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Mochtar Lubis
Mochtar Lubis (1922–2004) was an Indonesian journalist and novelist, chief editor of the independent daily Indonesia Raya and repeatedly imprisoned under Soekarno and Suharto.
Moniro Ravanipour
Moniro Ravanipour (منیرو روانیپور) is an Iranian fiction writer and poet from Bushehr, known for the novel Ahl-e Gharq; imprisoned in the 1980s, she left Iran for the United States in 2006.
Moti Nandi
Moti Nandi (মতি নন্দী), real name Motilal Nandy, was an Indian Bengali writer and sports journalist of Kolkata who established sports fiction as a Bengali genre, writing Koni, Striker, and Stopper.
Mu Shiying
Mu Shiying (穆时英, 1912–1940) was a Chinese modernist novelist from Cixi, Zhejiang, leading writer of the Shanghai New Sensationist school and pioneer of urban fiction.
Mumtaz Mufti
Mumtaz Mufti, born Mufti Mumtaz Hussain (1905–1995), was a Pakistani Urdu fiction writer known for Ali Pur Ka Eli, Alakh Nagri, and the travelogues Labbaik and Hind Yatra.
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部)
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, c. 973–c. 1014) was a Heian-period Japanese woman writer and court lady, author of The Tale of Genji (源氏物語), often called the world's oldest full-length novel. She served Empress Shoshi and left the Murasaki Shikibu Diary and Murasaki Shikibu Collection.
Muratsan
Muratsan (Մուրացան) was the pen name of Grigor Ter-Hovhannisian, an Armenian novelist and playwright (1854–1908) known for the historical novel Gevorg Marzpetuni and the drama Ruzan.
Murilo Rubião
Murilo Rubião (1916–1991) was a Brazilian writer from Minas Gerais, regarded as the precursor of the fantastic short story, whose 33 tales narrate impossible events with complete naturalness.
Mushanokōji Saneatsu
Mushanokōji Saneatsu (武者小路実篤, 1885–1976) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and painter who led the Shirakaba school and founded the utopian New Village community in 1918.
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Mustansar Hussain Tarar (مستنصر حسین تارڑ), born in Lahore in 1939, is a Pakistani Urdu writer best known for travelogues like Niklay Teri Talash Mein and the novel Bahao.
Mya Than Tint
Mya Than Tint (1929–1998) was a prolific Burmese writer jailed for years by Ne Win, known for On the Road to Mandalay, interviews with ordinary Burmese people.
N. Mohanan
N. Mohanan (എൻ. മോഹനൻ) was an Indian writer of Malayalam short fiction and novels from Kerala, best known for the novel Innalathe Mazha, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998.
N. P. Mohammed
N. P. Mohammed (1928 or 1929 – 2003) was a Malayalam novelist and short story writer who portrayed Kerala's Mappila Muslims, chaired the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, and won its national award for Daivathinte Kannu.
N. Pichamurthy
N. Pichamurthy (ந. பிச்சமூர்த்தி, born Vengata Mahalingam, 1900–1976) was a Tamil writer and lawyer from Kumbakonam, pioneer of the free-verse Pudukavithai movement and early Manikodi contributor.
N. S. Madhavan
N. S. Madhavan (എൻ എസ് മാധവൻ), born 1948, is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature known for the novel Lanthan Batheriyile Luthiniyakal and the short story "Higuita".
Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ)
Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ; 1911–2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Arabic-native-language laureate, best known for the Cairo Trilogy.
Naivo
Naivo is the pen name of Naivoharisoa Patrick Ramamonjisoa, a Malagasy writer best known for Beyond the Rice Fields, the first novel from Madagascar translated into English.
Naiyer Masud
Naiyer Masud (نیّر مسعود) was an Indian Urdu short story writer, scholar, and translator from Lucknow, known for elliptical fiction and awarded the Padma Shri.
Nanak Singh
Nanak Singh (1897–1971), born Hans Raj, was a Punjabi novelist and poet called the father of the Punjabi novel who wrote Khooni Vaisakhi after surviving the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Narendranath Mitra
Narendranath Mitra (নরেন্দ্রনাথ মিত্র; 1916–1975) was an Indian Bengali writer whose stories depicted Bengal's middle class through the 1943 famine and Partition; his story Abataranika became Satyajit Ray's film Mahanagar.
Natsume Sōseki
Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石, born Natsume Kinnosuke, 1867–1916) is Japan's foremost modern novelist and an English-literature scholar; author of I Am a Cat, Botchan, Kokoro, and the unfinished Meian, London-study alumnus, and face of the 1,000-yen note.
Nayantara Sahgal
Nayantara Pandit Sahgal (born 10 May 1927, Allahabad), Indian English novelist and Nehru niece, author of nine novels including Rich Like Us, Sahitya Akademi Award winner who returned the award in protest.
Neela Padmanabhan
Neela Padmanabhan (நீல. பத்மநாபன்), born 1938, is a Tamil writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and essays known for Thalaimuraigal (1968) and the 2007 Sahitya Akademi award.
Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon (1937–2022) was a Brazilian novelist best known for the epic A República dos Sonhos (1984) and as the first woman president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Ngô Tất Tố
Ngô Tất Tố (吳必素, 1893–1954) was a Vietnamese realist writer best known for the novella Tắt đèn, about a peasant family ruined by the colonial head tax.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Thiong'o Ngũgĩ, 1938-2025), Kenyan novelist and playwright, wrote early novels in English, then switched to Gikuyu after imprisonment in 1977; author of Decolonising the Mind and Wizard of the Crow.
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, born 1976 in Cà Mau, is a Vietnamese writer of Mekong Delta fiction whose Cánh đồng bất tận won the Vietnam Writers' Association Award.
Nguyễn Quang Sáng
Nguyễn Quang Sáng, pen name Nguyễn Sáng, was a leading Vietnamese writer of the south (1932–2014), known for Chiếc lược ngà and the screenplay Cánh đồng hoang.
Niq Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo, born 1973 in Soweto, is a South African novelist, short story writer, and editor best known for his debut novel Dog Eat Dog (2004).
Nirmal Verma
Nirmal Verma (निर्मल वर्मा, 1929–2005) was an Indian Hindi writer, novelist, and translator, a pioneer of the Nayi Kahani movement who won the Jnanpith Award in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2001.