best known Indian English poets Aimxedia_TSC

Indian social activist & writer

Bengali writer Who 1st Indian to win Sahitya Akademi

Award for English Poetry
Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak has translated Who
most of the stories of Mahashweta Devi
In 2009, he got Padmashri award but
returned it as protesting in 2015

Sahitya Akademi (For

Bengali 'Aranyer Adhikar') authored 27 books of poems of which 7 are
in Oriya & 20 are in English
Padma Shri (1986)
Mahasweta Devi Jayanta Mahapatra
Janpith Award (1996) Awards (1928 –) Close the Sky Ten by Ten (1971)
(1926-2016)
Padam Vibhusan (2006)
Svayamvara and other Poems (1971)

In 1998 For Hajar Churashir Maa (1974) translated

into English by Samik Bandhopadhyay Raman Magsaysay Award
A Father's House (1976)

biography tran. into English by A Rain of Rites (1976)

The Queen of Jhansi
Sagarel & Mandira Sengupta)
Poetry Waiting (1979)
Aimxedia_TSC Arayner Adhikar
The False Start (1980) Aimxedia_TSC
Agnigarbha (Womb of Fire) 1978
Relationship (1980) won Sahitya Akademi award in 1981
Important
Dust on the Road Works classics in Modern Indian
Indian Summer
English Literature

Rudali Important
Hunger classics in Modern Indian
Works
English Literature
Hajar Churashir Maa

Aimxedia_TSC The Green Gardener:

Mother of 1084
Short Stories (1997)
Indian Literature Prose
Breast Stories
Door of Paper: Essay
and Memoirs (2006)
The Why-Why Girl

Indo-American poet, scholar,

writer & literary critic Suzanna Arundhati Roy Aimxedia_TSC
Who
Who
Indian writer, political activist involved in
human rights & environmental causes
born in India (Allahabad), raised in India &
Sudan now living in New York (USA)

novel portrays contemporary labeled as diasporic writer

Nampally Road (1991)
India & Rameeza's struggle

Aimxedia_TSC Stone Roots (Poetry 1980) Meena Alexander Arundhati Roy awarded with Sahitya Akademi Award in 2006
NET Facts
(1951-) (1959–)
House of a Thousand Doors (Poetry, 1988)
won Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997
River and Bridge (1995/96, Poetry)
story is set in Ayemenem (Kerala)
Illiterate Heart (2002, Poetry)
Novels
The God of Small explores how the small things affect
Birthplace with Buries Stones (2013, Poetry) Fictions
Things (1997) people's behavior and their lives

Atmospheric Embroidery (2015, Poetry) Ammu : most important female character

characters
Manhattan Music (1997, Novel) Baba : Rahel & Estha's father

autobiographical memoir Fault Lines (1993) Notable Works The End of Imagination (1998)

The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001)

The Bird's Bright Ring (1976)

Non-Fictions War is Peace (2001) Aimxedia_TSC

Root My name (1977) books of poetry Notable Works

Without Place (1978) The Greater Common of God (1999)

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The Shock of Arrival: Reflection on Walking with the Comrades (2010)
Post-colonial experience (1996)
Essays

Poetic of Dislocation (2009)

Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft,

Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley (1989)

Criticism

The Poetic Self: Towards a

Phenomenology of Romanticism