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Yi Cheong-jun
Yi Cheong-jun (이청준, also romanized Lee Cheong-jun) was a South Korean novelist who wrote more than 100 short stories, known for The Wounded and Your Paradise.
Yi In-jik
Yi In-jik (이인직, 1862–1916), pen name Gukcho, was a Korean novelist and journalist known for Tears of Blood (1906), regarded as the first sinsoseol in Korean literature.
Yoshie Hotta
Yoshie Hotta (堀田善衞, 1918–1998) was a Japanese novelist and critic who won the 1952 Akutagawa Prize for Hiroba no Kodoku, drawing on his wartime experience in Shanghai.
Yu Hua
Yu Hua (余华, born 1960) is a Chinese novelist from Haiyan, Zhejiang, known for the novels To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and Brothers, translated into more than 40 languages.
Yumiko Kurahashi
Yumiko Kurahashi (倉橋由美子) was a Japanese novelist of anti-realist, allegorical fiction whose debut story "Partai" (1960) launched a career of fables and satires mocking postwar ideology.
Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera, or Yuri Herrera-Gutiérrez, is a Mexican novelist born in 1970 in Actopan, Hidalgo, known for his borderlands trilogy and for teaching at Tulane University since 2013.
Yusuf al-Qa'id
Yusuf al-Qa'id (يوسف القعيد), born 1944, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose novel War in the Land of Egypt ranked fourth among the best Arabic novels.
Yusuf Atılgan
Yusuf Atılgan (1921–1989) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of the modernist Turkish novel known for Aylak Adam (1959) and Anayurt Oteli (1973).
Yusuf Idris
Yusuf Idris (يوسف إدريس, 1927–1991) was an Egyptian writer and physician whose stories of ordinary Egyptians made him a founder of the modern Arabic short story.
Zahida Hina
Zahida Hina (زاہدہ حنا), born 1946 in Sasaram, Bihar, is a Pakistani Urdu short story writer, novelist, and columnist who received the SAARC Literary Award in 2001.
Zee Edgell
Zee Edgell, born Zelma Inez Tucker in 1940, is a Belizean novelist whose debut Beka Lamb (1982) was the first novel of newly independent Belize to reach an international audience.
Zhang Chengzhi
Zhang Chengzhi (张承志, born 1948) is a Chinese writer of Hui Muslim descent, author of Black Steed and History of the Soul and a founder of the Red Guards.
Zhang Guixing
Zhang Guixing (张贵兴, born 1956) is a Malaysian Chinese novelist based in Taiwan, known for novels set in the Borneo rainforest such as Elephant Herd.
Zhang Henshui
Zhang Henshui (张恨水; born Zhang Xinyuan, 1895 to 1967) was a Chinese novelist and newspaperman whose serialized chapter-form novels made him one of the Republican era's most widely read writers.
Zhong Lihe
Zhong Lihe (鍾理和) was a Taiwanese Hakka novelist and essayist, 1915 to 1960, called the Father of Nativist Literature, best known for Lishan Farm and Rain.
Zhou Dafu
Zhou Dafu is a Chinese novelist and retired army writer from Dengzhou, Henan, who won the 2008 Mao Dun Literature Prize for Lake Light and Mountain Color.
Zhou Erfu
Zhou Erfu (周而复, born Zhou Zushi, 1914–2004) was a Chinese novelist and calligrapher, best known for the four-part novel Morning in Shanghai about the socialist transformation of Shanghai's capitalist industry.
Zhou Libo
Zhou Libo (周立波) was a Chinese socialist-realist novelist from Yiyang, Hunan, whose 1948 novel The Hurricane, on land reform, won the Stalin Literature Prize; his 1957 Great Changes in a Mountain Village depicted agricultural cooperativization.