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Herman Charles Bosman
Herman Charles Bosman (1905–1951) was a South African writer widely regarded as the country's finest short-story writer, known for his Marico stories narrated by Oom Schalk Lourens.
Hernán Ronsino
Hernán Ronsino is an Argentine novelist and sociologist, born in 1975 in Chivilcoy, best known for his Pampas trilogy and the acclaimed crime novel Glaxo.
Hideo Furukawa
Hideo Furukawa (古川日出男, born 1966) is a Japanese novelist from Fukushima Prefecture known for experimental, musically inflected prose and award-winning retellings of history and classical texts.
Hiromi Kawakami
Hiromi Kawakami (川上弘美, born 1958) is a Japanese novelist whose stories place fantastic creatures in ordinary daily life. Her novel Sensei no Kaban won the Tanizaki Prize in 2001.
Hiroshi Noma
Hiroshi Noma (野間宏, 1915–1991) was a Japanese novelist of the first postwar generation, best known for the army novel Zone of Emptiness, which won the 1952 Mainichi Prize.
Hirotsu Kazuo
Hirotsu Kazuo (広津和郎, 1891–1968) was a Japanese novelist and critic from Tokyo, son of novelist Hirotsu Ryuro, known for The Neurotic Age and criticism that helped exonerate the Matsukawa trial defendants.
Hoda Barakat
Hoda Barakat (هدى بركات), born 1952, is a Lebanese novelist who has lived in Paris since 1989, writing in Arabic about war, exile, and marginalized lives.
Holly Ringland
Holly Ringland, Australian author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2018), The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding (2022), The House That Joy Built (2023), and The World Beneath Her Feet (2026); also co-host of ABC's Back to Nature.
Homen Borgohain
Homen Borgohain (হোমেন বৰগোহাঞি, 1932–2021) was an Assamese novelist, poet, critic, and journalist who won the 1978 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Pita Putra.
Hong Myung-hee
Hong Myung-hee (홍명희, 1888–1968) was a Korean novelist, journalist, and independence activist best known for the historical novel Imkkeokjeong, and who became North Korea's first Vice Premier in 1948.
Hong Ying
Hong Ying (虹影), pen name of Chen Hongying, is a Chinese novelist and poet born in Chongqing in 1962, known for Daughter of the River and K: The Art of Love.
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Horacio Castellanos Moya is a Salvadoran writer and journalist born in 1957 whose novels examine violence, exile, and Central America's failed revolutionary left; he is identified with the 'second boom.'
Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) was a Uruguayan short story writer, often called the father of the Latin American short story, best known for his jungle tales of Misiones.
Hori Tatsuo
Hori Tatsuo (堀辰雄) was a Japanese novelist best known for Kaze tachinu, a story of a man caring for his tubercular fiancée, blending French and classical Japanese traditions.
Houshang Golshiri
Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری) was an Iranian novelist, short-story writer, and critic, a pioneer of modernist Persian fiction best known for his 1968 novel Prince Ehtejab about a dying Qajar prince.
Huang Chun-ming
Huang Chun-ming (黃春明), born 1935 in Yilan County, Taiwan, is a short-story writer, essayist, and playwright who leads Taiwan's nativist literature movement depicting rural, working-class life.
Hugo Wast
Hugo Wast, pen name of Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría (1883–1962), was an Argentine novelist and politician whose Catholic, nationalist fiction made him a best-selling but criticized writer.
Humayun Ahmed (হুমায়ুন আহমেদ)
Humayun Ahmed (হুমায়ুন আহমেদ), 1948–2012, Bangladeshi novelist, playwright, and filmmaker; debut Nondito Noroke (1972); creator of Himu and Misir Ali; about 300 titles; died in New York, buried at Nuhash Palli.
Huo Da
Huo Da (霍达) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter of Hui ethnicity, born in Beijing in 1945, known for the Mao Dun Prize-winning novel The Funeral of a Muslim.
Hwang Sok-yong
Hwang Sok-yong (황석영, born 1943) is a South Korean novelist, a leading realist writer whose fiction traces workers, migrants, and political dissidents through modern Korean history.
Hyun Jin-geon
Hyun Jin-geon (현진건, 1900–1943), pen name Bing-heo, was a Korean novelist and journalist who pioneered realist short fiction and is best known for "A Lucky Day" (1924).
Ibrahim al-Koni
Ibrahim al-Koni (إبراهيم الكوني), born 1948 in Ghadames, Libya, is a Tuareg novelist whose more than 70 works on the Sahara, including The Bleeding of the Stone, are translated into over 40 languages.
Ibuse Masuji
Ibuse Masuji (井伏鱒二, 1898–1993) was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer from Hiroshima Prefecture, known for an ironic, understated style and for Black Rain (Kuroi Ame), a central work of Japanese atomic-bomb literature.
Ieva Simonaitytė
Ieva Simonaitytė (1897–1978) was a Lithuanian writer from the Klaipėda Region, the foremost portrayer of Lithuania Minor; her 1935 debut novel won the first Lithuanian State Literature Prize.
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, born in 1936, is a Brazilian novelist and journalist known for the dystopian Zero and his resistance to censorship under the military dictatorship.
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834–1893) was a Mexican writer, journalist, teacher, and liberal politician who defined the program of national literature in Mexico after the French Intervention and taught the writers who came of age after 1867.
Ignatius Mabasa
Ignatius Mabasa, born in 1971, is a Zimbabwean storyteller, novelist, and poet who writes in Shona; he is known for Mapenzi, an award-winning 1999 satirical novel.
Ilachandra Joshi
Ilachandra Joshi (इलाचन्द्र जोशी; 1903–1982) was a Hindi novelist, critic, and journalist, born in Almora and regarded as the initiator of the psychological novel in Hindi, with works including Sannyāsī and Muktipath.
Indira Goswami
Indira Goswami, known as Mamoni Raisom Goswami, was an Assamese novelist and Delhi University professor whose fiction about widows won the 2000 Jnanpith Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Indira Parthasarathy
Indira Parthasarathy is the pen name of Ranganathan Parthasarathy, born 1930, a Tamil writer and playwright known for the plays Aurangzeb and Ramanujar and for winning both the Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.