english-language writers from india

Arundhati Roy

Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things , which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author

Amitav Ghosh

Indian writer and the winner of the 54th Jnanpith award, Indias highest literary honor, best known for his work in English fiction

Anita Desai

Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology