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कबीर (१५ शती) तेन रचितानां दोहानां सङ्ग्रह ग्रन्थावली: नाम्ना आम्नात:.

तुलसीदास (1532-1623) is the greatest Hindi poet of the medieval period. His Ramcharitamanas which is a retelling of the Ramayana continues to be popular in India and the Caribbean.

बिहारी (1595-1664) became famous by writing Satasai (Seven Hundred Verses).

प्रेमचन्द (1880-1936) was a great novelist. Of his novels, Godan (The Gift of a Cow, 1936) is considered the best. In this book he sketches rural life in an unparalleled manner.

मैथिलि शरण गुप्त (1886-1964) was a pioneer of 'Khari Boli' (plain dialect) poetry and the author of the epic Saket in modern Hindi literature.

जयशंकर प्रसाद (1889-1937) was a leader of the literary movement called Chhayavada.

सूर्यकान्त त्रिपाठी निराला (1899-1961) wrote twelve collections of poetry, six novels, many short stories, essays and criticism, and also translated from Sanskrit and Bengali.

सुमित्रा नन्दन पन्त (1900-1977) authored twenty eight published works including poetry, verse plays and essays.

यशपाल (1903-76) is renowned for Jhutha Sach (The False Truth, 1958-60), which is regarded as one of the best Hindi novels ever written.

हजारी प्रसाद द्विवेदी (1907-1979), novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar, penned numerous novels, collections of essays and a historical outline of Hindi literature.

महादेवी वर्मा (1907-1987) was educated in Prayag, where she founded the Prayag Mahila Vidyapitha, promoting the education of girls. Mahadevi Verma was one of the four pillars of the great Romantic movement in modern Hindi poetry, Chhayavada, the remaining three being Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Jaishankar Prasad and Sumitranandan Pant. Her mysticism led to the birth of a movement called Rahasyavada. She has been compared with Mira Bai, the great 16th century devotional poetess, in her lyrical mysticism.

रामधारी सिंह दिनकर (1908-1974) emerged as rebellious poet with his nationalist poetry in pre-Independence days.

नागार्जुन (b. 1911), is amjor Hindi poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues. The most popular practising Hindi poet in the last decades of the twentieth century, Nagarjun is considered as the only poet, after Tulasidas, to have an audience ranging from the rural sections of society to the elite.

सच्चिदानन्द वात्स्यायन (1911-1987), (Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayana), was popularly known by his pen-name Ajneya or Agyeya, was a pioneer of modern trends not only in the realm of poetry, but also fiction, criticism and journalism .

विष्णु प्रभाकर (b. 1912), with several short stories, novels, plays and travelogues to his credit, won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel, Ardhanarishvara (The Androgynous God or Shiva).

फणीश्वर नाथ रेणु (1921-1977) is one of the great Hindi novelists of the post-Premchand era. Her masterpiece is Maila Anchal (The Soiled Border, 1954), a social novel that depicts the life of a region and its people, the backward and the deprived.

श्रीलाल शुक्ल (b. 1925) became renowned for his objective and purposive satire.

मोहन राकेश (1925-1972) was one of the pioneers of the Nai Kahani movement of the 1950s. He made significant contribution to novel, short story, travelogue, criticism, memoirs and drama.

धर्मवीर भारती (b. 1926) is a renowned poet, fictionist and editor. Essentially a romantic humanist, Bharati is famous for his poignant treatment of first love, his lyricism and humanistic vision.

रघुवीर सहाय (1929-1990) was a versatile Hindi poet, translator, short-story writer and journalist.

निर्मल वर्मा (b. 1929) together with Mohan Rakesh, Bhisham Sahni, Kamleshwar, Amarkant and others, is the founder of the Nai Kahani (new short story) in Hindi literature. He is best known for his short stories.