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Keris Mas
Keris Mas, pen name of Kamaludin Mohamad (1922–1992), was a Malaysian writer, a leading figure of the ASAS 50 movement, and the first Sasterawan Negara in 1981.
Khadija Mastoor
Khadija Mastoor (خدیجہ مستور, 1927–1982) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist and short story writer best known for Aangan, widely regarded as one of the finest Urdu novels.
Khamsing Srinawk
Khamsing Srinawk (คำสิงห์ ศรีนอก), pen name Lao Khamhom, is a Thai short-story writer from northeastern Thailand, born in 1930 and named National Artist in Literature in 1992.
Khushwant Singh (ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ)
Khushwant Singh (ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ, 1915–2014), Indian novelist, historian and journalist, author of Train to Pakistan and A History of the Sikhs; editor of the Illustrated Weekly and Hindustan Times; Rajya Sabha member 1980–86; Padma Vibhushan 2007. Not the contemporary Chandigarh author of the same name.
Ki. Rajanarayanan
Ki. Rajanarayanan (கி. ராஜநாராயணன்), known as Ki.Ra., was a Tamil novelist, short story writer, and folklorist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 for Gopallapurathu Makkal.
Kim Si-sup
Kim Si-sup (김시습, 1435–1493) was an early Joseon scholar and writer who became a monk after Sejo's usurpation and wrote Geumo sinhwa, Korea's first classical Chinese fiction collection.
Kim Sung-han
Kim Sung-han (김성한, pen name Hanam, 1919–2010) was a South Korean novelist and poet known for satirical postwar short stories, winning the first Dongin Literary Award in 1956.
Kim Young-ha
Kim Young-ha (김영하, born 1968) is a South Korean novelist and essayist, known for I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and Diary of a Murderer.
Kiran Nagarkar
Kiran Nagarkar (किरण नगरकर; 1942–2019) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote in both Marathi and English, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for Cuckold in 2000.
Krishna Sobti
Krishna Sobti (कृष्णा सोबती; 1925–2019) was an Indian Hindi novelist known for bold women characters and Punjabi-inflected prose; she won the Jnanpith Award in 2017 and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Zindaginama.
Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan
Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan (கு. ப. ரா), known by his pen name Ku. Pa. Ra, was a Tamil writer and pioneer of the modern Tamil short story from 1902 to 1944.
Kukrit Pramoj
Kukrit Pramoj (คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช) was a Thai politician, writer, and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Thailand in 1975 and was named a National Artist for Literature in 1985.
Kulwant Singh Virk
Kulwant Singh Virk (ਕੁਲਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਕ, 1921–1987) was an Indian short-story writer who wrote chiefly in Punjabi and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Navein Lok.
Kume Masao
Kume Masao (久米正雄), a haiku poet under the pen name Santei, was a Japanese novelist and playwright of the Taishō and Shōwa periods, known for Hotarugusa (1918).
Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
Kyallo Wadi Wamitila, born 1966 in Machakos, Kenya, is a Kenyan scholar and novelist who writes in Swahili and is a leading figure of present-day Kenyan Swahili writing.
Laksmi Pamuntjak
Laksmi Pamuntjak (born 1971) is an Indonesian novelist, poet, journalist, and food writer based in Jakarta, whose novel Amba, set against Indonesia's 1965 massacres, became a national bestseller.
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (兰陵笑笑生, "The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling") is the unidentified pseudonymous author of the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase).
Latife Tekin
Latife Tekin (born 1957) is a Turkish novelist and screenwriter known for blending magical realism, poverty, and migration in novels such as Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (1983).
Léonora Miano
Léonora Miano is a Cameroonian-born French-language writer of novels, theater, and essays who won the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2006 and the Prix Femina in 2013.
Lewis Nkosi
Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010) was a South African novelist, playwright, and critic who left apartheid South Africa in 1960 and spent most of his career in exile.
Li Lüyuan
Li Lüyuan (李绿园, 1707–1790) was a Qing dynasty writer and juren from Baofeng, Henan, author of Qilu Deng, a 108-chapter vernacular novel about a prodigal son's reform.
Li Yongping
Li Yongping (李永平, 1947–2017), Sarawak-born Taiwanese novelist and translator, author of Jiling Chunqiu and the Moon River trilogy; first Malaysian-Chinese winner of Taiwan's National Award for Arts.
Lília Momplé
Lília Momplé (born 1935) is a Mozambican fiction writer from Ilha de Moçambique whose works, including the novel Neighbours, retell Mozambique's colonial and postcolonial history from the perspective of women.
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang (林语堂) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor whose bestsellers explained China to the West and who spent three decades building the MingKwai Chinese typewriter.
Ling Mengchu
Ling Mengchu (1580–1644), a Ming dynasty writer from Wucheng, wrote the Erpai vernacular story collections, Pai'an jingqi (1628) and Erke pai'an jingqi (1632), totaling 78 stories.
Liu Xinglong
Liu Xinglong (刘醒龙, born 1956) is a Chinese novelist from Hubei known for realist rural fiction and winner of the Lu Xun and Mao Dun literature prizes.
Liu Xinwu
Liu Xinwu (刘心武) is a Chinese writer born in 1942 in Chengdu, best known for the 1977 story The Class Teacher, the inaugural work of scar literature.
Liu Yichang
Liu Yichang (1918–2018), born Liu Tongyi in Shanghai, was a Chinese novelist and editor, a central figure of Hong Kong literature known for the experimental novels The Drunkard and Duidao.
Lu Xun (鲁迅)
Lu Xun (鲁迅), pen name of Zhou Shuren (1881–1936), Shaoxing-born founder of modern Chinese literature; author of 'Diary of a Madman', 'The True Story of Ah Q', Call to Arms; New Culture Movement leader.
Lu Yao
Lu Yao (路遥, born Wang Weiguo, 1949–1992) was a Chinese novelist from Shaanxi whose novella Life and novel Ordinary World won the Mao Dun Prize.