20th-century Indian short story writers

Bengali poet, philosopher and polymath (1861–1941)

Indian-born British-American novelist (born 1947)

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.

Indian writer (1906–2001)

Indian Bengali fiction writer and socio-political activist (1926-2016)

Bengali novelist and short story writer (1876-1938)

Indian Hindi writer and poet (1907-1987)

Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician (1914–2014)

Indian writer (1925–2019)

novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Indian writer of British descent (born 1934)

Indian writer

Indian barrister, writer, and social reformer; first female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University; first Indian national to study at a British university (1866-1954)

Indian film and stage actor (1913-1973)

Indian scholar and author (1893 – 1963)

Indian writer and activist (born 1948)

Indian writer (1898–1971)

Indian writer

Indian writer (1927–2007)

Indian Bengali author (1894–1950)

Indian-born English writer (1908–2006)

Indian writer

Indian writer and politician

Indian Gujarati language author

Indian writer

Indian writer

Indian (Odia) Writer

D. Jayakanthan (24 April 1934 – 8 April 2015), popularly known as JK, was an Indian writer, journalist, orator, filmmaker, critic and activist. Born in Cuddalore, he dropped out of school at the age of 9 and went to Madras, where he joined the Communist Party of India. In a career spanning six decades, he authored around 40 novels, 200 short stories, apart from two autobiographies. Outside literature, he made two films. In addition, four of his other novels were adapted into films by others.

Indian author (1908–1994)

Indian writer, playwright, and actor (1915-2003)

Indian writer (1905–1952)

Bengali Poet (1899-1954)

Assamese writer (1868–1938)

Indian author, screenplay writer and film director (1933–2024)

Indian writer (1936–2023)

Indian writer

Indian author

Indian writer and social reformer

Indian writer (1934–2021)

Indian writer

Telugu novelist, translator, and English professor at Osmania University

Indian writer, poet and literary critic

Indian writer (1945–2022)

writer, novelist (1933–2016)

Indian writer

Amarkant (1925 – 17 February 2014) was an Indian writer of Hindi literature. His novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se earned him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007, and Vyas Samman in year 2009. He was awarded Jnanpith Award for the year 2009. Amarkant is considered one of the prominent writers of the story writing tradition of Premchand but certainly is credited to add something better in that tradition by his own individuality.

Indian (Odia) writer (1914-1991)

Indian writer (1924–1997)

novelist and short story writer of Malayalam language (1912–1999)

Gujarati novelist and story writer from India

Indian novelist (1927-2020)

Indian Writer who won Jnanpith award in 2012

Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (27 February 1912 – 10 March 1999), popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj, was a Marathi poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived.

Indian writer

Chandrika Balan (born 17 January 1954) is an Indian writer who has published books in English and Malayalam, under the pen name Chandramathi. She is a writer of fiction, translator, and critic in English and Malayalam. Chandramathi has published four books in English and 20 in Malayalam, including 12 collections of short stories, an anthology of medieval Malayalam poetry, two collections of essays, two memoirs, and five books translated from English. The Malayalam film Njandukalude Nattil Oridavela was based on her book.

Indian writer (1926–2023)

Malayalam-language short story writer and poet

Indian Odia author (1843–1918)

Tamil novelist

Gujarati author from India