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Pai Hsien-yung
Pai Hsien-yung (白先勇, born 1937) is a Chinese-language writer known for Taipei People, the novel Crystal Boys, and the Youth Edition of the Kun opera The Peony Pavilion.
Park Kyong-ni
Park Kyong-ni (박경리), born Park Geum-i, was a South Korean novelist whose five-part epic Land, written over 26 years, is regarded as a monumental work of modern Korean literature.
Patricia Grace
Patricia Grace, born in 1937, is a New Zealand novelist and short story writer of Ngāti Toa descent, a key figure in Māori fiction in English from the 1970s.
Patrick Chakaipa
Patrick Chakaipa (1932–2003) was a Zimbabwean Roman Catholic archbishop and Shona-language novelist, the first black Archbishop of Salisbury (Harare) from 1976 until his death in 2003.
Patrick Chamoiseau
Patrick Chamoiseau, born 1953 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, is a French novelist and essayist, a leading figure of the créolité movement who won the 1992 Prix Goncourt for Texaco.
Paulina Chiziane
Paulina Chiziane, born 1955 in Manjacaze, Mozambique, is a Mozambican novelist, the first woman in her country to publish a novel, best known for Niketche (2002).
Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams, full name Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (1919–2017), was a South African-born novelist and journalist whose 1946 novel Mine Boy drew world attention to conditions under apartheid.
Peter Carey (novelist)
Peter Philip Carey (born 1943, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria) is an Australian novelist, two-time Booker Prize winner for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang, three-time Miles Franklin winner, New York resident since 1990.
Pratibha Basu
Pratibha Basu (প্রতিভা বসু) was a Bengali novelist, short story writer, and essayist who was a celebrated child singer in Dhaka before marrying the writer Buddhadeva Bose, and wrote about 45 novels.
Punathil Kunjabdulla
Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940–2017) was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and medical doctor from Kerala, best known for Smarakasilakal, which won the Kerala and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Awards.
Qi Dengsheng
Qi Dengsheng (七等生; born Liu Wuxiong, 1939–2020) was a Taiwanese modernist novelist, essayist, and painter known for "I Love Black Eyes" (1967) and winner of the National Award for Arts.
Qu Bo
Qu Bo (曲波, 1923–2002) was a Chinese novelist and former guerrilla commander whose debut novel Tracks in the Snowy Forest became a widely read "red classic".
Qurratulain Hyder
Qurratulain Hyder, known as Annie Aapa, was an Urdu novelist whose 1959 novel Aag ka Darya (River of Fire) is revered in India and Pakistan alike.
Rachid al-Daif
Rachid al-Daif (رشيد الضعيف), born 1945 in Zgharta, Lebanon, is a Lebanese novelist, poet, and academic known for spare novels treating the civil war, including Dear Mr. Kawabata.
Rachid Boudjedra
Rachid Boudjedra (رشيد بوجدرة), born in 1941, is an Algerian novelist and essayist who writes in French and Arabic and broke Maghrebi literary taboos with his 1969 novel La Répudiation.
Rafael Delgado
Rafael Delgado (1853–1914) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright based in Orizaba, Veracruz, a leading figure of the late nineteenth-century Mexican realist novel.
Raghuveer Chaudhari
Raghuveer Chaudhari (રઘુવીર ચૌધરી), born 1938 in North Gujarat, is an Indian novelist, poet, critic, and playwright writing chiefly in Gujarati; he received the 51st Jnanpith Award in 2015.
Raja Alem
Raja Alem (رجاء عالم) is a Saudi novelist and playwright from Mecca whose symbolic fiction centers on Mecca itself. In 2011 she was the first woman to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Rajam Krishnan
Rajam Krishnan (ராஜம் கிருஷ்ணன், 1925–2014) was an Indian Tamil writer who wrote more than forty novels and won the 1973 Sahitya Akademi Award for Verukku Neer.
Rajani Kanta Bordoloi
Rajani Kanta Bordoloi (ৰজনীকান্ত বৰদলৈ, 1867–1939) was an Assamese novelist and journalist, honored as Upanyas Samrat and the Scott of Assam, whose nine novels include Miri Jiyori and Manomati.
Rajinder Singh Bedi
Rajinder Singh Bedi (راجندر سنگھ بیدی; 1915–1984) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer ranked second only to Manto, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for Ek Chadar Maili Si.
Ram Sarup Ankhi
Ram Sarup Ankhi (ਰਾਮ ਸਰੂਪ ਅਣਖੀ; 1932–2010) was a Punjabi writer, poet, and novelist who won the 1987 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Kothe Kharak Singh.
Ramanlal Desai
Ramanlal Vasantlal Desai (રમણલાલ દેસાઈ; 1892–1954) was a Gujarati novelist, playwright, and poet of the Gandhian era who wrote about 68 books, including the popular novel Divyachakshu.
Ramapada Chowdhury
Ramapada Chowdhury (রমাপদ চৌধুরী; 1922–2018) was an Indian Bengali novelist and editor known for novels such as Kharij and Banpalashir Padabali, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.
Ramesh Bikal
Ramesh Bikal (रमेश विकल), born Rameshwar Prasad Chalise (1928–2008), was a Nepali short story writer, novelist, and playwright known for social realism; he won the Madan Puraskar in 1962.
Ranjit Desai
Ranjit Desai (रणजित देसाई, 1928–1992) was a Marathi novelist, short-story writer, and playwright from Maharashtra, India, whose historical novels Swami and Shriman Yogi won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri.
Raphaël Confiant
Raphaël Confiant, born 1951 in Le Lorrain, Martinique, is a Martinican writer and academic who co-founded the Créolité movement, signing the 1989 manifesto Éloge de la créolité.
Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) was a Cuban novelist, poet, and playwright who became a prominent critic of Fidel Castro, suffered imprisonment, and died in exile in New York in 1990.
René Avilés Fabila
René Avilés Fabila (1940–2016) was a Mexican writer, journalist, and academic known for fantastic tales and political satire, best remembered for the novel El gran solitario de Palacio.
Ricardo Güiraldes
Ricardo Güiraldes (1886–1927) was an Argentine writer, born in Buenos Aires to an aristocratic family, whose novel Don Segundo Sombra (1926) became a classic of gaucho literature.