List of Asian Writers

A B C G J K M N P R S V Z

You may also want to have a look at the classification of Asian Writers according to their race/religion.

A

Name : ABRAHAM VARGHESE (1955-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Ethiopia

Works:

1) My Own Country


Name : AMITAV GHOSH (1956-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Calcutta, India

Works:

1) The Shadow Lines 2) The Circle of Reason 3) In An Antique Land 4) The Calcutta Chromosome


Name : AMIT CHAUDRI (1962-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Calcutta, India

Works:

1) A Strange Sublime Address 2) Afternoon Raag


Name : ANITA DESAI (1938-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Calcutta,India

Works:

1) Cry the Peacock 2) In Custody 3) Fire on the Mountain 4) Where Shall We Go This Summer 5) Voices in the City 6) Bye, Bye Blackbird 7) A Village By the Sea 8) Baugmarten's Bombay 9) Clear Light of Day 10) Games at Twilight and Other Stories 11) Journey To Ithaca


Name : AUBREY MENEN(1912-1989)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth : Born in London of Indian and Irish parents

Works:

1) The Prevalence of Witches 2) The Stumbling Stone 3) The Backward Bride 4) The Duke of Gallodoro 5) The Abode of Love 6) SheLa- a satire 7) A Conspiracy of Women 8) The Space Within the Heart: An Autobiography 9) Four Days of Naples 10) The Ramayana, as told by Aubrey Menen 11) The Fig Tree 12) The Great Cities (Time Life Series) 13) The Baroque and Mr) Waugh 14) Dead Man in the Silver Market 15) Fonthill; a comedy 16) The Mystics 17) Presenting Robert Cormier 18) Upon this rock


B

Name : BABINDRANATH TAGORE (1861-1941)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth : Bengal, India

Achievements : (1913 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature)

Works:

1) The Wreck 2) Chitra 3) Mashi 4) The King of the Dark Chamber 5) Gitanjali 6) Fruit Gathering 7) Hungry Stories 8) Creative Unity 9) Glimpses of Bengal 10) Nationalism 11) Reminiscences 12) Red Orleanders 13) Collected Stories 14) Gora 15) Homecoming 16) The Home and the World 17) Quartet 18) Fire Flies


Name : BASANTI KARMARKAR

Sex : Female

Place of Birth : India (living in Singapore since 1920's)

Works:

1) Love in the Throes of Tradition 2) Love's Fearful Passage


Name : BHARATI MUKHERJEE (1942-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Calcutta,India

Works:

Fiction

1) The Tiger's Daughter 2) Wife 3) Jasmine 4) The Holder of the World

Collection of Short Stories

1) Darkness 2) The Middleman and Other Stories

Non-Fiction

1) Days and Nights in Calcutta 2) The Sorrow and the Terror (with Clark Blaise)

C

Name : Catherine Lim (1942-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Penang

Life : She moved to Singapore to persue her doctoral degree. The former project director at the Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore, she has also worked at the SEAMEO Regional Language Centre.

Works:

1) Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore 2) Or Else, the Lightning God and Other Stories 3) The Shadow of a Shadow of a Dream - Love Stories of Singapore 4) Deadline for Love & Other Stories 5) O Singapore!


Name : CHRISTINE MANGALA (1944-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Tanjore District, Tamil Nadu, India (Currently living in Australia.)

Works:

1) The Firewalkers

G

Name : GITA HARIHARAN (1954-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: South India.

Works:

1) The Thousand Faces of Night 2) The Art of Dying (Collection of Short Stories) 3) The Ghosts of Vasu Master 4) A Southern Harvest


Name: GOPAL BARATHAM (1940-....)

Sex: Male

Place of Birth: Singapore

Works:

1) Love Letters 2) People Make You Cry 3) Sayang 4) The Candle or The Sun 5) The Caning of Michael Fay 6) Beads In A Sutra 7) Memories That Glow In the Dark 8) Moonrise,Sunset


J

Name : JAYANT V NARLIKAR (1938-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: India

Works:

1) The Return of Vaman: A Science-Fiction Novel


K

Name : KAMALA DAS (1930-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth : Malabar, Kerala, India

Works:

1) My Story 2) Alphabet of 3) A Doll for the Child Prostitute 4) Kamala Das, Selected Poems 5) Tonight, this savage rite: the love poems of Kamala Das and PritishV Nandy 6) The Old Playhouse and other poems 7) The Descendants


Name : KAMALA MARKANDAYA (1937-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Madras, India

Works:

1) Nectar in a Sieve 2) Some Inner Fury 3) Possession 4) A Handful of Rice 5) A Silence of Desire 6) Nowhere Man 7) Two Virgins 8) The Coffer Dams 9) The Golden Honeycomb 10) Pleasure City 11) Shalimar 12) A Silence of Desire


Name : KHUSHWANT SINGH (1915-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth : Hadali, Punjab, India

Works:

1) Train to Pakistan 2) History of Sikhs - 2 Volumes 3) Delhi- a Novel 4) View of India 5) India - An Introduction 6) I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale 7) Joke Books 8) Uncertain Liasons 9) Not A Nice Man To Know: The Best of Khuswant Singh (Edited by Nandini Mehta)


Name : K. S. MANIAM (1948-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Kedah, Malaysia

Works:

1) The Return 2) In a Far Country 3) Sensous Horizons-Stories and Plays

M

Name : MANOJ DAS (1934-...)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth : Balasore, Orissa, India

Works:

1) A Tiger at Twilight 2) Farewell To a Ghost


Name : MEENA ALEXANDER (1951-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Kerala, India (Lives in New York, USA)

Works:

1) I Root My Name (Poems) 2) Stone Roots (Poems) 3) House of a Thousand Doors (Poems/Prose) 4) Fault Lines 5) Nampally Road 6) The Bird's Bright Ring: A Long Poem 7) Without Place 8) The Shock of Arrival:Reflections on Postcolonial Experience 9) Manhattan Music


Name : MEIRA CHAND (1942-....)

Sex : Female

Life : Anglo-Indian, Born of Indian-Swiss parentage. Educated in UK. Married to Indian in UK. Living in India for 5 years during the 70's prompted her to write her 1st novel. Now living in Japan.

Works:

1) The Gossamer Fly 2) The Last Quadrant 3) The Bonsai Tree 4. The Painted Cage (Being made into a movie) 5) House of the Sun 6) A Choice of Evils


Name : M. G. VASSANJI (1950-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Nairobi, Africa

Works:

1) The Gunny Sack 2) No New Land 3) Uhuru Street 4) The Book of Secrets


Name : MICHAEL ONDAATJE (1943-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Sri Lanka (lives in Canada and the Caribbean)

Works:

1) The English Patient 2) The Cinnamon Peeler 3) Secular Love 4) There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do 5) Elimination Dance 6) Rat Jelly 7) The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 8) The Man with 7 Toes 9) The Dainty Monsters


Name : MULK RAJ ANAND (1915-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth : India

Works:

1) Coolie 2) The Untouchable 3) Two Leaves and a Bud 4) Selected Short Stories 5) Caliban and Gandhi 6) Pipali Sahab 7) Apology for Heroism 8) Little Plays of Mahatma Gandhi 9) The Sword and the Sickle 10) Private Life of an Indian Prince 11) Gauri 12) The Big Heart 13. The Bubble 14) Confession of a Lover 15) Death of a Hero 16) Lajwanti and Other Stories 17) Lament on the Death of a Master of Arts 18) Morning Face 19) The Road 20) Seven Summers

N

Name : NAYANTRA SAHGAL (1937-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Dehra Dun, India

Works:

1) Rich Like Us 2) Storm in Chandigarh 3) Indira Gandhi:Her Road to Power 4) A Situation in New Delhi 5) Mistaken Identity 6) Plans for Departure 7) A Time to be Happy 8) This Time In the Morning 9) Prison and Free Chocolate


Name : NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI(1915-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth : India

Works:

1) The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian 2) A Continent of Circe 3) Scholar Extraordinary: The Life of Professor, the Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Mueller, P.C. 4) To Live Or Not To Live 5) A Passage to England 6) Thy Hand, Great Anarch! 7) Clive of India: a political and psychological essay 8) Hinduism, a religion to live by.


Name : NIRMAL GHOSH (1960-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: India

Works:

1) Lord of the Grassland

P

Name : PEPITA SETH (1942- )

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: London (now lives in New Delhi, India)

Works:

1) The Spirit Land


Name : PICO IYER (1956-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: India (living in USA )

Works:

1) Video Nights in Kathmandu 2) The Lady and the Monk 3) Falling off the Map 4) Cuba and the Night

R

Name : RAJA RAO (1909-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth : Mysore, India

Works:

1) Kanthapura 2) The Serpent and the Rope 3) Comrade Kirillov 4) The Cat and Shakespeare 5) On the Ganga Ghat 6) The Chessmaster and His Moves 7) Changing India 8) The Cow of the Barricades and other stories 9) The Policeman and the Rose: stories


Name : RAO, K. BHASKARA (1926-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: India

Works:

1) Husband, Lover and Holy Man (A Comical Tragedy)


Name : R.K.NARAYAN (1906-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Born in Madras, India

Works:

Fiction

1) Swami and Friends 2) The Bachelor of Arts 3) The English Teacher (previously titled as "Grateful to Life and Death" and the one which got the west to recognise R.K.Narayan) 4) The Dark Room 5) Mr. Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi 6) The Financial Expert 7) Waiting for the Mahatma 8) The Guide (Made into a movie by Dev Anand; Script by Pearl S. Buck. 9) The Man-Eater of Malgudi 10) The Vendor of Sweets 11) The Painter of Signs 12) A Tiger for Malgudi 13) Talkative Man 14) The World of Nagaraj 15) Grandmother's Tales 16) Salt and Sawdust

Non-Fictional Writings

1) My Days (Autobiography of R.K. Narayan, Useful in understanding the writer, his thinking and his literary works) 2) My Dateless Diary (R.K's US Travel Memoir) 3) A Writer's Nightmare (Random Thoughts) 4) The Emerald Route (Travel memoir) 5) Next Sunday

Short Stories Collection

1) A Horse and Two Goats 2) Lawley Road 3) Malgudi Days (TV Serials directed by Shankar Nag) 4) Reluctant Guru 5) Under the Banyan Tree 6) An Astrologer's Day and Other Short Stories 7) Sawdust and Salt

Hindu Mythology/Story Telling

1) Gods, Demons and Others 2) The Ramayana 3) The Mahabarata


Name : ROHINTON MISTRY (1952-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: India (living in Canada since 1975)

Works:

1) Tales From Ferozsha Baag 2) Such A Long Journey 3) A Fine Balance


Name : RUDYARD KIPLING (1865-1936)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth : Bombay, India

Works:

1) The Light That Failed 2) Stalky and Co) 3) Schoolboy Lyrics 4) Plain Tales From the Hills 5) Barrack Room Ballads 6) The Jungle Book 7) Kim 8) Just So Stories 9) A Diversity of Creatures 10) Debits and Credits 11) Limits and Renewals 12) Something of Myself

S

Name : SHIV NAIPAUL (1945-1985)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Trinidad, West Indies

Works:

1) Beyond the Dragon's Mouth 2) Black and White 3) Hot Country 4) North of South : African Journey 5) An Unfinished Journey 6) Fireflies 7) The Chip-Chip Gatherers


Name : SHOBA DE (1948-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Bombay, India

Works:

1) Socialite Evenings 2) Starry Nights 3) Sisters 4) Strange Obsession 5) Sultry Days 6) Snapshots 7) Suviving Men 8) Second Thoughts 9) The Shoba De Omnibus


Name : SHYAM SELVADURAI (1965....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Works:

1) Funny Boy


Name : SINGH, SHAUNA BALDWIN (1962-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Montreal, Canada, raised in India then settled in Canada

Works:

1) English Lessons and Other Stories 2) A Foreign Visitor's Survival Guide To America(Non-Fiction)


Name: SUJIT SARAF (1969-...)

Sex: Male

Place of Birth: Katihar, Bihar, India

Works:

1) Limbo


Name : SUNETRA GUPTA (1965-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Calcutta, India (living in the UK)

Works:

1) Memories of Rain 2) The Glassblower's Breath 3) Moonlight into Marzipan

V

Name : VIKRAM CHANDRA (1960-...)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: India (lives in the USA)

Works:

1) Red Earth and Pouring Rain 2) Love and Longing in Bombay


Name : VIKRAM SETH (1952-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Calcutta, India

Works:

1) The Golden Gate 2) From Heaven Lake- Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet 3) The Humble Administrator's Garden 4) All You Who Sleep Tonight 5) Mappings 6) Beasty Tales 7) Three Chinese Poets 8) A Suitable Boy


Name : V. S. NAIPAUL (1941-....)

Sex : Male

Place of Birth: Trinidad, West Indies

Works:

1) A House for Mr. Biswas 2) An Area of Darkness 3) India: A Wounded Civilisation 4) India: A Million Mutinies 5) Among the Believers : Islamic Journey 6) Bend in the River 7) Guerrillas 8) A Turn in the South 9) The Suffrage of Elvira 10) Miguel Street 11) The Mimic Men 12) The Middle Passage 13) In a Free State 14) A Flag on the Island 15) The Mystic Masseur 16) Mr. Stone and The Knight's Companion 17) The Loss of El Dorado (History) 18) The Overcrowded Barracoon (Essays) 19) The Return of Eva Peron (Essays) 20) The Enigma of Arrival 21) Finding the Center 22) A Way in the World


Z

Name : ZEEBA SADIQ (1962-....)

Sex : Female

Place of Birth: Karachi, Pakistan (lives in London, UK)

Works:

1) 38 Bahadurabad