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Liu Baiyu
Liu Baiyu (刘白羽, born Liu Yuzan) was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and war correspondent who won the Stalin Prize in 1950 and the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1991.
Liu E
Liu E, also known as Liu Tieyun, was a late Qing Chinese writer and oracle bone collector best known as the author of The Travels of Lao Can.
Liu Xinglong
Liu Xinglong (刘醒龙, born 1956) is a Chinese novelist from Hubei known for realist rural fiction and winner of the Lu Xun and Mao Dun literature prizes.
Liu Xinwu
Liu Xinwu (刘心武) is a Chinese writer born in 1942 in Chengdu, best known for the 1977 story The Class Teacher, the inaugural work of scar literature.
Liu Yichang
Liu Yichang (1918–2018), born Liu Tongyi in Shanghai, was a Chinese novelist and editor, a central figure of Hong Kong literature known for the experimental novels The Drunkard and Duidao.
Liu Zhenyun
Liu Zhenyun (刘震云), born 1958, is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter from Yanjin, Henan, a leading "new realism" writer who won the 2011 Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Lloyd Jones
Lloyd Jones, born in 1955 in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, is a novelist and memoirist whose novel Mister Pip won the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book Award.
Lu Xun (鲁迅)
Lu Xun (鲁迅), pen name of Zhou Shuren (1881–1936), Shaoxing-born founder of modern Chinese literature; author of 'Diary of a Madman', 'The True Story of Ah Q', Call to Arms; New Culture Movement leader.
Lu Yao
Lu Yao (路遥, born Wang Weiguo, 1949–1992) was a Chinese novelist from Shaanxi whose novella Life and novel Ordinary World won the Mao Dun Prize.
Lualhati Bautista
Lualhati Bautista (1945–2023) was a Filipina novelist and screenwriter known for honest realism and women's issues, winning Palanca Awards for Gapô, Dekada '70, and Bata, Bata, Paano Ka Ginawa?
Lucila Gamero de Medina
Lucila Gamero de Medina (1873–1964) was a Honduran novelist, physician, and feminist activist, the first Honduran novelist, best known for Blanca Olmedo, the first novel by a woman in Central America.
Lúcio Cardoso
Lúcio Cardoso (Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, 1912–1968) was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, poet, and diarist from Minas Gerais, a central figure of 1930s and 1940s Brazilian psychological fiction.
Luís Bernardo Honwana
Luís Bernardo Honwana, born in 1942, is a Mozambican writer and journalist whose single story collection, Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso, became a founding work of Mozambican prose.
Luis de Lión
Luis de Lión, pen name of José Luis de León Díaz, was a Kaqchikel Maya Guatemalan writer and teacher, considered Guatemala's first indigenous writer in Spanish.
Luis Rafael Sánchez
Luis Rafael Sánchez, born in 1936 in Humacao, Puerto Rico, is a playwright and novelist regarded as the most internationally recognized Puerto Rican writer of his generation.
Luiz Ruffato
Luiz Ruffato (born 1961) is a Brazilian writer known for the novel Eles eram muitos cavalos and the five-volume Inferno provisório about the working class.
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923 to 2022) was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer who won the 2005 Prêmio Camões and wrote the dictatorship-era novel As Meninas.
M. P. Narayana Pillai
M. P. Narayana Pillai (എം.പി. നാരായണപിള്ള) was a Malayalam short story writer, novelist, and journalist whose only novel, Parinamam, won the 1991 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, which he declined.
M. Sukumaran
M. Sukumaran (എം. സുകുമാരൻ; 1943–2018) was a Malayalam short story writer and novelist from Kerala whose fiction gave literary form to revolutionary politics; he won both the Kerala and Kendra Sahitya Akademi awards.
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Madath Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair, MT), 1933-2024, Malayalam novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and Mathrubhumi editor; Jnanpith 1995, author of Naalukettu and Randamoozham, director of Nirmalyam.
Ma Văn Kháng
Ma Văn Kháng, born Đinh Trọng Đoàn in 1936, is a Vietnamese writer whose twelve novels center on the northwestern mountain frontier, winning the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 2012.
Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste is an Ethiopian-American novelist, essayist, and professor of English at Wesleyan University, born in Addis Ababa in 1971 and named a 2026 MacArthur Fellow.
Madan Mani Dixit
Madan Mani Dixit (मदनमणि दीक्षित) was a Nepali novelist and journalist best known for Madhavi, which won the Madan Puraskar in 1983 and is considered a classic.
Mahasweta Devi (মহাশ্বেতা দেবী)
Mahasweta Devi (মহাশ্বেতা দেবী, 1926–2015), Bengali writer and activist born in Dhaka; author of Aranyer Adhikar, "Draupadi," and Mother of 1084; Jnanpith 1996, Magsaysay 1997, Sahitya Akademi 1979.
Mahim Bora
Mahim Bora (মহিম বৰা; 1924–2016) was an Indian Assamese writer and educationist at Nowgong College whose novel Edhani Mahir Hanhi won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2001; he received the Padma Shri in 2011.
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (محمود دولتآبادی, born 1940) is an Iranian novelist and playwright, a leading figure of contemporary Persian prose known for Kelidar and Missing Soluch.
Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (M. A. Behazin)
Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (1915–2006), known by the pen name Behazin (بهآذین), was an Iranian fiction writer and translator who introduced Persian readers to Rolland, Balzac, Shakespeare, and Sholokhov.
Mahmoud Messadi
Mahmoud Messadi (محمود المسعدي; Mahmud al-Mas'adi, 1911–2004) was a Tunisian writer and politician, considered the foremost Tunisian narrative fiction writer and a pioneer of modern Arabic literature.
Mahmud Taymur
Mahmud Taymur (محمود تيمور, 1894–1973) was an Egyptian writer from a leading literary family who wrote more than fifty books and helped establish the modern Arabic short story.
Maitreyi Devi
Maitreyi Devi (মৈত্রেয়ী দেবী) was an Indian poet and novelist writing in Bengali, best known for the autobiographical novel Na Hanyate, her response to Mircea Eliade's novel about their romance in 1930s Calcutta.