Category

20th-century Indian women novelists

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Punjabi poet (1919–2005)

Indian novelist, University professor (born 1937)

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

Indian Hindi writer and poet (1907-1987)

Indian writer, philanthropist, author, motivator

Indian writer (1925–2019)

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

Geetanjali Shree

Cornelia Dorabuji

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)

Bharati Mukherjee

Indian-American writer (1940-2017)

physician and author (1917–2012)

Qurratulain Hyder

Indian writer (1927–2007)

Indian poet and novelist (1940–2021)

Indian journalist and novelist (born 1948)

Mamoni Raisom Goswami

Indian writer (1942–2011)

Indian novelist and epidemiologist

Nayantara Sahgal

Indian writer (born 1927)

Ashapoorna Devi

Indian writer (1909–1995)

Indian Gujarati language author

Indian writer and politician

Indian (Odia) Writer

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Indian poet (1938-2019)

Shashi Deshpande

Suchitra Bhattacharya

Sara Aboobacker

Indian writer (1936–2023)

Indian author of children's books (1908–2007)

Lalithambika Antharjanam

Indian writer and social reformer

Bengali poet and novelist (1914–1989)

Indian writer, poet and literary critic

Indian writer (1945–2022)

Eunice de Souza

Contemporary Indian English language poet

Gujarati novelist and story writer from India

Dalip Kaur Tiwana

Indian journalist and writer

Kundanika Kapadia

Indian novelist (1927-2020)

K. Saraswathi Amma

Malayalam feminist writer

Indian diplomat and writer

Githa Hariharan

Indian writer (1931–2021)

Santha Rama Rau

American writer (1923-2009)

Indian writer (1926–2023)

Malayalam-language short story writer and poet

Chandrika Balan

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.

Mallika Sengupta

British writer (1908–2004)