Authors
Literaturforum Indien e.V. presents authors of contemporary South Asian literature in detailed portraits — with information on their life and work, reading excerpts in German translation, and references to reviews. Each portrait is available as its own page and additionally as a PDF document for download. Use the search field to look for a specific name.
Note: Downloadable PDFs and reading excerpts are in German throughout.
- Abbas, Rahman
- Ambai
- Ananthamurthy, U.R.
- Baig, Mirza Athar
- Bama
- Bhagat, Manjul
- Bhramar, Ramkumar
- Bond, Ruskin
- Bose, Buddhadeva
- Butalia, Urvashi
- Chitre, Dilip
- Chughtai, Ismat
- Deshpande, Anjali
- Deshpande, Gauri
- Dimri, Jaiwanti
- Gangopadhyay, Sunil
- Garg, Mridula
- Gill, Gagan
- Gokhale, Namita
- Hyder, Qurratulain
- Kerketta, Jacinta
- Kire, Easterine
- Kolatkar, Arun
- Kurup, O.N.V.
- Lugun, Anuj
- Madgulkar, Vyankatesh
- Mahasweta Devi
- Manto, Saadat Hasan
- Meeran, Thoppil Mohammed
- Murugan, Perumal
- Nagarkar, Kiran
- Pande, Mrinal
- Prakash, Uday
- Raghavan, Chudamani
- Rai, Sara
- Raza, Syed Kashif
- Renu, Phanishwarnath
- Roy, Arundhati
- Rusva, Hadi
- Sahni, Bhisham
- Salim, Anees
- Saraogi, Alka
- Satchidanandan, K.
- Sethu (Sethumadhavan, Anelil)
- Shree, Geetanjali
- Singh, Khushwant
- Tanvir, Habib
- Tejasvi, K.P. Poornachandra
- Tendulkar, Vijay
- Tulsi Ram
- Vaid, Krishna Baldev
- Vajpeyi, Ashok
- Vijayan, O.V.
- Wijesinghe, Manuka
- Yashpal
- Zacharia, Paul
- Zaidi, Annie
Further reviews and reading excerpts for these authors are available on the Excerpts/Reviews page (in German).