World Famous Poet & Writers

R. K. Narayan was born in Madras, India on October 10, 1906. His father was a provincial head-master. He was the third of eight surviving children. His full name was Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami. In South India, the given name(s) is/are usually written last. His first name is a toponym and his second name is […]

Born in 1927 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, Qurratulain Hyder was one of the most celebrated of Urdu fiction writers. A trendsetter in Urdu fiction, she began writing at a time when the novel was yet to take deep roots as a serious genre in the poetry-oriented world of Urdu literature. She shook it out of

Phanishwar Nath Renu is a revolutionary novelist of the post-Premchand era of the Hindi literature. He was the voice of the contemporary rural India and among the pioneers to bring regional voices into the mainstream Hindi literature.He was born on 4th March 1921 in Aurahi Hingna in the district of Purnia. He received his primary

Pearl S. Buck was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She spent her youth in China, in Chinkiang on the Yangtse River. She learned to speak Chinese before she could speak English. Her parents were missionaries. Buck’s father, Absalom Sydenstricker, was a humorless, scholarly man who spent years translating the Bible from Greek to Chinese. Her

This Chilean poet, and diplomat, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. His original name was Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, but he used the pen name Pablo Neruda for over 20 years before adopting it legally in 1946. Neruda is the most widely read of the Spanish American poets. From the 1940s on,

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin to unconventional parents. His mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1820-96), was a poet and journalist. Her pen name was Sperenza. Wilde’s father was Sir William Wilde, an Irish antiquarian, gifted writer, and specialist in diseases of the eye and ear, who founded a hospital in Dublin

Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. With Pablo Neruda and Cesar Vallejo, Paz is one of the several Latin American poets whose work has had wide international impact. Although many of Paz’s poems are developed within the discipline of regular meter and rhyme, he has also experimented

O. Henry was born William Sydney Porter in Greenboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When William was three, his mother died, and he was raised by his parental grandmother and paternal aunt. William was an avid reader, but at the age of fifteen he left school, and then worked in

Baidyanath Mishra was born in Mithila (Bihar) in Satlakha, his mother’s village. His native village, Tarauni, is not far away from Satlakha. He was brought up in his native village. As per the tradition of those days, the child was admitted to a Sanskrit pathshala (school). Thereafter, he studied Sanskrit at Kashi and Calcutta and

Munshi Premchand was born on 31July 1880 in a small village, Lamhi, near Varanasi. His parents named him Dhanpat Rai. He started writing at a young age. Initially, he wrote in Urdu. Later, he wrote only in Hindi.Munshi Premchand was the son of a postal clerk. He lost his mother when he was very young.

Mulk Raj Anand was born in Peshawar as the son of Lal Chand, a coppersmith and soldier, and Ishwar Kaur. He attended Khalsa College, Amritsar, and entered the University of Punjab in 1921, graduating with honours in 1924. Thereafter Anand did his additional studies at Cambridge and at London University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1929.

Mohan Rakesh was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani (literally new story) movement of the Hindi literature in the 1950s and made considerable contribution to novel, travelogue, criticism, memoirs, short story, and drama. Mohan Rakesh was born on 8th January 1925 in Amritsar. He did his masters in Hindi and English from Punjab

Mirza Ghalib was a famous Urdu and Persian poet of the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century. His original name was Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan. Ghalib was his pen name.He was born on December 27, 1796. Mirza Ghalib was of Turkish descent. His father and uncle died when he was young. He migrated to Delhi.According

Mirabai (1498-1547) is a mystical poetess, singer and saint of the sixteenth century. Her compositions are popular allover India. She was a disciple of Shri Guru Ravidas and composed between 200 to 1300 devotional songs called bhajans. Her bhajans are in the bhakti tradition, and passionately praised Lord Krishna.Mirabai was born in an aristocratic family

Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the pioneer or Bengali literature, was the popular and important poet and playwright of his times. Bengali literature flourished with his innovations and experimentations of blank verses, sonnet forms and western literary elements in Bengali poetry. He wrote the first epic in Bengali literature.Born in the year 1824, in an aristocratic family,