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Gaur Kishore Ghosh
Gaur Kishore Ghosh (গৌরকিশোর ঘোষ) was a Bengali writer and journalist from West Bengal, India, known for satirical columns under the pen name Rupadarshi and for resisting press censorship during the 1975–1977 Emergency.
George Lamming
George Lamming (1927–2022) was a Barbadian novelist and essayist, a central figure of Caribbean literature whose debut novel In the Castle of My Skin appeared in 1953.
Germano Almeida
Germano Almeida, born 1945 on Boavista, is a Cape Verdean writer and lawyer known for the novel O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo.
Ghada al-Samman
Ghada al-Samman (غادة السمان), born in Damascus in 1942, is a Syrian novelist, poet, and journalist based in Beirut whose war novel Beirut Nightmares (1976) is her best-known work.
Ghassan Kanafani (غسان فايز كنفاني)
Ghassan Kanafani (غسان فايز كنفاني, 1936–1972), Palestinian novelist of the Nakba, author of Men in the Sun and Return to Haifa, PFLP spokesman and Al-Hadaf editor, assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut on 8 July 1972.
Ghazaleh Alizadeh
Ghazaleh Alizadeh (غزاله علیزاده) was an Iranian novelist and short story writer, born in Mashhad in 1947, best known for the acclaimed novel Khāne-ye Edrisihā (1991).
Ghulam Abbas (writer)
Ghulam Abbas (غلام عباس) was an Urdu short story writer, born in Amritsar in 1909 and based in Karachi, best known for the story "Anandi".
Giddens Ko
Giddens Ko (柯景騰), pen name Jiubadao, is a Taiwanese novelist and filmmaker known for the 2011 hit film You Are the Apple of My Eye.
Giriraj Kishore
Giriraj Kishore (गिरिराज किशोर, 1937–2020) was an Indian Hindi novelist, short story writer, and playwright, best known for Pahla Girmitiya about Gandhi in South Africa.
Graça Aranha
Graça Aranha (José Pereira da Graça Aranha, 1868–1931) was a Brazilian novelist and diplomat, author of Canaã and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Gu Hua
Gu Hua (古华), born Luo Hongyu in 1942, is a Chinese novelist from Hunan whose Fu Rong Zhen won the first Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1982.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and film critic best known for Tres tristes tigres; he won the Cervantes Prize in 1997.
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੁੱਲਰ; born 1937) is an Indian Punjabi short-story writer known for fiction rooted in rural Punjab, winner of the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal
Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal (born 1945) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, and politician from Tuluá, best known for his 1971 novel of the Colombian political violence, Cóndores no entierran todos los días.
Haddis Alemayehu
Haddis Alemayehu (ሐዲስ ዓለማየሁ) was an Ethiopian novelist, diplomat, and minister, best known for Fikir iske Mekabir, a cornerstone of Amharic literature published in the 1960s.
Hamka
Hamka was the pen name of Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (1908–1981), an Indonesian Islamic modernist scholar and novelist from Minangkabau, West Sumatra, known for Tafsir Al-Azhar and Tasauf Moderen.
Han Bangqing
Han Bangqing (韩邦庆, 1856–1894), who wrote as Hua Ye Lian Nong, was a late Qing novelist best known for The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai, the major Wu-dialect novel.
Han Kang
Han Kang (한강), South Korean novelist and poet, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first South Korean laureate; author of The Vegetarian (2016 Man Booker International) and Human Acts, on Gwangju 1980 trauma.
Hanan al-Shaykh
Hanan al-Shaykh (حنان الشيخ), born 1945, is a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and playwright living in London, known for fiction on women's lives in Arab society, including The Story of Zahra.
Hari Krishna Kaul
Hari Krishna Kaul (1934–2009) was a Kashmiri short story writer and playwright, a major figure of the modern Kashmiri short story and winner of the 2000 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Hari Narayan Apte
Hari Narayan Apte, often written Ha. Na. Apte (1864–1919), was a Marathi novelist credited with giving the Marathi novel its first modern form in social and historical fiction.
Hasan Azizul Huq
Hasan Azizul Huq (1939–2021) was a Bengali writer who settled in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, known for the novel Agunpakhi and winning the Independence Award in 2019.
Hayatullah Ansari
Hayatullah Ansari (حیات اللہ انصاری) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer, critic, and journalist who edited Qaumi Awaz and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1970.
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (हजारीप्रसाद द्विवेदी, 1907–1979) was a Hindi novelist, literary historian, and critic, ranked among the leading figures of modern Hindi criticism and honored with the Padma Bhushan.
Héctor Bianciotti
Héctor Bianciotti (1930–2012) was an Argentine-born, French-naturalized novelist, critic, and editor who abandoned Spanish for French in the early 1980s and was elected to the Académie française in 1996.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner, born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1942, is an Australian writer whose novel Monkey Grip became a classic and whose nonfiction follows Australian court trials, winning the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2025.
Helon Habila
Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist born in 1967 in Kaltungo, Nigeria, author of Waiting for an Angel, Oil on Water, and Travellers, and winner of the Caine Prize.
Hennie Aucamp
Hennie Aucamp, born Hendrik Christoffel Lourens Aucamp (1934–2014), was a South African Afrikaans writer known as the father of literary cabaret and winner of the 1982 Hertzog Prize.
Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson, born Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (1867 to 1922), was an Australian poet and short-story writer whose bush-life stories made him a leading nationalist figure in Australian writing.
Heriberto Frías
Heriberto Frías (Heriberto Frías Alcocer) was a Mexican novelist, journalist, and soldier whose eyewitness novel Tomochic made him a leading opposition writer under Porfirio Díaz.