Major Indian Diaspora Writers and Their Works

Arundhati Roy is an Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997.

Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British writer whose novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981.

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer whose novel The Hungry Tide won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2005.

Vikram Seth is an Indian poet and novelist whose novel A Suitable Boy was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1993.

Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American writer whose novel The Namesake won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003.

Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian-American writer whose novel Jasmine won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 1989.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American writer whose novel Sister of My Heart won the American Book Award in 1996.

Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American writer whose novel The Namesake won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003.

Mira Nair is an Indian-American filmmaker whose novel Monsoon was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American writer whose novel The Mistress of Spices was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1998.

Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian-American writer whose novel Interpreter of Maladies won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2000.

Amy Tan is a Chinese-American writer whose novel The Joy Luck Club was a bestseller and was adapted into a film in 1993.

Ha Jin is a Chinese-American writer whose novel Waiting won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1999.

Gish Jen is a Chinese-American writer whose novel The Love Wife was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2005.

Yiyun Li is a Chinese-American writer whose novel Kinder Than Solitude won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2010.