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A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua, born Abraham Gabriel Yehoshua (Hebrew: א"ב יהושע, 1936–2022), was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and essayist known for novels like The Lover and Mr. Mani.
A. C. Jordan
A. C. Jordan, full name Archibald Campbell Jordan, was a South African Xhosa novelist and linguist whose 1940 novel Ingqumbo Yeminyanya became a landmark of Xhosa literature.
A. Samad Said
A. Samad Said is the pen name of Abdul Samad bin Mohamed Said (born 1935), a Malaysian novelist and poet named the country's fourth National Laureate in 1985.
Aaron Chiundura Moyo
Aaron Chiundura Moyo is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, born in Gweru in 1950, who has written over 20 novels and plays almost exclusively in Shona.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi
Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi (عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي; 1920–1987) was an Egyptian novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist whose 1954 novel Al-Ard was a landmark of Arabic realism, and whose verse plays made him a leading Arab dramatist.
Abd al-Salam al-Ujayli
Abd al-Salam al-Ujayli (عبد السلام العجيلي; 1918–2006) was a Syrian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and physician from Raqqa, among the earliest writers of fiction in Syria and a 1962 government minister.
Abdelhamid Ben Hadouga
Abdelhamid Ben Hadouga (عبد الحميد بن هدوقة; also Benhadouga or Benhaddouga; 1925 to 1996) was an Algerian novelist and broadcaster regarded as the founder of the modern Arabic-language Algerian novel.
Abdelkrim Ghallab
Abdelkrim Ghallab (عبد الكريم غلّاب, 1919–2017) was a Moroccan novelist, journalist, and Istiqlal politician, best known for We Bury the Past (1966) and his decades editing the newspaper Al-Alam.
Abdelmajid Benjelloun
Abdelmajid Benjelloun (عبد المجيد بن جلون; 1919–1981) was a Moroccan writer, poet, journalist, and diplomat born in Casablanca, best known for Fi al-Tufula (1957), widely treated as the first Moroccan novel.
Abdoulaye Sadji
Abdoulaye Sadji (1910–1961) was a Senegalese novelist, essayist, and teacher who wrote in French, counted among the founders of Senegal's modern literature, best known for the novels Maïmouna and Nini.
Abdourahman Waberi
Abdourahman Waberi, born 1965 in Djibouti, is a Djiboutian novelist writing in French, known for the trilogy Le Pays sans ombre, Cahier nomade, and Balbala.
Abdulla Qodiriy
Abdulla Qodiriy, pen name Julqunboy, was an Uzbek writer and journalist who founded the modern Uzbek novel with Oʻtkan kunlar (Bygone Days) before being executed in 1938.
Abdullah Hussain
Abdullah Hussain (عبداللہ حسین; born Muhammad Khan, 1931–2015) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist and short story writer, best known for his debut novel Udas Naslain (1963).
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948, Zanzibar) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and 2021 Nobel Literature laureate, author of ten novels including Paradise, By the Sea, Desertion and Afterlives, on colonialism and refugees.
Abelardo Castillo
Abelardo Castillo (1935–2017) was an Argentine writer of short stories, novels, and plays who founded the literary magazines El escarabajo de oro and El ornitorrinco.
Abhas
Abhas is the pen name of Abhas Kumar Baral, a contemporary Odia writer known for short stories, with ten story collections and one poetry book.
Abul Fazal
Abul Fazal (1903–1983) was a Bangladeshi writer, essayist, and educationist who led the Buddhir Mukti movement among Bengali Muslims and served as vice-chancellor of the University of Chittagong.
Achmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor (1948–2020) was a South African novelist, poet, and anti-apartheid activist, best known for Bitter Fruit, shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize, and chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation from 2007 to 2013.
Adalet Ağaoğlu
Adalet Ağaoğlu (1929–2020) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, one of the leading figures of Republican-era literature, best known for her Dar Zamanlar trilogy (1973–1987).
Adolfo Caminha
Adolfo Caminha, pen name Félix Guanabarino, was a Brazilian novelist of the Naturalist movement (1867–1897) who wrote A Normalista and Bom-Crioulo, the first major Brazilian novel to center homosexuality.
Adonias Filho
Adonias Filho, pen name of Adonias de Aguiar Filho (1915–1990), was a Brazilian novelist and literary critic whose fiction draws on the cocoa region of southern Bahia.
Adriano González León
Adriano González León (1931–2008) was a Venezuelan novelist, short-story writer, and critic whose novel Pais portátil (1968) won Spain's Premio Biblioteca Breve and entered the Latin American boom.
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (افضل احسن رندھاوا), legal name Muhammad Afzal, was a Pakistani Punjabi writer of about 22 books who also served in the National Assembly from 1972.
Agha Salim
Agha Salim (آغا سليم; 1935–2016), born Agha Khalid Saleem, was a Pakistani writer of Sindhi fiction, drama, poetry, and journalism who also translated Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai into Urdu and English verse.
Agustín Yáñez
Agustín Yáñez (1904–1980) was a Mexican novelist, essayist, and public official whose 1947 novel Al filo del agua is seen as the turning point of modern Mexican narrative.
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld (אהרן אפלפלד; born Erwin Appelfeld, 1932) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor from Bukovina, best known for Badenheim 1939 and the Israel Prize.
Ahmad Mahmoud
Ahmad Mahmoud (احمد محمود) was an Iranian novelist and short-story writer, born in Ahvaz in 1931, best known for Hamsayeha (The Neighbors) and a trilogy following one protagonist from the Mosaddeq era to the Iran-Iraq War.
Ahmad Tohari
Ahmad Tohari (born 1948) is an Indonesian novelist from Banyumas, Central Java, best known for the Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk trilogy, widely translated into five languages.
Ahmadou Kourouma
Ahmadou Kourouma (1927–2003) was an Ivorian novelist who wrote in French reshaped by his mother tongue, Malinké; his 1968 debut was Les soleils des indépendances.
Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Ali (علی احمد) was an Indian and Pakistani novelist, poet, and diplomat, born in Delhi in 1910, who co-founded the Progressive Writers' Association and wrote Twilight in Delhi.