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Lindsey Collen
Lindsey Collen, born 1948 in South Africa, is a Mauritian novelist and activist whose novel The Rape of Sita won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was banned.
Lino Novás Calvo
Lino Novás Calvo (1903–1983) was a Galician-born Cuban writer and journalist, author of Pedro Blanco, el negrero (1933) and a leading Cuban short-story writer who went into US exile after the Cuban Revolution.
Liu Baiyu
Liu Baiyu (刘白羽, born Liu Yuzan) was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and war correspondent who won the Stalin Prize in 1950 and the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1991.
Liu E
Liu E, also known as Liu Tieyun, was a late Qing Chinese writer and oracle bone collector best known as the author of The Travels of Lao Can.
Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones, born in 1955 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, is a novelist and memoirist whose novel Mister Pip won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award.
Lualhati Bautista
Lualhati Bautista (1945–2023) was a Filipina novelist and screenwriter known for honest realism and women's issues, winning Palanca Awards for Gapô, Dekada '70, and Bata, Bata, Paano Ka Ginawa?
Lúcio Cardoso
Lúcio Cardoso (Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, 1912–1968) was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, poet, and diarist from Minas Gerais, a central figure of 1930s and 1940s Brazilian psychological fiction.
Luís Bernardo Honwana
Luís Bernardo Honwana, born in 1942, is a Mozambican writer and journalist whose single story collection, Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso, became a founding work of Mozambican prose.
Luis de Lión
Luis de Lión, pen name of José Luis de León Díaz, was a Kaqchikel Maya Guatemalan writer and teacher, considered Guatemala's first indigenous writer in Spanish.
Ma Văn Kháng
Ma Văn Kháng, born Đinh Trọng Đoàn in 1936, is a Vietnamese writer whose twelve novels center on the northwestern mountain frontier, winning the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 2012.
Madan Mani Dixit
Madan Mani Dixit (मदनमणि दीक्षित) was a Nepali novelist and journalist best known for Madhavi, which won the Madan Puraskar in 1983 and is considered a classic.
Mahasweta Devi (মহাশ্বেতা দেবী)
Mahasweta Devi (মহাশ্বেতা দেবী, 1926–2015), Bengali writer and activist born in Dhaka; author of Aranyer Adhikar, "Draupadi," and Mother of 1084; Jnanpith 1996, Magsaysay 1997, Sahitya Akademi 1979.
Mahim Bora
Mahim Bora (মহিম বৰা; 1924–2016) was an Indian Assamese writer and educationist at Nowgong College whose novel Edhani Mahir Hanhi won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2001; he received the Padma Shri in 2011.
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (محمود دولتآبادی, born 1940) is an Iranian novelist and playwright, a leading figure of contemporary Persian prose known for Kelidar and Missing Soluch.
Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (M. A. Behazin)
Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (1915–2006), known by the pen name Behazin (بهآذین), was an Iranian fiction writer and translator who introduced Persian readers to Rolland, Balzac, Shakespeare, and Sholokhov.
Maitreyi Devi
Maitreyi Devi (মৈত্রেয়ী দেবী) was an Indian poet and novelist writing in Bengali, best known for the autobiographical novel Na Hanyate, her response to Mircea Eliade's novel about their romance in 1930s Calcutta.
Mandla Langa
Mandla Langa (born 1950) is a South African novelist, poet, and journalist who wrote from exile for the ANC and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay (19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956), born Prabodh Kumar Bandopadhyay, was an Indian Bengali novelist and short story writer whose harsh realism included Padma Nadir Majhi and Putulnacher Itikatha.
Mannu Bhandari
Mannu Bhandari (मन्नू भंडारी), born Mahendra Kumari, was an Indian Hindi writer best known for the novels Aapka Bunty and Mahabhoj and for her role in the Nayi Kahani movement.
Manohar Shyam Joshi
Manohar Shyam Joshi (मनोहर श्याम जोशी; 1933 to 2006) was a Hindi novelist and satirist who won the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel Kyaap.
Manoj Das
Manoj Das (1934–2021) was an Indian writer of short stories, novels, and essays in Odia and English, regarded as a doyen of modern Odia literature.
Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831–1861) was a Brazilian novelist whose Memórias de um sargento de milícias is considered the first urban novel in Brazilian literature.
Manuel Gálvez
Manuel Gálvez (1882–1962) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and biographer, the leading literary voice of Catholic nationalism, who wrote 44 books, including the novels Nacha Regules and Historia de Arrabal.
Marcelino Freire
Marcelino Freire (Marcelino Juvêncio Freire) is a Brazilian writer of short fiction from Sertânia, Pernambuco, known for oral-inflected prose and the Jabuti-winning Contos Negreiros of 2006.
Marco Denevi
Marco Denevi (1922–1998) was an Argentine novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for Rosaura a las diez (1955) and Ceremonia secreta (1960), both adapted to film.
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) was a Canadian novelist, born Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba, whose Manawaka fiction, above all The Stone Angel and The Diviners, made her a central figure in Canadian literature.
María Luisa Bombal
María Luisa Bombal (1910–1980) was a Chilean novelist and short-story writer born in Viña del Mar whose novels La última niebla (1935) and La amortajada (1938) brought avant-garde technique and women's inner lives into Chilean literature.
Mariama Bâ
Mariama Bâ (1929–1981) was a Senegalese novelist and feminist activist whose epistolary novel So Long a Letter (1979) won the Noma Award, followed by Scarlet Song in 1981.
Mariano Azuela
Mariano Azuela, born Mariano Azuela González, was a Mexican physician and novelist from Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, whose 1915 novel Los de abajo founded the novel of the Mexican Revolution.
Marie-Célie Agnant
Marie-Célie Agnant is a Haitian-born Quebec writer, living in Canada since 1970, known for novels like Le Livre d'Emma and for winning the 2017 Prix Alain-Grandbois.