Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author and storyteller who achieved worldwide fame for his fairy tales, such as The Ugly Duckling and The Princess and the Pea. Many of his classics remain popular with both children and adults globally.
2. Hans Anderson
Born in a slum in 1806,
Danish storyteller Hans
Christian Andersen achieved
worldwide fame for his highly
original and innovative fairy
tales. Many of his classics,
including The Ugly Duckling
and The Princess and the Pea,
remain popular with adults
and children worldwide.
3. RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Born on 7th may 1861 in Kolkata.Tagore was already
writing poems at age of eight. As a author of Gitanjali.He
was first Non European who was awarded the Nobel
Prize for literature in 1913 .
4. William Wordsworth
Williamn wordsworth (1770-
1850) is the highest priest
of nature, who calls himself
‘a worshipper of nature
which teaches us more of
man and of moral evil and
good than all sages can
5. Henry w. Longfellow
Born in Portland, Maine in
1807, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow is perhaps the best-
loved American poet of the
19th-century. He graduated
from Bowdoin College, later to
join the language faculty at
Harvard. His Voices of the Night
(1839) brought him to popular
light. He later wrote the poems,
"The Village Blacksmith,"
Evangeline," and "Hiawatha."
His work is known for its
simplicity and gentleness.
6. ROBERT BROWNING
English poet and playwright
Robert Browning was a major
poet of the Victorian age. He
was widely recognized as a
master of dramatic monologue
and psychological portraiture.
Browning was a prolific writer
but is most well known for his
long form blank poem The Ring
and the Book, the story of a
Roman murder trial in 12 books
7. STEPHEN LEACOCK
Stephen Butler Leacock (1869-
1944), Canadian author, will long be
remembered for his best-selling
book Sunshine Sketches of a Little
Town (1912) as well as the
numerous awards and honours he
received during his illustrious
lifetime as author, professor,
lecturer and humourist.
8. SAROJINI NAIDU
Sarojini Chattopadhyay was born at
Hyderabad on February 13, 1879 the eldest
of a large family, all of whom were taught
English at an early age. At the age of twelve
she passed the Matriculation of the Madras
University, and awoke to find herself famous
throughout India.