Modern Literature
Arts & Culture · आधुनिक साहित्य
📋Quick Overview
Modern Indian literature includes Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali), Munshi Premchand (Hindi), and Jnanpith Award winners. Matching authors with their works is a key exam topic.
📖Key Facts
- •Rabindranath Tagore = Nobel Prize 1913 for Gitanjali (Bengali)
- •Munshi Premchand = Father of Hindi literature (Godan, Nirmala)
- •Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay = wrote Vande Mataram (Anandamath)
- •Subramania Bharati = great Tamil poet (freedom songs)
- •Mahadevi Verma = modern Meera of Hindi literature
- •Harivansh Rai Bachchan = Madhushala (Hindi poet)
📝More Important Facts
- •R.K. Narayan = Malgudi Days (English, Mysore setting)
- •Jnanpith Award = highest Indian literary award (since 1965)
- •First Jnanpith = G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam, 1965)
- •Saraswati Samman = another major literary award
- •Sahitya Akademi = national academy of letters, New Delhi
- •Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay = Devdas (Bengali novelist)