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Ahmed Essop
Ahmed Essop (1931–2019) was an Indian-born South African short-story writer and novelist whose fiction portrays the Indian community of Fordsburg, Johannesburg, under apartheid.
Ahmed Fagih
Ahmed Fagih (أحمد إبراهيم الفقيه; 1942–2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote about one hundred books, including the acclaimed trilogy Gardens of the Night.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901–1962) was a Turkish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary historian at Istanbul University, known for the novels A Mind at Peace and The Time Regulation Institute.
Aké Loba
Aké Loba (Gérard Ake-Loba) was an Ivorian novelist and diplomat whose 1960 debut novel Kocoumbo, l'étudiant noir made him the first winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique noire.
Akilan
Akilan (அகிலன்) was the pen name of P. V. Akilandam (1922–1988), a Tamil novelist and freedom fighter who won the Jnanpith Award in 1975 for Chithirapavai.
Akshat Gupta (अक्षत गुप्ता)
Akshat Gupta (अक्षत गुप्ता), Indian author, screenwriter and former restaurateur; wrote The Hidden Hindu trilogy, a mythology-science fiction bestseller published by Penguin Random House India, with visual rights acquired by Dhoni Entertainment.
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou, born in 1966 and raised in Pointe-Noire, Congo, is a French novelist who won the Prix Renaudot for Mémoires de porc-épic and twice reached the International Booker shortlist.
Alan Duff
Alan Duff (born 1950) is a New Zealand novelist and columnist of Māori descent, best known for the 1990 novel Once Were Warriors and its acclaimed 1994 film adaptation.
Alan Paton
Alan Paton was a South African novelist and prison reformer best known for Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), a novel about racial injustice that sold millions of copies worldwide.
Alan Pauls
Alan Pauls, born 1959 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine novelist, essayist, and literary critic, author of El pasado (2003) and the Historia del llanto trilogy.
Albert Wendt
Albert Wendt, born in Apia, Samoa, in 1939, is a Samoan novelist and poet whose 1973 first novel, Sons for the Return Home, is hailed as the first Pacific novel.
Alberto Blest Gana
Alberto Blest Gana (1830–1920) was a Chilean novelist and diplomat regarded as the founder of the Chilean novel, known for Martín Rivas (1862) and Durante la Reconquista (1897).
Alberto Gerchunoff
Alberto Gerchunoff (1884–1950) was an Argentine writer, essayist, and journalist whose 1910 story collection Los gauchos judíos is regarded as the founding work of Jewish Latin American writing.
Alberto Laiseca
Alberto Laiseca (1941–2016) was an Argentine novelist, poet, and essayist, creator of realismo delirante, whose novel Los sorias (1998) is called the longest in Argentine literature.
Alcides Arguedas
Alcides Arguedas (1879–1946) was a Bolivian novelist, essayist, historian, and diplomat whose essay Pueblo enfermo (1909) and novel Raza de bronce (1919) made him the most recognized Bolivian writer of his era.
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) was a Cuban novelist and musicologist who coined the marvelous real in his 1949 prologue to El reino de este mundo and won the Cervantes Prize.
Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma (Justin Alexander La Guma, 1925–1985) was a South African novelist, journalist, and anti-apartheid activist whose fiction about District Six made him a leading activist writer.
Alex Miller
Alex Miller, born 1936 in the United Kingdom and raised in Australia, is an Australian novelist who won the Miles Franklin Award for The Ancestor Game in 1993 and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003.
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright, born 1950, is an Indigenous Australian writer of the Waanyi nation whose novels blend Aboriginal storytelling with the European novel form; she won the Miles Franklin Award twice.
Alfred Mendes
Alfred Hubert Mendes (1897–1991), Trinidadian novelist and short-story writer of the Beacon group; author of Pitch Lake (1934) and Black Fauns (1935), pioneer of barrack-yard fiction, WWI veteran, and grandfather of director Sam Mendes.
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1939–2026) was a Peruvian novelist and chronicler, best known for Un mundo para Julius (1970), and a leading figure of Latin America's post-boom generation.
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay (1843–1899), was a Brazilian military engineer, politician, historian, and novelist born in Rio de Janeiro, best known for the regionalist novel Inocência (1872).
Alioum Fantouré
Alioum Fantouré is the pen name of Mohammed Touré, a Guinean French-language novelist and economist born in 1938 whose fiction denounces dictatorship in post-independence Africa.
Alka Saraogi
Alka Saraogi (अलका सरावगी), born 1960, is an Indian novelist who writes in Hindi from Kolkata and won the 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for her first novel Kalikatha: Via Bypass.
Aluísio Azevedo
Aluísio Azevedo, full name Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo, was a Brazilian novelist and diplomat who introduced literary naturalism to Brazil with O mulato (1881) and O cortiço (1890).
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, known as "El Nene", was a Colombian writer and journalist of the Barranquilla Group whose 1962 novel La casa grande portrays the 1928 banana massacre.
Amado V. Hernandez
Amado V. Hernandez, known as Ka Amado, was a Filipino poet, novelist, and labor leader who wrote in Tagalog about workers' struggles and was named National Artist for Literature in 1973.
Amar Jaleel
Amar Jaleel (امر جلیل), born Qazi Abdul Jaleel in 1936, is a Sindhi short story writer and columnist, a leading figure of modern Sindhi fiction.
Amarkant
Amarkant (अमरकांत, 1925–2014) was an Indian writer of Hindi fiction, a leading post-independence realist whose novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se won the 2007 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Aminata Sow Fall
Aminata Sow Fall, born 1941 in Saint-Louis, Senegal, is a Senegalese novelist writing in French, best known for her 1979 novel La Grève des bàttu.