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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.
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.
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.
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.
Aluísio Azevedo
Aluísio Azevedo, full name Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo, was a Brazilian novelist and diplomat who introduced literary naturalism to Brazil with O mulato (1881) and O cortiço (1890).
Anders Bodelsen
Anders Bodelsen (1937–2021) was a Danish author and journalist, a leading realist of the welfare society, whose breakthrough suspense novels came in 1968 and were widely translated and filmed.
André Brink
André Brink (André Philippus Brink, 1935-2015), South African novelist and Die Sestigers figure; author of Kennis van die Aand, the first banned Afrikaans novel, and A Dry White Season.
Ángel del Campo
Ángel del Campo (1868–1908), a Mexican writer and journalist who wrote under the pseudonyms Micrós and Tick-Tack, is counted among the leading costumbristas of late nineteenth-century Mexico.
Antonio Callado
Antonio Callado (Antônio Carlos Callado) was a Brazilian journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright whose novel Quarup (1967) became a landmark portrait of Brazil's political crisis.
Atin Bandyopadhyay
Atin Bandyopadhyay (অতীন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian writer of Bengali literature, born in 1934 in what is now Bangladesh, best known for his Partition novel Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje.
Augusto Roa Bastos
Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005) was a Paraguayan novelist, considered the most important Paraguayan writer of the twentieth century, known for Yo el Supremo and the 1989 Cervantes Prize.
Barış Bıçakçı
Barış Bıçakçı (born 1966, Adana) is a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and translator whose plain, minimalist fiction is set almost entirely in Ankara, making him closely identified with the capital in contemporary Turkish literature.
Bernardo Carvalho
Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for Nove noites (2002) and Mongólia (2003), which build detective-like investigations around travel, archives, and unstable narration.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়)
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়), also anglicised Banerjee, 1894–1950, Bengali novelist of Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Aranyak and Chander Pahar; posthumous 1951 Rabindra Prize for Ichhamati.
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924–1997) was an Indian writer in Assamese, the first Assamese author to receive the Jnanpith Award, given in 1979 for his novel Mrityunjay.
Calixthe Beyala
Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian-born novelist writing in French who has published close to twenty works since 1987 and won the Académie française grand prix in 1996.
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत)
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत), born 1974, is an Indian novelist and columnist, author of Five Point Someone, 2 States, and Half Girlfriend, India's bestselling English-language fiction writer with film adaptations like 3 Idiots.
Dhrubajyoti Bora
Dhrubajyoti Bora (ধ্ৰুৱজ্যোতি বৰা), born 1955, is an Assamese writer and medical doctor who won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Katha Ratnakar and served as president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha.
Eduardo Caballero Calderón
Eduardo Caballero Calderón (1910–1993) was a Colombian novelist, essayist, and journalist whose work centered on Tipacoque, Boyacá; his novels include El Cristo de espaldas and Siervo sin tierra.
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter who won the 2013 Booker Prize for The Luminaries, the youngest winner ever at age 28.
Fanny Buitrago
Fanny Buitrago is a Colombian novelist, playwright, and storyteller born in Barranquilla in 1946, known for El hostigante verano de los dioses (1963) and Caribbean coast settings.
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੁੱਲਰ; born 1937) is an Indian Punjabi short-story writer known for fiction rooted in rural Punjab, winner of the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Han Bangqing
Han Bangqing (韩邦庆, 1856–1894), who wrote as Hua Ye Lian Nong, was a late Qing novelist best known for The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai, the major Wu-dialect novel.
Héctor Bianciotti
Héctor Bianciotti (1930–2012) was an Argentine-born, French-naturalized novelist, critic, and editor who abandoned Spanish for French in the early 1980s and was elected to the Académie française in 1996.
Herman Charles Bosman
Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) was a South African writer widely regarded as the country's finest short-story writer, known for his Marico stories narrated by Oom Schalk Lourens.
Hoda Barakat
Hoda Barakat (هدى بركات), born 1952, is a Lebanese novelist who has lived in Paris since 1989, writing in Arabic about war, exile, and marginalized lives.
Homen Borgohain
Homen Borgohain (হোমেন বৰগোহাঞি, 1932–2021) was an Assamese novelist, poet, critic, and journalist who won the 1978 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Pita Putra.
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, born in 1936, is a Brazilian novelist and journalist known for the dystopian Zero and his resistance to censorship under the military dictatorship.
Ivan Bahrianyi
Ivan Bahrianyi (Іван Багряний), pen name of Ivan Pavlovych Lozoviaga, was a Ukrainian writer and émigré politician who survived Soviet camps and won the Shevchenko Prize posthumously in 1992.
Jan Carew
Jan Carew, born Jan Rynveld Carew (1920–2012), was a Guyanese novelist, playwright, poet, broadcaster, and scholar, a leading figure in pan-African and Caribbean studies best known for the 1958 novel Black Midas.