Famous Indian Authors and Books

Famous Indian Authors and Books
S.No.	Name of Author	Books/Novels	Award/Achievements
1.	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger Between the Assassinations	Won Man Booker Prize 2008 for the Novel “The White Tiger”
2.	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy	Won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel “The God of Small Things”. Awarded Sydney Peace Prize in 2004
3.	Anita Desai	Village by the Sea The Peacock Voices of the City Fire on the Mountain Clear Light of Day In Custody Fasting Feasting	Awarded the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for “Fire on the Mountain”.  The “Village by the Sea” won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award.
4.	Bankim Chandra Chatterjee	Anand Math Brishbikkha Kapalkundala Nandini Mrinalini Vishbriksha Chandrasekhar Rajani Rajsimha Devi Chaudhurani	Author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India.  Anand Math contained the song “Bande Mataram”, which was later adopted as National Song.
5.	Jhumpa Lahiri	The Namesake Interpreter Of Maladies Unaccustomed Earth	Winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book “Interpreter Of Maladies”. In February 2010, she was appointed a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities,appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama
6.	Khushwant Singh	We, Indians Train to Pakistan Women and Men in My Life Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories Love, Truth and A Little Malice	Rajya Sabha member from 1980 to 1986  Padma Bhushan award in the year 1974 Padma Vibhushan in the year 2007
7.	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny	Won 2006 Man Booker Prize and 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award for “The Inheritance of Loss”
8.	Mulk Raj Anand	Bubble Coolie Prince Utouchable The Village Lost Child Morning Face Seven Summers Across the Black Waters The Sword and the Sickle The Private Life of an Indian Bridge’s Book of Beauty Confessions of a Lover	International Peace Prize from World Peace Council  Sahitya Akademi award Mulk Raj Anand was hailed as India’s Charles Dickens for first novel, “Untouchable”, (1935).
9.	R.K. Narayan	Malgudi Days The Guide The Dark Room The Bachelor of Arts The English Teacher The Financial Expert The Man-Eater of Malgudi The Vendor of Sweets The Grandmother’s Tale	Sahitya Akademi Award for The Guide in 1958  Padma Bhushan in 1964 Nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1989
10.	Rabindranath Tagore  (well known as “Gurudev”)	Lipika Chitra Chandalika Court Dancer Crescent Moon Gitanjali Kabi Kahini Post Office	First Asian who won Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913  Composer of India’ s national anthem “Jana Gana Mana” Composer of Bangladesh’s national anthem “Amar Shonar Bangla”
11.	Salman Rushdie	Shame East West Jaguar Smile Moor’s Last Sigh The Satanic Verses Midnight’s  Children Shalimar The Clown	Awarded the ‘Booker of Bookers’ prize in 1993 for his novel “Midnight’s Children”
12.	Shobha De  (often known as India’s Jackie Collins)	Sisters Spouse Snapshots Sultry Days Starry Nights Surviving Men Small betrayals Second Thoughts Socialite Evenings Selective Memory	working as a columnist and writes for a fortnight magazine “The Week”
13.	Premchand / Munshi Premchand  (Real Name: Dhanpat Rai Srivastava)	Idgah Kafan Gaban Godaan Nirmala Poos Ki Raat Udhar Ki Ghadi Soz-e-Watan Shatranj Ke Khiladi Bade Ghar Ki Beti Panch Parameshvar Namak Ka Daroga	Great contribution in highlighting the realistic issues of the day-communalism, corruption, zamindari, debt, poverty, colonialism etc.
14.	V.S. Naipaul  (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul)	Beyond Belief Guerrillas Half a Life A Bend In the River Magic Seeds An Area Of Darkness A Way In the World A House For Mr Biswas Among the Believers The Mystic Masseur The Mimic Men The Loss Of El Dorado In a Free State The Middle Passage Finding the Center India – a Million Mutinies Now India – a Wounded Civilization	Won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001  Won the Booker Prize in 1971 for the book “In a Free State”  and became the first person of Indian origin do so
15.	Vikram Seth	The Golden Gate A Suitable Boy Arion and The Dolphin An Equal Music From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet Two Lives	Won Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for “From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet”  Won the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his novel, A Suitable Boy.