Gateway (1977), multiple award winning first novel in the Heechee Saga by Frederik Pohl.

In 1991, Art Spiegelman completed the second and final installment of his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel, Maus.

Kuruthi Punal (Sahitya Academy Award winning novel)

Tejaswi won the "most creative novel of the year" for his Karvalo in 1980 and Chidambara Rahasya in 1985 from the Sahitya Akademi.

Sid Smith (author of "Something Like A House", Whitbread award winning novel), news editor, then editor.

In October 1998, Winfrey produced and starred in the film Beloved, based on Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name.

Author Elizabeth Christensen won the Scribe award in the category "Best Speculative Original novel" at ComicCon 2008 for her book Stargate Atlantis Casualties of War.

It was based on Nabarun Bhattacharya's Sahitya Akademi Award winning novel of the same name.

MacLeod's debut novel, The Great Wheel, was published in 1997, and won the Locus Award for Best First novel.

Mookajjiya Kanasugalu ("Dreams of a Silent Granny") (Jnanpith award winning novel)