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Kume Masao
Kume Masao (久米正雄), a haiku poet under the pen name Santei, was a Japanese novelist and playwright of the Taishō and Shōwa periods, known for Hotarugusa (1918).
Kundanika Kapadia
Kundanika Kapadia (1927–2020), who wrote as Snehadhan, was a Gujarati novelist, short-story writer, and editor whose feminist novel Saat Pagla Aakashma won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985.
Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
Kyallo Wadi Wamitila, born 1966 in Machakos, Kenya, is a Kenyan scholar and novelist who writes in Swahili and is a leading figure of present-day Kenyan Swahili writing.
Kyōka Izumi (泉鏡花)
Izumi Kyoka (泉鏡花, 1873–1939), real name Kyotaro, was a Japanese novelist and playwright of romance and fantasy, author of Koya Hijiri and Tenshu Monogatari, Ozaki Koyo's disciple, and one of Kanazawa's three great writers.
Kyokutei Bakin
Kyokutei Bakin (曲亭馬琴, 1767–1848), born Takizawa Okikuni, was a Japanese writer of popular fiction, described as Japan's first professional writer and known for Nansō Satomi Hakkenden.
Lakshmi Nandan Bora
Lakshmi Nandan Bora (লক্ষ্মীনন্দন বৰা) was an Indian Assamese novelist and short story writer who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Patal Bhairavi and the Padma Shri.
Lakshminath Bezbaroa
Lakshminath Bezbaroa (লক্ষ্মীনাথ বেজবৰুৱা; 1864–1938) was an Assamese writer, satirist, and editor, called the father of the Assamese short story, who edited Jonaki and wrote Assam's anthem.
Laksmi Pamuntjak
Laksmi Pamuntjak (born 1971) is an Indonesian novelist, poet, journalist, and food writer based in Jakarta, whose novel Amba, set against Indonesia's 1965 massacres, became a national bestseller.
Lalithambika Antharjanam
Lalithambika Antharjanam (ലളിതാംബിക അന്തർജ്ജനം; 1909–1987) was an Indian author and social reformer who wrote in Malayalam, best known for her novel Agnisakshi, which won the 1977 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award.
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (兰陵笑笑生, "The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling") is the unidentified pseudonymous author of the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase).
Latifa al-Zayyat
Latifa al-Zayyat (لطيفة الزيات) was an Egyptian novelist, critic, and political activist, best known for her 1960 novel The Open Door and her leadership of the 1946 student movement.
Latife Tekin
Latife Tekin (born 1957) is a Turkish novelist and screenwriter known for blending magical realism, poverty, and migration in novels such as Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (1983).
Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivel, born in Mexico City in 1950, is a Mexican novelist and screenwriter whose first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (1989), became one of the best-selling Latin American novels.
Legson Kayira
Legson Kayira was a Malawian novelist who, as a teenager in 1958, walked roughly 2,500 miles across Africa to reach an American college education, recounting the journey in I Will Try.
Léonora Miano
Léonora Miano is a Cameroonian-born French-language writer of novels, theater, and essays who won the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2006 and the Prix Femina in 2013.
Lewis Nkosi
Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010) was a South African novelist, playwright, and critic who left apartheid South Africa in 1960 and spent most of his career in exile.
Leyla Erbil
Leyla Erbil (1931–2013) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of modernist narrative in Turkish literature, nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2002 and 2004.
Li Boyuan
Li Boyuan (1867–1906) was the pen name of Li Baojia, a late Qing novelist and newspaper pioneer who wrote Guanchang Xianxing Ji, one of the four great condemnation novels.
Li Lüyuan
Li Lüyuan (李绿园, 1707–1790) was a Qing dynasty writer and juren from Baofeng, Henan, author of Qilu Deng, a 108-chapter vernacular novel about a prodigal son's reform.
Li Yongping
Li Yongping (李永平, 1947–2017), Sarawak-born Taiwanese novelist and translator, author of Jiling Chunqiu and the Moon River trilogy; first Malaysian-Chinese winner of Taiwan's National Award for Arts.
Lília Momplé
Lília Momplé (born 1935) is a Mozambican fiction writer from Ilha de Moçambique whose works, including the novel Neighbours, retell Mozambique's colonial and postcolonial history from the perspective of women.
Liliana Heker
Liliana Heker (born 1943, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist who co-founded the influential magazines El Escarabajo de Oro and El Ornitorrinco.
Lima Barreto
Lima Barreto, born Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto, was a Brazilian novelist and journalist (1881–1922) whose fiction attacked racism and official nationalism in the First Republic.
Lin Bai
Lin Bai (林白, born 1958) is a Chinese novelist known for A War of One's Own and as a leading figure of 1990s personal and women's writing.
Lin Haiyin
Lin Haiyin (林海音, 1918–2001), born Lin Hanying, was a Taiwanese writer and editor best known for the autobiographical collection My Memories of Old Beijing and for championing postwar Taiwanese writers.
Lin Jinlan
Lin Jinlan (林斤澜; born Lin Qinglan, 1923–2009) was a Chinese short story writer from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, who wrote about 200 stories and never a novel, grouped with Wang Zengqi as a peak of post-1976 short fiction.
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang (林语堂) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor whose bestsellers explained China to the West and who spent three decades building the MingKwai Chinese typewriter.
Lindsey Collen
Lindsey Collen, born 1948 in South Africa, is a Mauritian novelist and activist whose novel The Rape of Sita won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was banned.
Ling Mengchu
Ling Mengchu (1580–1644), a Ming dynasty writer from Wucheng, wrote the Erpai vernacular story collections, Pai'an jingqi (1628) and Erke pai'an jingqi (1632), totaling 78 stories.
Lino Novás Calvo
Lino Novás Calvo (1903–1983) was a Galician-born Cuban writer and journalist, author of Pedro Blanco, el negrero (1933) and a leading Cuban short-story writer who went into US exile after the Cuban Revolution.