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Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa (小川洋子) is a Japanese novelist, born in 1962 in Okayama Prefecture, best known for The Housekeeper and the Professor and The Memory Police.
Yōko Tawada
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子) is a Japanese writer who publishes in both Japanese and German and has won the Akutagawa Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Yolanda Oreamuno
Yolanda Oreamuno (1916–1956) was a Costa Rican novelist, essayist, and short-story writer whose only novel, La ruta de su evasión, won a Central American prize in 1948.
Yom Sang-seop
Yom Sang-seop (염상섭, 1897–1963) was a Korean novelist and critic who helped establish the realist modern novel in colonial Korea; his masterwork is Three Generations (1931).
Youssef Rakha
Youssef Rakha (يوسف رخا; born 1976) is an Egyptian novelist, poet, and essayist who writes in Arabic and English and authored The Book of the Sultan's Seal.
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫), born Kimitake Hiraoka, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and essayist known for Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
Yvonne Vera
Yvonne Vera (1964–2005) was a Zimbabwean novelist and short-story writer whose five novels, set across different decades of Zimbabwean history, center women's experience and taboo subjects such as rape and political violence.
Zakaria Tamer
Zakaria Tamer (زكريا تامر, born 1931 in Damascus) is a Syrian short-story writer, regarded as a leading figure of Arabic short fiction, known for Tigers on the Tenth Day.
Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda, pen name of Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (born 1948), is a South African novelist, playwright, and painter considered among the foremost post-apartheid writers.
Zalman Shneour
Zalman Shneour (זלמן שניאור), born Shneur Zalkind, was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet, novelist, and playwright from Shklov who died in New York in 1959.
Zeng Pu
Zeng Pu (曾朴, 1872–1935) was a Chinese novelist, translator, and publisher, best known for the historical novel Niehai Hua, one of four late Qing condemnation novels Lu Xun identified.
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghe'i
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghe'i (زینالعابدین مراغهای, 1839–1910) was an Iranian satirist in Ottoman exile whose Travelogue of Ibrahim Beg is regarded as the first modern Persian novel and helped prepare opinion for the Constitutional Revolution.
Zhang Xianliang
Zhang Xianliang (张贤亮, December 1936 – 2014) was a Chinese writer of labor-camp novels such as Half of Man Is Woman, and later founded the Zhenbeipu Western Film Studio.
Zhang Xinxin
Zhang Xinxin (张辛欣, born 1953) is a Chinese writer and director known for the controversial 1981 story On the Same Horizon and the oral-history work Beijing Ren.
Zhao Shuli
Zhao Shuli (赵树理, 1906–1970) was a Chinese novelist and short-story writer from Shanxi whose rural fiction, notably Little Erhei's Marriage of 1943, made him the model author of the Yan'an literary policy.
Zoë Wicomb
Zoë Wicomb (1948–2025) was a South African writer and academic whose fiction and essays explored colored identity, shame, and apartheid's repressed histories; she won the 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize.
Zong Pu
Zong Pu (宗璞) is the pen name of Chinese writer Feng Zhongpu, born 1928, daughter of philosopher Feng Youlan and author of the novel cycle Wild Gourd Prelude.
Zoya Pirzad
Zoya Pirzad (زویا پیرزاد, born 1952) is an Iranian-Armenian novelist and translator whose debut novel I Will Turn Off the Lights became a bestseller in Iran.