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Juan José Morosoli
Juan José Morosoli (1899–1957) was a Uruguayan narrator, poet, playwright, and journalist from Minas, a leading figure of the country's rural-themed narrative whose works include Hombres (1932) and his only novel, Muchachos (1950).
Juan José Saer
Juan José Saer (1937–2005) was an Argentine novelist and essayist who lived in France and wrote fiction set in the Santa Fe river region he called la zona.
Juan León Mera
Juan León Mera (1832–1894) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, and politician from Ambato, known for the national anthem lyrics, the Indianist novel Cumandá, and pioneering Ecuadorian literary criticism.
Juan Rulfo
Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) was a Mexican writer from Jalisco whose reputation rests on two books: the story collection El Llano en llamas and the novel Pedro Páramo.
Juan Villoro
Juan Villoro, full name Juan Antonio Villoro Ruiz, is a Mexican writer and journalist born in Mexico City in 1956, known for novels, essays, and football crónicas.
Júlia Lopes de Almeida
Júlia Lopes de Almeida, full name Júlia Valentim da Silveira Lopes de Almeida, was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and journalist who published more than 40 books over 53 years.
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984), Argentine-born writer of Rayuela (Hopscotch), Bestiario, and Historias de cronopios y de famas; central Latin American boom figure, Paris exile from 1951, translator of Poe, died in Paris in 1984.
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929–1994) was a Peruvian writer and leading figure of the Generación del 50, best known for the story collection La palabra del mudo.
Jun Takami
Jun Takami (高見順, 1907–1965), born Takama Yoshio, was a Japanese novelist, poet, and critic whose diary of the Shōwa era, published in 16 volumes, matched his fiction in fame.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎, 1886–1965), Japanese novelist and essayist of beauty and eroticism; author of The Tattoo, Naomi, The Makioka Sisters, and In Praise of Shadows; Nobel-nominated seven times, 1958–1965.
Justine Mintsa
Justine Mintsa is a Gabonese novelist and academic of Fang origin who writes in French. She taught English literature at the Université Omar Bongo in Libreville for decades.
K. Jayatilleke
K. Jayatilleke (Sinhala: කේ. ජයතිලක; born Kaluachchigamage Jayathilaka, 1926–2011) was a Sri Lankan novelist, short-story writer, critic, and publisher in Sinhala, known for the award-winning novel Charitha Thunak (1963).
K. P. Ramanunni
K. P. Ramanunni (കെ.പി. രാമനുണ്ണി; born 1955) is a Malayalam novelist and short-story writer who won the 2017 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Daivathinte Pusthakam.
K. Sello Duiker
K. Sello Duiker (Kabelo Sello Duiker, 1974–2005) was a South African novelist and screenwriter whose novels Thirteen Cents and The Quiet Violence of Dreams made him a prominent post-apartheid voice.
K. Surendran
K. Surendran (കെ. സുരേന്ദ്രൻ) was a Malayalam novelist, critic, and playwright from Kerala who wrote more than 40 works, winning the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Maya.
Kakkanadan
Kakkanadan (കാക്കനാടൻ), 1935 to 2011, was the pen name of George Varghese, an Indian writer who led modernist Malayalam fiction and won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.
Kalki Krishnamurthy
Kalki Krishnamurthy (கல்கி கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி), pen name of R. Krishnamurthy (1899-1954), Tamil novelist, journalist, and freedom fighter; author of Ponniyin Selvan, Sivakamiyin Sapatham, and Alai Osai, and founder of the Kalki weekly.
Kamal Kumar Majumdar
Kamal Kumar Majumdar (কমলকুমার মজুমদার; 1914–1979) was a Bengali fiction writer who wrote in formal sadhu Bengali, best known for the novel Antarjali Yatra and a prose style critics call unrepeatable.
Kamala Markandaya
Kamala Markandaya, pen name of Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, was an Indian-born British novelist (1924–2004) whose first novel, Nectar in a Sieve (1954), became an international bestseller taught in American schools.
Kangni Alem
Kangni Alem, pen name of Kangni Alemdjrodo, is a Togolese novelist and playwright born in 1966 in Lomé, best known for the award-winning novel Cola Cola Jazz.
Kanhu Charan Mohanty
Kanhu Charan Mohanty (କାହ୍ନୁଚରଣ ମହାନ୍ତି) was an Indian Odia-language novelist who wrote 56 novels from 1930 to 1985 and won the 1958 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kaa.
Karel Schoeman
Karel Schoeman (1939–2017) was a South African novelist, historian, and translator who wrote in Afrikaans, producing about 130 books, including nineteen novels, and winning the Hertzog Prize three times.
Kartar Singh Duggal
Kartar Singh Duggal (1917–2012) was an Indian writer, mainly in Punjabi, who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965 and the Padma Bhushan in 1988.
Kashinath Singh
Kashinath Singh (काशीनाथ सिंह), born in 1937, is a Hindi novelist and Banaras Hindu University professor best known for the novel Kashi ka Assi, set in Banaras.
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is an Australian novelist, born in Sydney in 1950, best known for The Secret River (2005), which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine (كاتب ياسين, 1929–1989) was an Algerian novelist and playwright whose 1956 novel Nedjma is a foundational text of North African literature in French.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) was an Australian novelist, playwright, and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia, best known for The Pioneers, Working Bullocks, and Coonardoo.
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, 1888–1923), New Zealand-born modernist short story writer; author of Prelude, Bliss, and The Garden Party; died of tuberculosis at Fontainebleau; ranked with Woolf and Joyce.
Kazuo Dan
Kazuo Dan (檀一雄, 1912–1976) was a Japanese novelist and poet of the Buraiha group who won the Naoki Prize and wrote the autobiographical bestseller Kataku no Hito over about 20 years.
Kazushige Abe
Kazushige Abe (阿部和重) is a Japanese novelist, born in 1968 in Yamagata Prefecture, who won the Akutagawa Prize for Grand Finale and the Tanizaki Prize for Pistols.