Tuesday, August 17, 2010




V.S. Naipaul
Born17 August 1932 (age 78)
Chaguanas, 
Trinidad
OccupationNovelist, essayist
NationalityTrinidadian
GenresNovel
Literary movementRealism, Postcolonialism
Notable work(s)A House for Mr. BiswasA Bend in the RiverThe Enigma of Arrival,In A Free State
Notable award(s)Booker Prize
1971
Nobel Prize in Literature
2001

Rabindranath Tagore
Close-up on a Bengali word handwritten with angular, jaunty letters.


Pen nameGurudev
OccupationWriter, lecturer
NationalityIndian
EthnicityBengali
SubjectsLiterature
Literary movementBengal Renaissance
Notable work(s)Gitanjali
Gora
Ghare-Baire
Notable award(s)Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)
Spouse(s)Mrinalini Devi (1883–1900)

Rudyard Kipling
Photograph from 1914
BornJoseph Rudyard Kipling
30 December 1865
BombayBombay Presidency,British India
Died18 January 1936 (aged 70)Middlesex Hospital, London, England
OccupationShort story writer, novelist, poet, journalist
NationalityBritish
GenresShort story, novel, children's literature, poetry, travel literature, science fiction
Notable work(s)The Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Kim
If—Gunga Din
Notable award(s)Nobel Prize in Literature
1907

Amartya Kumar Sen
Welfare economics
Amartya Sen NIH.jpg
Official Portrait at the Nobel Prize
Birth3 November 1933 (age 76)
SantiniketanWest Bengal,India
NationalityIndian
InstitutionUniversity of CambridgeHarvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cornell University
University of Oxford
Delhi School of Economics
London School of Economics
Stanford University
FieldWelfare economics
InfluencesJohn Rawls
Peter Bauer
ContributionsHuman development theory
AwardsNobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998)Bharat Ratna (1999)

Source-- Wikipedia

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