Study Guide · Chapter 7
Post-Independence Indian Writers of Note
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- R.K. Narayan: Creator of the fictional South Indian town "Malgudi" (Malgudi Days, Swami and Friends).
- Mulk Raj Anand: Social-realist novels (Untouchable, Coolie), a founding figure of Indian English fiction alongside Narayan and Raja Rao.
- Raja Rao: Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope.
- Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (won the Booker Prize, 1981, and later the "Booker of Bookers"), a landmark of postcolonial/magical-realist Indian English fiction.
- Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things (Booker Prize, 1997).
- Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy.
- Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, the Ibis Trilogy.
- Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss (Booker Prize, 2006).
- Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies (Pulitzer Prize, 2000).
- Geetanjali Shree: Tomb of Sand (International Booker Prize, 2022, first novel translated from any Indian language to win it, translated from the original Hindi "Ret Samadhi").
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