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Frank Hardy
Frank Hardy, born Francis Joseph Hardy (1917–1994), was an Australian novelist and communist activist whose 1950 novel Power Without Glory prompted one of Australia's most prominent criminal libel trials.
Frank Martinus Arion
Frank Martinus Arion, born Frank Efraim Martinus, was a Dutch-Caribbean writer, poet, and linguist from Curaçao, one of the most important Caribbean authors writing in Dutch.
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.
Frankétienne
Frankétienne, born Jean-Pierre Basilic Dantor Franck Étienne d'Argent (1936–2025), was a Haitian writer, painter, and founder of Spiralism who wrote Dézafi, the first modern novel in Haitian Creole.
Fred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo, born 1966, is a South African novelist, short story writer, and journalist known for historical fiction that recovers forgotten episodes of South Africa's past, and winner of the European Union Literary Award.
Fuad al-Takarli
Fuad al-Takarli (فؤاد التكرلي; 1927–2008) was an Iraqi novelist, short-story writer, and judge, counted among the founders of the modern classic Iraqi novel; his best-known work is Al-Raj' al-Ba'id (1980).
Fumiko Enchi
Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986) was a Japanese novelist and playwright of the Showa era known for works on women's repressed inner lives, winning major literary prizes.
G. A. Kulkarni
G. A. Kulkarni, known to readers as "GA", was an Indian Marathi short story writer (1923–1987), a leading figure of the nav-katha movement who won and returned the Sahitya Akademi Award.
G. V. Desani
G. V. Desani (Govindas Vishnoodas Desani) is an Indian novelist born in Nairobi in 1909, best known for his 1948 comic novel All About H. Hatterr.
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.
Gamal al-Ghitani
Gamal al-Ghitani (جمال الغيطاني), 1945 to 2015, was an Egyptian novelist and journalist who founded the weekly Akhbar al-Adab and wrote the acclaimed novel Zayni Barakat.
Gangadhar Gadgil
Gangadhar Gadgil was a Marathi writer from Mumbai regarded as the leading exponent of the Marathi navakatha, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 for his autobiography.
Gaspar Pedro González
Gaspar Pedro González, born 1945, is a Guatemalan Q'anjob'al Maya writer best known for La otra cara (1992), often called the first novel written in a Mayan language.
Gaur Kishore Ghosh
Gaur Kishore Ghosh (গৌরকিশোর ঘোষ) was a Bengali writer and journalist from West Bengal, India, known for satirical columns under the pen name Rupadarshi and for resisting press censorship during the 1975–1977 Emergency.
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.
George Lamming
George Lamming (1927–2022) was a Barbadian novelist and essayist, a central figure of Caribbean literature whose debut novel In the Castle of My Skin appeared in 1953.
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.
Germano Almeida
Germano Almeida, born 1945 on Boavista, is a Cape Verdean writer and lawyer known for the novel O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo.
Ghada al-Samman
Ghada al-Samman (غادة السمان), born in Damascus in 1942, is a Syrian novelist, poet, and journalist based in Beirut whose war novel Beirut Nightmares (1976) is her best-known work.
Ghassan Kanafani (غسان فايز كنفاني)
Ghassan Kanafani (غسان فايز كنفاني, 1936–1972), Palestinian novelist of the Nakba, author of Men in the Sun and Return to Haifa, PFLP spokesman and Al-Hadaf editor, assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut on 8 July 1972.
Ghazaleh Alizadeh
Ghazaleh Alizadeh (غزاله علیزاده) was an Iranian novelist and short story writer, born in Mashhad in 1947, best known for the acclaimed novel Khāne-ye Edrisihā (1991).
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.
Ghulam Abbas (writer)
Ghulam Abbas (غلام عباس) was an Urdu short story writer, born in Amritsar in 1909 and based in Karachi, best known for the story "Anandi".
Giddens Ko
Giddens Ko (柯景騰), pen name Jiubadao, is a Taiwanese novelist and filmmaker known for the 2011 hit film You Are the Apple of My Eye.
Giriraj Kishore
Giriraj Kishore (गिरिराज किशोर, 1937–2020) was an Indian Hindi novelist, short story writer, and playwright, best known for Pahla Girmitiya about Gandhi in South Africa.
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.
Graça Aranha
Graça Aranha (José Pereira da Graça Aranha, 1868–1931) was a Brazilian novelist and diplomat, author of Canaã and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
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.