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Bhalchandra Nemade
Bhalchandra Nemade (भालचंद्र नेमाडे) is a Marathi novelist, poet, and critic known for Kosala (1963) and for formulating the literary theory of nativism, or deshivad.
Bhisham Sahni
Bhisham Sahni (भीष्म साहनी) was an Indian Hindi writer, playwright, and actor best known for the novel Tamas, an account of the Partition of India, and received the Padma Bhushan in 1998.
Bi Shumin
Bi Shumin (毕淑敏, born 1952) is a Chinese novelist, essayist, and former army physician whose novels include Red Prescription, Blood Ruby, and The Woman Psychologist.
Bienvenido Santos
Bienvenido Santos (1911–1996) was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, and poet whose work chronicles Filipino exile in America; his collection Scent of Apples won the 1980 American Book Award.
Bimal Mitra
Bimal Mitra (বিমল মিত্র, 1912–1991) was an Indian Bengali writer of novels and short stories in Bengali and Hindi, best known for Saheb Bibi Golam.
Binapani Mohanty
Binapani Mohanty (Odia: ବୀଣାପାଣି ମହାନ୍ତି; 1936–2022) was an Indian Odia short story writer and novelist whose story "Pata Dei" won the 1990 Sahitya Akademi Award.
C. Radhakrishnan
C. Radhakrishnan (സി. രാധാകൃഷ്ണൻ, born 1939) is a Malayalam novelist, science writer, and film director from Kerala whose first novel won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1962.
C. T. Msimang
C. T. Msimang, born Christian Themba Msimang in 1944, is a South African writer, poet, and linguist noted among Zulu poets, known for novels like Buzani kuMkabayi.
C. V. Raman Pillai
C. V. Raman Pillai (സി.വി. രാമൻപിള്ള; 1858–1922) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote in Malayalam. Known as the "Scott of Malayalam," he introduced the historical novel to Malayalam with Marthanda Varma (1891).
Can Themba
Can Themba (1924–1967) was a South African teacher, journalist, and short story writer, a leading figure of Drum magazine and author of the celebrated story "The Suit".
Can Xue
Can Xue (残雪) is the pen name of a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer, active since 1985, known for surrealist, dream-like novels that earned her the label "China's Kafka".
Carl de Souza
Carl de Souza, born 1949 in Rose Hill, Mauritius, is a Mauritian novelist writing in French whose fiction explores identity and intercommunal tension in postcolonial Mauritius.
Carlos María Ocantos
Carlos María Ocantos (1860–1949) was an Argentine novelist and diplomat who published twenty realist novels as Novelas argentinas, joined the Real Academia Española in 1897, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1943.
Carlos Reyles
Carlos Reyles was a Uruguayan novelist, essayist, and rancher (1868–1938) whose fiction moved from naturalism to modernismo and the rural novel, with works including Beba, La raza de Caín, and El terruño.
Carmen Naranjo
Carmen Naranjo (1928–2012) was a Costa Rican novelist, poet, and playwright known for Los perros no ladraron (1966), who also served as Costa Rica's Minister of Culture and ambassador to Israel.
Carola Saavedra
Carola Saavedra is a Chilean-born Brazilian novelist, born in Santiago in 1973 and raised in Rio de Janeiro, whose novel Flores azuis won the APCA prize.
Caya Makhélé
Caya Makhélé, pen name of Joseph Makélé, is a Congolese novelist, playwright, and stage director living in France, best known for the prize-winning La Fable du cloître des cimetières.
Chae Man-sik
Chae Man-sik (채만식, 1902–1950) was a Korean novelist, dramatist, critic, and essayist known for satirical fiction dissecting colonial-era Korean society, including "A Ready-Made Life" and "Peace Under Heaven".
Chandra Sekhar Rath
Chandra Sekhar Rath (ଚନ୍ଦ୍ରଶେଖର ରଥ; 1929–2018) was an Odia-language novelist, essayist, poet, and translator from Odisha, India, whose first novel Yantrarudha (1967) became a significant post-independence work.
Chang Ta-chun
Chang Ta-chun (张大春), born 1957 in Taipei, is a Taiwanese novelist, essayist, and radio storyteller known for realist and postmodern fiction, for The Grand Tang: Li Bai, and for cross-media work including Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster.
Charles Mungoshi
Charles Mungoshi (1947–2019) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and editor who wrote in both Shona and English, known for Waiting for the Rain and two Commonwealth Writers Prizes.
Charu Nivedita
Charu Nivedita (சாரு நிவேதிதா), born 1953 in Tamil Nadu, is a Chennai-based Tamil writer of postmodern, transgressive fiction whose best-known novel, Zero Degree, was published in 1998.
Chen Ran
Chen Ran (陈染, born 1962 in Beijing) is a Chinese fiction and essay writer whose 1990s novel A Private Life made her a central figure of Chinese women's writing.
Chen Sen
Chen Sen (陈森) was a Qing dynasty novelist of the Daoguang era, author of Pinhua Baojian, a sixty-chapter novel about Beijing actors and the literati who admired them.
Chen Yingzhen
Chen Yingzhen (陳映真), born Chen Yongshan in November 1937, is a Taiwanese writer and publisher, a central figure of postwar left-wing literature and founder of Renjian magazine in 1985.
Christina Stead
Christina Stead was an Australian novelist and short story writer best known for The Man Who Loved Children (1940), the 1965 reissue of which brought her international acclaim.
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is a Greek-Australian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, born in Melbourne in 1965, whose fourth novel The Slap sold over one million copies worldwide.
Chu Tien-hsin
Chu Tien-hsin (朱天心, born 1958) is a Taiwanese writer of mainlander descent, sister of Zhu Tianwen, whose fiction on memory and Taipei includes The Old Capital (1997).
Chu Tien-wen
Chu Tien-wen (朱天文), born 1956 in Taipei, is a Taiwanese writer and screenwriter, the principal screenwriter for director Hou Hsiao-hsien, including A City of Sadness, which won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Cíntia Moscovich
Cíntia Moscovich, born 1958 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is a Brazilian writer and teacher of literary creation known for short fiction combining subtle humor and melancholy with Jewish and female themes.