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Marie-Thérèse Humbert
Marie-Thérèse Humbert is a Mauritian novelist writing in French whose work explores race, class, and mixed-race identity, best known for À l'autre bout de moi (1979).
Mario Levrero
Mario Levrero was the pen name of Uruguayan novelist Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero (1940–2004), whose cult books include the involuntary trilogy, El discurso vacío, and La novela luminosa.
Marlon James (novelist)
Marlon James, Jamaican novelist born 1970 in Kingston; won the 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings, first Jamaican winner; author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and The Disappearers, 2026 Booker shortlistee.
Martín Luis Guzmán
Martín Luis Guzmán (1887–1976) was a Mexican novelist and journalist whose El águila y la serpiente and La sombra del caudillo portray the Mexican Revolution's leaders.
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé, born Maryse Boucolon (1934–2024), was a French-language novelist from Guadeloupe known for Ségou and Moi, Tituba, and winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize.
Masamune Hakuchō
Masamune Hakuchō (正宗白鳥, 1879–1962), born Masamune Tadao, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and literary critic, a leading figure of the naturalist school known for Doko e.
Massa Makan Diabaté
Massa Makan Diabaté (1938–1988) was a French-language Malian writer and historian from Kita, best known for the Kouta trilogy, who carried the Manding griot oral tradition into the written novel.
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (ಮಾಸ್ತಿ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್), who wrote under the pen name Srinivasa, was a Kannada writer and Jnanpith Award winner regarded as the father of the modern Kannada short story.
Mateo Booz
Mateo Booz was the pen name of Miguel Ángel Correa (1881–1943), an Argentine writer, journalist, and politician who set all his fiction in Santa Fe, known for the classic Santa Fe, mi país (1934).
Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant (born Mavis de Trafford Young, 1922–2014) was a Canadian writer who settled in Paris in 1960 and became one of the most admired short-story writers in English.
Mempo Giardinelli
Mempo Giardinelli (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist from Resistencia, Chaco, exiled in Mexico in 1976 to 1984 during the military dictatorship.
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Juana Mercedes Cabello Llosa, 1845–1909) was a Peruvian novelist and essayist who initiated the realist novel in Peru and advocated women's education.
Mia Couto
Mia Couto, pen name of António Emílio Leite Couto, is a Mozambican novelist, poet, and biologist born in 1955 in Beira, known for fiction shaped by Mozambique's wars.
Mieko Kanai
Mieko Kanai (金井美恵子, born 1947) is a Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist from Takasaki, Gunma, known for an anti-realist style and sensuous prose.
Miguel Angel Asturias
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) was a Guatemalan novelist, poet, and diplomat who in 1967 became the first Latin American novelist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mikheil Javakhishvili
Mikheil Javakhishvili (მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი), real surname Adamashvili, was a Georgian writer, born in 1880, who founded the twentieth-century Georgian realist novel and was shot in Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.
Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879–1954), was an Australian writer and feminist whose debut novel My Brilliant Career (1901) led to the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Milton Hatoum
Milton Hatoum, born in Manaus in 1952 to a Lebanese immigrant family, is a Brazilian novelist whose Amazon-set fiction includes Dois irmãos and has won the Jabuti Prize three times.
Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (মীর মশাররফ হোসেন) was a Bengali novelist and playwright best known for Bishad Sindhu, an epic novel on the martyrdom of Imam Hossain at Karbala.
Mitsuyo Kakuta
Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, born 1967) is a Japanese novelist known for fiction about family life and for a modern translation of The Tale of Genji.
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (محمدعلی جمالزاده, 1892–1997) was an Iranian writer, a pioneer of modern Persian prose fiction, whose 1921 collection Yeki bud yeki nabud introduced the modern short story.
Mohammed al-Murr
Mohammed al-Murr (محمد المر), born in Dubai in 1955, is an Emirati short-story writer and official who served as Speaker of the Federal National Council from 2011.
Mohammed Berrada
Mohammed Berrada (محمد برادة, born 1938 in Rabat) is a Moroccan novelist, critic, and translator who writes in Arabic and is a leading figure of the contemporary Moroccan novel.
Mohammed Dib
Mohammed Dib (محمد ديب, 1920–2003) was an Algerian novelist, poet, and playwright who wrote in French and helped found Algerian literature, best known for his Algeria trilogy.
Mongo Beti
Mongo Beti, pen name of Cameroonian writer Alexandre Biyidi-Awala (1932–2001), was a leading figure of Africa's independence-generation literature whose novels satirized French colonial rule and later neocolonial dictatorship.
Monique Ilboudo
Monique Ilboudo is a Burkinabè writer, lawyer, and politician, born in Ouagadougou in 1959, whose 1992 novel Le Mal de Peau was the first by a woman in Burkina Faso.
Mouloud Feraoun
Mouloud Feraoun (مولود فرعون, born Aït Chaabane; 1913–1962) was an Algerian novelist and educator, a founder of Algerian francophone literature, assassinated by the OAS days before the 1962 ceasefire.
Mourad Bourboune
Mourad Bourboune, born in Jijel, Algeria in 1938, is an Algerian writer in French whose second novel, Le Muezzin (1968), is a noted denunciation of the post-independence Algerian regime.
Moussa Konaté
Moussa Konaté (1951–2013) was a Malian novelist, playwright, essayist, and publisher, best known for the detective series Les enquêtes du commissaire Habib, set in Bamako.
Muhammad al-Makhzangi
Muhammad al-Makhzangi (محمد المخزنجي), born 1949 in Mansoura, Egypt, is a physician, psychiatrist, and writer known for very short stories and the Chernobyl book Memories of a Meltdown.