| 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 |
| Writer | Language |
|---|---|
| 1. K Shivarama Karanth | |
| 2. Balachandra Nemade | |
| 3. Satya Vrat Shastri | |
| 4. Indira Goswami | |
| 5. Rajendra Shah | |
| 6. PV Akilan | |
| 7. T Sivsankara Pillai | |
| 8. Pratibha Ray | |
| 9. Amrita Pritam | |
| 10. Mahasweta Devi |