Kuvempu was born in Hirekodige, Koppa taluk, of Chikmagalur district to a native Kannada family. He was brought up in a place in the lush Malenadu region of Tirthahalli, called Kuppali, of Shimoga district. His education began at his home by an appointed teacher from Dakshina Kannada. He joined Anglo Vernacular school in Tirthahalli to continue his middle school education. He lost his father "Venkatappa Gowda" at the early age of 12 due to ill health.

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.

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, …

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.

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.

M. T. Vasudevan Nair, popularly known as MT, is a Malayalam author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born on July 15, 1933 in Kudallur, a small village in Palakkad district, in the Indian state of Kerala. One of the most prolific and versatile of modern Malayalam writers, his novels, short stories and screenplays speak of the pain and anguish of the Kerala society in the post independence India.

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.

"'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.

Ali Sardar Jafri (November 29, 1916, to August 1, 2000) was born in Balrampur in Uttar Pradesh and was an Urdu writer. Ali Sardar Jafri was involved in several social, political and literary movements. His important works include "Parwaz, Nai Duniya Ko Salaam, Khoon Ki Lakeer, Asia Jag Utha, Patthar Ki Deewar, Ek Khwaab Aur, Pairahan-e-Sharar, Lahu Pukarta Hai" and "Manzil".

Hyder, Qurrat-ul-Ain is an Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. She is the daughter of the famous writer Sajjad Haidar Yaldram,(1880-1943). Her mother, Nazr Zahra (later Nazr Sajjad Hyder) (1894-1967) was known as one of her time’s foremost novelists.

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

Mahadevi Varma was one of the most famous modern Hindi poets. She is widely regarded as the 'modern Meera. She was a major poet of the Chhayavaad generation, a period of romanticism in Modern Hindi poetry. She won the Jnanpith award in 1982.

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.

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.

Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942-), also Indira Goswami and popularly "Mamoni Baideo", is a well known writer from Assam. She teaches Assamese literature at the University of Delhi with a research interest on the Ramayana.

Mahasweta Devi is an Indian writer.

Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', a celestial damsel of the court of Hindu mythological god, Indra.

Ashapoorna Devi, also Ashapurna Debi or Asha Purna Devi, is a prominent Bengali novelist and poet. She was born in 1909. She has been widely honoured with a number of prizes and awards. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1976; D.Litt by the Universities of Jabalpur, Rabindra Bharati, Burdwan and Jadavpur. Vishwa Bharati University honoured her with Deshikottama in 1989.

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).

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.

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, …

Amrita Pritam (',, ') was an Indian writer. She is considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist. When the former British India was partitioned into the independent states of India and Pakistan, she migrated to India in 1947.

Jayakanthan (born April 24, 1934) is a Tamil writer, essayist, journalist, pamphleteer, film-maker and critic. He was an iconoclast who ridiculed social anomalies and was known for his bold and revolutionary ideas.

Nirmal Verma, together with Mohan Rakesh, Bhisham Sahni, Kamleshwar, Amarkant, Rajendra Yadav and others, is the founder of the "Nai Kahani" (new short story) in Hindi literature. Nirmal Verma is best known for his short stories and his best known story, 'Parinde' is supposed to be the pioneer of the "Nai Kahani Movement". Nirmal Verma's other notable stories are "Andhere Mein", "Dedh Inch Upar", and "Kavve Aur Kala Pani".

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.

Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayana, popularly known by his pen-name Ajneya (or Agyeya), was a pioneer of modern trends not only in the realm of Hindi poetry, but also fiction, criticism and journalism. He was one of the most prominent exponents of the 'Nayi kavita' (New Poetry) in Hindi, and edited the 'Tar Saptaks'. Agyeya also translated some of his own works, as well as works of some other Indian authors to English.

Rajendra Keshavlal SHAH (born: January 28, 1913, Kapadvanaj, Gujarat, India) is a lyrical poet who writes in Gujarati. He has authored more than 20 collections of poems and songs, mainly on the themes of the beauty of nature, and about the everyday lives of indigenous peoples and fisherfolk communities. In his poems using Sanskrit metrics, he has been greatly influenced by Rabindranath Tagore. Among his various professions, Shah has also been a printer in Mumbai, …

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.

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".

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (17 April, 1912 - 10 April, 1999) was a novelist and short story writer of Malayalam literature. He focused on the oppressed classes as the subject of his works, which are known for their attention to historic detail. He has written several novels and over 600 short stories. His most famous works are "Kayar" (the Rope, 1978), "Chemmeen" (Prawns, 1956; film adaptation, 1965), …

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, …