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Inés Arredondo
Inés Amelia Camelo Arredondo, known as Inés Arredondo (1928–1989), was a Mexican short-story writer of the Generación del Medio Siglo who won the 1979 Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for Río subterráneo.
Inglês de Sousa
Inglês de Sousa (1853–1918) was a Brazilian novelist and lawyer who introduced Naturalism into Brazilian literature with O coronel sangrado and helped found the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Intizar Hussain
Intizar Husain (انتظار حسین), also spelled Intizar Hussain, was a Pakistani Urdu fiction writer born in British India who migrated to Lahore after Partition, best known for the novel Basti.
Iraj Pezeshkzad
Iraj Pezeshkzad (ایرج پزشکزاد, 1928–2022) was an Iranian novelist, satirist, and diplomat, best known for the comic novel My Uncle Napoleon, published in 1970.
Ireneo Paz
Ireneo Paz, full name José Ireneo Paz Flores (1836–1924), was a Mexican lawyer, journalist, and politician who wrote historical novels and was the grandfather of Octavio Paz.
Ishikawa Tatsuzō
Ishikawa Tatsuzō (石川達三, 1905–1985) was a Japanese novelist who won the first Akutagawa Prize in 1935 with Sōbō and became a central figure of postwar social school fiction.
Ismat Chughtai (عصمت چغتائی)
Ismat Chughtai (عصمت چغتائی), Indian Urdu short-story writer and novelist (1915–1991), Progressive Writers' Movement figure, author of Lihaaf and Terhi Lakir; faced obscenity trial in Lahore, received Padma Shri 1975 and Iqbal Samman 1990.
Ivan Bahrianyi
Ivan Bahrianyi (Іван Багряний), pen name of Ivan Pavlovych Lozoviaga, was a Ukrainian writer and émigré politician who survived Soviet camps and won the Shevchenko Prize posthumously in 1992.
Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić is a South African writer born in Pretoria in 1957, known for novels and documentary prose exploring Johannesburg, and a professor at Wits University.
Iwan Simatupang
Iwan Simatupang, full name Iwan Martua Dongan Simatupang (1928–1970), was an Indonesian dramatist, novelist, poet, and essayist whose 1960s and 1970s novels broke with Indonesian fiction conventions.
J. M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee (born 1940, Cape Town) is a South African-born Australian novelist, two-time Booker Prize winner (Life & Times of Michael K, Disgrace) and 2003 Nobel laureate in Literature, known for spare allegorical fiction.
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919 to 1994) was a Palestinian novelist, poet, painter, and translator who settled in Baghdad, wrote novels of Palestinian exile, and translated Shakespeare into Arabic.
Jack Cope
Jack Cope (Robert Knox Cope, 1913–1991) was a South African novelist, short story writer, poet, and editor known for fiction about South Africa's racial history.
Jacques Stephen Alexis
Jacques Stephen Alexis (Jacques Stéphen Alexis) was a Haitian novelist and neurolog known for Compère Général Soleil and killed opposing the Duvalier dictatorship in 1961.
Jainendra Kumar
Jainendra Kumar (जैनेंद्र कुमार) was a Hindi novelist, born Anandilal in 1905, regarded as the founder of the psychoanalytic tradition in the Hindi novel and awarded the Padma Bhushan.
Jalol Ikromi
Jalol Ikromi (1909–1993) was a Tajik novelist and playwright, considered Tajikistan's most important Soviet-period fiction writer, best known for the historical trilogy The Twelve Gates of Bukhara.
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid (Elaine Potter Richardson, born 1949, St. John's, Antigua) is an Antiguan-American novelist and essayist, New Yorker staff writer from 1974, author of Annie John, Lucy, A Small Place, and My Brother, and Harvard professor emerita.
Jan Carew
Jan Carew, born Jan Rynveld Carew (1920–2012), was a Guyanese novelist, playwright, poet, broadcaster, and scholar, a leading figure in pan-African and Caribbean studies best known for the 1958 novel Black Midas.
Janet Frame
Janet Frame (Janet Paterson Frame) was a New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and poet whose three-volume autobiography became Jane Campion's 1990 film An Angel at My Table.
Jaswant Singh Kanwal
Jaswant Singh Kanwal (ਜਸਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਕੰਵਲ; 1919–2020) was an Indian Punjabi-language novelist, short story writer, and essayist who wrote about 102 books on rural Punjabi life and won the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Javier de Viana
Javier de Viana (1868–1926) was a Uruguayan writer, journalist, and politician of the Generación del Novecientos, known for naturalist stories of the gaucho in rural Uruguay.
Jayakanthan (ஜெயகாந்தன்)
Jayakanthan (ஜெயகாந்தன்), also JK, Dhandapani Jayakanthan, 1934-2015, Tamil writer from Cuddalore raised in the Communist Party of India; wrote about 40 novels and 200 short stories, won the 1972 Sahitya Akademi Award and 2002 Jnanpith Award.
Jean Malonga
Jean Malonga (1907–1985) was a Congolese writer and politician, regarded as the founder of modern Congolese literature; his novel Cœur d'Aryenne is considered the first Congolese novel.
Jean-Luc Raharimanana
Jean-Luc Raharimanana (born 1967) is a Malagasy writer and poet based in Paris whose work, notably the novel Nour, 1947, confronts the 1947 Malagasy insurrection.
Jean-Marie Adiaffi
Jean-Marie Adiaffi (full name Jean-Marie Adé Adiaffi, 1941–1999) was an Ivorian novelist, poet, and screenwriter whose novel La carte d'identité won the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire.
Jeannette Armstrong
Jeannette Armstrong, born 1948, is a Syilx (Okanagan) writer and educator from British Columbia whose 1985 novel Slash was the first published by a First Nations woman in Canada.
Jeelani Bano
Jeelani Bano (جیلانی بانو, 1936–2026) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer and novelist from Hyderabad, best known for Aiwan-e-Ghazal and awarded the Padma Shri in 2001.
Jeet Thayil
Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian novelist, poet, and musician whose debut novel Narcopolis (2012) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the DSC Prize.
Jessica Hagedorn
Jessica Hagedorn, born Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, is a Filipino American playwright, novelist, poet, and performance artist best known for her debut novel Dogeaters (1990), which won the American Book Award.
Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa (贾平凹), born 1952 in Shaanxi, is a Chinese novelist and essayist whose fiction about rural life won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for Qinqiang (2005).