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Gu Hua
Gu Hua (古华), born Luo Hongyu in 1942, is a Chinese novelist from Hunan whose Fu Rong Zhen won the first Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1982.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and film critic best known for Tres tristes tigres; he won the Cervantes Prize in 1997.
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar
Gurbachan Singh Bhullar (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੁੱਲਰ; born 1937) is an Indian Punjabi short-story writer known for fiction rooted in rural Punjab, winner of the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Gurdial Singh
Gurdial Singh is an Indian Punjabi novelist and short-story writer who won the Jnanpith Award in 1999. He focused on the life of Dalit and peasant people.
Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal
Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal (born 1945) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, and politician from Tuluá, best known for his 1971 novel of the Colombian political violence, Cóndores no entierran todos los días.
Gustavo Sainz
Gustavo Sainz (Gustavo Sainz Jormor) was a Mexican novelist and essayist of the La Onda movement, best known for his debut novel Gazapo (1965), which sold 34,000 copies in under two years.
Haddis Alemayehu
Haddis Alemayehu (ሐዲስ ዓለማየሁ) was an Ethiopian novelist, diplomat, and minister, best known for Fikir iske Mekabir, a cornerstone of Amharic literature published in the 1960s.
Hajra Masroor
Hajra Masroor (ہاجرہ مسرور, 1930–2012) was a Pakistani Urdu short story writer and women's rights campaigner who wrote about women's lives, and sister of novelist Khadija Mastoor.
Hamka
Hamka was the pen name of Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (1908–1981), an Indonesian Islamic modernist scholar and novelist from Minangkabau, West Sumatra, known for Tafsir Al-Azhar and Tasauf Moderen.
Han Bangqing
Han Bangqing (韩邦庆, 1856–1894), who wrote as Hua Ye Lian Nong, was a late Qing novelist best known for The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai, the major Wu-dialect novel.
Han Kang
Han Kang (한강), South Korean novelist and poet, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first South Korean laureate; author of The Vegetarian (2016 Man Booker International) and Human Acts, on Gwangju 1980 trauma.
Han Shaogong
Han Shaogong (韩少功, born 1953) is a Chinese novelist and essayist from Changsha, Hunan, known for the root-seeking manifesto "The Root of Literature" and the novel A Dictionary of Maqiao.
Hanan al-Shaykh
Hanan al-Shaykh (حنان الشيخ), born 1945, is a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and playwright living in London, known for fiction on women's lives in Arab society, including The Story of Zahra.
Hanna Mina
Hanna Mina (حنا مينه, 1924–2018) was a Syrian novelist, a leading figure of the twentieth-century Arabic novel known for social realist fiction about the poor and the sea.
Hari Krishna Kaul
Hari Krishna Kaul (1934–2009) was a Kashmiri short story writer and playwright, a major figure of the modern Kashmiri short story and winner of the 2000 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Hari Narayan Apte
Hari Narayan Apte, often written Ha. Na. Apte (1864–1919), was a Marathi novelist credited with giving the Marathi novel its first modern form in social and historical fiction.
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹), born 1949 in Kyoto, is a Japanese novelist of magical realist fiction, debut 'Hear the Wind Sing' (1979), famous for Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and 1Q84, translated into over fifty languages.
Hasan Azizul Huq
Hasan Azizul Huq (1939–2021) was a Bengali writer who settled in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, known for the novel Agunpakhi and winning the Independence Award in 2019.
Hayatullah Ansari
Hayatullah Ansari (حیات اللہ انصاری) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer, critic, and journalist who edited Qaumi Awaz and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1970.
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (हजारीप्रसाद द्विवेदी, 1907–1979) was a Hindi novelist, literary historian, and critic, ranked among the leading figures of modern Hindi criticism and honored with the Padma Bhushan.
Héctor Bianciotti
Héctor Bianciotti (1930–2012) was an Argentine-born, French-naturalized novelist, critic, and editor who abandoned Spanish for French in the early 1980s and was elected to the Académie française in 1996.
Héctor Tizón
Héctor Tizón (1929–2012) was an Argentine novelist, journalist, diplomat, and judge whose fiction, rooted in the Puna highlands of Jujuy, drew comparisons to Juan Rulfo.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner, born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1942, is an Australian writer whose novel Monkey Grip became a classic and whose nonfiction follows Australian court trials, winning the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2025.
Helon Habila
Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist born in 1967 in Kaltungo, Nigeria, author of Waiting for an Angel, Oil on Water, and Travellers, and winner of the Caine Prize.
Hennie Aucamp
Hennie Aucamp, born Hendrik Christoffel Lourens Aucamp (1934–2014), was a South African Afrikaans writer known as the father of literary cabaret and winner of the 1982 Hertzog Prize.
Henri Lopès
Henri Lopès (1937–2023) was a Congolese novelist and diplomat who served as prime minister of the People's Republic of Congo and later as ambassador to France.
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa
Henrique Teixeira de Sousa (1919–2006) was a Cape Verdean physician and novelist from the island of Fogo, one of the best-known writers of Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Henry Handel Richardson
Henry Handel Richardson was the pen-name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, an Australian novelist (1870–1946) known for The Fortunes of Richard Mahony trilogy and The Getting of Wisdom.
Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson, born Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (1867 to 1922), was an Australian poet and short-story writer whose bush-life stories made him a leading nationalist figure in Australian writing.
Heriberto Frías
Heriberto Frías (Heriberto Frías Alcocer) was a Mexican novelist, journalist, and soldier whose eyewitness novel Tomochic made him a leading opposition writer under Porfirio Díaz.