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Jnanadeva  
Marathi. Poet and saint. 13^th century.

Vidyapati
Mythili. Poet. 14^th century.

Eknath
Marathi. Poet and  saint. 16^th century.  

Modern Literature

In recent times, especially in the preceding two centuries, hundreds of authors and thousands of works, in all the major Indian languages, have enriched the Indian literary firmament. More information will be included in future updates, after  complete research.

However, for starters, are included  the names of authors who have received the most prestigious Indian literary award called  ‘Jnanpith’ Puraskar’. These annual awards are made since 1965, by The Bharatiya GnanPith, established in 1944, in New Delhi.

Although a particular work of the recipient is cited for the award, these scholars have made and are making lifetime contributions to literature. Their combined output exceeds a thousand works, some individuals contributing over one hundred works. Chronologically these are:

Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya. (Bengali).

Umashankar Joshi. (Gujarati).

Sumitranandan Pant. (Hindi).

Viswanatha Satyanarayana. (Telugu).

Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre. (Kannada).

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar. (Marathi)

Shivarama Karanth. (Kannada).

Ashapoorna Devi. (Bengali).

Sachidanand Hiranand Vatsayan. (Hindi).

Birendrakumar Bhattacharya. (Assamese).

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar. (Kannada).

Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar. (Marathi).

Subash Mukopadhaya. (Bengali).

Mahasweta Devi. (Bengali).

U.R.Anantha Murthy. (Kannada).

Girish Karnad. (Kannada). 

English Literature

Rabindranath Tagore (Poetry)
Nobel Laureate

Deepak Chopra ( Health and Holistic ) 

B.K.S.Iyengar ( Yoga )

Sir V.S.Naipaul ( Fiction and Non-Fiction )
Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature

R.K.Narayan ( Novels ) 

Dr S. Radhakrishnan (Philosophy)

Raja Rao ( Fiction )

Vinayaka Krishna Gokak. (Kannada).

Some of the great literary minds of this period were:

Jnanadeva  
Marathi. Poet and saint. 13^th century.

Vidyapati
Mythili. Poet. 14^th century.

Eknath
Marathi. Poet and  saint. 16^th century.  

Modern Literature

In recent times, especially in the preceding two centuries, hundreds of authors and thousands of works, in all the major Indian languages, have enriched the Indian literary firmament. More information will be included in future updates, after  complete research.

However, for starters, are included  the names of authors who have received the most prestigious Indian literary award called  ‘Jnanpith’ Puraskar’. These annual awards are made since 1965, by The Bharatiya GnanPith, established in 1944, in New Delhi.

Although a particular work of the recipient is cited for the award, these scholars have made and are making lifetime contributions to literature. Their combined output exceeds a thousand works, some individuals contributing over one hundred works. Chronologically these are:

Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya. (Bengali).

Umashankar Joshi. (Gujarati).

Sumitranandan Pant. (Hindi).

Viswanatha Satyanarayana. (Telugu).

Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre. (Kannada).

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar. (Marathi)

Shivarama Karanth. (Kannada).

Ashapoorna Devi. (Bengali).

Sachidanand Hiranand Vatsayan. (Hindi).

Birendrakumar Bhattacharya. (Assamese).

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar. (Kannada).

Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar. (Marathi).

Subash Mukopadhaya. (Bengali).

Mahasweta Devi. (Bengali).

U.R.Anantha Murthy. (Kannada).

Girish Karnad. (Kannada). 

English Literature

Rabindranath Tagore (Poetry)
Nobel Laureate

Deepak Chopra ( Health and Holistic ) 

B.K.S.Iyengar ( Yoga )

Sir V.S.Naipaul ( Fiction and Non-Fiction )
Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature

R.K.Narayan ( Novels ) 

Dr S. Radhakrishnan (Philosophy)

Raja Rao ( Fiction )

Vinayaka Krishna Gokak. (Kannada).

Some of the great literary minds of this period were: