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Lucila Gamero de Medina
Lucila Gamero de Medina (1873–1964) was a Honduran novelist, physician, and feminist activist, the first Honduran novelist, best known for Blanca Olmedo, the first novel by a woman in Central America.
Luis Rafael Sánchez
Luis Rafael Sánchez, born in 1936 in Humacao, Puerto Rico, is a playwright and novelist regarded as the most internationally recognized Puerto Rican writer of his generation.
Luiz Ruffato
Luiz Ruffato (born 1961) is a Brazilian writer known for the novel Eles eram muitos cavalos and the five-volume Inferno provisório about the working class.
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923 to 2022) was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer who won the 2005 Prêmio Camões and wrote the dictatorship-era novel As Meninas.
M. P. Narayana Pillai
M. P. Narayana Pillai (എം.പി. നാരായണപിള്ള) was a Malayalam short story writer, novelist, and journalist whose only novel, Parinamam, won the 1991 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, which he declined.
M. Sukumaran
M. Sukumaran (എം. സുകുമാരൻ; 1943–2018) was a Malayalam short story writer and novelist from Kerala whose fiction gave literary form to revolutionary politics; he won both the Kerala and Kendra Sahitya Akademi awards.
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair, MT), 1933-2024, Malayalam novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and Mathrubhumi editor; Jnanpith 1995, author of Naalukettu and Randamoozham, director of Nirmalyam.
Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste is an Ethiopian-American novelist, essayist, and professor of English at Wesleyan University, born in Addis Ababa in 1971 and named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow.
Mahmoud Messadi
Mahmoud Messadi (محمود المسعدي; Mahmud al-Mas'adi, 1911–2004) was a Tunisian writer and politician, considered the foremost Tunisian narrative fiction writer and a pioneer of modern Arabic literature.
Mahmud Taymur
Mahmud Taymur (محمود تيمور, 1894–1973) was an Egyptian writer from a leading literary family who wrote more than fifty books and helped establish the modern Arabic short story.
Manuel Mejía Vallejo
Manuel Mejía Vallejo (1923–1998) was a Colombian novelist and journalist whose work centers on rural Antioquia; he won Spain's Premio Nadal in 1963 and Venezuela's Premio Rómulo Gallegos in 1989.
Manuel Payno
Manuel Payno (José Manuel Román Payno y Flores) was a Mexican novelist and politician, a liberal who served several terms as Minister of the Treasury and wrote Los bandidos de Río Frío.
Manuel Scorza
Manuel Scorza, full name Manuel Scorza Torres, was a Peruvian poet and novelist of the Generación del 50, known for La guerra silenciosa, a five-novel cycle about Andean peasants fighting to recover their lands.
Manuel Zapata Olivella
Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920–2004) was a Colombian writer, physician, and anthropologist considered the leading representative of Afro-Colombian literature; his central novel is Changó, el gran putas (1983).
Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) was a Haitian novelist and playwright whose trilogy Amour, colère et folie, a denunciation of the Duvalier dictatorship, was withdrawn from sale for decades.
Mario Monteforte Toledo
Mario Monteforte Toledo (1911–2003) was a Guatemalan writer, sociologist, and politician who served as Vice President of Guatemala and wrote more than fifty works of fiction and essay.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025), Peruvian-Spanish novelist of the Latin American Boom, Nobel laureate 2010, author of La ciudad y los perros and La fiesta del Chivo, and 1990 Peruvian presidential candidate.
Marlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk, born 1954, is a South African poet, novelist, and short-story writer in Afrikaans, best known for the award-winning novels Triomf (1994) and Agaat (2004).
Marta Lynch
Marta Lynch, full name Marta Lía Frigerio de Lynch (1925 to 1985), was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer whose best sellers examined politics, class, and middle-class women.
Martin Wickramasinghe
Martin Wickramasinghe (මාර්ටින් වික්රමසිංහ, 1890–1976) was a Sri Lankan novelist and critic regarded as the father of modern Sinhala literature, known for the novel Gamperaliya.
Meg Mason
Meg Mason (born 1978) is a New Zealand-born novelist in Sydney, author of Sorrow and Bliss (2020), a Women's Prize-shortlisted international bestseller, and Sophie, Standing There (2026).
Mehmed Rauf
Mehmed Rauf (1875–1931) was an Ottoman and Turkish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist of the Servet-i Fünûn movement, best known for Eylül (1901), regarded as the first psychological novel in Turkish literature.
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje (Philip Michael Ondaatje), Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, novelist and editor; author of The English Patient (Booker 1992, Golden Booker 2018), Anil's Ghost, Running in the Family; five Governor General's Awards; Companion of the Order of Canada; lives in Toronto.
Michèle Rakotoson
Michèle Rakotoson, born in 1948 in Antananarivo, is a Malagasy novelist and journalist who writes in French and Malagasy and went into political exile in France in 1983.
Miguel Otero Silva
Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985) was a Venezuelan novelist, journalist, and politician and a leading exponent of social literature, known for Casas muertas and co-founding the daily El Nacional.
Miguel Syjuco
Miguel Syjuco (born 1976) is a Filipino novelist, journalist, and professor at New York University Abu Dhabi whose debut novel Ilustrado (2010) won the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Minae Mizumura
Minae Mizumura (水村美苗) is a Japanese novelist and essayist known for the prize-winning A True Novel and the 2008 essay The Fall of Japanese in the Age of English.
Miriam Tlali
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose Muriel at Metropolitan (1975) was the first novel published by a Black woman in South Africa.
Mo Yan (莫言)
Mo Yan (莫言), pen name of Guan Moye, born 1956 in Gaomi, Shandong, Chinese novelist and 2012 Nobel Literature laureate, the first Chinese national winner, author of Red Sorghum, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and Frogs.
Moacyr Scliar
Moacyr Scliar (1937–2011) was a Brazilian physician and writer from Porto Alegre whose fiction and essays made him a leading voice of contemporary Brazilian literature.