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A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua, born Abraham Gabriel Yehoshua (Hebrew: א"ב יהושע, 1936–2022), was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and essayist known for novels like The Lover and Mr. Mani.
A. Samad Said
A. Samad Said is the pen name of Abdul Samad bin Mohamed Said (born 1935), a Malaysian novelist and poet named the country's fourth National Laureate in 1985.
Aaron Chiundura Moyo
Aaron Chiundura Moyo is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, born in Gweru in 1950, who has written over 20 novels and plays almost exclusively in Shona.
Abdoulaye Sadji
Abdoulaye Sadji (1910–1961) was a Senegalese novelist, essayist, and teacher who wrote in French, counted among the founders of Senegal's modern literature, best known for the novels Maïmouna and Nini.
Abdourahman Waberi
Abdourahman Waberi, born 1965 in Djibouti, is a Djiboutian novelist writing in French, known for the trilogy Le Pays sans ombre, Cahier nomade, and Balbala.
Abdulla Qodiriy
Abdulla Qodiriy, pen name Julqunboy, was an Uzbek writer and journalist who founded the modern Uzbek novel with Oʻtkan kunlar (Bygone Days) before being executed in 1938.
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (افضل احسن رندھاوا), legal name Muhammad Afzal, was a Pakistani Punjabi writer of about 22 books who also served in the National Assembly from 1972.
Agha Salim
Agha Salim (آغا سليم; 1935–2016), born Agha Khalid Saleem, was a Pakistani writer of Sindhi fiction, drama, poetry, and journalism who also translated Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai into Urdu and English verse.
Agustín Yáñez
Agustín Yáñez (1904–1980) was a Mexican novelist, essayist, and public official whose 1947 novel Al filo del agua is seen as the turning point of modern Mexican narrative.
Ahmad Mahmoud
Ahmad Mahmoud (احمد محمود) was an Iranian novelist and short-story writer, born in Ahvaz in 1931, best known for Hamsayeha (The Neighbors) and a trilogy following one protagonist from the Mosaddeq era to the Iran-Iraq War.
Ahmad Tohari
Ahmad Tohari (born 1948) is an Indonesian novelist from Banyumas, Central Java, best known for the Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk trilogy, widely translated into five languages.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901–1962) was a Turkish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary historian at Istanbul University, known for the novels A Mind at Peace and The Time Regulation Institute.
Aké Loba
Aké Loba (Gérard Ake-Loba) was an Ivorian novelist and diplomat whose 1960 debut novel Kocoumbo, l'étudiant noir made him the first winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique noire.
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou, born in 1966 and raised in Pointe-Noire, Congo, is a French novelist who won the Prix Renaudot for Mémoires de porc-épic and twice reached the International Booker shortlist.
Alan Paton
Alan Paton was a South African novelist and prison reformer best known for Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), a novel about racial injustice that sold millions of copies worldwide.
Alan Pauls
Alan Pauls, born 1959 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine novelist, essayist, and literary critic, author of El pasado (2003) and the Historia del llanto trilogy.
Albert Wendt
Albert Wendt, born in Apia, Samoa, in 1939, is a Samoan novelist and poet whose 1973 first novel, Sons for the Return Home, is hailed as the first Pacific novel.
Alex Miller
Alex Miller, born 1936 in the United Kingdom and raised in Australia, is an Australian novelist who won the Miles Franklin Award for The Ancestor Game in 1993 and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003.
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright, born 1950, is an Indigenous Australian writer of the Waanyi nation whose novels blend Aboriginal storytelling with the European novel form; she won the Miles Franklin Award twice.
Alfred Mendes
Alfred Hubert Mendes (1897–1991), Trinidadian novelist and short-story writer of the Beacon group; author of Pitch Lake (1934) and Black Fauns (1935), pioneer of barrack-yard fiction, WWI veteran, and grandfather of director Sam Mendes.
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay (1843–1899), was a Brazilian military engineer, politician, historian, and novelist born in Rio de Janeiro, best known for the regionalist novel Inocência (1872).
Alka Saraogi
Alka Saraogi (अलका सरावगी), born 1960, is an Indian novelist who writes in Hindi from Kolkata and won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for her first novel Kalikatha: Via Bypass.
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, known as "El Nene", was a Colombian writer and journalist of the Barranquilla Group whose 1962 novel La casa grande portrays the 1928 banana massacre.
Amish Tripathi
Amish Tripathi (born 1974, Bombay), Indian novelist of the Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series, former banker and diplomat; over 8 million copies sold across 21 languages.
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar (অমিয়ভূষণ মজুমদার) was an Indian Bengali novelist and short-story writer whose fiction is closely identified with North Bengal, where he lived most of his life.
Amos Oz (עמוס עוז)
Amos Oz (עמוס עוז), born Amos Klausner, was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and professor of literature whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Amos Tutuola
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was a Nigerian novelist who drew his books from Yoruba folklore; The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) made him his country's first internationally recognized writer.
Amrit Rai
Amrit Rai (अमृत राय; 1921–1996) was a Hindi novelist and translator, best known as the son of Premchand and author of the biography Kalam ka Sipahi.
Ana Lydia Vega
Ana Lydia Vega, who also writes as Talía Cuervo, is a Puerto Rican writer born in 1946, known for irony, humor, and stories on Caribbean identity and language.
Andrés Rivera
Andrés Rivera, pen name of Marcos Ribak (1928–2016), was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer known for La revolución es un sueño eterno and El farmer.