Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, is a leading contemporary writer and critic in Kannada language and considered as one of the most important representatives of the Navya movement. Ananthamurthy is counted among the most eminent Indian authors. He is the sixth person among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada language, the highest literary honor conferred in India. He was conferred Padma Bhushan by Government of India.

Girish Karnad (born May 19, 1938), is a contemporary writer, playwright, actor and movie director in Kannada language. He is the latest one among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred in India. For four decades, Karnad has been composing plays, often using history and mythology to tackle contemporary issues. He is also active in the world of Indian cinema working as an actor, …

Viswanatha Satyanarayana (b. 10 September 1895- d. 18 October 1976), popularly known as the "Kavi Samraat" (Emperor of Poetry), was a modern Telugu poet. Born in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Viswanatha was a disciple of the "Tirupati Venkata Kavulu" duo. Viswanatha's style of poetry was classical in nature and his popular works include "Ramayana Kalpa Vrikshamu" (A resourceful tree called Ramayana), …

Raghupati Sahay 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri (1896-1982) was one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets. He was born in Gorakhpur in a Kayastha family. After a brilliant academic career he was co-opted into the Provincial Civil Service but resigned and joined Allahabad University as a lecturer in English. It was here he wrote most of his Urdu poetry and his magnum opus Gul-e-Naghma which fetched him the Jnanpith Award.

Govind Vinayak Karandikar, better known as Vinda Karandikar is a famous Marathi poet. He is the winner of the 39th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary award. Karandikar is said to be the most experimental and the most comprehensive of all modern Marâthi poets. He has also contributed to Marâthi literature as an essayist, critic and translator (he translated Aristotle's "Poetics" into Marathi).

"'Sumitranandan Pant, socialist and humanist poems. Pant received Jnanpith Award for collection of his most famous poems, titled "Chidambara". He was awarded "Nehru Peace Prize" by Soviet Union for "Lokayatan. Pantji's childhood house, in Kausani, has been converted into a museum. This museum displays his daily use articles, drafts of his poems, letters, his awards etc.

Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre was amongst the most famous of Kannada poets of the Navodaya Period and important contributor to the field of Marathi literature. Praised as varakavi,viz., gifted poet, he was the second person among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada, the highest literary honour conferred in India. He wrote under the pen-name of "Ambikatanayadatta". He also hold the title "Karnataka kula Thilaka" conferred by Udupi Adamaru.

Vinayaka Krishna Gokak Kannada:ವಿನಾಯಕ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಗೊಕಾಕ್ (1909-1992) was a major writer in Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures. He was fifth among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada language for his epic Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi. Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi is perhaps the longest epic written in any language in the 20th Century. It deals with the vedic age. Gokak was a Professor of English literature.

Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (February 27 1912 - March 10 1999), popularly known in Maharashtra, India and in the larger Marathi community as "Kusumagraj", was a poet, playwright and writer. one of the most important contributors to Marathi literature. He was born in Pune, and was known by his nick name Tatyasaheb, meaning respected big brother. Kusumagraj's contribution to Marathi literature, particularly poetry and plays, marks a milestone in the journey of Marathi literature.

G. Sankara Kurup, (born June 3, 1901, Nayathode, Kerala, India - February 2, 1978, Trivandrum, Kerala), better known as Mahakavi G (The Great Poet G), was the first winner of the Jnanpith Award, the Government of India's highest literary award. He won the prize in 1965 for his collection of poems in Malayalam "Odakkuzhal" (The bamboo flute, 1950). With part of the prize money he established the literary award Odakkuzhal in 1968.

Qurratulain Haider (b. 1927, also written Qurat-ul-ain) is an Indian writer of Urdu fiction. She was born at Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh and went to Delhi's Indraprastha College. She has written 12 novels and novellas, and many short stories. Her best known novel is the epic "Aag ki Darya" (The River of Fire), a massive historical tale that moves from the fourth century BC to the modern period, and which the author herself translated into English.

Kota Shivaram Karanth (October 10, 1902 - December 9, 1997) was a major Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, Yakshagana artist, movie maker and thinker. He was described as the "finest novelist-activist of modern India" by Ramachandra Guha. He was the third person among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred in India.

Rehman Rahi (born March 6, 1925, Srinagar) is an Indian poet, translator and critic. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1961 for his poetry collection "Nawroz-i-Saba", the Padma Shri in 2000, and the Jnanpith Award (for the year 2004) in 2007. He is the first Kashmiri writer to be awarded the Jnanpith, India's highest literary award. Rehman Rahi began his career as a clerk in the government and was associated with the Progressive Writers' Association, …

Pannalal Nanalal Patel (May 7, 1912 - April 5, 1989) is a Gujarati author. He was the recipient of Jnanpith Award in 1985.

C. Narayanareddy also known as Dr. Cingireddy Narayana Reddy was born on July 29 1931 in Hanumajipeta, a remote village in the interior of Karimnagar district. He is notable as he received the prestigious Jnanpith Award in 1988 for his contribution to Telugu literature. He completed his Master's degree and Ph.D. degree in Telugu literature from Osmania University. He worked in Osmania University as a professor and attained high positions and earned many awards. Dr.

Bishnu Dey (18 July, 1909-3 December, 1982) was a prominent Bengali poet, prose writer, movie critique in the era of modernism, post-modernism. He won the highest literary award of India, Jnanpith Award, in 1971 for his collection of poems "Smriti Sattya Bhabisyyat".

Umashankar Joshi (July 12, 1911 - December 19, 1988) is an eminent poet, scholar and writer, received the Jnanpith Award in 1967 for his contribution to Indian, especially Gujarati, literature.

Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (anglicised spelling of surname: Banerjee), one of the three great Bandyopadhyay of post-Tagore era of Bengali literature was born in 1898. [There are five major writers in Bengali literature with the surname Banerjee: Bibhuti Bhushan(1894-1950), Tarashankar(1898-1971), Manik(1908-56), Sharadindu(1899-1970) and Atin (b.1934), among whom, …

Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar (June 6 1891 - June 6 1986) was a popular writer in Kannada language. He was the fourth person among seven recipients of Jnanpith Award for Kannada the highest literary honour conferred in India. He was popularly referred to as "Maasti Kannadada Aasti" which means Maasti is Kannada's Treasure. He is most renowned for his short stories. He wrote under the pen name "Srinivasa".

Bijon Bhattacharya was a prominent theatre and film personality from Bengal. Bijon was born in 1917 at Faridpur (now in Bangladesh), and was early a witness to the destitution and penury of the peasantry of that land. He became a member of the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), a left-leaning group of artists who aimed at reflect the suffering of the poor in their work, so as to make a social impact for the betterment of that section of society.