Arundhati Roy

Featured Image: Vikramjit Kakati, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Arundhati Roy is an Indian author, activist, and essayist who gained international fame with her debut novel, The God of Small Things, which won the Booker...

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova, born Anna Andreyevna Gorenko on June 23, 1889, in Bolshoy Fontan near Odessa, Ukraine, was one of the most prominent and influential Russian poets of the 20th century. Her life...

Anand Neelakantan

Anand Neelakantan is an Indian author known for his retellings of mythological and historical stories. Born in Thripunithura, Kerala, Neelakantan has carved a niche for himself by offering fresh perspectives on well-known...

Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga is an accomplished Indian-Australian author best known for his debut novel, The White Tiger, which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2008. Born on October 23, 1974, in Chennai,...

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature and one of the most important voices in what is now known as postcolonial...