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Enrique Jaramillo Levi
Enrique Jaramillo Levi, born 1944 in Colón, Panama, is a Panamanian short-story writer, poet, essayist, and editor, best known for Duplicaciones (1973), written under Juan Rulfo's mentorship.
Enrique López Albújar
Enrique López Albújar (1872–1966) was a Peruvian judge and writer whose Cuentos andinos (1920) began indigenist narrative and whose novel Matalaché (1928) was the first negrista novel of Peru.
Epeli Hauʻofa
Epeli Hauʻofa (1939–2009) was a Tongan writer and anthropologist at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, known for the essay "Our Sea of Islands" and his satirical fiction.
Étienne Goyémidé
Étienne Goyémidé (1942–1997) was a Central African novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for the novels Le silence de la forêt and Le dernier survivant de la caravane.
Etienne van Heerden
Etienne van Heerden, born 1954, is a South African novelist and University of Cape Town professor who writes in Afrikaans, best known for his breakthrough novel Toorberg.
Euphrase Kezilahabi
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020) was a Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar of Swahili literature, a pioneer of free verse whose novel Rosa Mistika was later translated by Yale University Press.
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere (عز الدين شكري فشير), born in 1966, is an Egyptian novelist, diplomat, and academic. Three of his ten Arabic novels were nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
F. Sionil José
F. Sionil José (Francisco Sionil José, 1924–2022) was a Filipino novelist and journalist named National Artist for Literature in 2001, best known for the five-novel Rosales Saga.
Fanny Buitrago
Fanny Buitrago is a Colombian novelist, playwright, and storyteller born in Barranquilla in 1946, known for El hostigante verano de los dioses (1963) and Caribbean coast settings.
Fathi Ghanim
Fathi Ghanim, also romanized Fathy Ghanem, was an Egyptian novelist and journalist (1924–1999), best known for his four-voice 1961 novel The Man Who Lost His Shadow.
Fatou Diome
Fatou Diome, born in Senegal in 1968, is a Senegalese writer living in France whose debut novel Le Ventre de l'Atlantique (2003), about migration between Senegal and France, became a bestseller.
Félix Couchoro
Félix Couchoro (1900–1968) was a novelist and journalist, born in Dahomey and later a Togolese citizen, one of the first African novelists writing in French.
Feng Jicai
Feng Jicai (冯骥才) is a Chinese novelist, painter, and cultural scholar based in Tianjin, known for fiction about Tianjin street life and for leading the rescue of China's folk cultural heritage.
Flavio Herrera
Flavio Herrera (1895–1968) was a Guatemalan novelist, short-story writer, poet, and lawyer of the Generation of 1920, credited with introducing the haikú into Guatemalan literature.
Florent Couao-Zotti
Florent Couao-Zotti, born in 1964 in Pobé, Benin, is a Beninese novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose fiction centers on the streets and margins of Cotonou.
Fogwill
Fogwill was the pen name of Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (1941–2010), an Argentine writer of novels, stories, poetry, and essays, best known for the Malvinas War novel Los pichiciegos.
Francisco Arcellana
Francisco Arcellana (1916–2002) was a Filipino writer, essayist, and teacher who shaped the modern Philippine short story in English and was named National Artist for Literature in 1990.
Francisco Coloane
Francisco Coloane Cárdenas (1910–2002) was a Chilean writer whose fiction centers on Patagonia and the southern oceans, winning the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1964.
Francisco Espínola
Francisco Espínola, known as Paco Espínola (1901–1973), was a Uruguayan writer, journalist, and teacher, a leading nativismo figure whose novel Sombras sobre la tierra is a classic of the Uruguayan novel.
Frank Hardy
Frank Hardy, born Francis Joseph Hardy (1917–1994), was an Australian novelist and communist activist whose 1950 novel Power Without Glory prompted one of Australia's most prominent criminal libel trials.
Frank Martinus Arion
Frank Martinus Arion, born Frank Efraim Martinus, was a Dutch-Caribbean writer, poet, and linguist from Curaçao, one of the most important Caribbean authors writing in Dutch.
Frankétienne
Frankétienne, born Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent (1936–2025), was a Haitian writer, painter, and founder of Spiralism who wrote Dézafi, the first modern novel in Haitian Creole.
Fred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo, born 1966, is a South African novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for historical fiction that recovers forgotten episodes of South Africa's past, and winner of the European Union Literary Award.
Fuad al-Takarli
Fuad al-Takarli (فؤاد التكرلي; 1927–2008) was an Iraqi novelist, short-story writer, and judge, counted among the founders of the modern classic Iraqi novel; his best-known work is Al-Raj' al-Ba'id (1980).
Fumiko Enchi
Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986) was a Japanese novelist and playwright of the Showa era known for works on women's repressed inner lives, winning major literary prizes.
G. A. Kulkarni
G. A. Kulkarni, known to readers as "GA", was an Indian Marathi short story writer (1923–1987), a leading figure of the nav-katha movement who won and returned the Sahitya Akademi Award.
G. V. Desani
G. V. Desani (Govindas Vishnoodas Desani) is an Indian novelist born in Nairobi in 1909, best known for his 1948 comic novel All About H. Hatterr.
Gamal al-Ghitani
Gamal al-Ghitani (جمال الغيطاني), 1945 to 2015, was an Egyptian novelist and journalist who founded the weekly Akhbar al-Adab and wrote the acclaimed novel Zayni Barakat.
Gangadhar Gadgil
Gangadhar Gadgil was a Marathi writer from Mumbai regarded as the leading exponent of the Marathi navakatha, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 for his autobiography.
Gaspar Pedro González
Gaspar Pedro González, born 1945, is a Guatemalan Q'anjob'al Maya writer best known for La otra cara (1992), often called the first novel written in a Mayan language.