Kamala Das
Writer, Poet
Madhavikutty, who also wrote as Kamala Das and Kamala Surayya, is a writer and poet who wrote in Malayalam and English. She was part of a generation of Indian w...
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