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Es'kia Mphahlele
Es'kia Mphahlele, born Ezekiel Mphahlele in Pretoria in 1919, was a South African writer and teacher whose memoir Down Second Avenue became a landmark of African literature.
Eustaquio Palacios
José Eustaquio Palacios (1830–1898) was a Colombian writer, lawyer, educator, and journalist from Roldanillo, remembered for the historical novel El Alférez Real (1886), a portrait of colonial society in Santiago de Cali.
Evelio Rosero
Evelio Rosero, full name Evelio José Rosero Diago, is a Colombian novelist born in Bogotá in 1958, known for fiction confronting the violence of Colombia's armed conflict.
Fei Ming
Fei Ming (废名) was the pen name of Feng Wenbing (1901–1967), a Chinese novelist and poet whose lyrical, pastoral fiction, including The Bridge, influenced Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi.
Feng Menglong
Feng Menglong (馮夢龍, 1574–1646) was a Ming dynasty writer, editor, and publisher from Suzhou best known for compiling the Sanyan, three collections of 120 vernacular short stories.
Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (1929–2010) was a Cameroonian novelist and diplomat whose three French-language anticolonial novels of the 1950s, notably Houseboy, are classics of African literature; he later served decades as a diplomat and government minister.
Fernando Sabino
Fernando Sabino (Fernando Tavares Sabino, 1923–2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist from Belo Horizonte, best known for the crônica and the novel O Encontro Marcado.
Fernando Vallejo
Fernando Vallejo, full name Fernando Vallejo Rendón, is a Colombian novelist, essayist, and filmmaker who left Colombia in 1971, known for Our Lady of the Assassins and his critique of Colombian society.
Flora Nwapa
Flora Nwapa, born Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa, was a Nigerian novelist, teacher, and publisher whose debut Efuru (1966) made her the first Nigerian woman novelist to publish in English.
Frank Sargeson
Frank Sargeson, pen name of Norris Frank Davey (1903–1982), was a New Zealand short-story writer, novelist, and playwright who introduced everyday New Zealand speech into the country's literature.
Gabiden Mustafin
Gabiden Mustafin (Ғабиден Мұстафин, 1902–1985) was a Kazakh Soviet writer, People's Writer of Kazakhstan, best known for the novel Karaganda about the coal basin's miners.
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez ('Gabo'), Colombian novelist (1927–2014), Nobel laureate 1982, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude (45+ million copies, 30+ languages), Love in the Time of Cholera, and leading magical-realist of the Latin American Boom.
Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree (गीतांजलि श्री), born 1957, is an Indian novelist and short-story writer in Hindi, author of five novels and five collections, whose Ret Samadhi won the 2022 International Booker Prize.
Gerald Murnane
Gerald Murnane is an Australian novelist born in Melbourne in 1939, known for The Plains and Border Districts and acclaimed abroad as a Nobel Prize contender.
Gholamhossein Sa'edi
Gholamhossein Sa'edi (غلامحسین ساعدی; 1936–1985) was an Iranian psychiatrist, fiction writer, and dramatist, regarded as one of the most prolific and influential figures of contemporary Persian literature.
Gopinath Mohanty
Gopinath Mohanty (ଗୋପୀନାଥ ମହାନ୍ତି; 1914–1991) was an Odia novelist and short story writer who brought tribal Odisha into Indian literature and became the first Odia winner of the Jnanpith Award.
Graciliano Ramos
Graciliano Ramos, full name Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira (1892–1953), was a Brazilian writer from Alagoas, a leading novelist of 1930s Brazilian Modernism best known for Vidas secas.
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts (born 1952, Melbourne) is the Australian author of Shantaram (2003), based on his escape from Pentridge Prison and fugitive years in Bombay; also wrote The Mountain Shadow and The Spiritual Path.
Gurdial Singh
Gurdial Singh is an Indian Punjabi novelist and short-story writer who won the Jnanpith Award in 1999. He focused on the life of Dalit and peasant people.
Gustavo Sainz
Gustavo Sainz (Gustavo Sainz Jormor) was a Mexican novelist and essayist of the La Onda movement, best known for his debut novel Gazapo (1965), which sold 34,000 copies in under two years.
Hajra Masroor
Hajra Masroor (ہاجرہ مسرور, 1930–2012) was a Pakistani Urdu short story writer and women's rights campaigner who wrote about women's lives, and sister of novelist Khadija Mastoor.
Han Shaogong
Han Shaogong (韩少功, born 1953) is a Chinese novelist and essayist from Changsha, Hunan, known for the root-seeking manifesto "The Root of Literature" and the novel A Dictionary of Maqiao.
Hanna Mina
Hanna Mina (حنا مينه, 1924–2018) was a Syrian novelist, a leading figure of the twentieth-century Arabic novel known for social realist fiction about the poor and the sea.
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹), born 1949 in Kyoto, is a Japanese novelist of magical realist fiction, debut 'Hear the Wind Sing' (1979), famous for Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and 1Q84, translated into over fifty languages.
Héctor Tizón
Héctor Tizón (1929–2012) was an Argentine novelist, journalist, diplomat, and judge whose fiction, rooted in the Puna highlands of Jujuy, drew comparisons to Juan Rulfo.
Henri Lopès
Henri Lopès (1937–2023) was a Congolese novelist and diplomat who served as prime minister of the People's Republic of Congo and later as ambassador to France.
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa (1919–2006) was a Cape Verdean physician and novelist from the island of Fogo, one of the best-known writers of Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson was the pen-name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, an Australian novelist (1870–1946) known for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy and The Getting of Wisdom.
Hernán Ronsino
Hernán Ronsino is an Argentine novelist and sociologist, born in 1975 in Chivilcoy, best known for his Pampas trilogy and the acclaimed crime novel Glaxo.
Hiroshi Noma
Hiroshi Noma (野間宏, 1915–1991) was a Japanese novelist of the first postwar generation, best known for the army novel Zone of Emptiness, which won the 1952 Mainichi Prize.