| Author | Language | 
| Indira Goswami | Assamese | 
| Tarashankar Bandopadhyay | Bengali | 
| Ashapurna Devi | Bengali | 
| Mahasweta Devi | Bengali | 
| Pannalal Patel | Gujarati | 
| Rajendra Shah | Gujarati | 
| Raghuveer Chaudhari | Gujarati | 
| Nirmal Verma | Hindi | 
| K Shivaram Karanth | Kannada | 
| Masti Venkatesha Iyengar | Kannada | 
| Girish Karnad | Kannada | 
| Chandrashekhar Kambar | Kannada | 
| Rahman Rahi | Kashmiri | 
| Ravindra Kelekar | Konkani | 
| O.N. Velu Kurup | Malayalam | 
| T. Sivasankara Pillai | Malayalam | 
| Vinda Karandikar | Marathi | 
| Balachandra Nemade | Marathi | 
| Sachidananda Rout Roy | Odia | 
| Sitakant Mahapatra | Odia | 
| Pratibha Ray | Odia | 
| Amrita Pritam | Punjabi | 
| Gurdial Singh | Punjabi | 
| Satya Vrat Shastri | Sanskrit | 
| P.V. Akilan | Tamil | 
| Vishwanatha Satyanarayana | Telugu | 
| Ravuri Bharadwaj | Telugu | 
| Firaq Gorakhpuri | Urdu | 
 
				