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Afghanistan

* Aliyeh Ataei (born 1981) *
Khaled Hosseini Khaled Hosseini (;Pashto/Dari ; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan-American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel ''The Kite Runner'' (2003) was a critical and commercial success; the book and his subsequen ...
(born 1965)


Albania

* Dritero Agolli (1931–2017) *
Ismail Kadare Ismail Kadare (; spelled Ismaïl Kadaré in French; born on 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a leading international literary figure and intellectual. He focused on poetry until the pu ...
(born 1936) *
Fatos Kongoli Fatos Kongoli (born January 12, 1944) has recently become one of the most forceful and convincing representatives of contemporary Albanian prose. Biography He was born and raised in Elbasan and studied at the Qemal Stafa High School, in Tirana, A ...
(born 1944) * Faik Konitza (1875–1942) * Migjeni (1911–1938) * Haki Stermilli (1895–1953) * Jakov Xoxa (1923–1979)


Algeria

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Marguerite Taos Amrouche Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (born 4 March 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia; died 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel. Biography She was b ...
(1913–1976) *
Rachid Boudjedra Rachid Boudjedra ( ar, رشيد بوجدرة) (b. 5 September 1941 in Aïn Beïda, Algeria) is an Algerian poet, novelist, playwright and critic. Boudjedra wrote in French from 1965 to 1981, at which point he switched to writing in Arabic, often ...
(born 1941) *
Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...
(1913–1960) *
Mohammed Dib Mohammed Dib ( ar, محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and children's literature in the French language. He is probably Algeria's most prolific ...
(1920–2003) *
Tahar Djaout Tahar Djaout (11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group. Early life He was born in 1954 in Oulkhou, a village in the Kabylie region. After unive ...
(1954–1993) * Assia Djebar (1936–2015) *
Frantz Fanon Frantz Omar Fanon (, ; ; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist, and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have b ...
(1925–1961), originally from
Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label= Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in ...
*
Mouloud Feraoun Mouloud Feraoun (8 March 1913 – 15 March 1962) was an Algerian writer and martyr of the Algerian revolution born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylie. Some of his books, written in French, have been translated into several languages including English and Ge ...
(1913–1962) *
Mouloud Mammeri Mouloud Mammeri () was an Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist. Biography He was born on December 28, 1917, in Ait Yenni, in Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria. He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to ...
(1917–1989) *
Rachid Mimouni Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) (20 November 1945 – 12 February 1995) was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist. Mimouni wrote novels describing Algerian society in a realist style. He was threatened by ...
(1945–1995) *
Ahlam Mostaghanemi Ahlem Mosteghanemi ( ar, أحلام مستغانمي), alternatively written Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) is an Algerian writer who has been called "''probably the world's best-known Arabophone woman novelist''". She was the first Algerian wom ...
(born 1953) *
Leïla Sebbar Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) is a French-Algerian author. Early life Leïla Sebbar was born on 9 November 1941, in Aflou. The daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father, she spent her youth in French Algeria before leaving aged seventeen fo ...
(born 1941) * Kateb Yacine (1929–1989)


Roman Empire, Ancient Latin authors

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Apuleius Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern- ...
(c. 124–c. 170) *
Petronius Gaius Petronius Arbiter"Gaius Petronius Arbiter"
José Eduardo Agualusa José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha (born December 13, 1960) is an Angolan journalist and writer of Portuguese and Brazilian descent. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently he resides in the Island of Mozambiqu ...
(born 1960) *
Sousa Jamba Sousa Jamba (born 9 January 1966)"Who's Who - Angola: ...
(born 1966) * Ondjaki (born 1977) *
Pepetela Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela. A Portuguese Angolan, Pepetela was born in Benguela, Portuguese Angola, and fought as a member of the MPLA in the long ...
(born 1941) * Oscar Ribas (1909–2004) *
Manuel Rui Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro (born 4 November 1941) is an Angolan writer of poetry, novels, theater plays, and short stories. He has been described as "the chronicler par excellence of postindependence Angola" through fiction that offers "subtle, compl ...
(born 1941) * José Luandino Vieira (born 1935)


Antigua and Barbuda

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Marie-Elena John Marie-Elena John is a Caribbean writer whose novel, '' Unburnable'', was published in 2006. She is an Africanist, development and women’s rights specialist, currently serving as the Senior Racial Justice Lead at UN Women. Biography John was bor ...


Argentina

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Marcos Aguinis Marcos Aguinis (born 13 January 1935) is an Argentine writer. Trained in medical studies, music and psychoanalysis, his work and his thoughts are focused on the notions of independence, democracy and rejection of authoritarianism. He is a propone ...
(born 1935) * César Aira (born 1949) * Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) *
Abelardo Castillo Abelardo Castillo (March 27, 1935 – May 2, 2017) was an Argentine writer, novelist, essayist, diarist, born in the city of San Pedro, Buenos Aires San Pedro, which full name is ''Rincon de San Pedro Dávila de los Arrecifes'', is a city and ...
(1935–2017) *
Julio Cortázar Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ...
(1914–1984) * Macedonio Fernandez (1874–1952) *
Ricardo Güiraldes Ricardo Güiraldes (13 February 1886 — 8 October 1927)Escuela Normal Superior de Chascomús was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel ''Don Segundo Sombra ...
(1886–1927) * Sylvia Iparraguirre (born 1947) *
Leopoldo Marechal Leopoldo Marechal (June 11, 1900 – June 26, 1970) was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century. Biographical notes Born in Buenos Aires into a family of French and Spanish descent, Marechal became a primary sch ...
(1900–1970) * Manuel Puig (1932–1990) * Andrés Rivera (1928–2016) *
Juan José Saer Juan José Saer ( Serodino, Santa Fe, Argentina, June 28, 1937Paris, France, June 11, 2005) was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. He i ...
(1937–2005) * Ernesto Sábato (1911–2011) *
Luisa Valenzuela Luisa Valenzuela Levinson (born 26 November 1938) is a post-' Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She may be be ...
(born 1938) *
Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...
(1899–1986)


Armenia

* Michael Arlen (1895–1956) * Zori Balayan (born 1935) * Ruben Hovsepyan (1939–2016) * Levon Khechoyan (1955–014) * Yervant Odian (1869–1926) *
Alexander Shirvanzade Alexander Minasi Movsisian ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Մինասի Մովսիսեան; 18 April 1858 – 7 August 1935), better known by his pen name Alexander Shirvanzadeh ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Շիրվանզադէ) was an Armenian playwrig ...
(1858–1935) * Zabel Yesayan (1878–1943)


Assyrian

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Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...
(1883–1931) * Thea Halo (born 1941) * Ivan Kakovitch (1933–2006) *
Rosie Malek-Yonan Rosie Malek-Yonan (b. July 4, 1965) is an Assyrian-American actress, author, director, public figure and activist. Malek-Yonan became a noted pianist at an early age. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge, she settled in the United St ...
(born 1965) *
Obelit Yadgar Obelit Yadgar (born 1945), aka Obie Yadgar, is an Assyrian-American radio personality from Glendale, Wisconsin. Yadgar was born in Baghdad, Iraq. Raised in Tehran, he moved to the United States in 1957. He was drafted into the US Army's 4th I ...
(born 1945)


Australia


Austria

* Vicki Baum (1888–1960) *
Hugo Bettauer Maximilian Hugo Bettauer (18 August 1872 – 26 March 1925) was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, who was murdered by a Nazi Party follower on account of his opposition to antisemitism. He was well known in his lifetime; many of his book ...
(1872–1925) *
Thomas Bernhard Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civiliza ...
(1931–1989) * Hermann Broch (1886–1951) *
Peter Handke Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored t ...
(born 1942) * Josef Haslinger (born 1955) *
Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-vo ...
(born 1946) *
Robert Musil Robert Musil (; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, '' The Man Without Qualities'' (german: link=no, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most importan ...
(1880–1942) * Joseph Roth (1894–1939) *
Robert Schneider Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is an American musician and mathematician. He is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer of rock/pop band the Apples in Stereo and has produced and performed on albums by Neutral Milk H ...
(born 1961) *
Arthur Schnitzler Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist. Biography Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy ...
(1862–1931) *
Bertha von Suttner Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (; ; 9 June 184321 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel ...
(1843–1914) *
Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig (; ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist, and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular write ...
(1881–1942)


Azerbaijan

* Akram Aylisli (born 1937) *
Alaviyya Babayeva Alaviyya Babayeva Hanifa Kizi (12 August 1921 – 23 September 2014) was a prose author, translator of contemporary Russian literature, and publicist. Early life and education Babayeva graduated from Baku State University. She began writing in 19 ...
(1921–2014) * Afag Masud (born 1957) * Elchin Safarli (born 1984) *
Kurban Said Kurban Said ( az, Qurban Səid/, ) is the pseudonym of the author of ''Ali and Nino'', a novel originally published in 1937 in the German language by the Austrian publisher E.P. Tal. The novel has since been published in more than 30 languages. ...


Bangladesh

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Humayun Ahmed Humayun Ahmed (; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and professor. His breakthrough was his debut novel '' Nondito Noroke'' published in 1972. He wrote over 20 ...
(1948–2012) * Shaheen Akhtar (born 1962) *
Monica Ali Monica Ali FRSL (born 20 October 1967) is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English heritage. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by ''Granta'' magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut nove ...
(born 1967) * Tahmima Anam (born 1975) * Humayun Azad (1947–2004) *
Dilara Hashem Dilara Hashem ( bn, দিলারা হাশেম; 21 August 1935 – 19 March 2022) was a Bangladeshi author and novelist.Heil, Alan L., Jr. (2006) ''Voice of America: A History'', Columbia University Press, , p. 297 She was a recipient of ...
(1935–2022) *
Taslima Nasrin Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh ...
(born 1962) *
Kazi Nazrul Islam , pseudonym = bn, ধূমকেতু, Dhūmketu , image = Nazrul.jpg , image_size = , caption = Nazrul in Chittagong, 1926 , birth_date = 11 ''Joiṣṭhyô'', 1306 '' Bônggabdô ...
(1899–1976) * Rizia Rahman (1939–2019) *
Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance ...
(born 1940)


Barbados

* Austin Clarke (1934–2016) *
Geoffrey Drayton Geoffrey Drayton (13 February 1924 – 2017) was a Barbadian novelist, poet and journalist. Life Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there. In 1945, he went to Cambridge University, where he read economics, af ...
(1924–2017) * George Lamming (1927–2022 * Karen Lord * Glenville Lovell (born 1955)


Belarus

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Vasil Bykaŭ Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ (often spelled Vasil Bykov, be, Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў, russian: Василь Влади́мирович Быков) (19 June 1924 – 22 June 2003) was a prolific Soviet and Belarus ...
(1924–2003) * Uładzimir Karatkievič (1930–1984) * Jakub Kołas (Kanstancy Mickievič) (1882–1956) *
Janka Kupała Yanka Kupala, also spelled Janka Kupała ( be, Янка Купала; – 28 June 1942), was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavič Lutsevič (), a Belarusian poet and writer. Biography Early life Kupala was born on July 7, 1882, in Viazynka, a ...
(Ivan Łucevič) (1882–1942) * Ivan Šamiakin (1921–2004)


Belgium

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Nicolas Ancion Nicolas Ancion is a Belgian writer born in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, in 1971. His parents were professional puppeteers. Writer He writes fiction for adults, young adults and children and is the author of several theater plays and poetry collec ...
(born 1971) *
Cornelis de Bie Cornelis de Bie (10 February 1627 – ) was a Flemish ''rederijker'', poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish a ...
(1627–c. 1715) * Louis Paul Boon (1912–1979) * Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883) * Ernest Claes (1885–1968) *
Hugo Claus Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian literature, Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, a ...
(1929–2008) * Christine D'Haen (1923–2009) * Johan Daisne (1912–1978) *
Charles De Coster Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 – 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature. Early life and education He was born in Munich; his father, Augustin De Coster, was a nat ...
(1827–1879) * Willem Elsschot (1882–1960) *
Jef Geeraerts Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts (23 February 1930 – 11 May 2015), better known as Jef Geeraerts, was a Belgian writer. Geeraerts was born in Antwerp. After his studies in political and administrative sciences at the Colonial University of Belgiu ...
(1930–2015) * Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) *
Marnix Gijsen Marnix Gijsen (20 October 1899 – 29 September 1984) was a Belgian writer. His real name was Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris; his pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen). Early years Gijsen ...
(1899–1984) *
Hubert Lampo Hubert Leon Lampo (Antwerp, 1 September 1920 – Essen, 12 July 2006) was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. His most famous book is '' De komst van Joachim Stiller'' ("The coming of Joachim Stiller", 1960), in w ...
(1920–2006) * Rosalie Loveling (1834–1875) * Virginie Loveling (1836–1923) * Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) *
Alice Nahon Alice Nahon (16 August 1896 – 21 May 1933) was a Belgian poet from Antwerp. Biography Alice Nahon was born in Antwerp on 23 August 1896. She was the third child in a family of eleven children. Her father, Gerard L. Nahon, was born in the Net ...
(1896–1933) *
Amélie Nothomb Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (), better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb (; born 13 August 1967),''État présent de la noblesse belge'', éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010. Her birth is announced in n° 87, aout 1967, p. 340 of the ''Bull ...
(born 1966) * Anne Provoost (born 1964) * Maria Rosseels (1916–2005) * Georges Simenon (1903–1989) * Stijn Streuvels (1871–1969) *
Herman Teirlinck Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck (Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, 24 February 1879 – Beersel-Lot, 4 February 1967) was a Belgian writer. He was the fifth child and only son of Isidoor Teirlinck and Oda van Nieuwenhove, who were both teachers in Brussels. As ...
(1879–1967) *
Felix Timmermans Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is a much translated author from Flanders. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Life Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thi ...
(1886–1947) *
André Henri Constant van Hasselt André Henri Constant van Hasselt ( nl, Andries Hendrik van Hasselt; 5 January 18061 December 1874) was a Dutch- Belgian writer and poet who wrote mainly in French. Life Born at Maastricht, Van Hasselt was first educated at the ''Koninklijk At ...
(1806–1874) *
Karel Van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembere ...
(1548–1606) *
Emile Verhaeren Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *'' Emil and the Detecti ...
(1855–1916) * Peter Verhelst (born 1962) *
Gerard Walschap Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap (Londerzeel-St. Jozef, 9 July 1898 – Antwerp, 25 October 1989), was a Belgian writer. Early life He went to ''highschool'' at the ''Klein seminarie'' in Hoogstraten, and later in Asse. His Flemish awarene ...
(1898–1989) * Jan Frans Willems (1793–1846) *
Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (, , ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the ''Prix Fem ...
(1903–1987) *
Lode Zielens Ludovicus Carolus Zielens (13 June 1901–28 November 1944) was a Belgian novelist and journalist. He wrote many novels, his ' being the most well known. He also received several awards in recognition of his work. Biography Life and works Z ...
(1901–1944)


Belize

* Zee Edgell (1940–2020) *
Evan X Hyde Evan Anthony Hyde (better known as Evan X Hyde; born 30 April 1947) is a Belizean writer, journalist, media executive and former politician. He publishes and writes for the nation's largest newspaper, '' Amandala'', and oversees its subsidiaries ...
(born 1947) *
John Alexander Watler John Alexander Watler (6 November 1938 – 23 December 2015) was a Belizeans, Belizean novelist, master storyteller, poet, playwright and literary performer. He was born in Monkey River Village, Stann Creek District, Belize (British Honduras). Watl ...
(1938–2015) *
Colville Young Sir Colville Norbert Young (born 20 November 1932) is a Belizean politician who served as the 2nd Governor-General of Belize. He is also a patron of the Scout Association of Belize. He was appointed as the Governor-General in 1993, taking offi ...
(born 1932) * Edward Broaster * Emory King (1931–2007)


Benin

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Berte-Evelyne Agbo Berthe-Evelyne Agbo is a writer from Benin who has published poems in French. As a young child, Berthe-Evelyne Agbo lived in Saint-Louis, Senegal. She received primary and secondary education in Touraine, France before attending Université de D ...
(''see also''
Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
) * Florent Couao-Zotti (born 1964) *
Richard Dogbeh Richard Dogbeh (1932–November 23, 2003), born Gbèmagon Richard Dogbeh in what is now Benin, was a novelist and educator. He served as Benin's Directeur de Cabinet of the National Ministry of Education from 1963 to 1966. He was also active in the ...
(''see also''
Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...
,
Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
and
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre i ...
) * Adélaïde Fassinou (born 1955)


Bermuda

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Angela Barry Angela Barry (''née'' Richards) is a Bermudian writer and educator. She spent more than 20 years living abroad – in England, France, The Gambia, Senegal and Seychelles – before returning to Bermuda, where she has primarily worked as a l ...
*
Brian Burland Brian Burland (23 April 1931 – 11 February 2010) was a Bermudian writer, who was the author of nine acclaimed novelsIvo Andrić (1892–1975) *
Andrej Nikolaidis Andrej Nikolaidis (born 1974) is a Montenegrin- Bosnian novelist, columnist, and political adviser. His novel ''Sin'' (The Son) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011. The English translation was published in 2013 by Istros Books in ...
(born 1974) *
Meša Selimović Mehmed "Meša" Selimović (; ; 26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslav writer, whose novel '' Death and the Dervish'' is one of the most important literary works in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are the ...
(1910–1982)


Botswana

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Caitlin Davies Caitlin Davies (born 6 March 1964) is an English author, journalist and teacher. Her parents are Hunter Davies and Margaret Forster, both well-known writers.
(born 1964), born in Britain *
Unity Dow Unity Dow ( Diswai; born 23 April 1959) is a Motswana lawyer, human rights activist, specially elected member of parliament, and a writer. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Botswana and in various government ministries. Born ...
(born 1959) *
Bessie Head Bessie Amelia Emery Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986) was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that are i ...
(1937–1986), born in South Africa


Brazil

* José Alencar (1931–2011) * Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831–1861) *
Jorge Amado Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in ...
(1912–2001) * Mário de Andrade (1893–1945) *
Oswald de Andrade José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born, spent most of his life and died in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a m ...
(1890–1954) *
Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, ''Machado,'' or ''Bruxo do Cosme Velho''Vainfas, p. 505. (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short stor ...
(1839–1908) * Lima Barreto (1881–1922) *
Chico Buarque Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born 19 June 1944), popularly known simply as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic, ...
(born 1944) *
Lúcio Cardoso Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, known as Lúcio Cardoso (August 14, 1912 – September 22, 1968), was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and poet. Biography The son of an impoverished but prominent family in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Lúcio Cardoso wa ...
(1912–1968) *
Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho de Souza (, ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel ''The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller and he has published 28 more book ...
(born 1947) * Rubem Fonseca (1925–2020) *
Clarice Lispector Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector ( uk, Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор); December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works ex ...
(1920–1977) * Joaquim Manoel de Macedo (1820–1882) *
Raduan Nassar Raduan Nassar (born November 27, 1935, in Pindorama, São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager. He studied Law and Philosophy at the University of São Paulo. In 1970, he wr ...
(born 1935) * Raul Pompéia (1863–1895) * Fernando Sabino (1923–2004) *
Moacyr Scliar Moacyr Jaime Scliar (March 23, 1937February 27, 2011) was a Brazilian writer and physician. Most of his writing centers on issues of Jewish identity in the Diaspora and particularly on being Jewish in Brazil. Scliar is best known outside Brazil ...
(1935–2011) *
Graciliano Ramos Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira () (October 27, 1892 – March 20, 1953) was a Brazilian modernist writer, politician and journalist. He is known worldwide for his portrayal of the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian ''sert ...
(1892–1953) *
José Lins do Rego José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...
(1901–1957) *
João Ubaldo Ribeiro João Ubaldo Ribeiro (January 23, 1941 – July 18, 2014) was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short stories have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was a member of the Br ...
(1941–2014) * João Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967) *
Murilo Rubião Murilo Rubião (1 June 1916 – 16 September 1991) was a Brazilian writer. His entire work consists of short stories, best described as surreal fables in the tradition of Franz Kafka - this being so, Rubião's work must be seen as part of the ...
(1916–1991) *
Érico Veríssimo Érico Lopes Verissimo (December 17, 1905 – November 28, 1975) was an important Brazilian writer, born in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Biography Érico Verissimo was the son of Sebastião Verissimo da Fonseca and Abegahy Lopes Verissimo. H ...
(1905–1975) * Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923–1922)


Bulgaria

* Emil Andreev (born 1956) * Zdravka Evtimova (born 24 July 1959) * Agop Melkonyan (1949–2006) * Albena Stambolova (born 1957)


Burkina Faso

* Nazi Boni (1909–1969) * Sarah Bouyain (born 1968) * Norbert Zongo (1949–1998)


Cameroon

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Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda (c. 1941 – February 1, 2014) was a Cameroonian novelist, chemist, and paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bene people. Early in life, Ahanda worked for the Chemistry Department of the University of Yaoundé. She ...
(c.1941–2014) *
Francis Bebey Francis Bebey (, 15 July 1929 in Douala, Cameroon – 28 May 2001 in Paris, France) was a Cameroonian writer and composer. Early life Francis Bebey was born in Douala, Cameroon, on 15 July 1929. Bebey attended college in Douala, where he studied ...
(1929–2001) * Mongo Beti, pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala (1932–2001) *
Calixthe Beyala Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French. Biography A Cameroonian author and member of the Eton people, Calixthe Beyala was born in Sa'a to Cameroonian parents. Her aunt and grandmother were particula ...
(born 1961) * Mbella Sonne Dipoko (1936–2009) * Frieda Ekotto * Jean-Louis Njemba Medu (1902-1966) *
Ferdinand Oyono Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (14 September 1929 – 10 June 2010
''Jeune ...
(1929–2010) * René Philombé (1930–2001)


Canada

* Rebecca Agatha Armour (1845–1891) *
Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, ...
(born 1939) * Irene Baird (1901–1981) *
Mary Balogh Mary Balogh (born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944) is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance, born and raised in Swansea. In 1967, she moved to Canada to start a teaching career, married a local coroner and settled in Kipling, Sask ...
(born 1944) *
Pierre Berton Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster. Berton wrote 50 best-selling books, mainly about Canadiana, Canadian history and popular culture. He also wr ...
(1920–2004) *
Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, news ...
(1939–2021) * Morley Callaghan (1903–1990) * Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958) *
Robertson Davies William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...
(1913–1995) *
Ranj Dhaliwal Ranj Dhaliwal (Punjabi: ਰਣਜ ਧਾਲੀਵਾਲ; born 1976/1977) is a Canadian author. Early life Born in Vancouver, Dhaliwal grew up in Surrey Central, British Columbia in the 1980s, which was a time when Indo-Canadian families were sc ...
(born 1976) *
Réjean Ducharme Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Québécois novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since his first successful book was ...
(1941–2017) * Louis Emond (born 1969) * Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 1968) * Timothy Findley (1930–2002) (''See also'' France) *
Gayleen Froese Gayleen Froese (born 1972) is a Canadian novelist and singer-songwriter. She is the author of two paranormal mystery novels, the urban fantasy novel "The Dominion", and the Ben Ames Casefiles series of detective novels. Her third novel, "The Girl ...
(born 1972) * Donald Jack (1924–2003) *
Hugh MacLennan John Hugh MacLennan (March 20, 1907 – November 9, 1990) was a Canadian writer and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award. Family and childhood MacLennan was born in Glace B ...
(1907–1990) * Margaret Laurence (1926–1987) * Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) * Yann Martel (born 1963) * Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) *
Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with ''Anne of Green Gables''. She ...
(1874–1942) *
Susanna Moodie Susanna Moodie (born Strickland; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Biography Susanna Moodie was born in Bungay, ...
(1803–1885) *
Christopher G. Moore Christopher G. Moore (born 8 July 1952) is a Canadian writer of twenty-seven novels, six works of non-fiction, editor of three anthologies, and author of four radio dramas. He is best known for his trilogy ''A Killing Smile'' (1991), ''A Bewitch ...
(born 1952) * Farley Mowat (1921–2014) *
Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move f ...
(born 1931) *
Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller P ...
(born 1943) *
Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and '' Barney's Version'' (1997). His 1970 novel '' St. Urbain's Horseman'' and 1989 novel ...
(1931–2001) * Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983) * Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947) * Carol Shields (1935–2003) *
Catharine Parr Traill Catharine Parr Traill (born Strickland; 9 January 1802 – 29 August 1899) was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life in Canada, particularly what is now Ontario (then the colony of Upper Canada). In the 1830s, Canad ...
(1802–1899) * Roland Michel Tremblay (born 1972) *
Jane Urquhart Jane Urquhart, LL.D (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her e ...
(born 1949)


Cape Verde

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Germano Almeida Germano Almeida (; born 31 July 1945) is a Cape Verdean author and lawyer. Biography Born on the Cape Verdean island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law at the University of Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo. His novels have been translat ...
(born 1945) * Manuel Lopes (1907–2005)


Catalonia

* Raimon Llull (1235–1315) *
Ramon Muntaner Ramon Muntaner () (1265 – 1336) was a Catalan mercenary and writer who wrote the ''Crònica'', a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company. He was born at Peralada. Biography The Catalan Compa ...
(c. 1270–1336) *
Joanot Martorell Joanot Martorell (; c. 1410 – 1465) was a Valencian knight and writer, best known for authoring the novel '' Tirant lo Blanch'', written in Valencian and published at Valencia in 1490. This novel is often regarded as one of the peaks of the ...
(1413–1468) * Narcís Oller (1846–1930) * Mercè Rodoreda (1909–1983)


Chad

* Marie-Christine Koundja (born 1957)


Chile

*
Isabel Allende Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born in Lima, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as ''The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...
(born 1942) *
Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' (''The Savage Detectives'' ...
(1953–2003) *
Francisco Coloane Francisco Coloane Cárdenas (; July 19, 1910 – August 5, 2002) was a Chilean novelist and short fiction writer whose works have been translated into many languages. Some of his books were adapted to theatre and film. Biography He was born in ...
(1910–2002) * José Donoso (1924–1996) *
Jorge Edwards Jorge Edwards Valdés (born June 29, 1931) is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Piñera presidency. Life and career Edwards attended Law School at the Universidad de Chile. D ...
(born 1931) *
Baldomero Lillo Baldomero Lillo (6 January 1867, in Lota, Chile – 10 September 1923, in San Bernardo, ChileChang-Rodriguez, Raquel, and Malva E. Filer. Voces de Hispanoamerica. 3rd ed. Boston: Thomson Heinle, 2004.) was a Chilean Naturalist author, whose wor ...
(1867–1923) * Manuel Rojas (1924–1993) *
Luis Sepúlveda Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura (October 4, 1949 – April 16, 2020) was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the ...
(1949–2020) * Marcela Serrano (born 1951) * Mercedes Valdivieso (1924–1993)


China

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Cao Xueqin Cáo Xuěqín ( ; ); (4 April 1710 — 10 June 1765)Briggs, Asa (ed.) (1989) ''The Longman Encyclopedia'', Longman, was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty. He is best known as the author of ''Dream of the Red Chamber'', one of the Four G ...
(c. 1715–1763) *
Dai Sijie Dai Sijie (born 1954) is a Chinese French author and filmmaker. Early life Dai was born in Putian, Fujian, in 1954. His parents, Professor Dai Baoming and Professor Hu Xiaosu, were professors of medical sciences at West China University ...
(born 1954) * Gao Xingjian (born 1940) *
Han Shaogong Han Shaogong (; born January 1, 1953) is a Chinese novelist and fiction writer. Biography Han was born in Hunan, China. While relying on traditional Chinese culture, in particular Chinese mythology, folklore, Taoism and Buddhism as source of in ...
(born 1953) *
Lao She Shu Qingchun (3 February 189924 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature, and is best known for his novel '' Rickshaw Boy'' ...
(1899–1966) * Li Yu (1610–1680) *
Lu Xun Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), better known by his pen name Lu Xun (or Lu Sun; ; Wade–Giles: Lu Hsün), was a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. ...
(1881–1936) * Mao Dun (1896–1981) * Mo Yan (born 1955) * Qian Zhongshu (1910–1998) *
Wang Shuo Wang Shuo (, born August 23, 1958) is a Chinese author, director, actor, and cultural icon. He has written over 20 novels, television series and movies. His work has been translated into Japanese, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Hindi, and ...
(born 1958) *
Wei Jingsheng Wei Jingsheng (; born 20 May 1950) is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. He is most prominent for having authored the essay "The Fifth Modernization", which w ...
(born 1950) * Zhang Ailing (1920–1995)


Colombia

* Héctor Abad Faciolince (born 1958) * Jaime Manrique (born 1949) *
Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one ...
(1927–2014) * José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928) * Álvaro Mutis (1923–2013)


Republic of the Congo

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Emmanuel Dongala Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala (born 1941) is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He was born in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, in 1941. He was Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock until 2014. As a chemist, his ...
(born 1941) * Paul Lomami-Tshibamba (1914–1985) * Henri Lopes (born 1937) *
Alain Mabanckou Alain Mabanckou (born 24 February 1966) is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing ...
(born 1966) * Jeannette Balou Tchichelle (1947–2005)


Democratic Republic of the Congo

(formerly Zaïre) * Amba Bongo *
Maguy Kabamba Maguy (Margaret) Rashidi Kabamba (born 3 August 1960) is a writer and translator from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She has a B.A. specialized in Translation from York University, Toronto, Canada and a M.A. with major French, minor Spanish ...
(born 1960) *
Sony Labou Tansi Sony Lab'ou Tansi (5 July 1947 – 14 June 1995), born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet in French language. Though he was only 47 when he died, Tansi remains one of the most prolific African writers ...
(1947–1995) *
V. Y. Mudimbe Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (born 8 December 1941, Jadotville, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history. Mudimbe is Ruth F. DeVarney Prof ...
(born 1941) * Yamusangie, Frederick Kambemba


Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitan

* Romain Gary, Russian-born French writer *
Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typ ...
(1883–1924), lived in
Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
during
Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...
and
Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...
; German language writer; see also
German literature German literature () comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a less ...
*
Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler, (, ; ; hu, Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler join ...
(1905–1983) *
Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (, ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, then conferred again in 2019. He "sees himsel ...
(born 1929), born in
Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...
, but moved to France. Multi-language writer. *
Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and ...
(born 1947), born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer, author of '' The Satanic Verses''


Costa Rica

* Fabián Dobles Rodríguez (1918–1997) * Joaquín García Monge (1881–1958) * Yolanda Oreamuno (1916–1956) * Roxana Pinto


Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast

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Tanella Boni Tanella Suzanne Boni (born 1954) is an Ivorian poet and novelist. Also an academic, she is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Abidjan. Apart from her teaching and research activities, she was the President of the association of writer ...
(born 1954) * Micheline Coulibaly (1950–2003) * Bernard Dadié (1916–2019) *
Richard Dogbeh Richard Dogbeh (1932–November 23, 2003), born Gbèmagon Richard Dogbeh in what is now Benin, was a novelist and educator. He served as Benin's Directeur de Cabinet of the National Ministry of Education from 1963 to 1966. He was also active in the ...
(1932–2003). See also
Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the nort ...
,
Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
and
Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...
* Fatou Keïta (born 1965) *
Ahmadou Kourouma Ahmadou Kourouma (24 November 1927 – 11 December 2003) was an Ivorian novelist. Life The eldest son of a distinguished Malinké family, Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in Boundiali, Côte d'Ivoire. Raised by his uncle, he initially pursued ...
(1927–2003) * Werewere-Liking Gnepo (born 1950). See also
Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the ...
* Véronique Tadjo (born 1955)


Croatia

* Marija Jurić Zagorka (1873–1957) * Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981) * Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (1894–1990) * Ivo Andrić (1892–1975) *
Ivan Aralica __NOTOC__ Ivan Aralica (born 10 September 1930) is a Croatian novelist and essayist. Born in Promina, Croatia, Promina near Knin, and having finished pedagogical school and Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zadar, Aralica had worked sin ...
(born 1930) * Vesna Krmpotić (1932–2018) *
Tomislav Ladan Tomislav Ladan (25 June 1932 – 12 September 2008) was a Croatian essayist, critic, translator and novelist. Ladan was born in Ivanjica, Serbia, and spent his formative years in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina (Travnik, Bugojno), where he ...
(1932–2008) *
Dubravka Ugrešić Dubravka Ugrešić (; born 27 March 1949) is a Yugoslav and later Croatian writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been based in Amsterdam since 1996 and refuses to identify as a Croatian writer. Early life and education Ugreši ...
(born 1949) * Julijana Matanović (born 1959)


Cuba

*
Reinaldo Arenas Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a po ...
(1943–1990) *
Alejo Carpentier Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (, ; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of Frenc ...
(1904–1980) * Daína Chaviano (born 1957) * José Lezama Lima (1910–1976) *
Leonardo Padura Fuentes Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. , he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often ref ...
(born 1955)


Czech Republic

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Karel Čapek Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel '' War with the Newts'' (1936) and play '' R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal ...
(1890–1938) *
Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical inci ...
(1883–1923) *
Bohumil Hrabal Bohumil Hrabal (; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century. Early life Hrabal was born in Židenice (suburb of Brno) on 28 March 1914, in what was then the province ...
(1914–1997) *
Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (, ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, then conferred again in 2019. He "sees himsel ...
(born 1929) *
Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert (; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides ...
(1901–1986)


Denmark

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Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consist ...
(1805–1875) *
Karen Blixen Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countrie ...
(1885–1962) (pen name: Isak Dinesen), author of '' Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934), '' Out of Africa'' (1937) *
Peter Høeg Peter Høeg (born 17 May 1957) is a Danish writer of fiction. He is best known for his novel '' Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' (1992). Early life Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor ...
(born 1957) *
Jens Peter Jacobsen Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern B ...
(1847–1885) *
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fert ...
(1873–1950), Nobel Prize for Literature (1944) * Christian Jungersen (born 1962) * Morten Korch (1876–1954) *
Carl Erik Soya Carl Erik Soya, (30 October 1896 – 10 November 1983), also known by the single appellation Soya, was a Danish author and dramatist. His works were often satirical provocations against double standards and dishonesty. In 1975, Soya received Denma ...
(1896–1983)


Djibouti

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Waberi Abdourahman Abdourahman A. Waberi ( so, Cabdiraxmaan Waaberi) is a novelist, essayist, poet, academic and short-story writer from Djibouti. Early life Abdourahman Waberi was born in Djibouti (city), Djibouti City in the French Somali Coast, the current Repub ...
(born 1965)


Ecuador

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Jorge Enrique Adoum Jorge Enrique Adoum (June 29, 1926 in Ambato – July 3, 2009 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. His work received such prestigious awards as the first ...
(1926–2009) *
Rosalía Arteaga Rosalía Arteaga Serrano (born 5 December 1956) is an Ecuadorian politician who served as the country's first female head of state as acting president for a few days in 1997. Arteaga announced her intention to serve as Secretary-General of the ...
(born 1956) * Aminta Buenaño (born 1958) *
Benjamín Carrión Manuel Benjamín Carrión Mora (April 20, 1897 in Loja – March 9, 1979 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian writer, diplomat and cultural promoter. Biography He was born into an aristocratic family in Loja. He was a lawyer by training, and occupied ...
(1897–1979) *
Ileana Espinel Ileana Espinel Cedeño (October 31, 1933 – February 21, 2001) was an Ecuadorian journalist, poet and writer. She was born and died in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Her pen name was Ileana Espinal. Biography Born in Guayaquil on October 31, 1933, Espine ...
(1933–2001) *
María Fernanda Espinosa María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (born 7 September 1964)
United Nations Press Release, BIO/3968, 7 March 2008.
(born 1964) * Enrique Gil Gilbert (1912–1973) *
Jorge Icaza Jorge Icaza Coronel (July 10, 1906 – May 26, 1978), commonly referred to as Jorge Icaza, was a writer from Ecuador, best known for his novel '' Huasipungo'', which brought attention to the exploitation of Ecuador's indigenous people by Ecuador ...
(1906–1978) * Salomon Isacovici (1924–1998) * Edna Iturralde (born 1948) * Violeta Luna (born 1943) * José Martínez Queirolo (1931–2008) * Nela Martínez (1912–2004) *
Juan Montalvo Juan María Montalvo y Fiallos (13 April 1832 in Ambato – 17 January 1889 in Paris) was an Ecuadorian author and essayist. Biography His grandfather, José Santos Montalvo, born in Andalucía, migrated to América and after some years ...
(1832–1889) * Gonzalo Zaldumbide (1884–1965)


Egypt

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Alifa Rifaat Fatimah Rifaat (June 5, 1930 – January 1996), better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat ( ar, أليفة رفعت), was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, ...
(1930–1996) *
Ahdaf Soueif Ahdaf Soueif ( ar, أهداف سويف; born 23 March 1950) is an Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator. Early life Soueif was born in Cairo, where she lives, and was educated in Egypt and England. She studied for a PhD in lin ...
(born 1950) *
Bahaa Taher Bahaa Taher ( ar, بهاء طاهر; 13 January 1935 – 27 October 2022), sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer who wrote in Arabic. He was awarded the inaugural Inte ...
(born 1935) * Edward al-Kharrat (1926–2015) *
Ibrahim Aslan Ibrahim Aslan (1935 – 7 January 2012) (Arabic:إبراهيم أصلان) was a famous Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Biography and work Aslan was born in Tanta in the Nile delta in 1935, shortly before his family moved south to Cair ...
(1935–2012) * Gamal Al-Ghitani (1945–2015) *
Khairy Shalaby Khairy Shalaby (خيري شلبي) (January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011)Muhammad Husayn Haykal (1888–1956) * Nabil Farouk (1956–2020) *
Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. M ...
(1911–2006), Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the ''
Cairo Trilogy The ''Cairo Trilogy'' ( ar, الثلاثية ''ath-thulathia'' ('The Trilogy') or ''thulathia al-Qahra'') is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, and one of the prime works of his literary c ...
'' about life in the sprawling inner city. * Nawal El Saadawi (1931–2021) * Saleh Morsi (1939–1996) * Sonallah Ibrahim (born 1937) * Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987) * Yahya Haqqi (1905–1992) *
Youssef Ziedan Youssef Ziedan ( ar, يوسف زيدان) (born June 30, 1958) is an Egyptian writer and scholar who specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies. He is a public lecturer, columnist, and prolific author of more than 50 books. He is also director ...
(born 1958) *
Yusuf Idris Yusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris ( ar, يوسف إدريس) (May 19, 1927 – August 1, 1991) was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. Biography Idris was born in Faqous. He originally trained to be a doctor, studying at the ...
(1927–1991)


Equatorial Guinea

* María Nsué Angüe (1945–2017) * Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (born 1950) * Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (born 1966)


Estonia

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Sass Henno Sass Henno (born September 13, 1982 in Tartu, Estonia) is an Estonian writer. He attended Miina Härma Secondary Grammar School in Tartu between 1989-2001. 2001-2003 he studied computer graphics and advertising in Tartu Art College, then film a ...
(born 1982) *
Kaur Kender Kaur Kender (born 27 May 1971) is an Estonian author and entrepreneur. An advertising executive by profession, Kender entered the Estonian literary scene in 1998 with his debut novel "Independence Day" ("Iseseisvuspäev"). His writing is as co ...
(born 1971) *
Albert Kivikas Albert Kivikas ( in Groß-St. Johannis, Livonia, Russian Empire – 19 May 1978 in Lund) was an Estonian writer and journalist. He is best known as the author of the book '' Names in Marble'' ( et, "Nimed marmortahvlil"), the subject of which ...
(1898–1978) *
Andrus Kivirähk Andrus Kivirähk (born 17 August 1970) is an Estonian writer, a playwright, topical satirist, and screenwriter. As of 2004, 25,000 copies of his novel ''Rehepapp ehk November'' (''Old Barny or November'') had been sold, making him the most popul ...
(born 1970) *
Jaan Kross Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer. He won the 1995 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Early life Born in Tallinn, Estonia, son of a skilled metal-worker, Jaan Kross studied at Jakob Westholm Gymnasium ...
(1920–2007) *
Leo Kunnas Leo Kunnas (born 14 November 1967) is an Estonian former military officer and a science fiction writer. Kunnas was born in Kliima village, Võru Parish. After graduating from the Finnish National Defence Academy 1994, Kunnas was the commander o ...
(born 1967) * Juhan Liiv (1864–1913) * Tõnu Õnnepalu (a.k.a. Emil Tode, born 1962) * Kersti Merilaas (1913–1986) * Lilli Promet (1922–2007) *
Karl Ristikivi Karl Ristikivi (; in Pärnumaa, Saulepi Parish, Lääne County (now Kilgi, Varbla Parish, Pärnu County) – 19 July 1977 in Solna, Stockholm) was an Estonian writer. He is among the best Estonian writers for his historical novels. Early lif ...
(1912–1977) * Raivo Seppo (born 1973) *
Juhan Smuul Juhan Smuul (18 February 1922 – 13 April 1971) was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul. Career Smuul was born in Koguva village on the island of Muhu to Jüri and Ruudu Schmuul (née Tuulik). He had three ...
(1922–1971) *
A. H. Tammsaare Anton Hansen (18 (O.S.)/30 January 1878 – 1 March 1940), better known by his pseudonym A. H. Tammsaare and its variants, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy '' Truth and Justice'' (''Tõde ja õigus''; 1926–1933) is considered one o ...
(1878–1940) * Enn Vetemaa (1936–2017) * Heiki Vilep (born 1960)


Ethiopia

* Haddis Alemayehu (1910–2003) * Āfawarq Gabra Iyasus (1868–1947) *
Moges Kebede Moges Kebede (Amharic: ሞገስ ከበደ), sometimes credited as Moges Kebede Damte or Moges Damte, is an Ethiopian author, essayist, and editor. He is the publisher of '' Mestawet Ethiopian Newspaper'', a monthly magazine for the Ethiopian imm ...
*
Dinaw Mengestu Dinaw Mengestu (ዲናው መንግስቱ) (born 30 June 1978) is an Ethiopian-American novelist and writer. In addition to three novels, he has written for ''Rolling Stone'' on the war in Darfur, and for '' Jane Magazine'' on the conflict in nor ...
(born 1978) *
Maaza Mengiste Maaza Mengiste (born 1974) is an Ethiopian-American writer. Her novels include ''Beneath the Lion's Gaze'' (2010) and '' The Shadow King'' (2019), which was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. Early life Mengiste was born in Addis Ababa, Ethi ...
(born 1971) * Nega Mezlekia (born 1958) *
Hama Tuma Hama Tuma (born May 25, 1949) is an Ethiopian poet and writer in the Amharic and English languages. Biography Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tuma studied Law in Addis Ababa University. He became an advocate for democracy and justice. This has cau ...
(born 1949) *
Berhanu Zerihun Berhanu Zerihun (1933/4 – 1987) was a prolific Ethiopian writer in Amharic and journalist, noted for his clear and crisp writing style, which contrasted against the more complex writing style popular in his time. Early life Born in Gond ...
(1933/4–1987)


Faroe Islands


Finland

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Juhani Aho Juhani Aho, originally Johannes Brofeldt (11 September 1861 – 8 August 1921), was a Finnish author and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature twelve times. Early life Juhani Aho was born at Lapinlahti in 1861. His p ...
(1861–1921) * Tove Jansson (1914–2001), she wrote in Swedish * Aino Kallas (1878–1956), female *
Aleksis Kivi Aleksis Kivi (; born Alexis Stenvall; 10 October 1834 – 31 December 1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, ''Seitsemän veljestä'' ("Seven Brothers") in 1870. He is also known for his 1864 ...
(1834–1872) * Väinö Linna (1920–1992) * Johannes Linnankoski (1869–1913) * Arto Paasilinna (1942–2018) *
Kalle Päätalo Kaarlo (Kalle) Alvar Päätalo (11 November 1919 – 20 November 2000) was a Finnish novelist, the most popular Finnish writer in the 20th century. His ''Iijoki'' series, comprising 26 novels, is one of the longest autobiographical works ever ...
(1919–2000) *
Frans Emil Sillanpää Frans is an Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish given name, sometimes as a short form of ''François''. One cognate of Frans in English is '' Francis''. Given name * Frans van Aarssens (1572–1641), Dutch diplo ...
(1888–1964), Nobel Prize for Literature, 1939 *
Mika Waltari Mika Toimi Waltari (; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel '' The Egyptian'' ( fi, Sinuhe egyptiläinen). He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stor ...
(1908–1979)


France


Gabon

* Jean-Baptiste Abessolo (born 1932) * Bessora (born in Belgium) (born 1968) * Rene Maran, born near
Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label= Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in ...
(1887–1960) * Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri (1954–2010)


Gambia

* Ebou Dibba (1943–2000) * Lenrie Peters (1932–2009) * Sally Singhateh (born 1977)


Germany

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Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll (; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll is a recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972). ...
(1917–1985) *
Alfred Döblin Bruno Alfred Döblin (; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel ''Berlin Alexanderplatz'' (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of ...
(1878–1957), author of ''
Berlin Alexanderplatz ''Berlin Alexanderplatz'' () is a 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin. It is considered one of the most important and innovative works of the Weimar Republic. In a 2002 poll of 100 noted writers the book was named among the top 100 books of all time. ...
'' *
Hans Fallada Hans Fallada (; born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 21 July 18935 February 1947) was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include '' Little Man, What Now?'' (1932) and '' Every Man Dies Alone'' ...
(1893–1947) *
Theodor Fontane Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known to ...
(1819–1898) *
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as t ...
(1749–1832),
polymath A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro ...
*
Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of D ...
(1927–2015), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999) * Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991) *
Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include '' Demian'', '' Steppenwolf'', '' Siddhartha'', and '' The Glass Bead Game'', each of which explores an individual ...
(1877–1962), Nobel Prize for Literature (1946) * Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) *
Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger (; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir '' Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful businessman and ...
(1895–1998) *
Marie Luise Kaschnitz Marie Luise Kaschnitz (born Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett; 31 January 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet. She is considered to be one of the leading post-war German poets. She was born in Ka ...
(1901–974) *
Daniel Kehlmann Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.Heinrich von Kleist Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 177721 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays '' Das Käthchen von Heilbronn'', ''The Broken Jug'', ''Amph ...
(1777–1811) *
Siegfried Lenz Siegfried Lenz (; 17 March 19267 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's bi ...
(1926–2014) *
Andreas Mand Andreas Mand (born 14 December 1959) is a German contemporary author of novels, short stories and essays and a playwright. He is one of the representatives of the German Popular literature, and in addition a stay-at-home dad, because he wanted to ...
(born 1959) *
Heinrich Mann Luiz Heinrich Mann (; 27 March 1871 – 11 March 1950), best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German author known for his socio-political novels. From 1930 until 1933, he was president of the fine poetry division of the Prussian Academy ...
(1871–1950) *
Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...
(1875–1955), Nobel Prize for Literature (1929) *
Sten Nadolny Sten Nadolny (; born 29 July 1942, in Zehdenick, Province of Brandenburg) is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers. Biography Nadolny grew up in the town of Traunstein, in Upper Bavaria. After receiv ...
(born 1942), author of ''
The Discovery of Slowness ''The Discovery of Slowness'' (original German title: ''Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit'') is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a double conceit: first, as a novelization of the life of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and second ...
'' *
Erich Maria Remarque Erich Maria Remarque (, ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German-born novelist. His landmark novel ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World ...
(1898–1970), author of '' Im Westen nichts Neues'', or ''
All Quiet on the Western Front ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (german: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit=Nothing New in the West) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma ...
'' (1929) *
Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Schlink (; born 6 July 1944) is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel ''The Reader'', which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize. Earl ...
(born 1944) *
W. G. Sebald Winfried Georg Sebald (18 May 1944 – 14 December 2001), known as W. G. Sebald or (as he preferred) Max Sebald, was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by literary critics as one of the g ...
(1944–2001) *
Anna Seghers Anna Seghers (; born ''Anna Reiling,'' 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983), is the pseudonym of a German writer notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born into a Jewish family and married to a Hungarian ...
(1900–1983) * Patrick Süskind (born 1949), author of ''
Perfume Perfume (, ; french: parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent ...
'' *
Martin Walser Martin Walser (; born 24 March 1927) is a German writer. Life Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance. His parents were coal merchants, and they also kept an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He described the ...
(born 1927) *
Peter Weiss Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays ''Marat/Sade'' and ''The Investigation'' and hi ...
(1916–1982) * Christa Wolf (1929–2011) *
Arnold Zweig Arnold Zweig (10 November 1887 – 26 November 1968) was a German writer, pacifist and socialist. He is best known for his six-part cycle on World War I. Life and work Zweig was born in Glogau, Prussian Silesia (now Głogów, Poland), the son ...
(1887–1968)


Ghana

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Nana Achampong Nana Sandy Achampong (born 1964) is a Ghanaian media practitioner, novelist, poet and educator. He has worked in the fields of journalism, public relations, advertising, marketing, the visual arts and literature in Ghana, the United Kingdom and th ...
(born 1964) *
Ama Ata Aidoo Ama Ata Aidoo, ''née'' Christina Ama Aidoo (born 23 March 1942) is a Ghanaian author, poet, playwright and academic. She was the Minister of Education under the Jerry Rawlings administration. In 2000, she established the Mbaasem Foundation t ...
(born 1940) *
Ayi Kwei Armah Ayi Kwei Armah (born 28 October 1939) is a Ghanaian writer best known for his novels including '' The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born'' (1968), '' Two Thousand Seasons'' (1973) and '' The Healers'' (1978). He is also an essayist, as well as havi ...
(born 1939) * Bediako Asare, also connected with
Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands ...
* Ayesha Harruna Attah (born 1983) * Nana Oforiatta Ayim * Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013) *
Yaba Badoe Yaba Badoe (born 1955) is a Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker, journalist and author. Career Yaba Badoe was born in Tamale, northern Ghana. She left Ghana to be educated in Britain at a very young age.Beti Ellerson"A Conversation with ...
(born 1955) *
Elizabeth-Irene Baitie Elizabeth-Irene Baitie (born 1970)
pp. 11–12. is a
Kofi Batsa (1931–1991) * J. Benibengor Blay (born 1915) *
William Boyd William, Willie, Will or Bill Boyd may refer to: Academics * William Alexander Jenyns Boyd (1842–1928), Australian journalist and schoolmaster * William Boyd (educator) (1874–1962), Scottish educator * William Boyd (pathologist) (1885–1979), ...
(born 1952) *
Akosua Busia Akosua Gyamama Busia (born 30 December 1966) is a Ghanaian actress, film director, author and songwriter who lives in the United Kingdom. She played Nettie Harris in the 1985 film ''The Color Purple'' alongside Whoopi Goldberg. Family and early ...
(born 1966) * J. E. Casely-Hayford (1866–1930) *
Jojo Cobbinah Jojo Cobbinah (born 25 May 1948) is a Ghanaian author living in Accra, Ghana, noted for his travel guides. Biography Cobbinah was born in Bogoso, north of Tarkwa, in the Western Region of Ghana. He attended a Catholic school in his home country, s ...
(born 1948) * Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 1967) *
Amma Darko Amma Darko (born 1956) is a Ghanaian novelist. She had won The Golden Baobab Prize for one of her novels. She has published seven novels in total. Life and writing She was born in Koforidua, Ghana, and grew up in Accra. She studied in Kumasi, wh ...
(born 1956) * Lawrence Darmani (born 1956) *
Kwame Dawes Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of N ...
(born 1962) *
Amu Djoleto Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto (born 22 July 1929) is a Ghanaian writer and educator. Life Amu Djoleto was born at Manyakpogunor, Manya Krobo District, Manya Krobo, Ghana, the son of Frederick Badu, a Presbyterian minister, and Victoria Shome Tette ...
(born 1929) *
Cameron Duodu Martin Cameron Duodu (born 24 May 1937)''Africa Who's Who'', London: Africa Journal for Africa Books Ltd, 1981, pp. 349–50. is a United Kingdom-based Ghanaian novelist, journalist, editor and broadcaster. After publishing a novel, ''The Gab Boy ...
(born 1937) * Asare Konadu (1932–1994) * B. Kojo Laing (1946–2017) * Lesley Lokko *
Nii Ayikwei Parkes Nii Ayikwei Parkes (; born 1 April 1974), born in the United Kingdom to parents from Ghana, where he was raised, is a performance poet, writer, publisher and sociocultural commentator. He is one of 39 writers aged under 40 from sub-Saharan Afric ...
(born 1974) *
Kobina Sekyi William Esuman-Gwira Sekyi, better known as Kobina Sekyi (1 November 1892, Cape Coast – 20 June 1956), was a nationalist lawyer, politician and writer in the Gold Coast. Biography Sekyi was the son of John Gladstone Sackey, headmaster of the W ...
(1892–1956) *
Taiye Selasi Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. Early life and education Taiye Selasi was born in Lo ...
(born 1979) * Francis Selormey (1927–1988) * Efua Theodora Sutherland (1924–1996)


Greece

* George Leonardos (born 1937) *
Nikos Kazantzakis Nikos Kazantzakis ( el, ; 2 March ( OS 18 February) 188326 October 1957) was a Greek writer. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in nine different years. Kazantzakis's n ...
(1883–1957)


Guatemala

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Miguel Ángel Asturias Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (; October 19, 1899 – June 9, 1974) was a Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Asturias helped establish Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream W ...
(1899–1974)


Guinea

* Sirah Balde de Labe *
Camara Laye Camara Laye (January 1, 1928 – February 4, 1980) was a writer from Guinea. He was the author of ''The African Child'' (''L'Enfant noir''), a novel based loosely on his own childhood, and ''The Radiance of the King'' (''Le Regard du roi'') ...
(1928–1980) * Tierno Monénembo (born 1947) * Williams Sassine (1944–1997)


Haïti

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Frankétienne Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne on April 12, 1936, in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti) is a Haitian writer, poet, playwright, painter, musician, activist and intellectual. He is recognized as one of Haiti's leading writers and playwrights of both Fren ...
(born 1936) * Clark Parent (born 1951) * Jacques Roumain (1907–1944)


Honduras

* Roberto Castillo (1950–2008) * Julio Escoto (born 1944) * Javier Abril Espinoza (born 1967) * Lucila Gamero (1873–1964)


Hong Kong

* Louis Cha (1924–2018) * Ni Kuang (born 1935)


Hungary

* Zoltán Ambrus (1861–1932) *
Mihály Babits Mihály Babits (; 26 November 1883 – 4 August 1941) was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator. His poems are well known for their intense religious themes. His novels such as “The Children of Death” (1927) explore psychological pro ...
(1883–1941) *
Zsófia Bán Zsófia Bán (born September 23, 1957, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a writer, literary historian, essayist and art and literature critic. Personal life Zsófia Bán grew up in Rio de Janeiro as the child of Jewish parents. In 1969, she and her fa ...
(born 1957) *
Miklós Bánffy Count Miklós Bánffy de Losoncz (30 December 1873 – 5 June 1950) was a Hungarian nobleman, liberal politician, and historical novelist. His books include '' The Transylvanian Trilogy'' (''They Were Counted'', ''They Were Found Wanting'' and '' ...
(1873–1950) * Ágota Bozai (born 1965) *
György Dalos György Dalos (born 23 September 1943) is a Hungarian Jewish writer and historian. He is best known for his novel ''1985'', and ''The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin''. Life Dalos was born in Budapest and spent his child ...
(born 1943) * Anna Dániel (1908–2003) * József Eötvös (1813–1871) * Péter Esterházy (1950–2016) * Klára Fehér (1919–1996) *
István Fekete István Fekete (25 January 1900, Gölle, Austria-Hungary – 23 June 1970, Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian writer. He wrote several youth novels and animal stories. He is perhaps best known for his youth novel ''Tüskevár'' ("Thorn Castle", 1 ...
(1900–1970), author of '' Vuk'' * Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922) *
Ágnes Gergely Ágnes Gergely (born 1933) is a Hungarian writer, educator, journalist and translator. Biography She was born Ágnes Guttmann in family of Fenákel Rózsika and György Guttmann in Endrőd, a village on the Great Hungarian Plain. She took he ...
(born 1933) * Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954) *
Éva Janikovszky Éva Janikovszky (April 23, 1926 in Szeged – July 14, 2003 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer. She wrote novels for both children and adults, but she is primarily known for her children's books, translated into 35 languages. Her first book ...
(1926–2003), also children's writer * Mór Jókai (1825–1904), foremost 19th-century novelist *
Margit Kaffka Margit Kaffka (10 June 1880 – 1 December 1918) was a Hungarian writer and poet. Called a "great, great writer" by Endre Ady, she was one of the most important female Hungarian authors, and an important member of the Nyugat generation. Her writ ...
(1880–1918) *
Frigyes Karinthy Frigyes Karinthy (; 25 June 1887 – 29 August 1938) was a Hungarian author, playwright, poet, journalist, and translator. He was the first proponent of the six degrees of separation concept, in his 1929 short story, ''Chains'' (''Láncszemek'') ...
(1887–1938), author of science-fiction novels * József Kármán (1768–1795) *
Zsigmond Kemény Baron Zsigmond Kemény (June 12, 1814December 22, 1875) was a Hungarian author. Life and work Kemény was born in Alvincz, Principality of Transylvania, Austrian Empire (today Vințu de Jos, Romania) to a distinguished noble family, but famil ...
(1814–1875) *
Rivka Keren Rivka Keren (born 1946) is an Israeli writer. Biography Rivka Keren was born as Katalin Friedländer in Debrecen, Hungary. She immigrated with her parents and small brother to Israel in 1957. She has been writing since childhood, first in Hunga ...
(born 1946), writing also in
Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
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Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...
(1929–2016), Nobel Prize for Literature (2002) * János Kodolányi (1899–1969) *
György Konrád György (George) Konrád (2 April 1933 – 13 September 2019) was a Hungarian novelist, pundit, essayist and sociologist known as an advocate of individual freedom. Life George Konrad was born in Berettyóújfalu, near Debrecen, into a ...
(1933–2019) *
Károly Kós Károly Kós (, born Károly Kosch; 16 December 1883 – 25 August 1977) was a Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Austria-Hungary and Romania. Biography Born as Károly Kosch in Temesvár, Austria-Hung ...
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Dezső Kosztolányi Dezső Kosztolányi (; March 29, 1885 – November 3, 1936) was a Hungarian writer, journalist, translator and also a speaker of Esperanto. He wrote in all literary genres, from poetry to essays to theatre plays. Building his own style, he used ...
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László Krasznahorkai László Krasznahorkai (; born 5 January 1954) is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter known for difficult and demanding novels, often labeled postmodern, with dystopian and melancholic themes. Several of his works, including his novels '' S ...
(born 1954) *
Gyula Krúdy Gyula Krúdy (21 October 1878 – 12 May 1933) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Biography Gyula Krúdy was born in Nyíregyháza, Austria-Hungary. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a maid working for the Krúdy family. His ...
(1878–1933) * Ervin Lázár (1936–2006), author of children's novels *
Laura Leiner Laura Leiner (born 22 April 1985) is a Hungarian writer who made her publishing debut in 2005. Her most notable work is the series A Szent Johanna gimi (Joan of Arc High School), that she later clarified is fictitious and not based on her own ...
(born 1985), author of young-adult series * Iván Mándy (1918–1995), author of children's novels * Sándor Márai (1900–1989) *
Ferenc Molnár Ferenc Molnár ( , ; born Ferenc Neumann; 12 January 18781 April 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage-director, dramatist, and poet, widely regarded as Hungary’s most celebrated and controversial play ...
(1878–1952), author of '' The Paul Street Boys'' *
Ferenc Móra Ferenc Móra (19 July 1879 – 8 February 1934) was a Hungarian novelist, journalist, and museologist. Life Ferenc Móra was born in Kiskunfélegyháza, into a financially poor family. His father Márton Móra was a tailor, and his mothe ...
(1879–1934) *
Zsigmond Móricz Zsigmond Móricz (; 29 June 1879, Tiszacsécse – 4 September 1942) was a major Hungarian novelist and Social Realist. Biography Zsigmond Móricz was born in Tiszacsécse in 1879 to Bálint Móricz and Erzsébet Pallagi. On his mother's ...
(1879–1942), foremost novelist of the earlier 20th century * Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910) *
Terézia Mora Terézia Mora (; born 5 February 1971) is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator. Early life and education Terézia Mora was born in Sopron, Hungary, to a family with German roots and grew up bilingual. She moved to Germany after th ...
(born 1971), writing in German * Péter Nádas (born 1942) * Borbála Nádasdy (born 1939) *
László Németh László Németh (18 April 1901 – 3 March 1975) was a Hungary, Hungarian dentist, writer, dramatist and essayist. He was born in Baia Mare, Nagybánya the son of József Németh (1873–1946) and Vilma Gaál (1879–1957). Over the Chr ...
(1901–1975) *
Emma Orczy Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Em ...
(Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), writing in English * Géza Ottlik (1912–1990) *
Jenő Rejtő Jenő Rejtő (29 March 1905 – 1 January 1943) was a Hungarian journalist, pulp fiction writer and playwright who died as a forced labourer during World War II. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on 29 March 1905, and died in Evdakov ...
(1905–1943) *
Henriett Seth F. Henriett Seth F. (born Fajcsák Henrietta, 27 October 1980), also known by the Hungarian pseudonym Seth F. Henriett, is a Hungarian autistic savant poet, writer, musician and artist. Childhood Henriett did not make eye contact in her early ...
(born 1980), science-fiction author * Magda Szabó (1917–2007), author of '' The Door'' * Sándor Szathmári (1897–1974), author of '' Kazohinia'' * Noémi Szécsi (born 1976) * Júlia Székely (1906–1986) *
Mária Szepes Mária Szepes (; 14 December 1908 – 3 September 2007) was a Hungarian author. She worked as a journalist and screenwriter, as well as an independent author in the field of hermetic philosophy since 1941. She would sometimes write under the ...
(1908–2007) *
Antal Szerb Antal Szerb (1 May 1901, Budapest – 27 January 1945, Balf) was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. He is generally considered to be one of the major Hungarian writers of the 20th century. Life and career Szerb was born in 1901 to assimilate ...
(1901–1945), author of ''
Journey by Moonlight ''Journey by Moonlight'' ( hu, Utas és holdvilág, literally "Traveler and Moonlight") is a 1937 novel by Hungarian writer Antal Szerb. It is among the best-known novels in contemporary Hungarian literature. According to English literary critic ...
'' * Edina Szvoren (born 1974) *
Áron Tamási Áron Tamási (born: János Tamás; 20 September 1897 – 26 May 1966) was a Hungarians, Hungarian writer. He became well known in his native region of Transylvania and in Hungary for his stories written in his original Székelys, Székely style ...
(1897–1966) * Kata Tisza (born 1980) *
Cécile Tormay Cécile Tormay (8 October 1875/76 in Budapest – 2 April 1937 in Mátraháza) was a Hungarian writer, intellectual, right-wing political activist, literary translator, and social theorist. Life Both her parents were of partly Germanic origi ...
(1876–1937) *
Albert Wass Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege ( hu, gróf szentegyedi és cegei Wass Albert; January 8, 1908 – February 17, 1998) was a Hungarian nobleman, forest engineer, novelist, poet, and member of the Wass de Czege family. Wass was born i ...
(1908–1998)


Iceland

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Snorri Sturluson Snorri Sturluson ( ; ; 1179 – 22 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing. He is commonly thought to have authored or compiled portions of th ...
(1179–1241), author of the ''Younger Edda'' *
Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and ...
(1902–1998), Nobel Prize for Literature (1955) *
Sjón 260px, Sjón at LiteratureXchange Festival ín Aarhus (Denmark 2019) Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson (born 27 August 1962), known as Sjón ( ; ; meaning "sight" and being an abbreviation of his first name), is an Icelandic poet, novelist, lyricis ...
(born 1962),
The Nordic Council's Literature Prize The Nordic Council Literature Prize is awarded for a work of literature written in one of the languages of the Nordic countries, that meets "high literary and artistic standards". Established in 1962, the prize is awarded every year, and is worth ...
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Indian subcontinent

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Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel, '' The White Tiger'', won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Biography Early life and education Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 ...
(born 1974), English * Ahmed Ali (1910–1994), English,
Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Mulk Raj Anand Mulk Raj Anand (12 December 1905 – 28 September 2004) was an Indian writer in English, recognised for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in traditional Indian society. One of the pioneers of Indo-Anglian fiction, he, togethe ...
(1905–2004), English *
Chaudhry Afzal Haq Chaudhry Afzal Haq (1891–8 January 1942) was born in a Muslim family, a writer, humanitarian, leader and co-founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, and a senior political figure in the history of Indian subcontinent. He worked to help the poor and ...
(1891–1942), Urdu, English, Hindi *
Manik Bandopadhyay Manik Bandyopadhyay lias Banerjee(; 19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956) is an Indian Litterateur regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature. During a lifespan of 48 years and 28 years of literary career, battling with ...
(1908–1956), Bengali * Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899–1970), Bengali * Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894–1950), Bengali * Tarashankar Banerjee (1898–1971), Bengali *
D. R. Bendre Dattātreya Rāmachandra Bēndre (31 January 1896 – 26 October 1981), popularly known as Da Rā Bēndre, is generally considered the greatest Kannada lyric poet of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the history of Kannada ...
(1896–1981),
Kannada Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
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Ramavriksha Benipuri Ramavriksha Benipuri (, 23 December 1899 – 9 September 1968) was a freedom fighter, Socialist Leader editor and Hindi literature, Hindi writer. He was born in a small village named Benipur in Muzaffarpur district in a Bhumihar Brahmin family ...
(1899–1968), Hindi *
Ruskin Bond Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Anglo-Indian author . His first novel, '' The Room on the Roof'', was published in 1956, and it received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and ...
(born 1934), English *Nitya Prakash (born 1988), English, Hindi * Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974), Bengali, English * Nirendranath Chakravarty (1924–2018), Bengali * Vikram Chandra (born 1961), English *
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (also Chattopadhayay) CIE (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, Essayist and journalist. Staff writer"Bankim Chandra: The First Prominent Bengali Novelist" ''The Daily Star'', 30 June 201 ...
(1838–1894), Bengali *
Upamanyu Chatterjee Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959) is an author and a retired Indian civil servant. His works include the novel '' English, August: An Indian story'', '' The Last Burden'', '' The Mammaries of the Welfare State'' and ''Weight Loss''. In 2008, he was ...
(born 1959), English * Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), Bengali * Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962), English *
Rajkamal Chaudhary Rajkamal Choudhary (1929–1967) (also spelled Rajkamal Chaudhary or Rajkamal Chaudhari) was an Indian poet, short story writer, novelist, critic and thinker in Maithili & Hindi languages. He was known as "a bold leader of new poetry" and writ ...
(1929–1967), Hindi * Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Bengali *
Manoj Das Manoj Das (27 February 1934 – 27 April 2021) was an Indian author who wrote in Odia and English. In 2000, Manoj Das was awarded the Saraswati Samman. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2001, the fourth-highest Civilian Award in India, Padma Bhusa ...
(1934–2021), Oriya * David Davidar (born 1958) *
Shobhaa De Shobha De (''née'' Rajadhyaksha, formerly Kilachand; born 7 January 1948) is an Indian novelist and columnist. She is best known for her depiction of socialites and sex in her works of fiction, for which she has been referred to as the "Jackie ...
(born 1948), English *
Anita Desai Anita Desai, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three ti ...
(born 1937), English *
Kiran Desai Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel ''The Inheritance of Loss'' won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "mo ...
(born 1971), English * P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi * Eunice De Souza (1940–2017), English *
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, ''Arrang ...
(born 1956) * Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1824–1873), Bengali, English, French *
Lalon Fakir Lalon ( bn, লালন; 14 October 1772 – 17 October 1890), also known as Lalon Shah, Lalon Fakir, Shahji and titled Fakir, Shah, was a prominent Bengali spiritual leader, philosopher, mystic poet and social reformer. Regarded as an icon of ...
(c. 1772–1890), Bengali *
Sunil Gangopadhyay Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian poet, historian and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata. He is a former Sheriff of Calcutta. Gangopadhyay obtained his m ...
(1934–2012), Bengali *
Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
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(born 1956), English *
Subodh Ghosh Subodh Ghosh (14 September 1909 – 10 March 1980) was a noted Indian author of Bengali literature and a journalist with the Kolkata-based daily newspaper '' Ananda Bazar Patrika''. Born at Hazaribagh on 14 September 1909, now in Jharkhand, he s ...
(1909–1980), Bengali *
Mir Mosharraf Hossain Mir Mosharraf Hossain ( bn, মীর মশাররফ হোসেন; 1847–1912) was a Bengali writer, novelist, playwright and essayist. He is considered to be the first major writer to emerge from the Muslim society of Bengal, and one ...
(1847–1912) Bengali * Raj Kamal Jha (born 1966), English * Amita Kanekar (born 1965), English * Umar Alisha Kavisekhara (1885–1945), Telugu * Datta Raghunath Kavthekar (1901–1979), Marathi *
Prakash Kona Prakash Kona Reddy (born 1967) is an Indian novelist, essayist, poet and theorist who lives in Hyderabad, India. He is currently a professor at the Department of English Literature, School of English Literary Studies, The English and Forei ...
(born 1967) *
Kuvempu Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (29 December 1904 – 11 November 1994), popularly known by his pen name Kuvempu, was an Indian poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He is widely regarded as the greatest Kannada poet of the 20th century. He wa ...
(1904–1994), Kannada *
Jhumpa Lahiri Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob ''USA Today'', August 19, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. (born July 11, 1967) is an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italia ...
(born 1967) *
Pankaj Mishra Pankaj Mishra FRSL (born 1969) is an Indian essayist and novelist. He was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014. Early life and education Mishra was born in Jhansi, India. His father was a railway worker and trade unioni ...
(born 1969) * Piyush Jha (living), English * Rohinton Mistry (born 1952), English *
Narendranath Mitra Narendranath Mitra (30 January 1916 – 14 September 1975) was an Indian writer and poet, best known for his short stories in the Bengali-language. Several of his works have been adapted into films, such as Mahanagar directed by Satyajit Ray. ...
(1916–1975), Bengali *
Gopinath Mohanty Gopinath Mohanty (1914–1991), winner of the Jnanpith award, and the first winner of the National Sahitya Akademi Award in 1955 – for his novel, ''Amrutara Santana'' – was a prolific Odia writer of the mid-twentieth century. Satya Pra ...
(1914–1991), Oriya * Jagadish Mohanty (1951–2013), Odia *
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay ( bn, শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়; born 2 November 1935) is a Bengali author from India. He has written stories for both adults and children. He is known for creating the relative ...
(born 1935), Bengali * Kiran Nagarkar (1942–2019) Marathi, English * R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English * Bhalchandra Nemade (born 1938), Marathi * Dibyendu Palit (1939–2019), Bengali, English *
Surender Mohan Pathak Surender Mohan Pathak (born 19 February 1940 at Khemkaran, in Tarn Taran district near Amritsar, in the Majha region of Punjab) is an author of Hindi-language crime fiction with nearly 300 novels to his credit. His writing career, along with h ...
(born 1940), Hindi * Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937), Hindi *
Munshi Premchand Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. Premchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction. He was one of ...
(1880–1936), Hindi * Tushar Raheja (born 1984), English *
Indra Bahadur Rai Indra Bahadur Rai (3 February 1927 – 6 March 2018) was an Indian Nepali language writer and literary critic from Darjeeling, India. He wrote multiple essays, short stories, novels and criticism in his lifetime. ''Kheer'' and ''Raat Bhari Huri ...
(1927–2018)
Nepali Nepali or Nepalese may refer to : Concerning Nepal * Anything of, from, or related to Nepal * Nepali people, citizens of Nepal * Nepali language, an Indo-Aryan language found in Nepal, the current official national language and a language spoken ...
* Rajashree, English *
Raja Rao Raja Rao (8 November 1908 – 8 July 2006) was an Indian-American writer of English-language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in metaphysics. '' The Serpent and the Rope'' (1960), a semi-autobiographical novel recounting ...
(1908–2006), English *
Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of ...
(1921–1992), Bengali *
Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel ''The God of Small Things'' (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. S ...
(born 1961), English *
Rammohan Roy Raja Ram Mohan Roy ( bn, রামমোহন রায়; 22 May 1772 – 27 September 1833) was an Indian reformer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a social-religious reform ...
(1772–1833), Bengali, English, Sanskrit *
Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and ...
(born 1947), English *
Sarojini Sahoo Sarojini Sahoo (born 4 January 1956) is an Indian feminist writer, a columnist in ''The New Indian Express'' and an associate editor of Chennai-based English magazine ''Indian AGE.'' She has been enlisted among '' 25 Exceptional Women of India' ...
(born 1956) Odia *
Rahul Sankrityayan Rahul Sankrityayan (born Kedarnath Pandey; 9 April 1893 – 14 April 1963) was an Indian writer and a polyglot who wrote in Hindi. He played a pivotal role in giving travelogue a 'literary form'. He was one of the most widely travelled scholars ...
(1893–1963), Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit *
Vilas Sarang Vilas Sarang (Devanagari: विलास सारंग) (1942–2015) is a modernist Indian writer, critic and translator. Life Sarang's stories have appeared in the UK, US, Canada and India in journals such as '' Encounter'', ''The London ...
(1942–2015) Marathi, English * D. Selvaraj (1938–2009), Tamil *
Samar Sen Samar Sen ( bn, সমর সেন; 10 October 1916 – 23 August 1987) was a prominent Indian Bengali poet and journalist in the post-Independence era. Education Samar Sen was a graduate of the Scottish Church College, at the University of ...
(1916–1987), Bengali, English *
Fakir Mohan Senapati Fakir Mohan Senapati (Odia: ଫକୀର ମୋହନ ସେନାପତି; 13 January 1843 – 14 June 1918), often referred to as Utkala Byasa Kabi (''Odisha's Vyasa''), was an Indian writer, poet, philosopher and social reformer. He played ...
(1843–1918), Oriya *
Durjoy Datta Durjoy Datta is an Indian author and screenwriter. Early and personal life Durjoy Datta was born on 7 February 1987 in Mehsana, Gujarat, in a Bengali Hindu family, and was brought up in New Delhi. He completed his schooling at the Bal Bharat ...
(born 1987), English * Vikram Seth (born 1952), author of ''A Suitable Boy'' *
Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
(1861–1941) Bengali also poet, painter, philosopher &
Nobel laureate The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make o ...
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Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor (; ; born 9 March 1956 in London, England ) is an Indian former international civil servant, diplomat, bureaucrat and politician, writer and public intellectual who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, ...
(born 1956), English *
Chetan Bhagat Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author, columnist and YouTuber. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Five of his novels have been adapted into films. Family, education, a ...
(born 1971), English * Rajeeva Nayan Pathak (born 1972), English *
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE ( bn, ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century ...
(1820–1891) Bengali *
Vijayakrishnan Vijayakrishnan was born in 1952 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is a well-known film critic as well as a film director who also writes stories and movie reviews. Vijayakrishnan has received eight State Awards, one National Award, and two Cr ...
(born 1952), Malayalam *
Kalki Krishnamurthy , birth_name = Ramasamy Aiyer Krishnamurthy , birth_date = , birth_place = Puthamangalam, near Manalmedu , death_date = , death_place = Chennai, India , occupation = journalist, critic and writer , nationality = Indian , education = H ...
(1899–1954), Tamil * Sujatha (1935–2008), Tamil language *
Lakshminath Bezbaroa ' Lakshminath Bezbarua (, 14 October 1864), was an Assamese poet, novelist and playwright of modern Assamese literature. He was one of the literary stalwarts of the Jonaki Era, the age of romanticism in Assamese literature when through his ess ...
(1864–1938), Assamese *
Mamoni Raisom Goswami Indira Goswami (14 November 1942 – 29 November 2011), known by her pen name Mamoni Raisom Goswami and popularly as Mamoni Baideo, was an Indian writer, poet, professor, scholar and editor. She was the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1983 ...
(1942–2011), Assamese, English * Bhabendra Nath Saikia (1932–2003), Assamese * Hiren Gohain (born 1939), Assamese * Nabakanta Barua (1926–2002), Assamese *
Bishnu Prasad Rabha Bishnu Prasad Rabha was an cultural figure from Assam, known for his contributions in the fields of music, dance, painting, literature as well as political activism. As an advocate of people's cultural movement, he drew heavily from different ...
, Assamese *
Kulpreet Yadav Kulpreet Yadav (born 14 January 1968) is an Indian novelist, screenwriter and an actor. He is the author of thirteen books, including ''The Girl Who Loved a Pirate'' and ''The Girl Who Loved a Spy''. ''The Girl Who Loved a Pirate'' is India's ...
(born 1968), English * M. T. Vasudevan Nair (born 1933), Malayalam *
Sudha Murthy Sudha Murty (' Kulkarni; born 19 August 1951) is an Indian educator, author and philanthropist who is chairperson of the Infosys F ...
(born 1950), Kannada, Marathi, English


Indonesia

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Andrea Hirata Andrea Hirata (born October 24, 1967) is an Indonesian author best known for the 2005 novel ''Laskar Pelangi'' ("The Rainbow Troops") and its sequels. Biography Hirata was born in Gantung, Belitung. While he was young, his parents changed his n ...
(born 1967), Tetralogy of "Laskar Pelangi" (The Rainbow Troops) *
Dewi Lestari Dewi "Dee" Lestari Simangunsong (born 20 January 1976, in Bandung, West Java) is an Indonesian writer, singer, and songwriter. Biography Dee was born in Bandung, West Java on 20 January 1976; she was the fourth of five children born to a reli ...
(born 1976) * Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925–2006), author of the banned 1980 novel ''
This Earth of Mankind ''This Earth of Mankind'' is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called ''Buru Quartet'', first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980. The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imp ...
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Iraq

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Ahmed Saadawi Ahmed Saadawi (born 1973, ar, أحمد سعداوي) is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter and documentary film maker. He won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction for '' Frankenstein in Baghdad''. He lives and works in Baghdad. Awa ...
(born 1973), author of the award-winning Iraqi novel
Frankenstein in Baghdad ''Frankenstein in Baghdad'' ( ar, فرانكشتاين في بغداد) is an Arabic novel written by the Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi. It won the IPAF award (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) for 2014. The novel was translated into English ...
* Diaa Jubaili *
Fouad al-Tikerly Fouad al-Tikerly ( ar, فؤاد التكرلي; August 22, 1927 – February 11, 2008) was a prominent Iraqi novelist and writer, best known for his groundbreaking novel ''al-Rajea al-Baeed'', translated into English as ''The Long Way Back''. Al- ...
, best known for his novel al-Rajea al-Baeed, translated into English as The Long Way Back * Haifa Zangana (born 1950), in
Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
* Hazim Kamaledin (born 1954), best known for his novel Desertified Waters, translated in Ducht as Schoonheid raast in mij tot ik sterf, Longlist International Prize for Arabic Fiction * Ibtisam Abdallah *
Inaam Kachachi Inaam Kachachi (Arabic:انعام كجه جي; born 1952) is an Iraqi journalist and author. Inaam is an Iraqi writer, born in Baghdad in 1952. She studied journalism at Baghdad University, working in Iraqi press and radio before moving to Paris t ...
(born 1952) *
Iqbal al-Qazwini Iqbal al-Qazwini is an Iraqi journalist and novelist. She was exiled in East Berlin, Germany in 1978 when she was in her early 20s, a consequence of Saddam Hussein's rise to power in her homeland. She has lived in Germany ever since. She has bee ...
* Samīra al-Māni' *
Samuel Shimon Samuel Shimon (born 1956 in Al-Habbaniyah, Iraq) is an Iraqi writer and journalist of Assyrian descent. He left Iraq in 1979 with dreams of becoming a director in Hollywood, and has since then lived in Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Nicosia, Aden, Cairo ...
* Selim Matar * Sinan Antoon


Iran

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Ahmad Mahmoud Ahmad E'ta ( fa, احمد اعطا), better known by his pen name Ahmad Mahmoud ( fa, احمد محمود); (December 25, 1931 – October 4, 2002) was a prominent Iranian novelist from Ahvaz city in the southwest of Iran. One of his works, ''T ...
(1931–2002) * Azar Nafisi (born 1948) * Bozorg Alavi (1904–1997) *
Houshang Golshiri Houshang Golshiri ( fa, هوشنگ گلشیری; March 16, 1938''A Hundred Years of Storytelling in Iran'', Amir Abedini, p. 274. – June 5, 2000) was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor. He was one of the first Iranian writers to ...
(1937–2000) * Jamal Mirsadeghi *
Mahmud Doulatabadi Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ( fa, محمود دولت‌آبادی, ''Mahmud Dowlatâbâdi'') (born 1 August 1940 in Dowlatabad, Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and ...
(born 1930) * Reza Baraheni (born 1935) *
Sadegh Hedayat Sadegh Hedayat ( fa, صادق هدایت ; 17 February 1903 – 9 April 1951) was an Iranian writer and translator. Best known for his novel ''The Blind Owl'', he was one of the earliest Iranian writers to adopt literary modernism in their caree ...
(1903–1951) * Sadiq Chubak (1916–1998) * Shahrnush Parsipur (born 1946) * Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012) *
Zoya Pirzad Zoya Zana Pirzad (also spelled as Zoyā Pirzād; fa, زویا زانا پیرزاد; hy, Զոյա Փիրզադ; born 1952 in Abadan) is an Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. Her mother is Iranian Armenian and her father comes from a Russian bac ...
(born 1952) *
Arash Hejazi Arash Hejazi ( fa, آرش حجازی), born 1971 in Tehran, Iran, is an Iranian physician, novelist, fiction writer and translator of literary works from English and Portuguese into Persian. He is also an editor in Caravan Books Publishing House ...
(born 1971) * Abbas Maroufi (born 1957) * Shahryar Mandanipour (born 1957) *
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad Seyyed Jalāl Āl-e-Ahmad ( fa, جلال آل‌احمد; December 2, 1923September 9, 1969) was a prominent Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher, socio-political critic, sociologist, as well as an anthropologist who was ...
(1923-1969)


Ireland

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Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and Tragicomedy, tr ...
(1906–1989) *
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the Modernism, modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important ...
(1882–1941) *
Flann O'Brien Brian O'Nolan ( ga, Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), better known by his pen name Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth c ...
(1911–1966) *
Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
(1854–1900)


Israel

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Shmuel Yosef Agnon Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( he, שמואל יוסף עגנון; July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (). In English, his works are published und ...
(1888–1970),
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
winner; ''The Bridal Canopy'', ''Yesteryear'' *
Aharon Appelfeld Aharon Appelfeld ( he, אהרן אפלפלד; born Ervin Appelfeld; February 16, 1932 – January 4, 2018) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. Biography Ervin Appelfeld was born in Jadova Commune, Storojineț County, in the Bukovina ...
, '' Badenheim 1939'' *
Naomi Frankel Naomi Frankel (20 November 1918 – 20 November 2009), also spelled Fraenkel and Frenkel, was a German-Israeli novelist. Born in Berlin, she was evacuated to Mandatory Palestine with other German-Jewish children in 1933. She became a member of Ki ...
(1918–2009), ''Shaul ve-Yohannah'' (Saul and Joanna) trilogy * David Grossman (born 1954), ''See Under: Love'', ''The Smile of the Lamb'' * Yoram Kaniuk (1930–2013), ''His Daughter'' *
Amos Oz Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onw ...
(1939–2018), '' Black Box'', '' My Michael'' *
Yaakov Shabtai Yaakov Shabtai ( he, יעקב שבתאי; March 8, 1934 – August 4, 1981) was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator. Biography Shabtai was born in 1934 in Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine. In 1957, after completing military service, he ...
(1934–1981), ''Past Continuous'' *
Meir Shalev Meir Shalev ( he, מאיר שלו; born 29 July 1948) is an Israeli writer and newspaper columnist for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth . Shalev's books have been translated into 26 languages. Biography Shalev was born in Nahalal, Israel. Later he ...
(born 1948), ''The Blue Mountain'', ''Esau'' *
Michal Govrin Michal Govrin ( he, מיכל גוברין; November 24, 1950) is an Israeli author, poet and theater director. Biography Michal Govrin was born and raised in Tel Aviv to a father who was part of the Third Aliyah and one of the founders of kibbut ...
(born 1960), ''The Name'', ''Snapshots'' * Chaim Walder (born 1969), ''Kids Speak'' * Avraham B. Yehoshua (born 1936), ''A Late Divorce'', ''Mr. Mani''


Italy

* Giulio Angioni (1939–2017) *
Riccardo Bacchelli Riccardo Bacchelli (; 19 April 1891 – 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the review ''La Ronda'' and Bagutta Prize for literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times. Care ...
(1891–1985) *
Alessandro Baricco Alessandro Baricco (; born 25 January 1958) is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages. Early life, family and education Baricco was born in Turin, Italy. He has earned degre ...
(born 1958) *
Giorgio Bassani Giorgio Bassani (4 March 1916 – 13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. Biography Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood wi ...
(1916–2000) *
Stefano Benni Stefano Benni (born 12 August 1947) is an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success. 2.5 million copies of his books have been sold in Ita ...
, journalist, poet, novelist, '' Terra'' (1985) is most popular work in English *
Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua (27 June 1934 – 9 September 2013) was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, ''The Dust on the Grass'' (1955), was impressed and ...
(1934–2013) * Vitaliano Brancati (1907–1954) *
Gesualdo Bufalino Gesualdo Bufalino (; Comiso, Italy, 15 November 1920 – 14 June 1996), was an Italian writer. Biography Gesualdo Bufalino was born in Comiso, Sicily. He studied literature and was a high-school professor in his hometown, for most of his life ...
(1920–19960 * Aldo Busi (born 1948) * Dino Buzzati (1906–1972), ''Il deserto dei Tartari'' (1940) *
Italo Calvino Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the '' Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the ''Cosmicomi ...
(1923–1985), ''Cosmicomics'', ''
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' ( it, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about the reader trying to read a book called ...
'' (1979) *
Luigi Capuana Luigi Capuana (May 28, 1839 – November 29, 1915) was an Italian author and journalist and one of the most important members of the ''verist'' movement (see also ''verismo'' (literature)). He was a contemporary of Giovanni Verga, both having ...
(1839–1915) *
Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer. Biography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, b ...
(1925–2019) * Carlo Cassola (1917–1987) *
Saveria Chemotti Saveria Chemotti (born April 5, 1947) is an Italian writer of non-fiction and prose. She is an essayist, novelist, and literary critic, as well as a researcher with a focus area of culture and gender studies. Biography Saveria Chemotti was born ...
(born 1947) *
Carlo Collodi Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''. Early life Co ...
(1826–1890) * Carmen Covito (born 1948) * Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938) * Massimo D'Azeglio (1798–1866) * Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) *
Grazia Deledda Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936), also known in Sardinian language as Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda (), was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically ...
(1871–1936) *
Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel ''The Name of th ...
(1932–2016) * Elena Ferrante *
Beppe Fenoglio Beppe Fenoglio (; born Giuseppe Fenoglio 1 March 1922 in Alba (CN) – 18 February 1963 in Turin) was an Italian writer, partisan and translator from English. The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe and the ...
(né Giuseppe) *
Antonio Fogazzaro Antonio Fogazzaro (; 25 March 1842 – 7 March 1911) was an Italian novelist and proponent of Liberal Catholicism. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times. Biography Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a wealthy family. In ...
(1842–1911) *
Carlo Emilio Gadda Carlo Emilio Gadda (; November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements o ...
(1893–1973) *
Natalia Ginzburg Natalia Ginzburg (, ; ; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, f ...
(1916–1991) *
Primo Levi Primo Michele Levi (; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Jewish Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, collections of short stories, essays, poems and one novel. His best-known works ...
(1919–1987),
chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...
and novelist *
Emilio Lussu Emilio Lussu (4 December 1890 – 5 March 1975) was an Italian soldier, politician, anti-fascist and writer. Biography The soldier Lussu was born in Armungia, province of Cagliari ( Sardinia) and graduated with a degree in law in 1914. Lussu m ...
(1890–1975) *
Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel '' The Betrothed'' (orig. it, I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the maste ...
(1785–1873) *
Dacia Maraini Dacia Maraini (; born November 13, 1936) is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for ''L'età del malessere'' ...
(born 1936) * Franco Mimmi (born 1942) *
Elsa Morante Elsa Morante (; 18 August 191225 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel '' La storia'' (''History'') is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time. Life an ...
(1912–1985) *
Alberto Moravia Alberto Moravia ( , ; born Alberto Pincherle ; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990) was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his de ...
(1907–1990) *
Cesare Pavese Cesare Pavese ( , ; 9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist. He is often referred to as one of the most influential Italian writers of his time. Early lif ...
(1908–1950) *
Luigi Pirandello Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power ...
(1867–1936), playwright, ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' *
Vasco Pratolini Vasco Pratolini (19 October 1913 – 12 January 1991) was an Italian writer of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Biography Born in Florence, Pratolini worked at various jobs before entering the l ...
(1913–1991) * Andrea di Robilant *
Emilio Salgari Emilio Salgari (, but often erroneously ; 21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of spe ...
(1862–1911) *
Alberto Savinio Alberto Savinio , born as Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico (25 August 1891 – 5 May 1952) was a Greek-Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer. He was the younger brother of 'metaphysical ...
(1891–1952) * Leonardo Sciascia (1921–1989) *
Ignazio Silone Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, ), was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. He was no ...
(1900–1978) * Mario Soldati (1906–1999) *
Italo Svevo Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (), was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svev ...
(1861–1928) *
Antonio Tabucchi Antonio Tabucchi (; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator ...
(1943–2012), '' Pereira Declares'' (1994) *
Susanna Tamaro Susanna Tamaro (; born 12 December 1957) is an Italian novelist and film director. She is an author of novels, stories, magazine articles, and children's literature. Her novel ''Va' dove ti porta il cuore'' (''Follow your Heart'') was a bestseller ...
(born 1957) *
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, GE (; 23 December 1896 – 23 July 1957) was an Italian writer and the last Prince of Lampedusa. He is most famous for his only novel, '' Il Gattopardo'' (first publish ...
(1896–1957), ''The Leopard'' *
Giovanni Verga Giovanni Carmelo Verga di Fontanabianca (; 2 September 1840 – 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist ('' verista'') writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, especially the short story and later play ''Cavalleria ...
(1840–1922) *
Elio Vittorini Elio Vittorini (; 23 July 1908 – 12 February 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Cesare Pavese and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the anti-fascist novel '' Co ...
(1908–1966)


Jamaica

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Opal Palmer Adisa Opal Palmer Adisa (born 6 November 1954) is a Jamaica-born award-winning poet, novelist, performance artist and educator. Anthologized in more than 400 publications, she has been a regular performer of her work internationally. Professor Emeritu ...
(born 1954) *Lindsay Barrett (born 1941) *Edward Baugh (born 1936) *James Berry (poet), James Berry (1924–2017) *Eliot Bliss (1903–1990) *Erna Brodber (born 1940) *Colin Channer (born 1963) *
Kwame Dawes Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of N ...
(born 1962) *Jean D'Costa (born 1937) *Nicole Dennis-Benn *John Edgar Colwell Hearne (1926–1994) *Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) *Herbert de Lisser (1878–1944) *Roger Mais (1905–1955) *Claude McKay (1889–1948) *Pamela Mordecai (born 1942) *Geoffrey Philp (born 1958) *Velma Pollard (born 1937) *Patricia Powell (born 1966) *Victor Stafford Reid (1913–1987) *Joan Riley (born 1958) *Leone Ross (born 1969) *Andrew Salkey (1928–1995) *Olive Senior (born 1941) *Makeda Silvera (born 1955) *Elean Thomas (1947–2004) *Sylvia Wynter (born 1928)


Japan

*Kōbō Abe (1924–1993) *Hiroyuki Agawa (1920–2015) *Sawako Ariyoshi (1931–1984) *Dazai Osamu, Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) *Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986) *Shusaku Endo (1923–1996) *Ichiyō Higuchi (1872–1896) *Masuji Ibuse (1898–1993) *Kyōka Izumi (1873–1939) *Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) (Nobel Prize, 1968) *Natsuo Kirino (born 1951) *Kimitake Hiraoka, Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) *Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933) *Minae Mizumura (born 1951) *Haruki Murakami (born 1949) *Ryū Murakami *Nisioisin (born 1981) *Kenzaburō Ōe (born 1935) (Nobel Prize, 1994) *Yōko Ogawa (born 1962) *Fuyumi Ono (born 1961) *Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965) *Hirotsu Ryurō (1861–1928) *Murasaki Shikibu *Junzo Shono (1921–2009) *Ayako Sono (born 1931) *Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) *Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) *Shōtarō Yasuoka (1920–2013) *Banana Yoshimoto (born 1964) *Akira Yoshimura (1927–2006) *Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (1924–1994)


Kenya

*Margaret Ogola (1958–2011) *Grace Ogot (1930–2015) *M. G. Vassanji (born 1950) *Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938), ''The River Between'', ''Caitaani muthara-Ini'', ''Matigari'' *Meja Mwangi (born 1948) *Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Karen Blixen (1885–1962)


Korea


Kosovo

*Sinan Hasani (1922–2010) *Teki Dervishi (1943–2011) *Rifat Kukaj (1938–2005)


Turkey (Kurds)

*Bachtyar Ali (born 1960) *Jalal Barzanji (born 1953) *Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015) *Ata Nahai *Farhad Pirbal (born 1961) *Mehmed Uzun (1953–2007)


Latvia

*Andrejs Upīts (1877–1970) *Marģeris Zariņš (1910–1993) *Aleksandrs Čaks (1901–1950)


Lebanon

*Hanan al-Shaykh (born 1945) *Youssef Howayek (1883–1962), writer and sculptor *Elias Khoury (writer), Elias Khoury (born 1948) *Amin Maalouf (born 1949) *Widad Sakakini (1913–1991)


Lesotho

*Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948)


Luxembourg


Republic of Macedonia

*Slavko Janevski (1920–2000)


Madagascar

*Michèle Rakotoson (born 1948) *Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901 or 1903–1937)


Malawi

*Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (born 1955) *Felix Mnthali (born 1933)


Malaysia

*K. S. Maniam (1942–2020)


Mali

*Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1901–1991) *Aïda Mady Diallo *Doumbi Fakoly (born 1944) *Moussa Konaté (1951–2013) *Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017)


Mauritania

*Moussa Ould Ebnou (born 1956)


Mexico

*Juan José Arreola *Nellie Campobello *Laura Esquivel *Carlos Fuentes *Elena Garro *Martín Luis Guzmán *José Emilio Pacheco *Octavio Paz *Juan Rulfo *Agustin Yanez *Jorge Ibargüengoitia *Homero Aridjis


Morocco

*Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) *Driss Chraïbi (1926–2007) *Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917–2010) *Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009) *Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941–1995) *Laila Lalami (born 1968) *Ahmed Sefrioui (1915–13 July 2004) *Mohamed Zafzaf (1945–2001) *Mohamed Leftah (1946–2008)


Mozambique

*Paulina Chiziane (born 1955) *Mia Couto (born 1955) *Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (born 1957) *Lina Magaia (1940–2011)


Nepal

*Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (1914–1982): Sumnima, Tin Ghumti, Hitlar Ra Yahudi. *
Indra Bahadur Rai Indra Bahadur Rai (3 February 1927 – 6 March 2018) was an Indian Nepali language writer and literary critic from Darjeeling, India. He wrote multiple essays, short stories, novels and criticism in his lifetime. ''Kheer'' and ''Raat Bhari Huri ...
*Jagadish Ghimire (1946–2013): Lilam, Sabiti. *Khagendra Sangraula (born 1946): Chetanako Pahilo Dak, Amako Chhatapati, Junakiriko Sangit. *Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) *Narayan Wagle *Parijat (writer) (1937–1993): Shirishko Phool (Blue Mimosa), Anido Pahadsangai, Paribhasit Ankhanharu. *Samrat Upadhyay *Sanu Sharma *Sarubhakta (born 1956) *Shrawan Mukarung *Subin Bhattarai (born 1982)


Netherlands

*Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) *Harry Mulisch (1927–2010) *Multatuli (1820–1887) *Tip Marugg (1923–2006) *Cees Nooteboom (born 1933) *Willem Frederik Hermans (1921–1995) *Jan Wolkers (1925–2007) *Gerard van het Reve (1923–2006) *A.F.Th. van der Heijden (born 1951)


New Zealand

*Barbara Anderson (writer), Barbara Anderson (1926–2013) *Catherine Chidgey (born 1970) *Joy Cowley (born 1936) *Nigel Cox (author), Nigel Cox (1951–2006) *Barry Crump (1935–1996) *Tessa Duder (born 1940) *Alan Duff (born 1950) *Kate Duignan (born 1974) *Janet Frame (1924–2004), author of ''An Angel at My Table'' *Maurice Gee (born 1931) *Patricia Grace (born 1937) *Keri Hulme (1947–2021) *Witi Ihimaera (born 1944) *Annamarie Jagose (born 1965) *Fiona Kidman (born 1940) *John A. Lee (1891–1982) *Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982) *Owen Marshall (born 1941) *Frederick Edward Maning (1812–1883) *Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922–1972) *Rosie Scott (1948–2017) *Maurice Shadbolt (1932–2004) *C. K. Stead (born 1932) *Philip Temple (born 1939) *Julius Vogel (1835–1899) *Cherry Wilder (1930–2002)


Nicaragua

*Gioconda Belli (born 1948)


Nigeria

*Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) *Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) *Teju Cole (born 1975) *Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) *Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) *Helon Habila (born 1967) *Elnathan John (born 1982) *Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) *Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) *Ben Okri (born 1959) *Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) *
Taiye Selasi Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a "local" of Accra, Berlin, New York and Rome. Early life and education Taiye Selasi was born in Lo ...
(born 1979) *Lola Shoneyin (born 1974) *Wole Soyinka (born 1934) *Amos Tutuola (1920–1997)


Norway

*Ingvar Ambjørnsen (born 1956) *Jens Bjørneboe (1920–1976) *Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910) *Johan Borgen (1902–1979) *Lars Saabye Christensen (born 1953) *Olav Duun (1876–1939) *Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) *Jostein Gaarder (born 1952), ''Sophie's World'' *Erik Fosnes Hansen (born 1965) *Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), ''Hunger'' *Sigurd Hoel (1890–1960) *Roy Jacobsen (born 1954) *Alexander Kielland (1849–1906) *Jan Kjærstad (born 1953) *Karl Ove Knausgård (born 1968) *Jonas Lie (writer), Jonas Lie (1833–1908) *Erlend Loe (born 1969) *Gabriel Scott (1874–1958) *Dag Solstad (born 1941) *Sigrid Undset (1859–1952), ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' *Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) *Herbjørg Wassmo (born 1942)


Pakistan

* Ahmed Ali, founder of Pakistan Academy of Letters, fiction writer, poet and scholar *
Chaudhry Afzal Haq Chaudhry Afzal Haq (1891–8 January 1942) was born in a Muslim family, a writer, humanitarian, leader and co-founder of Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam, and a senior political figure in the history of Indian subcontinent. He worked to help the poor and ...
(1891–1942) *Tariq Ali (born 1943) * Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 1968) *Zulfikar Ghose (born 1935) *Mohsin Hamid (born 1971) *Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975) *Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955), born in India * Ali Akbar Natiq (born 1974) *Uzma Aslam Khan *Kamila Shamsie (born 1973) *Bapsi Sidhwa (born 1938) *Abdullah Hussain (writer), Abdullah Hussain (1920–2014) *Intizar Hussain (1923–2016) *Janbaz Mirza *Mustansar Hussain Tarar (born 1939) *Bano Qudsia *Ashfaq Ahmed (1925–2004) *Mumtaz Mufti (1905–1995) *Naseem Hijazi (c. 1914–1996) *Ibn-e-Safi *Ishtiaq Ahmad (fiction writer), Ishtiaq Ahmed (c. 1941–2015)


Palestine


Panama


Paraguay

*Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born 1944) *Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005)


Peru

*Ciro Alegría (1909–1967) *José María Arguedas (1911–1969) *Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) (Nobel Prize, 2010)


Philippines

*Francisco Arcellana (1916–2002) *Lualhati Bautista (born 1945) *Carlos Bulosan (1913–1956) *Jose Dalisay (born 1954) *Eric Gamalinda (born 1956) *N. V. M. Gonzalez (1915–1999) *Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949) *Amado Hernandez (1903–1970) *Stevan Javellana (1918–1977) *Nick Joaquin (1917–2004) *Edgardo Reyes (1936–2012) *José Rizal (1861–1896) *Ninotchka Rosca (born 1946) *Bienvenido Santos (1911–1996) *Lope K. Santos (1879–1963) *Rogelio Sicat (1940–1997) *F. Sionil José (1924–2022) *Edilberto Tiempo (1913–1996) *Edith Tiempo (1919–2011) *Linda Ty-Casper (born 1931)


Poland

*Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965) *Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898–1939) *Tadeusz Konwicki (1926–2015) *Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801) *Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887) *Zofia Nałkowska (1885–1954) *Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) *Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) *Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) *Jan Potocki (1761–1815) *Bolesław Prus (1847–1912) *Władysław Reymont (1867–1925), Nobel Prize for Literature 1924, author of ''The Peasants'' *Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) *Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), Nobel Prize for Literature 1905, author of ''Quo Vadis (novel), Quo Vadis'' *Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921) *Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925) *Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975)


Portugal

*Antonio Lobo Antunes (born 1942) *Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922–2019) *Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890) *Júlio Dinis (1839–1871) *Almeida Garrett (1799–1854) *Alexandre Herculano (1810–1877) *José Cardoso Pires (1925–1998) *Eça de Queirós (1845–1900) *José Saramago (1922–2010)


Puerto Rico

*Giannina Braschi (born 1953), ''Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998), and ''El imperio de los suenos/Empire of Dreams'' (1988). *Luis López Nieves (born 1950), ''Seva '' (1984), ''Escribir para Rafa '' (1987), ''La verdadera muerte de Juan Ponce de León '' (2000), ''El corazón de Voltaire '' (2005)


Romania

*Gabriela Adameșteanu (born 1942) *Camil Baciu (1926–2005) *Maria Baciu (born 1942) *Max Blecher (1909–1938)) *Nicolae Breban (born 1934) *Augustin Buzura (1938–2017) *Mateiu Caragiale (1885–1936) *George Călinescu (1899–1965) *Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1956) *Gheorghe Crăciun (1950–2007) *Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) *Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889) *Radu Pavel Gheo (born 1969) *Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Virgil Gheorghiu (1916–1992) *Panait Istrati (1884–1935) *Alexandru Ivasiuc (1894–1935) *Norman Manea (born 1936) *Gib Mihăescu (1894–1935) *Mircea Nedelciu (1950–1999) *Costache Negruzzi (1808–1868) *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu (1876–1955) *Dora Pavel (born 1946) *Camil Petrescu (1894–1957) *Cezar Petrescu (1892–1961) *Dumitru Radu Popescu (born 1935) *Marin Preda (1922–1980) *Liviu Rebreanu (1885–1944) *Doina Ruști (born 1938) *Mihail Sadoveanu (1880–1961) *Zaharia Stancu (1902–1974) *Bogdan Suceavă (born 1969) *Duiliu Zamfirescu (1858–1922)


Russia

*Andrey Bely (1880–1934) *Andrey Bitov (1937–2018) *Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), author of ''The Master and Margarita'' *Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), author of ''What Is To Be Done?'' *Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), author of ''The Brothers Karamazov'', ''Crime and Punishment'' *Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971) *Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), author of ''Dead Souls'' *Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), ''Oblomov'', a tale of a "superfluous" man *Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) *Anna Kashina, author of ''The Princess of Dhagabad'' *Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) *Leonid Leonov (1899–1994) *Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895) *Vladimir Makanin (1937–2017) *Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) early novels in Russian, later, including ''Lolita'', in English. *Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), refused the Nobel Prize for Literature, ''Doctor Zhivago'' *Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837) *Viatcheslav Repin (born 1960), author of novels, short stories and essays in Russian and French *Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) *Ilia Shtemler (born 1933) *Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' *Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875) *Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945) *Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), author of ''War and Peace, Anna Karenina'' *Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)


Samoa

*Sia Figiel (born 1967) *Albert Wendt (born 1939)


São Tomé and Príncipe

*Sara Pinto Coelho (1913–1990)


Senegal


Serbia

*David Albahari * Ivo Andrić *Vladimir Arsenijević *Miodrag Bulatović *Miloš Crnjanski (1893–1977) *Dobrica Ćosić (1921–2014) *Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945) *Danilo Kiš (1935–1989) *Milorad Pavić (writer), Milorad Pavić *Borislav Pekić (1930–1992) *Isidora Sekulić (1877–1958) *
Meša Selimović Mehmed "Meša" Selimović (; ; 26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslav writer, whose novel '' Death and the Dervish'' is one of the most important literary works in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are the ...
(1910–1982) *Srđan Srdić (born 1977) *Svetlana Velmar-Janković (1933–2014)


Sierra Leone

*Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945) *Aminatta Forna (born 1964)


Slovakia


Slovenia


Somalia

*Maxamed Daahir Afrax *Faarax Maxamed Jaamac 'Cawl', Faarax M. J. Cawl (1937–1991) *Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) *Abdi Sheik Abdi (born 1942) *Waris Dirie (born 1965)


South Africa

*Lionel Abrahams (1928–2004) *Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) *Elleke Boehmer (born 1961) *J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) *K. Sello Duiker (1974–2005) *Athol Fugard (born 1932) *Damon Galgut (born 1963) *Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) *
Bessie Head Bessie Amelia Emery Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986) was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that are i ...
(1937–1986) *Christopher Hope (novelist), Christopher Hope (born 1944) *Cynthia Jele (living) *Fred Khumalo (born 1966) *Alex La Guma (1925–1985) *Mandla Langa (born 1950) *Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020) *Arthur Maimane (1932–2005) *Zakes Mda (born 1948) *Kirsten Miller (living) *Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015) *Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010) *Alan Paton (1903–1988) *Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) *Sipho Sepamla (1932–2007) *Gillian Slovo (born 1952) *Zukiswa Wanner (born 1976) *Zoe Wicomb (born 1948)


South Korea


Spain

*Leopoldo Alas (1852–1901) *Jesusa Alfau Galván de Solalinde (1895–1943) *Nuria Ano, Núria Añó (born 1973) *Camilo José Cela (1916–2002) *Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), ''Don Quixote'' *Perez Galdos, Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) *Juan Goytisolo (1931–2017) *Javier Marías (born 1951) *Juan Marse, Juan Marsé (1933–2020) *Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Eduardo Mendoza (born 1943) *Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 1956) *Arturo Pérez-Reverte (born 1951) *Carlos Ruiz Zafón (born 1964) *Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936)


Sri Lanka

*Gunadasa Amarasekara (born 1929) *Anuk Arudpragasam (born 1988) *Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) *Romesh Gunesekera (born 1954) *Karunasena Jayalath (1928–1994) *Shehan Karunatilaka (born 1975) *Rosalind Mendis (1903–1992) *Carl Muller (1935–2019) *Simon Navagattegama (1940–2005) *
Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller P ...
(born 1943), ''The English Patient'' *Shyam Selvadurai (born 1965) *W. A. Silva (1890–1957) *S. J. Sindu (born 1987) *Ambalavaner Sivanandan (1923–2018) *Martin Wickremasinghe (1890–1976)


Sudan

*Leila Aboulela (born 1964) *Ibrahim Ishaq (1946–2021) *Rania Mamoun *Ra'ouf Mus'ad, also connected with Egypt *Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) *Sabah Sanhouri (born 1990


Sweden

*Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) *Marianne Fredriksson (1927–2007) *Gustaf Fröding (1860–1911) *Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) *Jan Guillou (born 1944) *Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) *Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) *Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), Nobel Prize for Literature 1909, author of ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' (novel), ''The Emperor of Portugallia'' *Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002) *Henning Mankell (1948–2015) *Harry Martinson (1904–1978) *Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973) *Peter Pohl (born 1940) *Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) *Esaias Tegnér


Switzerland

*Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990), ''The Quarry'' *Max Frisch (1911–1991), ''Stiller'' (1954) (''I'm Not Stiller''), ''Mein Name sei Gantenbein'' (1964) *Christian Kracht (born 1966)


Republic of China, Taiwan

*Pai Hsien-yung (born 1937) *Sanmao (author), Sanmao (1943–1991)


Tanzania

*Mark Behr, also connected with South Africa *Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020) *Abdulrazak Gurnah


Togo

*David Ananou (1917–2000) *
Richard Dogbeh Richard Dogbeh (1932–November 23, 2003), born Gbèmagon Richard Dogbeh in what is now Benin, was a novelist and educator. He served as Benin's Directeur de Cabinet of the National Ministry of Education from 1963 to 1966. He was also active in the ...
, also connected with
Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the nort ...
,
Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...
and
Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre i ...
(1932–2003) *Kossi Efoui (born 1962)


Trinidad and Tobago

*André Alexis (born 1957 *Lisa Allen-Agostini (born 1960s) *Michael Anthony (author), Michael Anthony (born 1930) *Robert Antoni (born 1958) *Dionne Brand (born 1953) *Ralph de Boissière (1907–2008) *Ramabai Espinet (born 1948) *Rosa Guy (1922–2012) *Merle Hodge (born 1944) *C. L. R. James (1901–1989) *Barbara Jenkins *Marion Patrick Jones (1931–2016) *Anthony Joseph (born 1966 *Earl Lovelace (born 1935) *Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) *V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) *Elizabeth Nunez *Lakshmi Persaud *M. NourbeSe Philip (born 1947) *Monique Roffey (born 1965) *Lawrence Scott (born 1943) *Samuel Selvon (1923–1994) *Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (born 1964)


Tunisia

*Hédi Bouraoui (born 1932) *Albert Memmi (1920–2020)


Turkey

*Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, author of ''Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü'', ''Huzur'' *Ahmet Ümit, author of ''Beyoğlu Rapsodisi'' *Ayşe Kulin (born 1941) *Aziz Nesin (1915–1995) *Buket Uzuner (born 1955) *Elif Şafak (born 1971 *Haldun Taner (1915–1986) *Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, author of ''Mai ve Siyah'', ''Aşkı Memnu'' *Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 1958) *Kemal Tahir, author of ''Yorgun Savaşçı'', ''Devlet Ana'', ''Karılar Koğuşu'' *Metin Kaçan (1961–2013) *Oğuz Atay (1934–1977), author of ''Tutunamayanlar'' *Oktay Rifat (1914–1988) *Orhan Kemal (1923–2015), author of ''Bekçi Murtaza'', *Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize author of ''My Name Is Red'' and ''The White Castle'' *Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889–1956) *Rıfat Ilgaz (1911–1993) *Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948), author of ''Kuyucaklı Yusuf'', ''Kürk Mantolu Madonna'' *Sevim Burak (1931–1983) *Sabri Gürses (born 1972) *Yahya Kemal (1884–1958) *Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015), author of ''Mehmed, My Hawk'' *Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (1879–1945) *Yusuf Atilgan, author of ''Anayurt Oteli'', ''Aylak Adam''


Uganda

*Moses Isegawa (born 1963) *Godfrey Kalimugogo (1943–2015) *China Keitetsi (born 1976) *Goretti Kyomuhendo (born 1965) *Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (born 1960s) *Timothy Wangusa (born 1942)


Ukraine

*Emma Andijewska (born 1931) *Eugenia Chuprina (born 1971) *Andrey Kurkov (born 1961) *Larisa Alexandrovna (born 1971)


United Kingdom


England


Scotland


Wales


English language

*
Mary Balogh Mary Balogh (born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944) is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance, born and raised in Swansea. In 1967, she moved to Canada to start a teaching career, married a local coroner and settled in Kipling, Sask ...
(born 1944) *Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935) *Ken Follett (born 1949) *Richard Hughes (writer), Richard Hughes (1900–1976), ''A High Wind in Jamaica'' *Jack Jones (novelist), Jack Jones (1884–1970) *Richard Llewellyn (1907–1983), ''How Green Was My Valley'' *Stephen Maybery (born 1949) *Jean Rhys (1890–1979) *Bernice Rubens, author of ''A Solitary Grief'' *Howard Spring (1889–1965)


Welsh language

*Daniel Owen (1836–1895) *Eigra Lewis Roberts (born 1939) *Kate Roberts (author), Kate Roberts (1891–1985)


Northern Ireland

*Colin Bateman (born 1962), ''Divorcing Jack (novel), Divorcing Jack'' *Ronan Bennett (born 1956), ''The Catastrophist'' *Joyce Cary (1888–1957), ''The Horse's Mouth'' *Paul Kearney (born 1967), ''Monarchies of God'' *Benedict Kiely (1919–2007) *Bernard MacLaverty (born 1942), ''Cal (novel), Cal'' *Brian Moore (novelist), Brian Moore (1921–1999), ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'' *
Flann O'Brien Brian O'Nolan ( ga, Brian Ó Nualláin; 5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966), better known by his pen name Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth c ...
(1911–1966), ''The Third Policeman'' *Amanda McKittrick Ross (1860–1939)


United States


Uruguay

*Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015), writer and social commentator. *Mario Benedetti (1920–2009), Uruguay's best-known novelist *Jorge Majfud (born 1969) *Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1997) *Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) *Juana de Ibarbourou (1892–1979) *Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira (1875–1924) *Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) *Comte de Lautréamont, Isidore Lucien Ducasse (1846–1870), born in Montevideo though French by nationality *José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917), considered by many to have been Spanish America's greatest philosopher


Venezuela

*Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (1921–1990) *Rufino Blanco-Fombona, Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874–1944) *Mario Briceño Iragorry (1897–1958) *Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (1871–1927) *Mercedes Franco (born 1948) *Alicia Freilich (born 1939) *Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969) *Salvador Garmendia (1928–2001) *Adriano González León (1931–2008) *Francisco Herrera Luque (1927–1991) *Boris Izaguirre (born 1965) *Eduardo Liendo (born 1941) *Francisco Massiani (1944–2019) *Guillermo Meneses (1911–1978) *Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985) *Julián Padrón (1910–1964) *Teresa de la Parra (1889–1936) *Mariano Picón Salas (1901–1965) *Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001)


Vietnam

*Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) ''Paradise of the Blind'' *Pham Thi Hoai (born 1960) *Phung Le Ly Hayslip (born 1949) ''When Heaven and Earth Changed Places'' *Bao Ninh (born 1952)


Yiddish

*Sholom Asch (1880–1957) *David Bergelson (1884–1952) *Der Nister (1884–1950) *Shira Gorshman (1906–2001) *Chaim Grade (1910–1982) *Esther Kreitman (1891–1954) *Mendele Moykher Sforim (1836–1917), pseudonym for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch *Joseph Opatoshu (1886–1954) *Yitzok Lebesh Peretz (1852–1915) *Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) (real name: Solomon Rabinovitz), ''Fiddler on the Roof'' was based on his stories *Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991) *Israel Joshua Singer (1893–1944) *Anzia Yezierska (c. 1880–1970)


Zimbabwe

*Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 1959) *Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015) *Doris Lessing, born in Qajar dynasty, Persia, now Iran (1919–2013) *Dambudzo Marechera (1952–1987) *Nozipa Maraire (born 1966) *Charles Mungoshi (1947–2019) *Solomon Mutswairo (1924–2005) *Alexander McCall Smith, also connected with Botswana (born 1948) *Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange, Stanlake Samkange (1922–1988) *Yvonne Vera, also connected with Canada (1964–2005)


References

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