Best Indian Authors Who Got Worldwide Success

India is a country with a rich and diverse culture, therefore reading an Indian author's book provides a window to peep into that world. You get a glimpse of Indian history, traditions, people, perspectives, experiences, and voices that you might not find in other literature. The author showcases different faces of the Indian community both in India and abroad. Reading books by the Best Indian Authors represents the diversity and complexity of Indian society and the challenges faced by people. Their books help readers to understand social, political, and cultural issues and also focus on caste discrimination, religious conflict, poverty, and globalization.  Many Indian authors have won prestigious literary awards and have gained international recognition for their work.

Who are the greatest Indian authors of all time?

In this blog post, Bookswagon has come up with some of the Famous Indian Authors.

 Rabindranath Tagore: Rabindranath Tagore was a prominent Bengali poet and philosopher. He was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1861 and was the youngest of thirteen children. His father was an educator and a prominent religious reformer. He began writing at an early age and by the age of 16, his first collection of poems got published. While Tagore is most known for his poetry, he also produced many songs, travel articles, short stories, and plays. His writings are typically praised for their lyrical, bright, and rhythmic nature. Eight novels and four novellas were written by Tagore, including Chaturanga, Shesher Kobita, Char Odhay, and Noukadubi. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature for a collection of poetry in 1913. Among his best-known poems are Gitanjali, Manasi, and Sonar Tori.

Sudha Murty

Sudha Murty is one of the most Famous Indian Writers of the 21st Century. She is a social worker, and philanthropist and was born in 1950 in Shiggaon, Karnataka. She has done engineering from the B.V.B College of Engineering and Technology in Hubli and a master’s in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. She decided to pursue writing and has written over 200 books—including novels, short stories, and non-fiction—in both English and Kannada, and she also wrote on social topics. Some of her most famous books include How I Taught My Grandmother to Read and Other Stories, Grandma's Bag of Stories, Wise and Otherwise - A Salute to Life, Mahashweta, Man from the Egg, and many more.

Amish Tripathi

Amish Tripathi is an Indian novelist best known for the Ram Chandra series and the Shiva Trilogy, two of his most popular works. He was born in Bombay, Maharashtra, India, in 1974, and graduated from Mumbai's St. Xavier's College with a degree in finance. The Immortals of Meluha, his first novel, was published in 2010 and marked the beginning of his literary career. The latter two books in the trilogy, The Oath of the Vayuputras (2013) and The Secret of the Nagas (2011), wrap up the story of Shiva. Tripathi began the Ram Chandra series, which is based on the life of Lord Ram, after the Shiva Trilogy's popularity. He has received several awards for his writing, including the Society Young Achievers Award for Literature in 2013 and the Crossword Book Award in the Popular category in 2019. Tripathi currently lives in Mumbai with his wife, Preeti, and their two children.

 Durjoy Datta

Durjoy Datta is an Indian author and screenwriter, born on 7 February 1987 in Mehsana, Gujarat. He completed his schooling at Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura, and pursued a degree in mechanical engineering from Delhi Technological University. Datta's writing career began with his first novel, Of Course, I Love You! which he co-authored with Maanvi Ahuja. Since then, he has authored several other books, including Now That You’re Rich! Till The Last Breath, The Perfect Us, and The Boy with a Broken Heart, among others. Apart from his writing and entrepreneurial ventures, Datta has also worked as a screenwriter for several popular TV shows and movies, including Sadda Haq, Million Dollar Girl, and Twisted.

 Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, diplomat, and author, born on March 9, 1956, in London, United Kingdom. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Stephen's College in Delhi. Tharoor went on to earn a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in International Relations and Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The excellent speaker Tharoor has delivered a number of speeches on subjects including politics, history, and literature. For his writing and contributions to Indian politics, he has won a number of honors, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Crossword Book Award. He has two boys and is married to Sunanda Pushkar. He now represents Kerala, India's Thiruvananthapuram seat as a member of parliament.

Preeti Shenoy

Preeti Shenoy is an Indian author and blogger. She attended Kendriya Vidyalaya during her school years. She started her writing career as a blogger and later published her first book, 34 Bubblegums, and Candies, which is a collection of short stories based on true incidents. Shenoy received national recognition with her second book, Life Is What You Make It, and its sequel, Wake Up, Life Is Calling. Some of her well-known books include; Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake, The Secret Wish List, The One You CanNot Have, It Happens for a Reason,  It's All in the Planets, A Hundred Little Flames, Love A Little Stronger, and The Rule Breakers. Her book Why We Love the Way We Do is a collection of essays on relationships. 

It may be a highly rewarding experience to read novels by Indian writers since they can teach readers more about other cultures and communities. It may provide readers with a new outlook on life and insight into the problems India's citizens deal with. These works often have distinctive and compelling writing styles that may be thought-provoking and emotionally potent. Also, reading about India's literary traditions helps increase readers' appreciation of the culture and people of that nation.

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