Hindi-language writers

Babu Gulabrai (January 17, 1888 – April 13, 1963) (pen name: Gulabrai MA) was a significant figure in modern Hindi literature.

Dr. Laxminarayan Sahu (3 October 1890 – 18 January 1963) was an eminent and noted writer, poet, journalist, social worker, reformer, historian, politician from Odisha, India.

Laxmi Narayan Mishra (1903-1987) was born in the village of Basti, district Maunath Bhanjan, previously known as Azamgarh.

Ram Kumar (Hindi: राम कुमार; born 1924 in Shimla) is an Indian artist and writer who has been described as one of India's foremost abstract painters.

Ram Vilas Sharma (10 October 1912 – 30 May 2000) was an eminent progressive literary critic, linguist, poet and thinker.

Ramavriksha Benipuri (रामवृक्ष बेनीपुरी), (1899–1968) was a Hindi writer.

Uday Bhanu is a Hindi poet.

Viveki Rai (born November 19, 1924) is an Indian writer who has penned over fifty books.

Dr. Kamala Sankrityayan (Hindi: कमला सांकृत्यायन), was one of the popular Hindi writer, editor and Nepali scholar of the 20th century and the wife of historian Rahul Sankrityayan.

Kedarnath Singh (born July 7, 1934) is one of the most prominent modern poets writing in Hindi.

(Not to be confused with Vasanth Dev, cinematographer.) Vasant Deo is an Indian writer, lyricist and screenwriter and a Hindi academic at Parle College in Mumbai.

Hari Krishna Devsare (Hindi pronunciation: [ɦəri ˈkr̩ʂɳə d̪eʋsre]; 9 March 1938 – 14 November 2013) was a Hindi writer, known for his work in the field of children's literature.

Om Prakash Sharma (Hindi: ओम प्रकाश शर्मा, (25 December 1924 – 14 October 1998) popularly known as Janpriya Lekhak Om Prakash Sharma, is recognized as one of the foremost and most talented writers of detective fiction in Hindi after Devaki Nandan Khatri. He has more than 450 Hindi detective novels to his credit.

Mandagere Subbarao Krishnamurthy (born 16 June 1931), known by the pen name Indiresh or Ma Su Krishnamurthy, is a Kannada writer and Hindi writer.

Phoolchand Gupta (Gujarati: ફૂલચંદ ગુપ્તા) (Hindi: फूलचंद गुप्ता) is a Hindi and Gujarati language poet, writer and translator from Himmatnagar, Gujarat, India.

Neelabh Ashk (16 August 1945 – 23 July 2016) was an Indian Hindi language poet, journalist, and translator.

Acharya Ramlochan Saran (1889–1971) was a Hindi littérateur, grammarian and publisher.

'Acharya' Sarangdhar is a teacher, Hindi writer, poet, essayist, story writer and scholar.

Acharya Shivpujan Sahay was a noted Hindi novelist, editor and prose writer.

Kuber Nath Rai (March 26, 1933 – June 5, 1996) was a writer and scholar of Hindi literature and Sanskrit.

Amar Goswami (Hindi: अमर गोस्वामी; 28 November 1945 – 26 June 2012) was a senior journalist and one of the prominent fiction writers of Hindi literature.

Syed Asghar Wajahat, popularly known as Asghar Wajahat (Hindi: असग़र वजाहत) (born 5 July 1946), is a Hindi scholar, fiction writer, novelist, playwright, an independent documentary filmmaker and a television scriptwriter, who is most known for his work, 'Saat Aasmaan' and his acclaimed play, 'Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya, O Jamyai Nai', based on the story of an old Punjabi Hindu woman who gets left behind in Lahore, after the Partition of India, and then refuses to leave.

Dr. Ashok Lav (b April 13, 1947 Delhi) is a noted Hindi language author and poet.

Sharad Joshi (Hindi शरद जोशी) was a Hindi poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television.

Vishwanath Tripathi (Born: 16 February 1931) is a Hindi writer.

Anant Rao "A. R." Akela (born September 30, 1960) is a Dalit author, poet, folk singer and publisher.

Lallu Lal (1763–1835) was an academic, author and translator from British India.

Mithileswar (Hindi: मिथिलैश्वर) born December 31, 1950 in Baisadeeh village of 'Bhojpur district in 'Bihar', India, is a Hindi writer noted for his insight into the rural heartland of India.

Shabbir Ahmed is an Indian Bollywood lyricist, who wrote success stories with hit films like ‘Bodyguard’, ‘OMG! Oh My God’, ‘Khiladi 786’, ‘Bol Bachchan’, ‘Humshakals’ and Salman Khan sensation ‘Kick’.

Bhadant Anand Kausalyayan (भदंत आनंद कौसल्यायन) (5 January 1905 – 22 June 1988) was a Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller and a prolific writer from India.

Govind Mishra (born 1 August 1939) is an Indian novelist, who has written more than 53 books.

Kalanath Mishra (born 19 December 1959 in Bihar) is a Hindi author.

Kedarnath Agarwal (also spelled as Agrawal and Aggarwal) (1911–2000) was a Hindi language poet and littérateur.

Ramesh Singh Matiyani 'Shailesh', popularly known as Shailesh Matiyani (14 October 1931 – 24 April 2001), is a Hindi writer, poet, essayist from Uttarakhand, India.

Kausar Munir is an Indian lyricist and screen writer in Bollywood.

Hullad Moradabadi (29 May 1942 – 12 July 2014) was an Indian poet, humorist and satirist of Hindi language.

A.M. Turaz is an Indian poet and lyricist in who has worked in television and film.

Krishna Baldev Vaid (Hindi: कृष्ण बलदेव वैद) (born 27 July 1927) is a Hindi fiction writer and playwright, noted for his experimental and iconoclastic narrative style.

Sitaram Agrahari (born c.1957) is a Nepalese journalist, poet and editor-in-chief of Gorkhapatra, Nepal's oldest daily newspaper.

Professor Indra Bahadur Khare (Hindi: इन्द्र बहादुर खरे) (16 Dec 1922–13 April 1953) was a notable Indian Hindi poet, a participant in Kavi-Sammelan and a professor of 20th century Hindi literature whose most well known work is the book entitled Bhor ke Geet.

Nirmal Verma (3 April 1929 – 25 October 2005) was a Hindi writer, novelist, activist and translator.

Sureshjai (d. September 4, 1983) was a popular Indian novelist and screenwriter.

Gopaldas Saxena 'Neeraj (popularly known as Niraj or Neeraj) (born 1925) is a poet and author of Hindi literature.

Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (30 December 1887 – 8 February 1971), popularly known as K.

Dr. Dharamvir Bharati (धर्मवीर भारती) (25 December 1926 – 4 September 1997) was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India.

Chandrakanta (1938- ) is a writer, born in Srinagar, India.

Ayodhya Prasad Singh Upadhyay ‘Hari Oudh' (हिंदी - अयोध्यासिंह उपाध्याय 'हरिऔध’, born - April 15, 1865 - March 16, 1947) was a writer of Hindi literature.

Girijakumar Mathur (गिरिजाकुमार माथुर ) (22 August 1918 - 10 January 1994) was a notable Indian writer of the Hindi language.

Pandit Puttaraj Gawai (Kannada: ಪುಟ್ಟರಾಜ ಗವಾಯಿ) (3 March 1914 – 17 September 2010) was an Indian musician in the Hindustani classical tradition, a scholar who authored more than 80 books in Kannada, Sanskrit and Hindi, a music teacher and a social servant.

Maithilisharan Gupt (3 August 1886 – 12 December 1964) was one of the most important modern Hindi poets.

Jaishankar Prasad (30 January 1890 – 15 November 1937) is one of the most famous figures in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre.

Hari Joshi (Hindi: हरि जोशी, born Khudia in Harda district, Madhya Pradesh, 17 November 1943) is a Hindi writer, satirist, novelist and poet.

Narendra Mohan (born 30 July 1935, Lahore) is an eminent Hindi poet, playwright and critic, who also writes in Punjabi.

Banarsidas Chaturvedi (1892-1985) was a noted Hindi-language writer, journalist and recipient of Padma Bhushan awarded by Government of India in 1973.

Ramesh Chandra Jha (8 May 1928 – 7 April 1994) was an Indian poet, novelist and freedom fighter.

Richa Nagar (born 1968, in Lucknow, India) is a scholar, writer, educator, and theatre-worker who is Professor of the College in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.

Garima Sanjay (born on 15th January, at Allahabad) is an author - a novelist and short-story writer, script writer and documentary film producer.

Shreeraj Kurup (Hindi:श्रीराज कुरूप, Malayalam:ശ്രീരാജ് കുറുപ്പ്) is a Poet and Lyricist from India.

Kamleshwar (Hindi: कमलेश्वर; 6 January 1932 – 27 January 2007) was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and scriptwriter for Hindi cinema and television.

Bhisham Sahni (8 August 1915 – 11 July 2003) was a Hindi writer, playwright, and actor, most famous for his novel and television screenplay Tamas ("Darkness, Ignorance"), a powerful and passionate account of the Partition of India.

Mannu Bhandari (Hindi: मन्नू भंडारी) (born 3 April 1931) is an Indian author, whose work dates up to late 1950s - early 1960s.

Vibhuti Narain Rai (born 28 November 1951) is a police officer and author from India.

Harishankar Parsai (Hindi: हरिशंकर परसाई) (August 22, 1924 – 1995) was a Hindi writer.

Rajendra Yadav (Hindi: राजेन्द्र यादव‎; 28 August 1929 – 28 October 2013) was a Hindi fiction writer, and a pioneer of the Hindi literary movement known as Nayi Kahani.

Chaman Lal Chaman is a London-based noted Panjabi poet, lyricist and radio broadcaster.

Bashar Nawaz (August 18, 1935 – July 9, 2015) was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist, who penned the hugely popular song Karoge Yaad in the Bollywood film Bazaar.

Prabhas Kumar Choudhary (प्रभास कुमार चौधरी, 2 January 1941 – 22 February 1998) was an Indian author, editor and publisher known for his novels and short stories, written in Maithili and Hindi languages.

Mohan Chopra (10 September 1921 – 11 December 1969) was a Hindi intellectual and author.

Narendra Kohli (नरेन्द्र कोहली)(born 6 January 1940, Sialkot) is a Hindi-language author.

Nathuram Sharma (Hindi: नाथूराम शर्मा), better known by his pen-name Shankar (Hindi: शंकर), (1859–1932) was a Hindi and Urdu poet from Harduaganj, Aligarh, North-Western Provinces (Now Uttar Pradesh), British India.

Kamlesh Pandey is an Indian screen-writer and advertising professional with more than 30 years experience in advertising, 20 years in films and 14 years in television.

Kunwar Narain (born 19 September 1927) is a poet and a presence in Indian literature, often regarded as the leading living poet in Hindi.

Nagarjun (Yatri, Baba Nagarjun, Vaidya Nath Mishra)(30 June 1911 – 5 November 1998) was a major Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet.

Dushyant Kumar Tyagi (1 September 1933 – 30 December 1975) was a poet of modern Hindi literature.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati (1889–1950), born in Ghazipur district, North-Western Provinces in British India, was an ascetic, a nationalist and a peasant leader of India.

Devendranath Sharma was a writer and scholar of Hindi Literature.

Hrishikesh Sulabh (born 15 February 1955) is a Hindi writer, best known for short stories and writing plays in Bideshiya shaili.

Irshad Kamil is an Indian Hindi/Urdu poet and lyricist best known for writing songs for Bollywood films including Jab We Met, Chameli, Love Aaj Kal, Rockstar, Aashiqui 2 and Raanjhnaa.

Jainendra Kumar (जैनेन्द्र कुमार, 2 January 1905 - 24 December 1988), was an influential Hindi writer of 20th century.

Sandeep Nath is a Lyricist,Screenwriter, Director and Producer in Bollywood.

Shekhar Joshi (born September, 1939) is a Hindi author, who is also known for his insight into the culture, traditions and lifestyles of people of Uttarakhand.