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Beatriz Guido
Beatriz Guido (1922–1988) was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose political novels made her one of Argentina's most widely read writers of the 1950s to 1970s.
Berdi Kerbabaev
Berdi Kerbabaev, born in 1894, was a Soviet Turkmen writer, poet, and playwright regarded as a founder of Soviet-era Turkmen literature, best known for the historical novel The Decisive Step.
Bernard Dadié
Bernard Dadié (1916–2019) was an Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and folklorist regarded as the father of Ivorian literature, whose Climbié (1956) was the first Ivorian novel.
Bernardo Carvalho
Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for Nove noites (2002) and Mongólia (2003), which build detective-like investigations around travel, archives, and unstable narration.
Bessie Head
Bessie Head (Bessie Amelia Emery Head) was a South African-born novelist exiled in Botswana, known for the novels When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, and A Question of Power.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়)
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়), also anglicised Banerjee, 1894–1950, Bengali novelist of Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Aranyak and Chander Pahar; posthumous 1951 Rabindra Prize for Ichhamati.
Bilge Karasu
Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) was a Turkish writer known for experimental, densely symbolic fiction treating loneliness, fear, and death; his novel Gece (Night) won the Pegasus Literature Award.
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924–1997) was an Indian writer in Assamese, the first Assamese author to receive the Jnanpith Award, given in 1979 for his novel Mrityunjay.
Boubacar Boris Diop
Boubacar Boris Diop, born in 1946 in Dakar, is a Senegalese novelist who writes in French and Wolof and won the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Bozorg Alavi
Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی), born Sayyed Mojtabā Alavi, was an Iranian leftist writer and a founder of modern Persian prose fiction, best known for his 1952 novel Her Eyes.
Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta (Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, 1944–2017) was a Nigerian-born British novelist who wrote about the lives of African women; her best-known books include The Joys of Motherhood.
Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu, full name Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu, was a Brazilian writer and journalist, born in 1948 and best known for the landmark story collection Morangos mofados (1982).
Calixthe Beyala
Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian-born novelist writing in French who has published close to twenty works since 1987 and won the Académie française grand prix in 1996.
Camara Laye
Camara Laye (1928–1980) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French, known for L'Enfant noir (1953) and Le Regard du roi (1954), seminal works of African fiction.
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías (1928–2012), Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat of the Latin American Boom; author of La región más transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Aura, and Terra Nostra; Cervantes Prize 1987, never awarded the Nobel.
Carlos Heitor Cony
Carlos Heitor Cony (1926–2018) was a Brazilian writer and journalist from Rio de Janeiro, author of Quase Memória and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Carlos Luis Fallas
Carlos Luis Fallas, known as Calufa (1909–1966), was a Costa Rican novelist and communist activist whose protest novels Mamita Yunai and Marcos Ramírez made him the leading writer of the Generación del 40.
César Aira
César Aira, born in 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, is a prolific Argentine novelist, translator, dramatist, and essayist with more than one hundred books published since 1981.
Chandradhar Sharma Guleri
Chandradhar Sharma Guleri (चंद्रधर शर्मा गुलेरी, 1883–1922) was a Hindi writer from Jaipur, author of Usne Kaha Tha, widely regarded as the first modern Hindi short story.
Chaso
Chaso, pen name of Chaganti Somayajulu (1915 to 1994), was a Telugu short story writer who published only about 45 stories yet became a master of the genre.
Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928–2026) was a Senegalese writer and statesman whose novel L'Aventure ambiguë (1961), a classic of francophone African literature, has been translated into about forty languages.
Chen Duansheng
Chen Duansheng (陳端生, courtesy name Yunzhen, 1751 to about 1796) was a Qing dynasty Chinese woman writer, author of the first seventeen juan of the tanci novel Zaishengyuan.
Chenjerai Hove
Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015) was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist, essayist, and social commentator who wrote in Shona and English; his novel Bones won the 1989 Noma Award.
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत)
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत), born 1974, is an Indian novelist and columnist, author of Five Point Someone, 2 States, and Half Girlfriend, India's bestselling English-language fiction writer with film adaptations like 3 Idiots.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977, Enugu, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist and essayist, author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah, and of the TED talk We Should All Be Feminists.
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chinghiz Aitmatov (Чыңгыз Айтматов, Чингиз Айтматов), 1928–2008, Kyrgyz and Russian novelist and diplomat; author of Jamila, The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years; coined mankurt; Lenin Prize laureate.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, 1930–2013), Nigerian novelist and father of modern African literature; author of Things Fall Apart (1958), founding editor of the African Writers Series, and 2007 Man Booker International Prize winner.
Choi In-hun
Choi In-hun (최인훈, 1936–2018) was a South Korean novelist, poet, and professor whose novel The Square (1960) opened a new era in postwar Korean literature.
Chris Abani
Chris Abani, born 1966 in Afikpo, Nigeria, is a Nigerian-born American novelist, poet, and Northwestern University professor whose novel GraceLand (2004) won the PEN/Hemingway Book Prize.
Christopher Hope
Christopher Hope is a South African novelist and poet, born in Johannesburg in 1944, who left South Africa in 1975 and writes satirical fiction about apartheid.