Author/Poet

Nationality

When

Known For

Awarded with

Carolyn D. Wright

 American 

12 January, 2016

Rising, Falling, Hovering  [winner of the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize]

MacArthur Fellowship, Whiting Award

Nida Fazil

Indian

08 February, 2016

Lafzon ke Phool , Mor Naach

Sahitya Akademi , Khusro Award

O N V Kurup

Indian

13 February, 2016

Porutunna Soundaryam, Dahikunna Pnapatram

Jnanpith Award , Padma Shri, Padma Vibhushan

Umberto Eco

Italian

19 February, 2016

The Name of the Rose,  Foucault’s Pendulum

Strega Prize, Bancarella Prize

Harper Lee

American  

19 February, 2016

To Kill a Mockingbird

Pulitzer Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom

Pat Conroy

American

04 March, 2016

The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The water is wide  and The Prince of Tides

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

Anita Brookner

British

10 March , 2016

Hotel du Lac, The Next Big Thing, The Rules of Engagement

Man Booker Prize

Jim Harrison

American

26 March , 2016

 Legends of the Fall

Guggenheim Fellowship

Imre Kertész

Hungarian

31 March 2016

Fatelessness
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Liquidation

Nobel Prize in Literature (First Hungrian)

Katherine Dunn

American

11 May, 2016 

Geek Love

Dorothea Lange—Paul Taylor Award

Subhash Chandra

Indian

14 June, 2016

 Dand Vidhaan, Kalateet

Sangeet Natak Akademi Award

R C Dhere

Indian

1 July , 2016

Shri Vitthal , Gangajali

Sahitya Akademi

Eliezer  Wiesel

Romanian – American

2 July, 2016

Night 

Nobel Peace Prize,
Presidential Medal of Freedom,
Congressional Gold Medal

James Alan McPherson

 American

27 July, 2016

Elbow Room

Pulitzer Prize

Mahasweta Devi

Indian

28 July. 2016

Arnyer Adhikar, Agnigrbha, Dhowli

Sahitya Akdemi Award, Padma Shri, Jnanpith , Magsaysay Award

Gurdial Singh

Indian

16 August , 2016

Addh Chanani Raat , Marhi Da Deeva

Jnanpith Award, Sahitya Akdemi Award, Padma Shri

Nalinidhar Bhattacharyya

Indian

02 September, 2016

Ahata Sapon

Sahitya Akdemi Award

Syed Shamsul Haq

Bangladeshi

27 September, 2016

Boishakhey Rochito

Swadhinta Padak

Viveki Rai

Indian

22 November, 2016

Sonamati, Mangal Bhavan

Yash Bharti Award, Mahatma Gandhi Samman

Anand Yadav

Indian

27 November, 2016

Zombi , Santasurya Tukaram

Sahitya Akademi Award

Richard Adams

English 

24 December, 2016

Watership Down

 Carnegie Medal and  Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize