Award-Winning Authors of Indian Origin
Salman Rushdie | Midnight Children Shame The Moor’s Last Sigh Fury The Satanic Verses Two years, at Month and Twenty-at Night | Booker Prize 1981 (Midnight Children) |
Vikram Seth | The Golden Gate | Padma Shri in Literature and Education |
A Suitable Boy An Equal Music Summer Requiem Two Lives | 2007 | |
Arundhati Roy | The God of Small things | Booker Prize 1997 |
The Algebra at Infinite Justice | (The God of Small Things) | |
Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey | Booker Prize 1991 |
Family Matters A Fine Balance | (Such a Long Journey) | |
VS Naipaul | A House for Mr Biswaas | Nobel Prize in Literature 2001 |
India : a Wounded Civilization | (for having united perceptive narrative | |
An Area of Darkness India : a Million Mutinies now The Masque of Africa A Bend in The River | and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel) | |
Amitav Ghosh | The Circle of Reason | Padma Shri by Government of India |
River of Smoke | 2007 | |
The Glass Palace | (for his best work in English Language) | |
Shadow Line The Calcutta Chromosome Flood of Fire The Hungry Tide Sea of Poppies In an Antique Land | Crossword Book Prize in 2008 for Sea of Poppier | |
Jhumpa Lahiri | The Namesake | Pulitzer Prize 2000 |
The Interpreter of Maladies The Unaccustomed Earth | (The Namesake) | |
Shashi Tharoor | The Great Indian Novel | Common Wealth Writer’s Prize |
Show Business India : From Midnight to Millenium India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our time | (The Great Indian Novel) | |
Upamanyu Chatterjee | The Mammaries of the Welfare State English August Way to 90 | Sahitya Akademi Award 2004 (The Mammaries of the Welfare State) |
Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss | Man Booker Prize 2006 |