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Buddhadeva Bose
Buddhadeva Bose (বুদ্ধদেব বসু; 1908–1974) was a Bengali poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist of the post-Tagore modernist generation who wrote over a hundred books and edited the influential poetry journal Kavita.
Bulleh Shah
Bulleh Shah (بلھے شاہ), also Sayyid Abdullah Shah Qadri, c. 1680–1757/58, was a Punjabi Sufi poet of the Qadiri order under Shah Inayat Qadiri, famed for kafis like Bullah Ki Jana Main Kaun and a shrine in Kasur.
Chandidas
Chandidas (চণ্ডীদাস) is the name borne by one or more medieval Bengali Vaishnava poets, author of Srikrishnakirtan, whose disputed identity is known as the Chandidas problem.
Chandra Kumar Agarwala
Chandra Kumar Agarwala (চন্দ্ৰকুমাৰ আগৰৱালা; 1867–1938) was an Assamese poet, publisher, and tea-planter who served as first editor and financier of Jonaki and pioneered Romanticism in Assamese poetry.
Chandradhar Barua
Chandradhar Barua (চন্ৰধৰ বৰুৱা, 1874–1961) was an Assamese poet, playwright, and lawyer of the Jonaki era who served as president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha.
Chandrakant Sheth
Chandrakant Sheth (ચંદ્રકાન્ત શેઠ) was an Indian Gujarati poet, essayist, critic, and editor who won the 1986 Sahitya Akademi Award for his childhood memoir Dhoolmani Paglio.
Chandrashekhara Kambara
Chandrashekhara Kambara, born January 2, 1937, in Ghodageri, Belagavi, Karnataka, is an Indian Kannada poet, playwright, and folklorist who won India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award, in 2010.
Changampuzha Krishna Pillai
Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (ചങ്ങമ്പുഴ കൃഷ്ണപിള്ള, 1911–1948) was a Malayalam Romantic poet from Edappally, Kerala, best known for Ramanan, a 1936 pastoral elegy that sold over a lakh copies.
Charan Singh Shaheed
Charan Singh Shaheed (ਚਰਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਸ਼ਹੀਦ, 1891–1935) was a Punjabi poet, novelist, and journalist remembered as a pioneering humorist and satirist; he founded the weekly Mauji, called the first political satirical journal in the Punjab.
Charan-kabi
Charan-kabi (চারণকবি), the Bengali equivalent of minstrel, is a term for a wandering poet-singer who composes and performs ballads, most closely associated with the Swadeshi-era poet Mukunda Das.
Cherusseri Namboothiri
Cherusseri Namboothiri (ചെറുശ്ശേരി നമ്പൂതിരി) was a fifteenth-century Malayalam poet, court poet of King Udayavarman of Kolathunadu, known for the Krishnagatha, still recited daily in Kerala.
D. R. Bendre (ದತ್ತಾತ್ರೇಯ ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರ ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ)
D. R. Bendre (Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, ದತ್ತಾತ್ರೇಯ ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರ ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ, pen name Ambikatanayadatta, 1896–1981) was a Kannada Navodaya poet from Dharwad, called Varakavi, who won the Jnanpith Award for Naaku Tanti and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Aralu Maralu.
D. Vinayachandran
D. Vinayachandran (ഡി. വിനയചന്ദ്രൻ) was an Indian Malayalam poet known for the modern prose style, a professor at Mahatma Gandhi University, and winner of the 2006 Asan Puraskaram.
Damodar Das Arora
Damodar Das Arora, also known as Damodar Gulati, was a Punjabi qissa poet of the Jhang district whose Heer, completed in 1605, is the earliest known Punjabi qissa.
Dayā Bāl
Dayā Bāl (दया बाल) is an unattested name for a supposed 18th-century bhakti poet; no manuscript, sectarian record, or scholarly publication confirms that such a figure existed.
Daya Pawar
Daya Pawar (दया पवार), born Dagdu Maruti Pawar, was a Marathi writer, poet, and critic, a leading figure of Dalit literature in Maharashtra known for the autobiography Baluta.
Dayaram
Dayaram (દયારામ), also known as Kavi Dayarambhai, was a Gujarati devotional poet of the Pushtimarg tradition, the last great medieval Gujarati poet, best known for his garbi lyrics.
Dhanapala
Dhanapala (धनपाल) was a Jain Sanskrit and Prakrit poet who served the Paramara kings Siyaka, Munja, Sindhuraja, and Bhoja of Malwa, and wrote the prose romance Tilakamañjarī.
Dhruvadāsa
Dhruvadāsa (ध्रुवदास), also written Dhruvdas or Hit Dhruv Das, was a Radhavallabhi devotional poet of Vrindavan, active roughly 1593 to 1641, best known for the Bhaktanamavali, a verse catalog of 123 devotees.
Digambara poets
The Digambara poets (Telugu: దిగంబర కవులు, Digambara Kavulu, literally "naked poets") were six Telugu poets who launched a radical protest poetry movement in 1965, writing raw free verse against social injustice.
Dilip Chitre
Dilip Chitre (दिलीप चित्रे) was an Indian bilingual poet and translator who wrote in Marathi and English, best known for his English translation of Tukaram, Says Tuka.
Dina Nath Nadim
Dina Nath Nadim (1916–1988) was a Kashmiri poet, born Dina Nath Kaul in Srinagar, who introduced blank verse, sonnet, and opera into Kashmiri literature and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1986.
Dinakrushna Dasa
Dinakrushna Dasa (ଦୀନକୃଷ୍ଣ ଦାସ; c. 1650–1710) was an Odia devotional poet of the Riti era, best known for Rasakallola, a poem on Krishna and Radha central to Odissi music.
Dom Moraes
Dom Moraes (Dominic Francis Moraes, 1938–2004) was an Indian poet, journalist, and travel writer from Bombay who won the Hawthornden Prize at 19 and is counted a founder of modern Indian poetry in English.
Dwijendralal Ray
Dwijendralal Ray (দ্বিজেন্দ্রলাল রায়), also known as D. L. Ray, was a Bengali poet, playwright, and musician of British India, known for nationalist historical plays and 500 songs.
Dwijendranath Tagore
Dwijendranath Tagore (দ্বিজেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 1840–1926) was a Bengali philosopher, poet, mathematician, and composer, eldest brother of Rabindranath Tagore, known for the first Bengali translation of Kalidasa's Meghdoot.
Edappally Raghavan Pillai
Edappally Raghavan Pillai (ഇടപ്പള്ളി രാഘവൻ പിള്ള, 1909–1936) was an Indian poet who, with his close friend Changampuzha, brought the romantic revolution to Malayalam poetry in the 1930s.
Edasseri Govindan Nair
Edasseri Govindan Nair (ഇടശ്ശേരി ഗോവിന്ദൻ നായർ; 1906–1974) was an Indian poet and playwright who wrote in Malayalam, remembered as a leading figure of modern Malayalam poetry who won the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kavile Pattu.
Errana
Errana, also known as Errapragada, was a 14th-century Telugu poet at the court of Prolaya Vema Reddy who completed the Aranya Parva of the Andhra Mahabharatam and wrote the Harivamsamu.
Fahmida Riaz
Fahmida Riaz (فہمیدہ ریاض) was a Pakistani Urdu poet and writer whose frank treatment of female desire broke taboos; her dissent brought exile in India until 1988.