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A. N. Murthy Rao
A. N. Murthy Rao (1900–2005), born Akkihebbalu Narasimha Murthy Rao, was an Indian Kannada essayist and critic known for his humorous literary essays and the rationalist work Devaru.
Bhairav Aryal
Bhairav Aryal (भैरव अर्याल, roughly 1936–1976) was a Nepali satirical essayist and journalist whose collection Jaya Bhundi made the humorous-satirical essay a major genre of Nepali literature.
Damodaram Pillai
Damodaram Pillai, also known as C. W. Thamotharam Pillai, was a Tamil scholar born near Jaffna in 1832 who recovered and printed ancient Tamil works from palm-leaf manuscripts.
Durga Bhagwat
Durga Bhagwat (दुर्गा भागवत) was an Indian Marathi writer and folklorist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Pais and refused state honors during the 1975 Emergency.
Ghulam Ali Allana
Ghulam Ali Allana (غلام علي الانا, 1906–1985) was a Sindhi scholar and folklorist who published as G. Allana, compiling a 1976 bibliography of printed Sindhi books.
Gopal Halder
Gopal Halder (গোপাল হালদার, 1902–1993) was a Bengali essayist, literary critic, novelist, and journalist who edited the journal Parichay and wrote the two-volume survey Bangla Sahityer Ruprekha.
Gopi Chand Narang
Gopi Chand Narang (گوپی چند نارنگ; 1931–2022) was an Indian Urdu literary critic and theorist who introduced structuralist methods into Urdu criticism and wrote more than 70 books.
Haraprasad Shastri
Haraprasad Shastri (হরপ্রসাদ শাস্ত্রী), born Hara Prasad Bhattacharya, was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and historian of Bengali literature who discovered the Charyapada in Nepal in 1907.
Hemchandra Barua
Hemchandra Barua (হেমচন্দ্ৰ বৰুৱা; 1835–1896) was an Assamese grammarian, lexicographer, satirist, and social reformer, best known for compiling Hemkosh, the first etymological dictionary of Assamese.
Joseph Mundassery
Joseph Mundassery (1903–1977) was a Malayalam literary critic, author of Kavya Peetika and theorist of Roopabhadrata, who served as Kerala's first Minister for Education in the E.M.S. Namboodiripad ministry.
K. P. Kesava Menon
K. P. Kesava Menon (1886–1978) was an Indian freedom fighter and Gandhian who founded the Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi in 1923 and wrote the autobiography Kazhinja Kalam.
Kangal Harinath
Kangal Harinath, born Harinath Majumdar (কাঙাল হরিনাথ, 1833–1896), was a Bengali journalist, writer, and Baul song composer of Kumarkhali, Kushtia District, whose paper Grambarta Prokashika defended peasants against indigo planters.
Kazi Abdul Wadud
Kazi Abdul Wadud (কাজী আবদুল ওদুদ; 1894–1970) was a Bengali educator and essayist who led the Buddhir Mukti free-thought movement through the Muslim Sahitya Samaj of Dhaka in the 1920s and 1930s.
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai (1889–1960) was a Malayalam writer, critic, and journalist, best known as editor of the newspaper Kesari and for turning readers toward European literature.
Kuber Nath Rai
Kuber Nath Rai, also written Kubernath Ray, was an Indian Hindi writer and scholar best known as a master of the lalit nibandh, winning the Moortidevi Award for Kamdhenu.
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo (محمد ابراھيم جويو), 1915 to 2017, was a Sindhi scholar, translator, and educationist who published some 400 books while leading the Sindhi Adabi Board.
Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch
Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch (نبي بخش خان بلوچ) was a Pakistani folklorist and scholar who documented the language and folklore of Sindh in over 100 volumes.
Namvar Singh
Namvar Singh (नामवर सिंह, 1926–2019) was an Indian Hindi literary critic whose Kavita ke Naye Pratiman (1968) reoriented modern Hindi poetry criticism; he won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971.
Pramatha Chaudhuri
Pramatha Chaudhuri, also known as Pramathanath Chaudhuri and writing as Birbal, was a Bengali writer and critic who championed colloquial prose and edited the magazine Sabujpatra, founded in 1914.
Pratap Narayan Mishra
Pratap Narayan Mishra (प्रतापनारायण मिश्र, 1856–1894) was a Hindi essayist, poet, and journalist of the Bharatendu era, best remembered as editor of the monthly magazine Brahman.
S. Guptan Nair
S. Guptan Nair (ഗുപ്തൻ നായർ) was an Indian scholar and critic of Malayalam literature who published more than 35 books and won the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram.
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (شمس الرحمان فاروقی) was an Indian Urdu poet, critic, and scholar of Urdu literature who edited the journal Shabkhoon and won the Saraswati Samman.
Shankar Lamichhane
Shankar Lamichhane (शंकर लामिछाने, 1928–1976) was a Nepali essayist and short-story writer who introduced the stream-of-consciousness style and won the Madan Puraskar for Abstract Chintan: Pyaj.
Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale (शांता गोखले), born 1939 in Dahanu, Maharashtra, is an Indian writer, translator, and theater critic known for carrying modern Marathi literature into English.
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta, born 1963 in Calcutta, is an Indian-born writer and journalist in New York, author of Maximum City (2004) and This Land Is Our Land (2019), and teaches at New York University.
Sukumar Azhikode
Sukumar Azhikode (സുകുമാർ അഴീക്കോട്), born Sukumaran in 1926, was an Indian academic, writer, and orator in Malayalam, best known for Tatvamasi (1984), a study of Indian philosophy.
Syed Mujtaba Ali
Syed Mujtaba Ali (সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী; 1904–1974) was a Bengali writer, linguist, and travel writer, best known for his humorous travelogue Deshe Bideshe, published in 1948.
Vishvanatha Kaviraja
Vishvanatha Kaviraja (विश्वनाथ कविराज) was a 14th-century Sanskrit poet, dramatist, and theorist from Utkala (Odisha), best known for the treatise Sahityadarpana, which made rasa the soul of poetry.