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Cirilo Villaverde
Cirilo Villaverde (1812–1894) was a Cuban novelist, journalist, and independence activist, best known for the antislavery novel Cecilia Valdés, completed in New York in 1882.
Clara Obligado
Clara Obligado, born in Buenos Aires in 1950, is an Argentine writer living in Madrid since her 1976 exile, known for short fiction and novels.
Coelho Neto
Coelho Neto, full name Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto (1864–1934), was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, journalist, and politician, and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough (1937–2015), Australian novelist and neurophysiologist, author of The Thorn Birds (over 30 million copies sold) and the seven-volume Masters of Rome series on the late Roman Republic.
Cong Weixi
Cong Weixi (从维熙) is a Chinese novelist, born in 1933 in Yutian, Hebei, called the father of "Great Wall literature", fiction about prisons during the Cultural Revolution.
Cristina Peri Rossi
Cristina Peri Rossi, born 1941 in Montevideo, is a Uruguayan writer of fiction, poetry, and essays who has lived in exile in Barcelona since the 1970s and won the Premio Cervantes in 2021.
Cristovão Tezza
Cristovão Tezza (born 1952) is a Brazilian novelist, essayist, and former university professor best known for O filho eterno (2007), which won every major Brazilian literary prize.
Dalip Kaur Tiwana
Dalip Kaur Tiwana (ਦਲੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਟਿਵਾਣਾ; 1935–2020) was a Punjabi novelist who wrote about women's lives and won the Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Shri.
Dambudzo Marechera
Dambudzo Marechera (Charles William Marechera, 1952–1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet whose stream-of-consciousness debut, The House of Hunger, won the 1979 Guardian Fiction Prize.
Daniachew Worku
Daniachew Worku (Amharic: ዳኛቸው ወርቁ, 1936–1994) was an Ethiopian writer of novels, plays, and poetry in Amharic and English, best known for The Thirteenth Sun (1973).
Daniel Moyano
Daniel Moyano (1930–1992) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and violinist whose fiction centers on marginalization and uprooting in Argentina's provinces; he lived in exile in Madrid after 1976.
David Malouf
David Malouf (1934–2026) was an Australian novelist, poet, and essayist known for Johnno and Remembering Babylon; he won the Miles Franklin Award twice and the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
David Rubadiri
David Rubadiri (James David Rubadiri, 1930–2018) was a Malawian poet, novelist, academic, and diplomat who served as Malawi's first permanent representative to the United Nations before decades of exile.
David Viñas
David Viñas was an Argentine novelist, essayist, playwright, and literary critic who co-founded the review Contorno in 1953 and read Argentine literature through its political history.
Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Demetrio Aguilera Malta (1909–1981) was an Ecuadorian novelist, playwright, and diplomat, a member of the Grupo de Guayaquil and one of the early practitioners of magical realism in Latin American fiction.
Dina Salústio
Dina Salústio, pseudonym of Bernardina de Oliveira Salústio, is a Cape Verdean writer born in 1941, the first Cape Verdean woman to publish a novel.
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu is an Ethiopian-American novelist and journalist, born in Addis Ababa in 1978, who won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012 and wrote four novels about African exiles and refugees.
Dokmai Sot
Dokmai Sot (ดอกไม้สด) was the pen name of Mom Luang Buppha Kunchon, a Thai novelist of the 1920s to 1940s counted among the pioneers of the modern Thai novel.
Domingos Olímpio
Domingos Olímpio was a Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and novelist born in Sobral, Ceará, whose naturalist novel Luzia-Homem (1903), drawn from the drought of 1877, secured his literary reputation.
Domingos Pellegrini
Domingos Pellegrini, full name Domingos Pellegrini Júnior, is a Brazilian writer born in Londrina in 1949, a six-time Jabuti winner best known for the novel Terra Vermelha.
Dudhnath Singh
Dudhnath Singh (दूधनाथ सिंह, 1936–2018) was a leading Hindi writer, critic, and editor known for the novels Aakhiri Kalam and Nishkasan and the critical study Nirala: Atmahanta Aastha.
Earl Lovelace
Earl Lovelace, born 1935 in Toco, Trinidad, is a Trinidadian novelist, playwright, and essayist known for The Dragon Can't Dance and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Eden Robinson
Eden Robinson (born Vicki Lena Robinson, 1968) is a Canadian novelist of Haisla and Heiltsuk ancestry, known for Monkey Beach (2000) and the Trickster trilogy adapted for television in 2020.
Edgar Mittelholzer
Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965) was a Guyanese novelist, born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, the first Caribbean writer to earn his living from writing and author of 23 novels.
Edmond Amran El Maleh
Edmond Amran El Maleh (إدمون عمران المالح, 1917–2010) was a Moroccan Jewish writer, journalist, and Communist activist who wrote in French, publishing his first novel at about age 60.
Eduardo Mallea
Eduardo Mallea was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and diplomat who directed the literary supplement of La Nación and wrote the influential essay Historia de una pasión argentina (1937).
Elin Pelin
Elin Pelin (Елин Пелин), pen name of Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov, was a Bulgarian short-story master born in 1877 who chronicled village life in works like Geratsite and Land.
Emilio Rabasa
Emilio Rabasa (1856–1930) was a Mexican novelist, jurist, and politician who wrote under the pen name Sancho Polo and helped introduce realism into the Mexican novel.
Erico Verissimo
Erico Verissimo (1905–1975) was a Brazilian novelist from Rio Grande do Sul, known for the O tempo e o vento trilogy and Olhai os lírios do campo.
Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and trained physicist whose three novels on solitude include El túnel (1948), and who led the 1984 Nunca Más report.