498 articles
Jayakanthan (ஜெயகாந்தன்)
Jayakanthan (ஜெயகாந்தன்), also JK, Dhandapani Jayakanthan, 1934-2015, Tamil writer from Cuddalore raised in the Communist Party of India; wrote about 40 novels and 200 short stories, won the 1972 Sahitya Akademi Award and 2002 Jnanpith Award.
Jean-Marie Adiaffi
Jean-Marie Adiaffi (full name Jean-Marie Adé Adiaffi, 1941–1999) was an Ivorian novelist, poet, and screenwriter whose novel La carte d'identité won the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire.
Jeannette Armstrong
Jeannette Armstrong, born 1948, is a Syilx (Okanagan) writer and educator from British Columbia whose 1985 novel Slash was the first published by a First Nations woman in Canada.
Jeelani Bano
Jeelani Bano (جیلانی بانو, 1936–2026) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer and novelist from Hyderabad, best known for Aiwan-e-Ghazal and awarded the Padma Shri in 2001.
Jessica Hagedorn
Jessica Hagedorn, born Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, is a Filipino American playwright, novelist, poet, and performance artist best known for her debut novel Dogeaters (1990), which won the American Book Award.
Jippensha Ikku
Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) was a Japanese comic-fiction writer of the late Edo period, author of the bestselling Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige about the travelers Yaji and Kita.
João Almino
João Almino (born 1950) is a Brazilian novelist, essayist, and career diplomat from Mossoró, best known for the Brasília Quintet and elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 2017.
Joaquín Edwards Bello
Joaquín Edwards Bello (1887–1968), born Víctor Lorenzo Joaquín Edwards Bello, was a Chilean chronicler and novelist from Valparaíso known for his unsparing criticism of national customs.
Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado (Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, 1912–2001) was a Brazilian journalist and novelist of Bahia whose books, including Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, made him Brazil's most translated 20th-century writer.
Jorge Icaza
Jorge Icaza Coronel (1906–1978) was an Ecuadorian novelist and playwright whose Huasipungo (1934), attacking the exploitation of Indigenous people by landowners, became Ecuador's most recognized novel.
José Agustín
José Agustín, full name José Agustín Ramírez Gómez, was a Mexican novelist and counterculture chronicler whose debut novel La tumba (1964) helped found the literary movement La Onda.
José de la Cuadra
José de la Cuadra was an Ecuadorian short-story writer, novelist, and essayist of the Grupo de Guayaquil, known for Los Sangurimas and his writing on the coastal montuvio peasant.
José Donoso
José Donoso (José Donoso Yáñez, 1924–1996) was a Chilean novelist of the Latin American Boom, known for The Obscene Bird of Night (1970) and the essay Historia personal del "boom".
José Eduardo Agualusa
José Eduardo Agualusa is an Angolan journalist and novelist born in 1960, whose novel A General Theory of Oblivion won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award.
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, known as El Pensador Mexicano, was a Mexican journalist and novelist who wrote El Periquillo Sarniento, the first Spanish American novel.
José María Arguedas
José María Arguedas (1911–1969) was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist who wrote in Spanish and Quechua and is regarded as a leading exponent of indigenismo.
José Tomás de Cuéllar
José Tomás de Cuéllar (1830–1894) was a Mexican novelist, journalist, painter, and diplomat who wrote as Facundo; his ten-novel series La linterna mágica depicts Mexico City's middle class.
José Victorino Lastarria
José Victorino Lastarria (1817–1888) was a Chilean novelist, essayist, and liberal politician who led the Generation of 1842, founded the Sociedad Literaria, and championed a national Chilean literature.
Josué Guimarães
Josué Guimarães (1921–1986) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist from Rio Grande do Sul, known for the trilogy A Ferro e Fogo on German colonization.
Juan Filloy
Juan Filloy (1894–2000) was an Argentine writer and judge in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, whose novels include Caterva and Op Oloop, and who gave every book title exactly seven letters.
Júlia Lopes de Almeida
Júlia Lopes de Almeida, full name Júlia Valentim da Silveira Lopes de Almeida, was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and journalist who published more than 40 books over 53 years.
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), Argentine-born writer of Rayuela (Hopscotch), Bestiario, and Historias de cronopios y de famas; central Latin American boom figure, Paris exile from 1951, translator of Poe, died in Paris in 1984.
K. Jayatilleke
K. Jayatilleke (Sinhala: කේ. ජයතිලක; born Kaluachchigamage Jayathilaka, 1926–2011) was a Sri Lankan novelist, short-story writer, critic, and publisher in Sinhala, known for the award-winning novel Charitha Thunak (1963).
K. Sello Duiker
K. Sello Duiker (Kabelo Sello Duiker, 1974–2005) was a South African novelist and screenwriter whose novels Thirteen Cents and The Quiet Violence of Dreams made him a prominent post-apartheid voice.
Kakkanadan
Kakkanadan (കാക്കനാടൻ), 1935 to 2011, was the pen name of George Varghese, an Indian writer who led modernist Malayalam fiction and won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.
Kalki Krishnamurthy
Kalki Krishnamurthy (கல்கி கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி), pen name of R. Krishnamurthy (1899-1954), Tamil novelist, journalist, and freedom fighter; author of Ponniyin Selvan, Sivakamiyin Sapatham, and Alai Osai, and founder of the Kalki weekly.
Kangni Alem
Kangni Alem, pen name of Kangni Alemdjrodo, is a Togolese novelist and playwright born in 1966 in Lomé, best known for the award-winning novel Cola Cola Jazz.
Kartar Singh Duggal
Kartar Singh Duggal (1917–2012) was an Indian writer, mainly in Punjabi, who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965 and the Padma Bhushan in 1988.
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is an Australian novelist, born in Sydney in 1950, best known for The Secret River (2005), which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Kazuo Dan
Kazuo Dan (檀一雄, 1912–1976) was a Japanese novelist and poet of the Buraiha group who won the Naoki Prize and wrote the autobiographical bestseller Kataku no Hito over about 20 years.