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Pratibha Ray
Pratibha Ray is an Indian novelist who writes in Odia, best known for the feminist Mahabharata retelling Yajnaseni and for winning the Jnanpith Award in 2011.
Premchand (धनपत राय श्रीवास्तव)
Premchand (Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava, 1880–1936), also Nawab Rai, Hindi-Urdu novelist and short-story writer of Lamhi near Varanasi; wrote Sevasadan, Nirmala, Rangbhoomi, Gaban, and Godaan; pioneered idealistic realism and rural themes in Hindi fiction.
Pu Songling
Pu Songling (蒲松龄, 1640–1715) was a Qing dynasty writer from Zichuan, Shandong, best known for Liaozhai zhiyi, a collection of nearly 500 tales of fox spirits and ghosts.
Pudhumaipithan
Pudhumaipithan (புதுமைப்பித்தன்), the pen name of C. Vridhachalam (1906–1948), was an influential Tamil writer who wrote about 100 short stories and brought realism, satire, and modernist technique to Tamil fiction.
Qiu Miaojin
Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津, 1969–1995) was a Taiwanese novelist, a foundational figure of queer Sinophone literature, best known for Notes of a Crocodile and Last Words from Montmartre.
R. K. Narayan
R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami, was an Indian novelist and short-story writer in English whose 14 novels set in the fictional town of Malgudi include Swami and Friends and The Guide.
Rachel de Queiroz
Rachel de Queiroz (1910–2003) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist from Fortaleza, Ceará, whose debut novel O Quinze (1930) made her a national figure at twenty.
Raduan Nassar
Raduan Nassar, born in 1935, is a Brazilian writer of Lebanese descent whose sparse work, including the novel Lavoura arcaica, earned him the 2016 Prêmio Camões.
Rahi Masoom Raza
Rahi Masoom Raza (1927–1992), born Syed Masoom Reza Abedi, was an Indian Urdu and Hindi novelist and screenwriter best known for Aadha Gaon and Mahabharat.
Raja Rao
Raja Rao (1908–2006), Indian novelist of Kanthapura and The Serpent and the Rope, pioneer of Indian writing in English; Vedanta-inflected fiction, Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Bhushan, 1988 Neustadt Prize.
Rajendra Yadav
Rajendra Yadav (राजेन्द्र यादव, 1929–2013) was a Hindi novelist, critic, and editor of Hans, best known for the novel Sara Akash and the Nayi Kahani movement.
Raul Pompeia
Raul Pompeia (Raul Pompéia), full name Raul de Ávila Pompeia, was a Brazilian Realist and Naturalist novelist and caricaturist, best known for the school novel O Ateneu, published in 1888.
Remy Sylado
Remy Sylado was an Indonesian writer, poet, musician, and actor born in 1945 in Makassar, who pioneered puisi mbeling and wrote more than 50 novels.
René Philombé
René Philombé was the pen name of Philippe-Louis Ombedé (1930–2001), a Cameroonian novelist, poet, and playwright, paralyzed by polio in 1955, who won the Prix Mottart.
Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia (Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi) was an influential Argentine novelist and literary critic whose novels include Respiración artificial (1980), Plata quemada (1997), and Blanco nocturno (2010).
Richard Rive
Richard Moore Rive was a South African short-story writer and teacher in Cape Town who wrote against apartheid and authored the 1986 novel 'Buckingham Palace', District Six.
Richard Wagamese
Richard Wagamese (1955–2017) was an Ojibway Canadian novelist, journalist, and storyteller from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Ontario, best known for his 2012 novel Indian Horse.
Rieko Matsuura
Rieko Matsuura (松浦理英子, born 1958) is a Japanese novelist from Matsuyama known for fiction about sex, the body, and gender, including The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P.
Roberto J. Payró
Roberto J. Payró (Roberto Jorge Payró, 1867–1928) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and playwright whose ironic fiction and La Nación reporting made him a founder of national theater.
Rodolfo Teófilo
Rodolfo Teófilo, full name Rodolfo Marcos Teófilo, was a Brazilian pharmacist, novelist, and sanitarian in Ceará who led a private smallpox vaccination campaign and wrote the Naturalist novel A Fome (1890).
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Rodrigo Rey Rosa (born 1958, Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan novelist, short-story writer, and filmmaker, mentored by Paul Bowles and known for El material humano and Cárcel de árboles.
Roger Mais
Roger Mais was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, playwright, and painter, born in Kingston in 1905 and celebrated as a critic of British colonial rule in Jamaica.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952, Bombay, now Mumbai) is an Indian-born Canadian novelist whose Parsi-centered novels Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance, and Family Matters were all Booker-shortlisted.
Rou Shi
Rou Shi, pen name of Zhao Pingfu (赵平复), was a Chinese writer, editor, and Communist Party member known for February and "A Slave Mother", secretly executed in Shanghai in 1931.
Ryūtei Tanehiko
Ryūtei Tanehiko (柳亭種彦, 1783–1842) was a Japanese writer of popular illustrated fiction of the late Edo period, known for Nise Murasaki inaka Genji, an adaptation of The Tale of Genji.
S. K. Pottekkatt
S. K. Pottekkatt (1913–1982) was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature from Kerala, known for his novels and travelogues, who won the 1980 Jnanpith Award.
S. Ramakrishnan
S. Ramakrishnan (எஸ். ராமகிருஷ்ணன்; born 1966), known in Tamil literary circles as S.Ra, is a Tamil writer of novels, short stories, and essays who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018.
Sabit Mukanov
Sabit Mukanov (Сәбит Мұқанұлы Мұқанов; 1900–1973) was a Kazakh writer, People's Writer of Kazakhstan, and a founder of modern Kazakh literature who wrote the novels Sulushash, Botagoz, and Syrdariya.
Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam
Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam (born 1936) is an Ethiopian novelist who wrote in English, Amharic, and Chaha, and a founder of Ethiopia's literature in English.
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay (শৈলজানন্দ মুখোপাধ্যায়), 1901–1976, was a Bengali novelist, short-story writer, and film director, a friend of Kazi Nazrul Islam whose Kaila Kuthi stories pioneered fiction about Bengal's coal miners.