Modern Authors
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Rabindranath Tagore wrote Gitanjali and won Nobel Prize 1913
Munshi Premchand is known as the emperor of Hindi fiction
RK Narayan is famous for Malgudi Days stories
Vikram Seth wrote A Suitable Boy one of longest English novels
Arundhati Roy won Booker Prize for The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie wrote Midnight Children won Booker Prize
Amitav Ghosh wrote The Glass Palace and Sea of Poppies
Harivansh Rai Bachchan wrote Madhushala famous Hindi poem
Ruskin Bond is famous for stories set in Indian hills
Chetan Bhagat wrote Five Point Someone popular Indian novel
Jhumpa Lahiri won Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies
Kiran Desai won Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss
Ismat Chughtai was a pioneering Urdu writer known for Lihaaf
Mahasweta Devi wrote Hajar Churashir Ma and won Sahitya Akademi Award
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Anandamath containing Vande Mataram