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Bihar has produced a number of poets and writers in its languages like Bhojpuri Maithili language, Magahi language, Angika and Bajjika including Bhikhari Thakur, Heera Dom, Viveki Rai,Satishwar Sahay Verma, Pandey Kapil etc are writers of Bhojpuri, Vidyapati in Maithili. Besides its regional languages, Bihar has also produced writers in English such as Raj Kamal Jha, Amitava Kumar, Tabish Khair, Abdullah Khan , Gunjesh Bond, Abhay K, Kumar Vikram, Siddhartha Chowdhury;[1] and Hindi including Raja Radhika Raman Prasad Sinha, Kumar vansi, Acharya Ramlochan Saran, Acharya Shivpujan Sahay, Divakar Prasad Vidyarthy, Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Ram Briksh Benipuri, Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', Gopal Singh "Nepali", Ramesh Chandra Jha and Baba Nagarjun. Writer and Buddhist scholar Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan was born in Uttar Pradesh but spent his life in the land of Buddha, i.e., Bihar. Hrishikesh Sulabh is a short story writer, playwright and theatre critic. Arun Kamal and Aalok Dhanwa are poets.
Bhikhari Thakur was a Bhojpuri writer who has written several plays, poems and essays on social issues like women empowerment, poverty, migration, caste system etc. Bidesiya and Gabarghichor are one of the most famous plays written by him. Heera Dom, a Bhojpuri poet is credited for creating first poem on dalits. Rameshwar Singh Kashyap wrote the famous play Loha Singh. Raghuveer Narayan wrote the famous poem Batohiya.
Different regional languages also have produced some prominent poets and authors.Sheen Muzaffarpuri is famous urdu writer Or Jurnalist Of Bihar. Raza Naqvi Wahi was the preeminent Indian Urdu language poet during his time, was born in Khujwan, Siwan, Bihar, and wrote many Urdu Poetry and also awarded as Ghalib Award.
Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay, writer in Bengali, resided for some time in Bihar. Indian writer in English Upamanyu Chatterjee also hails from Patna in Bihar. Devaki Nandan Khatri, who at the beginning of the 20th century wrote novels including Chandrakanta and Chandrakanta Santati, was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Thriller writer Gunjesh Bond was born in Hajipur, Vaishali, Bihar. Writer and Buddhist scholar Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan was born in Uttar Pradesh but spent his life in the land of Buddha, i.e., Bihar. well known writer George Orwell was also born in Bihar.
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