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José Lins do Rego
José Lins do Rego (1901–1957) was a Brazilian novelist from Paraíba who wrote the Sugar Cane Cycle about the decline of the Northeast's sugar mills.
José Luandino Vieira
José Luandino Vieira, born José Vieira Mateus da Graça in Portugal in 1935, is a Portuguese-born Angolan writer, a central figure of modern Angolan literature whose fiction blends Portuguese with the speech of Luanda.
José Milla y Vidaurre
José Milla y Vidaurre (1822–1882), who published fiction as Salomé Jil, was a Guatemalan writer, journalist, historian, and diplomat regarded as a founder of the Guatemalan novel.
José Revueltas
José Revueltas (1914–1976) was a Mexican novelist, essayist, and communist militant imprisoned several times, whose fiction gave voice to the marginalized; his major novels include Los muros de agua, El luto humano, and El apando.
Josué Montello
Josué Montello, full name Josué de Sousa Montello (1917–2006), was a Brazilian novelist and journalist best known for Os tambores de São Luís (1975), a novel on slavery.
Juan Carlos Onetti
Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and short-story writer who won the 1980 Premio Cervantes and created the fictional city of Santa María.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez (born 1973 in Bogotá) is a Colombian novelist whose fiction, translated into about thirty languages, deals with the political and drug-war history of late twentieth-century Colombia.
Juan José Morosoli
Juan José Morosoli (1899–1957) was a Uruguayan narrator, poet, playwright, and journalist from Minas, a leading figure of the country's rural-themed narrative whose works include Hombres (1932) and his only novel, Muchachos (1950).
Juan José Saer
Juan José Saer (1937–2005) was an Argentine novelist and essayist who lived in France and wrote fiction set in the Santa Fe river region he called la zona.
Juan León Mera
Juan León Mera (1832–1894) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, and politician from Ambato, known for the national anthem lyrics, the Indianist novel Cumandá, and pioneering Ecuadorian literary criticism.
Juan Rulfo
Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) was a Mexican writer from Jalisco whose reputation rests on two books: the story collection El Llano en llamas and the novel Pedro Páramo.
Juan Villoro
Juan Villoro, full name Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz, is a Mexican writer and journalist born in Mexico City in 1956, known for novels, essays, and football crónicas.
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929–1994) was a Peruvian writer and leading figure of the Generación del 50, best known for the story collection La palabra del mudo.
Jun Takami
Jun Takami (高見順, 1907–1965), born Takama Yoshio, was a Japanese novelist, poet, and critic whose diary of the Shōwa era, published in 16 volumes, matched his fiction in fame.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎, 1886–1965), Japanese novelist and essayist of beauty and eroticism; author of The Tattoo, Naomi, The Makioka Sisters, and In Praise of Shadows; Nobel-nominated seven times, 1958–1965.
Justine Mintsa
Justine Mintsa is a Gabonese novelist and academic of Fang origin who writes in French. She taught English literature at the Université Omar Bongo in Libreville for decades.
K. P. Ramanunni
K. P. Ramanunni (കെ.പി. രാമനുണ്ണി; born 1955) is a Malayalam novelist and short-story writer who won the 2017 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Daivathinte Pusthakam.
K. Surendran
K. Surendran (കെ. സുരേന്ദ്രൻ) was a Malayalam novelist, critic, and playwright from Kerala who wrote more than 40 works, winning the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Maya.
Kamal Kumar Majumdar
Kamal Kumar Majumdar (কমলকুমার মজুমদার; 1914–1979) was a Bengali fiction writer who wrote in formal sadhu Bengali, best known for the novel Antarjali Yatra and a prose style critics call unrepeatable.
Kamala Markandaya
Kamala Markandaya, pen name of Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, was an Indian-born British novelist (1924–2004) whose first novel, Nectar in a Sieve (1954), became an international bestseller taught in American schools.
Kanhu Charan Mohanty
Kanhu Charan Mohanty (କାହ୍ନୁଚରଣ ମହାନ୍ତି) was an Indian Odia-language novelist who wrote 56 novels from 1930 to 1985 and won the 1958 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kaa.
Karel Schoeman
Karel Schoeman (1939–2017) was a South African novelist, historian, and translator who wrote in Afrikaans, producing about 130 books, including nineteen novels, and winning the Hertzog Prize three times.
Kashinath Singh
Kashinath Singh (काशीनाथ सिंह), born in 1937, is a Hindi novelist and Banaras Hindu University professor best known for the novel Kashi ka Assi, set in Banaras.
Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine (كاتب ياسين, 1929–1989) was an Algerian novelist and playwright whose 1956 novel Nedjma is a foundational text of North African literature in French.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) was an Australian novelist, playwright, and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia, best known for The Pioneers, Working Bullocks, and Coonardoo.
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, 1888–1923), New Zealand-born modernist short story writer; author of Prelude, Bliss, and The Garden Party; died of tuberculosis at Fontainebleau; ranked with Woolf and Joyce.
Kemal Tahir
Kemal Tahir (İsmail Kemalettin Demir, 1910-1973) was a Turkish novelist of the Republican era, known for social and historical novels such as Devlet Ana and Esir Şehrin İnsanları.
Kenan Orhan
Kenan Orhan, Turkish American short-story writer and novelist (I Am My Country, 2023; debut novel The Renovation, 2026), based in Kansas City; distinct from the 1971 Istanbul-born educator Orhan Kenan and from Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan.
Kenji Nakagami
Kenji Nakagami (中上健次, 1946–1992) was a Japanese novelist from Shingu, Wakayama, who won the 1976 Akutagawa Prize for Misaki, the first winner born after World War II.
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎)
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎, Oe Kenzaburo), 1935-2023, Japanese novelist and 1994 Nobel Literature laureate from Ehime; wrote A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry, Hiroshima Notes; father of Hikari; anti-nuclear, Article 9 activist.