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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ahmed Essop
Ahmed Essop (1931–2019) was an Indian-born South African short-story writer and novelist whose fiction portrays the Indian community of Fordsburg, Johannesburg, under apartheid.
Ahmed Fagih
Ahmed Fagih (أحمد إبراهيم الفقيه; 1942–2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote about one hundred books, including the acclaimed trilogy Gardens of the Night.
Akilan
Akilan (அகிலன்) was the pen name of P. V. Akilandam (1922–1988), a Tamil novelist and freedom fighter who won the Jnanpith Award in 1975 for Chithirapavai.
Akshat Gupta (अक्षत गुप्ता)
Akshat Gupta (अक्षत गुप्ता), Indian author, screenwriter and former restaurateur; wrote The Hidden Hindu trilogy, a mythology-science fiction bestseller published by Penguin Random House India, with visual rights acquired by Dhoni Entertainment.
Alan Duff
Alan Duff (born 1950) is a New Zealand novelist and columnist of Māori descent, best known for the 1990 novel Once Were Warriors and its acclaimed 1994 film adaptation.
Alberto Blest Gana
Alberto Blest Gana (1830–1920) was a Chilean novelist and diplomat regarded as the founder of the Chilean novel, known for Martín Rivas (1862) and Durante la Reconquista (1897).
Alberto Gerchunoff
Alberto Gerchunoff (1884–1950) was an Argentine writer, essayist, and journalist whose 1910 story collection Los gauchos judíos is regarded as the founding work of Jewish Latin American writing.
Alberto Laiseca
Alberto Laiseca (1941–2016) was an Argentine novelist, poet, and essayist, creator of realismo delirante, whose novel Los sorias (1998) is called the longest in Argentine literature.
Alcides Arguedas
Alcides Arguedas (1879–1946) was a Bolivian novelist, essayist, historian, and diplomat whose essay Pueblo enfermo (1909) and novel Raza de bronce (1919) made him the most recognized Bolivian writer of his era.
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) was a Cuban novelist and musicologist who coined the marvelous real in his 1949 prologue to El reino de este mundo and won the Cervantes Prize.
Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma (Justin Alexander La Guma, 1925–1985) was a South African novelist, journalist, and anti-apartheid activist whose fiction about District Six made him a leading activist writer.