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Indian English Literature * Top English Writer & Their Famous Creations * R.K. Narayan: R K Narayan is one of the best known Indian authors of all time. An Indian author of very high repute, he is best known for his works of fiction. The setting for most of R K Narayan works is the fictional town of Malgudi, first introduced in his semi autobiographical book 'Swami and Friends'.

Creations: The Dark Room, Malgudi Days, Talkative Man, The English Teacher. * Kiran Desai: Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 and educated in India, England, and the United States. She studied creative writing at Columbia University, where she was the recipient of a Woolrich fellowship. Her work has appeared in "The New Yorker" and Salman Rushdie's anthology Mirrorwork: Fifty Years of Indian Writing. In 2006 Desai won the Man Booker Prize for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.

Creations: Hullabaloo in Guava Orchard, Winqsb, the Inheritance of Loss. * Salman Rushdie: Salman Rushdie is a world renowned novelist and essayist. He was born on June 19, 1947 to Anis Ahmed Rushdie, a lawyer turned businessman, and Negin Bhatt, a teacher. Salman Rushdie released his first novel titled Grimus, which was ignored by the literary critics and the public as well. He achieved popularity with his second novel, Midnights Children released in 1981, which won the Booker Prize the same year. His works of fiction are generally set on the Indian subcontinent. His style of writing is classified as magical realism mixed with time honored fiction.

Creations: Shalimar the Clown, Indochine: Stories, Shaken and Stirred, Global Lab, The Enchantress of Florence, Step Across This Line, Fury, Haroun& The Sea Of Stories, East, West and The Moors Last Sigh. * Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy is a world renowned Indian writer in English. She was born on November 24, 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya. The super success of her novel The God Of Small Things put her on the global

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