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Holly Ringland
Holly Ringland, Australian author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2018), The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding (2022), The House That Joy Built (2023), and The World Beneath Her Feet (2026); also co-host of ABC's Back to Nature.
Hong Myung-hee
Hong Myung-hee (홍명희, 1888–1968) was a Korean novelist, journalist, and independence activist best known for the historical novel Imkkeokjeong, and who became North Korea's first Vice Premier in 1948.
Hong Ying
Hong Ying (虹影), pen name of Chen Hongying, is a Chinese novelist and poet born in Chongqing in 1962, known for Daughter of the River and K: The Art of Love.
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Horacio Castellanos Moya is a Salvadoran writer and journalist born in 1957 whose novels examine violence, exile, and Central America's failed revolutionary left; he is identified with the 'second boom.'
Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) was a Uruguayan short story writer, often called the father of the Latin American short story, best known for his jungle tales of Misiones.
Hori Tatsuo
Hori Tatsuo (堀辰雄) was a Japanese novelist best known for Kaze tachinu, a story of a man caring for his tubercular fiancée, blending French and classical Japanese traditions.
Hugo Wast
Hugo Wast, pen name of Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría (1883–1962), was an Argentine novelist and politician whose Catholic, nationalist fiction made him a best-selling but criticized writer.
Hwang Sok-yong
Hwang Sok-yong (황석영, born 1943) is a South Korean novelist, a leading realist writer whose fiction traces workers, migrants, and political dissidents through modern Korean history.
Ibuse Masuji
Ibuse Masuji (井伏鱒二, 1898–1993) was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer from Hiroshima Prefecture, known for an ironic, understated style and for Black Rain (Kuroi Ame), a central work of Japanese atomic-bomb literature.
Ieva Simonaitytė
Ieva Simonaitytė (1897–1978) was a Lithuanian writer from the Klaipėda Region, the foremost portrayer of Lithuania Minor; her 1935 debut novel won the first Lithuanian State Literature Prize.
Ignatius Mabasa
Ignatius Mabasa, born in 1971, is a Zimbabwean storyteller, novelist, and poet who writes in Shona; he is known for Mapenzi, an award-winning 1999 satirical novel.
Indira Parthasarathy
Indira Parthasarathy is the pen name of Ranganathan Parthasarathy, born 1930, a Tamil writer and playwright known for the plays Aurangzeb and Ramanujar and for winning both the Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.
Inglês de Sousa
Inglês de Sousa (1853–1918) was a Brazilian novelist and lawyer who introduced Naturalism into Brazilian literature with O coronel sangrado and helped found the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Iraj Pezeshkzad
Iraj Pezeshkzad (ایرج پزشکزاد, 1928–2022) was an Iranian novelist, satirist, and diplomat, best known for the comic novel My Uncle Napoleon, published in 1970.
Ireneo Paz
Ireneo Paz, full name José Ireneo Paz Flores (1836–1924), was a Mexican lawyer, journalist, and politician who wrote historical novels and was the grandfather of Octavio Paz.
Ishikawa Tatsuzō
Ishikawa Tatsuzō (石川達三, 1905–1985) was a Japanese novelist who won the first Akutagawa Prize in 1935 with Sōbō and became a central figure of postwar social school fiction.
Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić is a South African writer born in Pretoria in 1957, known for novels and documentary prose exploring Johannesburg, and a professor at Wits University.
Iwan Simatupang
Iwan Simatupang, full name Iwan Martua Dongan Simatupang (1928–1970), was an Indonesian dramatist, novelist, poet, and essayist whose 1960s and 1970s novels broke with Indonesian fiction conventions.
Javier de Viana
Javier de Viana (1868–1926) was a Uruguayan writer, journalist, and politician of the Generación del Novecientos, known for naturalist stories of the gaucho in rural Uruguay.
Jean Malonga
Jean Malonga (1907–1985) was a Congolese writer and politician, regarded as the founder of modern Congolese literature; his novel Cœur d'Aryenne is considered the first Congolese novel.
Jean-Luc Raharimanana
Jean-Luc Raharimanana (born 1967) is a Malagasy writer and poet based in Paris whose work, notably the novel Nour, 1947, confronts the 1947 Malagasy insurrection.
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian novelist, poet, and musician whose debut novel Narcopolis (2012) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the DSC Prize.
Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa (贾平凹), born 1952 in Shaanxi, is a Chinese novelist and essayist whose fiction about rural life won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for Qinqiang (2005).
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
João Ubaldo Ribeiro (1941–2014) was a Brazilian novelist from Bahia, author of Sargento Getúlio and Viva o Povo Brasileiro and winner of the 2008 Camões Prize.
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1820–1882) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist whose 1844 novel A Moreninha inaugurated the vogue of the national novel and made him famous.
Joaquín García Monge
Joaquín García Monge (1881–1958) was a Costa Rican writer, educator, and editor, founder of the continental review Repertorio Americano and author of El Moto, often called the first Costa Rican novel.
Joginder Paul
Joginder Paul (Urdu: جوگندر پال, 1925–2016) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer and essayist known for short stories and micro-fiction, and for the Partition novella Khwabrau (Sleepwalkers).
José do Patrocínio
José do Patrocínio (1853–1905) was a Brazilian journalist and orator known as the Tiger of Abolition, and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
José Eustasio Rivera
José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928) was a Colombian lawyer, poet, and novelist, author of La vorágine (1924), a landmark of Spanish American regionalism denouncing the rubber boom's abuses of indigenous peoples.
José J. Veiga
José J. Veiga (1915–1999) was a Brazilian writer from Goiás whose fiction blends magical realism with social criticism, best known for Os cavalinhos de Platiplanto.