- male, 77 years old
- Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy, is a leading contemporary writer and critic in Kannada language and considered as one of the most important...
- female, deceased (2005)
- Amrita Pritam (',, ') was an Indian writer. She is considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist. When the former...
- male, deceased (1999)
- Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (17 April, 1912 - 10 April, 1999) was a novelist and short story writer of Malayalam literature. He focused on the...
- male, deceased (2000)
- 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...
- female, deceased (1987)
- 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...
- male, 96 years old
- Rajendra Keshavlal SHAH (born: January 28, 1913, Kapadvanaj, Gujarat, India) is a lyrical poet who writes in Gujarati. He has authored more than 20...
- male, deceased (1986)
- 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...
- male, deceased (1978)
- G. Sankara Kurup, (born June 3, 1901, Nayathode, Kerala, India - February 2, 1978, Trivandrum, Kerala), better known as Mahakavi G (The Great Poet...
- male, deceased (1994)
- 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...
- male, deceased (1977)
- "'Sumitranandan Pant, socialist and humanist poems. Pant received Jnanpith Award for collection of his most famous poems, titled "Chidambara". He...
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