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Mukhtar Auezov
Mukhtar Auezov (Мұхтар Әуезов, 1897–1961) was a Kazakh writer and scholar who wrote the four-volume novel-epic The Path of Abai, the first in the Kazakh language.
Mulk Raj Anand (मुल्क राज आनंद)
Mulk Raj Anand (मुल्क राज आनंद), 1905–2004, Indian novelist in English, author of Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936), Progressive Writers' Association founder, Marg magazine founder, Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi Award winner.
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Nabarun Bhattacharya (নবারুণ ভট্টাচার্য; 1948–2014) was an Indian Bengali poet and fiction writer, son of Bijon Bhattacharya and Mahashweta Devi, known for the satirical novel Herbert, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997.
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014), South African novelist and short-story writer, first South African and seventh woman Nobel Literature laureate (1991); author of The Conservationist and Burger's Daughter.
Nam Cao
Nam Cao (1917–1951) was the pen name of Trần Hữu Tri, a leading Vietnamese realist writer best known for the novella Chí Phèo and the novel Sống mòn.
Narayan Gangopadhyay
Narayan Gangopadhyay (নারায়ণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়; born Taraknath Gangopadhyay, 1918–1970) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, critic, and professor of Bengali at the University of Calcutta, best known as the creator of the comic adolescent character Tenida.
Narendra Kohli
Narendra Kohli (नरेन्द्र कोहली, 1940–2021) was a Hindi novelist and playwright credited with pioneering the epic-scale novel, retelling the Ramayana and Mahabharata in a rational idiom; he received the Padma Shri and Vyas Samman.
Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Appanah, born 1973 in Mauritius, is a Mauritian and French novelist whose books about migration and indenture won the Prix Femina in 2025 for La Nuit au cœur.
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi (نذیر احمد دہلوی; 1830–1912), popularly called Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu prose writer and reformer whose 1869 novel Mirat-ul-Urus is regarded as the first regular Urdu novel.
Nellie Campobello
Nellie Campobello, born Francisca Ernestina Moya Luna, was a Mexican writer, dancer, and choreographer whose Cartucho (1931) narrates the Mexican Revolution through a child's voice.
Ng Kim Chew
Ng Kim Chew (黃錦樹, born 1967) is a Malaysian Chinese writer of experimental short fiction and a literary scholar who lives in Taiwan and writes in Chinese.
Nguyễn Công Hoan
Nguyễn Công Hoan (1903–1977) was a Vietnamese writer and journalist, a leading figure of Vietnamese critical realism, with over 200 short stories and nearly 30 novels and novellas.
Nguyễn Minh Châu
Nguyễn Minh Châu (1930–1989) was a Vietnamese prose writer and former soldier whose works include Dấu chân người lính (1972), Bến quê (1985), and Chiếc thuyền ngoài xa (1985).
Nh. Dini
Nh. Dini, pen name of Nurhayati Sri Hardini Siti Nukatin (1936–2018), was an Indonesian novelist, poet, and playwright known for feminist themes and novels like Pada Sebuah Kapal.
Nhất Linh
Nhất Linh was the pen name of Nguyễn Tường Tam (1906–1963), a Vietnamese writer, journalist, and politician who led the influential Tự Lực Văn Đoàn group.
Nick Joaquin
Nick Joaquin (Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín, 1917–2004), pen name Quijano de Manila, Filipino National Artist for Literature (1976) and 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate, author of The Woman Who Had Two Navels and A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino.
Nicolás Heredia
Nicolás Heredia (1855–1901) was a Dominican-born novelist and journalist counted among the leading Cuban novelists of the nineteenth century, best known for the novel Leonela.
Nie Hualing
Nie Hualing (聶華苓, 1925–2024), also Hualing Nieh Engle, was a Chinese novelist, translator, and editor who co-founded the University of Iowa's International Writing Program with Paul Engle in 1967; her novel Mulberry and Peach won the 1990 American Book Award.
Niwa Fumio
Niwa Fumio (丹羽文雄, 1904–2005) was a Japanese novelist of the Shōwa era, known for customs novels of love and marriage, war reportage, and Buddhist novels including Shinran.
Nou Hach
Nou Hach (នូ ហាច, 1916–1975) was a Cambodian novelist from Battambang province, regarded as a founder of modern Khmer literature; his romance Phka Srapon became one of the most famous Khmer novels.
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo, pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (born 1981), is a Zimbabwean novelist twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for We Need New Names and Glory.
Oh Jung-hee
Oh Jung-hee (오정희, born 1947) is a South Korean novelist whose fiction centers on women's psychology, alienation, and female identity, winning both the Yi Sang and Dong-in Literary Awards.
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum is a Beninese novelist, short-story writer, and journalist born in Ouidah in the late 1920s, best known for his first novel Un piège sans fin (1960).
Orhan Kemal
Orhan Kemal, real name Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü (1914–1970), was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer known for social realist works about workers, migrants, and small tradesmen.
Osamu Dazai (太宰治)
Osamu Dazai, born Shuji Tsushima, was a Japanese novelist best known for The Setting Sun (1947) and No Longer Human (1948); he died by suicide in 1948.
Óscar Collazos
Óscar Collazos (1942–2015) was a Colombian novelist, essayist, and literary critic known for the urban novel and the 1969 polemic with Cortázar and Vargas Llosa.
Osman Lins
Osman Lins, full name Osman da Costa Lins (1924–1978), was a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and essayist from Pernambuco, best known for the formally experimental 1973 novel Avalovara.
Osvaldo Lamborghini
Osvaldo Lamborghini (1940–1985) was an Argentine writer and visual artist whose corrosive, politically charged fiction, including El fiord, shaped the Argentine literary canon of the 1970s and 1980s.
P. K. Balakrishnan
P. K. Balakrishnan (പി. കെ. ബാലകൃഷ്ണൻ; 1926–1991) was a Malayalam writer and journalist known for the epic novel Ini Njan Urangatte and studies of Kerala's caste history.
P. Kesavadev
P. Kesavadev, born Kesava Pillai (1904–1983), was a Malayalam novelist, short-story writer, and social reformer who pioneered social realism in Kerala fiction, best known for Odayil Ninnu (1942) and winner of the 1964 Sahitya Akademi Award.