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Mandla Langa
Mandla Langa (born 1950) is a South African novelist, poet, and journalist who wrote from exile for the ANC and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay (19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956), born Prabodh Kumar Bandopadhyay, was an Indian Bengali novelist and short story writer whose harsh realism included Padma Nadir Majhi and Putulnacher Itikatha.
Mannu Bhandari
Mannu Bhandari (मन्नू भंडारी), born Mahendra Kumari, was an Indian Hindi writer best known for the novels Aapka Bunty and Mahabhoj and for her role in the Nayi Kahani movement.
Manohar Shyam Joshi
Manohar Shyam Joshi (मनोहर श्याम जोशी; 1933 to 2006) was a Hindi novelist and satirist who won the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel Kyaap.
Manoj Das
Manoj Das (1934–2021) was an Indian writer of short stories, novels, and essays in Odia and English, regarded as a doyen of modern Odia literature.
Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831–1861) was a Brazilian novelist whose Memórias de um sargento de milícias is considered the first urban novel in Brazilian literature.
Manuel Gálvez
Manuel Gálvez (1882–1962) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and biographer, the leading literary voice of Catholic nationalism, who wrote 44 books, including the novels Nacha Regules and Historia de Arrabal.
Manuel Mejía Vallejo
Manuel Mejía Vallejo (1923–1998) was a Colombian novelist and journalist whose work centers on rural Antioquia; he won Spain's Premio Nadal in 1963 and Venezuela's Premio Rómulo Gallegos in 1989.
Manuel Payno
Manuel Payno (José Manuel Román Payno y Flores) was a Mexican novelist and politician, a liberal who served several terms as Minister of the Treasury and wrote Los bandidos de Río Frío.
Manuel Scorza
Manuel Scorza, full name Manuel Scorza Torres, was a Peruvian poet and novelist of the Generación del 50, known for La guerra silenciosa, a five-novel cycle about Andean peasants fighting to recover their lands.
Manuel Zapata Olivella
Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920–2004) was a Colombian writer, physician, and anthropologist considered the leading representative of Afro-Colombian literature; his central novel is Changó, el gran putas (1983).
Marcelino Freire
Marcelino Freire (Marcelino Juvêncio Freire) is a Brazilian writer of short fiction from Sertânia, Pernambuco, known for oral-inflected prose and the Jabuti-winning Contos Negreiros of 2006.
Marco Denevi
Marco Denevi (1922–1998) was an Argentine novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for Rosaura a las diez (1955) and Ceremonia secreta (1960), both adapted to film.
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) was a Canadian novelist, born Jean Margaret Wemyss in Neepawa, Manitoba, whose Manawaka fiction, above all The Stone Angel and The Diviners, made her a central figure in Canadian literature.
María Luisa Bombal
María Luisa Bombal (1910–1980) was a Chilean novelist and short-story writer born in Viña del Mar whose novels La última niebla (1935) and La amortajada (1938) brought avant-garde technique and women's inner lives into Chilean literature.
Mariama Bâ
Mariama Bâ (1929–1981) was a Senegalese novelist and feminist activist whose epistolary novel So Long a Letter (1979) won the Noma Award, followed by Scarlet Song in 1981.
Mariano Azuela
Mariano Azuela, born Mariano Azuela González, was a Mexican physician and novelist from Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, whose 1915 novel Los de abajo founded the novel of the Mexican Revolution.
Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Marie Vieux-Chauvet (1916–1973) was a Haitian novelist and playwright whose trilogy Amour, colère et folie, a denunciation of the Duvalier dictatorship, was withdrawn from sale for decades.
Marie-Célie Agnant
Marie-Célie Agnant is a Haitian-born Quebec writer, living in Canada since 1970, known for novels like Le Livre d'Emma and for winning the 2017 Prix Alain-Grandbois.
Marie-Thérèse Humbert
Marie-Thérèse Humbert is a Mauritian novelist writing in French whose work explores race, class, and mixed-race identity, best known for À l'autre bout de moi (1979).
Mario Levrero
Mario Levrero was the pen name of Uruguayan novelist Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero (1940–2004), whose cult books include the involuntary trilogy, El discurso vacío, and La novela luminosa.
Mario Monteforte Toledo
Mario Monteforte Toledo (1911–2003) was a Guatemalan writer, sociologist, and politician who served as Vice President of Guatemala and wrote more than fifty works of fiction and essay.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-2025), Peruvian-Spanish novelist of the Latin American Boom, Nobel laureate 2010, author of La ciudad y los perros and La fiesta del Chivo, and 1990 Peruvian presidential candidate.
Marlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk, born 1954, is a South African poet, novelist, and short-story writer in Afrikaans, best known for the award-winning novels Triomf (1994) and Agaat (2004).
Marlon James (novelist)
Marlon James, Jamaican novelist born 1970 in Kingston; won the 2015 Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings, first Jamaican winner; author of Black Leopard, Red Wolf and The Disappearers, 2026 Booker shortlistee.
Marta Lynch
Marta Lynch, full name Marta Lía Frigerio de Lynch (1925 to 1985), was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer whose best sellers examined politics, class, and middle-class women.
Martín Luis Guzmán
Martín Luis Guzmán (1887–1976) was a Mexican novelist and journalist whose El águila y la serpiente and La sombra del caudillo portray the Mexican Revolution's leaders.
Martin Wickramasinghe
Martin Wickramasinghe (මාර්ටින් වික්රමසිංහ, 1890–1976) was a Sri Lankan novelist and critic regarded as the father of modern Sinhala literature, known for the novel Gamperaliya.
Maryse Condé
Maryse Condé, born Maryse Boucolon (1934–2024), was a French-language novelist from Guadeloupe known for Ségou and Moi, Tituba, and winner of the 2018 New Academy Prize.
Masamune Hakuchō
Masamune Hakuchō (正宗白鳥, 1879–1962), born Masamune Tadao, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and literary critic, a leading figure of the naturalist school known for Doko e.