Meena Alexander
(India, 1951)
Meena Alexander is a New York-based poet, novelist and essayist. She has authored …
Malika Amar Sheikh
(India, 1957)
Malika Amar Sheikh is a reputed writer in Marathi. Her various collections, including …
Anamika
(India, 1961)
Anamika is a Delhi-based poet who writes in Hindi. A lecturer at the Department of …
Raghavan Atholi
(India, 1957)
Raghavan Atholi is a poet and sculptor. One of the early names associated with the rise …
Rajendra Bhandari
(India, 1956)
Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is a Nepali poet of repute. A Reader in Nepali at the …
Nirendranath Chakravarti
(India, 1924)
Nirendranath Chakravarti, born in 1924, is a senior Bengali poet who has published more …
Amarjit Chandan
(Nairobi, 1946)
Amarjit Chandan is a noted Punjabi poet and essayist. He is the author of eight …
Sampurna Chattarji
(Ethiopia, 1970)
Sampurna Chattarji (born in 1970, in Dessie, Ethiopia) is a poet, novelist and …
Geet Chaturvedi
(India, 1977)
Geet Chaturvedi is a critically acclaimed Hindi poet and novelist based in Bhopal, …
Dilip Chitre
(India, 1938–2009)
Since this page was first published in February 2009, Dilip Chitre has passed …
Mangalesh Dabral
(India, 1948)
Mangalesh Dabral was born in the village of Kafalpani in the northern Indian state of …
Vasant Abaji Dahake
(India, 1942)
Born in 1942, Vasant Abaji Dahake is a well-known Marathi poet, critic, essayist, …
Mamang Dai
(India, 1957)
Mamang Dai is a poet and novelist. She lives in Itanagar in the North-east Indian state …
Keki Daruwalla
(India, 1937)
Keki Daruwalla is a leading figure in Indian poetry in English today. He is the …
Nitoo Das
(India, 1972)
Nitoo Das was selected by poet Meena Kandasamy for the special edition of PIW India, …
Eunice de Souza
(India, 1940)
Eunice de Souza is an English-language poet. She has published four volumes of poetry, …
Adhavan Deetchanya
(India, 1964)
Adhavan Deetchanya (born 1964) is a Tamil writer of poetry and short fiction. Since his …
Imtiaz Dharker
(India, 1954)
The poetry of Imtiaz Dharker has travelled an interesting path – from the trauma …
Namdeo Dhasal
(India, 1949)
Born in 1949, Namdeo Dhasal is Maharashtra’s leading Dalit poet and the only Indian …
Saroop Dhruv
(India, 1948)
Saroop Dhruv is a Gujarati poet, playwright and cultural activist, based in Ahmedabad. …
Hemant Divate
(India, 1967)
Hemant Divate is a poet, publisher and vice president of a marketing firm. He has been …
Nirupama Dutt
(India, 1955)
Born in 1955, Nirupama Dutt is an established presence in the field of Punjabi poetry …
Sunil Gangopadhyay
(India, 1934)
Sunil Gangopadhyay (born 1934) is a distinguished figure in Bengali literature. A poet …
Gagan Gill
(India, 1959)
Gagan Gill is a critically acclaimed poet with four collections of poetry and a book …
Joy Goswami
(India, 1954)
Joy Goswami is regarded as one of the finest poets in the ‘post-Jibananda Das era’ of …
Teji Grover
(India, 1955)
Teji Grover (born 1955) is a Hindi poet, painter, translator and environmental …
Gulzar
(India, 1936)
Gulzar is a significant presence in the world of Urdu poetry — a fact sometimes …
Kanaka Ha. Ma.
(India, 1964)
Kanaka Ha. Ma. (born 1964) is a critically acclaimed Kannada poet. Based in Mumbai, …
Anjum Hasan
(India, 1972)
Anjum Hasan writes poetry, fiction and criticism in English. Her first book of poetry, …
Popati Hiranandani
(India, 1924–2005)
Popati Hiranandani was a versatile Sindhi writer who authored over sixty books in her …
Ranjit Hoskote
(India, 1969)
Born in 1969, Ranjit Hoskote is a Mumbai-based poet, art theorist, independent curator …
Thangjam Ibopishak Singh
(India, 1948)
Thangjam Ibopishak Singh is among the leading and most popular poets of the Northeast …
Dileep Jhaveri
(India, 1943)
Dileep Jhaveri (born 1943) is a well-known Gujarati poet and playwright. He has …
Manya Joshi
(India, 1972)
Manya Joshi holds a Masters degree in Marathi literature from the University of Bombay …
Adil Jussawalla
(India, 1940)
Poet and critic Adil Jussawalla is an influential presence in Indian poetry in English. …
Jayant Kaikini
(India, 1955)
Jayant Kaikini is regarded as one of the most significant of the younger writers in …
Kamlesh
(India, 1937)
Kamlesh (born 1937) is a senior Hindi poet and translator. He writes prolifically but …
Meena Kandasamy
(India, 1984)
Meena Kandasamy is a young Chennai-based poet, fiction writer and translator. Her first …
Angshuman Kar
(India, 1975)
Angshuman Kar is the author of nine collections of poems, two novels, two novellas …
Sachin Ketkar
(India, 1972)
Sachin Ketkar was selected by Marathi poet Hemant Divate for the November 2008 …
Tabish Khair
(India, 1966)
Tabish Khair (born 1966) is a poet, novelist and essayist. His significant poetry …
Giriraj Kiradoo
(India, 1975)
Giriraj Kiradoo (born 1975) has published poems, criticism, translations and short …
Nitin Kulkarni
(India, 1970)
Nitin Kulkarni is an architect by profession. A graduate of BKPS College of …
Nilim Kumar
(India, 1961)
Nilim Kumar is the author of seventeen volumes of poetry and three novels in …
Monika Kumar
(India, 1977)
Monika Kumar is a Hindi poet of growing acclaim. Her poetry has been published in …
Malathi Maithri
(India, 1968)
Malathi Maithri was selected by Tamil poet Kutti Revathi for the special edition of …
Bharat Majhi
(India, 1972)
Bharat Majhi (born 1972) is recognised as a voice of growing promise and resonance in …
Gayatri Majumdar
(India, 1963)
Gayatri Majumdar (born 1963) writes poetry in English. She is founder-editor of The …
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
(India, 1947)
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947) is a poet and critic of repute. He is the author of …
Nitin Mehta
(India, 1944)
Born in 1944, Nitin Mehta is a senior Gujarati poet, critic and translator. His poetry …
Sudesh Mishra
(Fiji, 1962)
Sudesh Mishra, poet, playwright, short fiction writer and academic, was born in 1962 in …
Debarati Mitra
(India, 1946)
A noted Kolkata-based Bengali poet, Debarati Mitra has published eight collections of …
Chandrakanta Murasingh
(India, 1957)
Born in 1957, Chandrakanta Murasingh is one of the best-known poets from the Northeast …
Vaidehi
(India, 1945)
Vaidehi is the pen name of Janaki Srinivasa Murthy. Born in 1945, she published her …
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
(India, 1952)
Rukmini Bhaya Nair is a Delhi-based poet and professor of linguistics and English at …
Karthika Nair
(India, 1972)
Karthika Nair published her first book of poems, Bearings, in 2009. Her other …
Suniti Namjoshi
(India, 1941)
Born in Mumbai in 1941, Suniti Namjoshi is an important writer in contemporary Indian …
Prathibha Nandakumar
(India, 1955)
Prathibha Nandakumar is a Bangalore-based poet, short story writer and playwright. She …
Jiban Narah
(India, 1970)
Jiban Narah (born 1970) is the author of six books of poetry in Assamese. Considered a …
Kunwar Narain
(India, 1927)
Born in 1927, Kunwar Narain has been a stalwart presence in the field of Hindi poetry …
Robin Ngangom
(India, 1959)
Robin Ngangom (born in Imphal, Manipur) is a bilingual poet who writes in English and …
Jameela Nishat
(India, 1958)
Born in 1955, Hyderabad-based feminist and poet Jameela Nishat is a significant …
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
(India, 1964)
Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih lives in Shillong in the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya. …
Marilyn Noronha
(India, 1952)
Marilyn Noronha (born 1952) is the author of a book of poems entitled Different …
Rajendra Kishore Panda
(India, 1944)
 Rajendra Kishore Panda (born 1944) is a major poet in Oriya literature. He is the …
Prabodh Parikh
(India, 1945)
Prabodh Parikh is a Gujarati poet, short fiction writer and visual artist. He retired …
Gieve Patel
(India, 1940)
Born in 1940, Gieve Patel is an important presence in the history of modern Indian …
Nilmani Phookan
(India, 1933)
Nilmani Phookan is considered Assam’s most distinguished living poet. Born in the …
Jerry Pinto
(India, 1966)
Jerry Pinto (born 1966) is a writer of poetry, prose and children’s fiction in English. …
Prabhat
(India, 1972)
Prabhat (born 1972) is a writer of children’s short fiction, poetry and drama. Born in …
Manushya Puthiran
(India, 1968)
Manushya Puthiran is the penname of S. Abdul Hameed, an important voice in the new …
Savithri Rajeevan
(India, 1956)
Savithri Rajeevan is a noted Malayalam poet and short fiction writer, based in …
P.P. Ramachandran
(India, 1962)
[P.P. Ramachandran was selected by E.V. Ramakrishnan for the May 2009 special …
E.V. Ramakrishnan
(India, 1950)
E.V. Ramakrishnan is a bilingual writer who has published poetry and criticism in …
Varavara Rao
(India, 1940)
Varavara Rao (born 1940) – or VV as he is better known – is a well-known Telugu …
K. Siva Reddy
(India, 1943)
K. Siva Reddy is a major voice in contemporary Telugu poetry. He has published eleven …
Kutti Revathi
(India, 1974)
Kutti Revathi is the pen name of Dr S. Revathi. A Chennai-based Tamil poet, her poetry …
Rituraj
(India, 1940)
 Rituraj was selected by Hindi poet and editor Mangalesh Dabral for the special …
Tarannum Riyaz
(India, 1963)
Tarannum Riyaz is a noted Urdu short fiction writer, translator, critic, poet and …
Ajmer Rode
(India)
Ajmer Rode  is a Canada-based Punjabi poet, playwright and translator with five …
S. Joseph
(India, 1965)
S. Joseph (born 1965) is a Malayalam poet with four acclaimed poetry collections to his …
Mamta Sagar
(India, 1966)
Mamta Sagar is a Kannada poet, playwright and academic. She has published three …
Salma
(India, 1968)
Salma is a writer of Tamil poetry and fiction. Based in the small town of …
K. G. Sankara Pillai
(India, 1948)
Born in 1948, K.G. Sankara Pillai is one of Kerala’s finest poets. A recipient of …
K. Satchidanandan
(India, 1946)
K. Satchidanandan (1946) is a leading Indian poet writing in Malayalam, his mother …
Sudeep Sen
(India, 1964)
Sudeep Sen is the author of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry. He studied …
Mithu Sen
(India, 1971)
[Mithu Sen was selected by Sudeep Sen for this special edition devoted to “poets as …
Mandakranta Sen
(India, 1972)
Mandakranta Sen is a prominent voice in contemporary Bengali poetry. Her literary …
Mallika Sengupta
(India, 1960)
Mallika Sengupta is a proponent of an unapologetically political poetry and an …
Vijay Seshadri
(India, 1954)
Vijay Seshadri has written three collections of poetry, most recently The …
Vikram Seth
(India, 1952)

Chandrakant Shah
(India, 1956)
Born in 1956, Chandrakant (or Chandu) Shah is a Boston-based Gujarati poet and …
Ravi Shankar
(USA, 1975)
Ravi Shankar is a poet, translator and professor of poetry, based in Connecticut, …
Yash Sharma
(India, 1929)
Yash Sharma is a leading Dogri poet, playwright and lyricist. Although widely known for …
Vinod Kumar Shukla
(India, 1937)
Vinod Kumar Shukla was selected by Hindi poet Mangalesh Dabral for the special …
Kedarnath Singh
(India, 1934)
Born in 1934, Kedarnath Singh is widely acknowledged as one of the major writers of …
Udaya Narayana Singh
(India, 1951)
Udaya Narayana Singh (born 1951) is a reputed poet, playwright and essayist in Maithili …
Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh
(India, 1949)
Yumlembam Ibomcha Singh (born 1949) is one of the leading poets from the North-eastern …
Varjesh Solanki
(India, 1970)
Varjesh Solanki works with an engineering firm in Mumbai. His collection, Varjesh …
Srijato
(India, 1975)
Srijato began writing at an early age. His first book of poems was published when he …
K. Srilata
(India, 1968)
K. Srilata is a Chennai-based poet, fiction writer and translator. She writes in …
Arundhathi Subramaniam
(India, 1967)
This text was written in connection with the collaborative art project between the …
Basudev Sunani
(India, 1962)
Basudev Sunani (born 1962) is an Oriya poet of growing repute. The author of four …
C. P. Surendran
(India, 1959)
CP Surendran is a poet and novelist. He has written four volumes of poetry: Gemini …
Anand Thakore
(India, 1971)
Anand Thakore is a poet and Hindustani classical vocalist – and an …
Anitha Thampi
(India, 1968)
Anitha Thampi (born 1968) is a Malayalam poet with two collections of poetry to her …
Jeet Thayil
(India, 1959)
Jeet Thayil was nearly born in the middle of the Muhattapuzha River. The current has …
Udayan Vajpeyi
(India, 1960)
Udayan Vajpeyi is a Hindi poet, essayist, short fiction and script writer. He has …
Ashok Vajpeyi
(India, 1941)
Ashok Vajpeyi is a noted Hindi poet, critic, essayist and translator, and a dynamic …
Ruth Vanita
(India, 1955)
Ruth Vanita is a poet, editor, translator, academic and activist. Her book of poems, …
Veerankutty
(India, 1963)
Veerankutty, a prominent environmental poet of the new generation in Malayalam, has …
Saleel Wagh
(India, 1967)
Saleel Wagh is a poet, critic and translator. Nivadak Kavita is his first …
Sitanshu Yashaschandra
(India, 1941)
Sitanshu Yashaschandra is among contemporary Gujarati literature’s most eminent …
Mona Zote
(India, 1973)
Mona Zote lives in Aizawl in the Northeast Indian state of Mizoram. She describes …
 
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