India

A. Mangai 

A. Mangai is the pseudonym of Padma Venkataraman, who has been active in Tamil theater for almost three decades.  Her works center on gender.  She strives to make her artistic, activist,…...

Prema Revathi 

Prema Revathi is a filmmaker, activist, and educator. She started and runs Vanavil, a school for underprivileged children in Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu, India (www.vanavil.org). Every once in a while, she…...

Mira Desai 

Mira Desai writes, works, and lives in Bombay, with a day job in pharmaceuticals. Her translations have been featured in 91st Meridian, Indian Literature, Pratilipi, Muse India, Calque and The Brooklyn…...

Pravinsinh Chavda 

Pravinsinh Chavda is an established author in Gujarati, with six short-story collections and a novel to his credit. A literary autobiography and a travelogue have also been well appreciated. A few of his…...

Akhtar Ul-Iman 

Akhtar ul-Iman  was born in 1915 in Uttar Pradesh, India. After earning his MA from Aligarh University, he wrote screenplays and became a film director. Though he was a member of the Progressive Writers'…...

Makhdum Moinuddin 

Makhdum Mohiuddin was born in 1908 in Hyderabad Deccan. He obtained his MA from Osmania University. As a communist, he was committed to revolutionary change and  suffered imprisonment for his activism.…...

Salam Bin Razzaq 

Salam Bin Razzaq is the pen name of Shaikh Abdussalam Abdurrazzaq who was born in 1941 in Panwil in Maharashtra, India. He finished high school in 1960 and published his first short story two years later…...

Rajinder Singh Bedi 

Rajinder Singh Bedi was born in Sialkot in 1915. He first worked as a clerk in the postal department; later he joined the Lahore office of All India Radio and wrote many successful plays, having meanwhile…...

Sajid Rashid 

Sajid Rashid is a noted writer and journalist and editor of the quarterly Urdu magazine Nayaa Waraq. A liberal Muslim intellectual and activist, he writes columns for the Mumbai-based Hindi evening newspaper…...

Naiyer Masud 

Naiyer Masud was born in 1936 in Lucknow. He did two separate PhD degrees in Urdu and Persian, and was a professor of Persian at Lucknow University. He started publishing his fictional work in the 1970s,…...

Anwar Khan 

Anwar Khan was born in Mumbai. He did his MA in both Urdu and Persian and worked for the Bombay Port Trust. He is the author of three collections of short stories and a novel. Before his premature death…...

Qurratulain Hyder 

Qurratulain Hyder (1927–2007) is regarded as the most celebrated woman writer of the subcontinent. Her published works include six novels, many novellas, and several collections of short stories,…...

Zakia Mashhadi 

After an advanced degree in Psychology from Lucknow University, India, Zakia Mashhadi worked in its Demographic Research Center for some time and also taught Psychology for six years at Loreto College.…...

Siddiq Aalam 

Siddiq Aalam was born in 1952 in a small town Purulia in India and since 1983 has lived in Calcutta, a city which is the background of his first novel Charnock ki Kashti. He holds an M.A. in English and…...

Ismat Chughtai 

Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991) is among the earliest women Urdu writers. After receiving her education at Agra, Aligarh, and Lucknow, she worked as a headmistress first in Jawra State and later at Bareilly.…...

Muhammad Husain Jah 

Muhammad Husain Jah (?–1891–93?) was one of Urdu's greatest prose stylists and an accomplished poet. His father, Syed Ghulam Husain, was a rammal or diviner. Hardly any information exists…...

Basharat Peer 

Basharat Peer's first book, Curfewed Night: The Battles for Kashmir, was published recently by Random House in South Asia and will be published later this year by Scribner in the United States. He…...

KK Mohapatra 

KK Mohapatra (1951-) has published two collections of stories, Palabhuta and Chor, and a novel, Photo, in Oriya and co-translated The HarperCollins Book of Oriya Short Stories (HarperCollins India, 1998)…...

Rabindranath Tagore 

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the…...

Vijay Dan Detha 

Vijay Dan Detha, shown here with translator Christi A. Merrill, is one of India's leading story writers and among the most eminent writing in Rajasthani today. Winner of a Sahitya Akademi award, he…...

Saadat Hasan Manto 

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-55) was the leading Urdu short-story writer of the twentieth century. He was born in Samrala in the Ludhiana district of Punjab. He worked for All India Radio during World War…...

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