Writers
102 people · Authors, poets, journalists, and screenwriters
J.K. Rowling
Author · United Kingdom
Age 61
Haruki Murakami
Novelist · Japan
Age 77
Stephen King
Author · United States
Age 79
Amrita Pritam
Writer · British Raj
Age 86
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Writer · British Raj
Age 52
Ruskin Bond
Writer · British Raj
Age 92
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Writer · British Raj
Age 65
Krishan Chander
Writer · British Raj
Age 111
Muhammad Iqbal
Writer · British Raj
Mirza Ghalib
Writer · British Raj
Age 71
Omar Khayyám
Poet · Seljuk Empire
Age 83
Thomas Mann
Novelist · German Reich
Age 80
Shakuntala Devi
Writer · British Raj
Age 83
Mahadevi Varma
Writer · British Raj
Age 80
Khushwant Singh
Writer · British Raj
Age 98
Saadat Hasan Manto
Writer · British Raj
Age 42
Kuvempu
Writer · British Raj
Age 89
Rahul Sankrityayan
Writer · British Raj
Age 70
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
Writer · British Raj
Mahadev Govind Ranade
Writer · British Raj
Age 58
Toru Dutt
Writer · British Raj
Age 170
Sugathakumari
Writer · British Raj
Age 86
Nalini Bala Devi
Writer · British Raj
Age 79
Jibanananda Das
Writer · British Raj
Age 55
Shankha Ghosh
Writer · British Raj
Age 89
Maithili Sharan Gupt
Writer · British Raj
Age 78
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writer · Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Socrates
Writer · Classical Athens
Dante Alighieri
Writer · Republic of Florence
Age 56
Voltaire
Writer · Kingdom of France
Age 83
Friedrich Nietzsche
Writer · Kingdom of Prussia
Age 55
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Writer · Russian Empire
Age 59
Aurobindo Ghosh
Writer · British Raj
Age 78
Premchand
Writer · British Raj
Age 56
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright · German Empire
Age 58
Sarojini Naidu
Writer · British Raj
Age 70
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Writer · British Raj
Age 55
Henrik Ibsen
Playwright · Norway
Age 78
Tariq Ali
Writer · British Raj
Age 82
R. K. Narayan
Writer · British Raj
Age 94
Noor Inayat Khan
Writer · British Raj
Age 30
Mahasweta Devi
Writer · British Raj
B. K. S. Iyengar
Writer · British Raj
Age 95
Mulk Raj Anand
Writer · British Raj
Age 98
Ahmed Deedat
Writer · British Raj
Age 87
Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Writer · British Raj
Age 72
Anthony de Mello
Writer · British Raj
Age 55
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
Writer · British Raj
Age 73
S. R. Ranganathan
Writer · British Raj
Age 80
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Writer · British Raj
Age 70
Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Writer · British Raj
Age 95
Muhammad Asad
Writer · British Raj
Age 91
Diana Abgar
Writer · British Raj
Age 77
Romila Thapar
Writer · British Raj
Age 94
Subramanya Bharathi
Writer · British Raj
Age 38
Mrinalini Sarabhai
Writer · British Raj
Kamini Roy
Writer · British Raj
Age 68
Mahadev Desai
Writer · British Raj
Age 50
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Writer · British Raj
Age 56
Balamani Amma
Writer · British Raj
Age 95
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Writer · British Raj
Age 43
Bharati Mukherjee
Writer · British Raj
Age 76
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Writer · British Raj
Age 49
Bano Qudsia
Writer · British Raj
Qurratulain Hyder
Writer · British Raj
Age 80
Padma Sachdev
Writer · British Raj
Ismat Chughtai
Writer · British Raj
Age 76
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Name in kannada -ತಾರಶಂಕರ ಬಂಡೋಪಾಧ್ಯಯ
Writer · British Raj
Age 73
Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Writer · British Raj
Age 86
Raja Rao
Writer · British Raj
Age 97
Sita Ram Goel
Writer · British Raj
Age 82
Pratibha Ray
Writer · British Raj
Age 83
Varsha Adalja
Writer · British Raj
Age 86
Ashapoorna Devi
Writer · British Raj
Age 86
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
Writer · British Raj
Age 72
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah
Writer · British Raj
Age 85
Mridula Sinha
Writer · British Raj
Age 77
Bapsi Sidhwa
Writer · British Raj
Age 86
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi
Writer · British Raj
Age 58
Sumitranandan Pant
Writer · British Raj
Age 77
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Writer · British Raj
Age 85
Kamala Markandaya
Writer · British Raj
Muhammad Shibli Nomani
Writer · British Raj
Altaf Hussain Hali
Writer · British Raj
Age 77
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Writer · British Raj
Age 81
Irawati Karve
Writer · British Raj
Age 64
S. L. Bhyrappa
Writer · British Raj
Age 94
Tarabai Shinde
Writer · British Raj
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar
Writer · British Raj
Age 91
Kedarnath Singh
Writer · British Raj
Age 83
U. G. Krishnamurti
Writer · British Raj
Age 88
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Writer · British Raj
Age 101
Kuldip Nayar
Writer · British Raj
Age 95
Sarat Chandra Das
Writer · British Raj
Age 67
Krishna Hutheesing
Writer · British Raj
Age 60
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Writer · British Raj
Age 81