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Kemal Bilbaşar
Kemal Bilbaşar (1910–1983) was a Turkish social realist novelist and teacher, best known for his novel Cemo, which won the Turkish Language Association's Novel Prize in 1967.
Kemal Tahir
Kemal Tahir (İsmail Kemalettin Demir, 1910-1973) was a Turkish novelist of the Republican era, known for social and historical novels such as Devlet Ana and Esir Şehrin İnsanları.
Ken Bugul
Ken Bugul is the pen name of Senegalese novelist Mariétou Mbaye Biléoma, known for her 1982 debut Le Baobab fou and over 30 years of writing in French.
Kenan Orhan
Kenan Orhan, Turkish American short-story writer and novelist (I Am My Country, 2023; debut novel The Renovation, 2026), based in Kansas City; distinct from the 1971 Istanbul-born educator Orhan Kenan and from Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan.
Kenji Nakagami
Kenji Nakagami (中上健次, 1946–1992) was a Japanese novelist from Shingu, Wakayama, who won the 1976 Akutagawa Prize for Misaki, the first winner born after World War II.
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎)
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎, Oe Kenzaburo), 1935-2023, Japanese novelist and 1994 Nobel Literature laureate from Ehime; wrote A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry, Hiroshima Notes; father of Hikari; anti-nuclear, Article 9 activist.
Keri Hulme
Keri Hulme (1947-2021), New Zealand novelist and poet of Ngāi Tahu and Orkney descent; her debut novel The Bone People (1984, Spiral Collective) won the 1985 Booker Prize, first for New Zealand and for a debut novel.
Keris Mas
Keris Mas, pen name of Kamaludin Mohamad (1922–1992), was a Malaysian writer, a leading figure of the ASAS 50 movement, and the first Sasterawan Negara in 1981.
Khadija Mastoor
Khadija Mastoor (خدیجہ مستور, 1927–1982) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist and short story writer best known for Aangan, widely regarded as one of the finest Urdu novels.
Khái Hưng
Khái Hưng (1896–1947), real name Trần Khánh Giư, was a Vietnamese novelist, playwright, and journalist from Hải Phòng, a leading writer of the Tự Lực văn đoàn literary group.
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist and former physician, author of The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed, and Sea Prayer; UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador since 2006 and founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation.
Khamsing Srinawk
Khamsing Srinawk (คำสิงห์ ศรีนอก), pen name Lao Khamhom, is a Thai short-story writer from northeastern Thailand, born in 1930 and named National Artist in Literature in 1992.
Khushwant Singh (ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ)
Khushwant Singh (ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ, 1915–2014), Indian novelist, historian and journalist, author of Train to Pakistan and A History of the Sikhs; editor of the Illustrated Weekly and Hindustan Times; Rajya Sabha member 1980–86; Padma Vibhushan 2007. Not the contemporary Chandigarh author of the same name.
Ki. Rajanarayanan
Ki. Rajanarayanan (கி. ராஜநாராயணன்), known as Ki.Ra., was a Tamil novelist, short story writer, and folklorist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 for Gopallapurathu Makkal.
Kikuchi Kan
Kikuchi Kan (real name Kikuchi Hiroshi) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and publisher who founded Bungei Shunjū in 1923 and created the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes.
Kim Dong-in
Kim Dong-in (김동인, 1900–1951) was a Korean novelist of the Japanese colonial period who founded the literary magazine Changjo in 1919 and wrote "Gamja" and "Baettaragi."
Kim Dong-ni
Kim Dong-ni (1913–1995), real name Kim Si-jong, was a South Korean novelist and literary theorist who established the pure-literature tradition and championed Korean shamanism and myth in fiction.
Kim Si-sup
Kim Si-sup (김시습, 1435–1493) was an early Joseon scholar and writer who became a monk after Sejo's usurpation and wrote Geumo sinhwa, Korea's first classical Chinese fiction collection.
Kim Sung-han
Kim Sung-han (김성한, pen name Hanam, 1919–2010) was a South Korean novelist and poet known for satirical postwar short stories, winning the first Dongin Literary Award in 1956.
Kim Young-ha
Kim Young-ha (김영하, born 1968) is a South Korean novelist and essayist, known for I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and Diary of a Murderer.
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai, Indian-born novelist in New York, daughter of Anita Desai; author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), Booker Prize-winning The Inheritance of Loss (2006), and Booker-2025-shortlisted The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (2025).
Kiran Nagarkar
Kiran Nagarkar (किरण नगरकर; 1942–2019) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote in both Marathi and English, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for Cuckold in 2000.
Kong Bunchhoeun
Kong Bunchhoeun (គង្គ ប៊ុនឈឿន), 1939-2016, Khmer novelist, poet, and songwriter, wrote 200+ songs for the golden-age Cambodian pop scene and Sinn Sisamouth, was imprisoned in 1963, survived the Khmer Rouge, won the 2000 ASEAN literary award, and died in exile in Norway.
Korean Novelists' Association
The Korean Novelists' Association (한국소설가협회) is a South Korean association of fiction writers founded in 1974; it describes itself as the only organization composed solely of novelists.
Kovilan
Kovilan (കോവിലൻ) is the pen name of Kandanisseri Vattamparambil Velappan Ayyappan (1923–2010), an Indian Malayalam novelist and freedom fighter who served two decades in the navy and army before writing.
Krishan Chander
Krishan Chander (کرشن چندر; 1914–1977) was an Urdu short-story writer and novelist of the Progressive Writers' Movement who wrote more than 500 stories and received the Padma Bhushan in 1969.
Krishna Sobti
Krishna Sobti (कृष्णा सोबती; 1925–2019) was an Indian Hindi novelist known for bold women characters and Punjabi-inflected prose; she won the Jnanpith Award in 2017 and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Zindaginama.
Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan
Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan (கு. ப. ரா), known by his pen name Ku. Pa. Ra, was a Tamil writer and pioneer of the modern Tamil short story from 1902 to 1944.
Kukrit Pramoj
Kukrit Pramoj (คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช) was a Thai politician, writer, and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Thailand in 1975 and was named a National Artist for Literature in 1985.
Kulwant Singh Virk
Kulwant Singh Virk (ਕੁਲਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਕ, 1921–1987) was an Indian short-story writer who wrote chiefly in Punjabi and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Navein Lok.