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Massa Makan Diabaté
Massa Makan Diabaté (1938–1988) was a French-language Malian writer and historian from Kita, best known for the Kouta trilogy, who carried the Manding griot oral tradition into the written novel.
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (ಮಾಸ್ತಿ ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್), who wrote under the pen name Srinivasa, was a Kannada writer and Jnanpith Award winner regarded as the father of the modern Kannada short story.
Mateo Booz
Mateo Booz was the pen name of Miguel Ángel Correa (1881–1943), an Argentine writer, journalist, and politician who set all his fiction in Santa Fe, known for the classic Santa Fe, mi país (1934).
Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant (born Mavis de Trafford Young, 1922–2014) was a Canadian writer who settled in Paris in 1960 and became one of the most admired short-story writers in English.
Meg Mason
Meg Mason (born 1978) is a New Zealand-born novelist in Sydney, author of Sorrow and Bliss (2020), a Women's Prize-shortlisted international bestseller, and Sophie, Standing There (2026).
Mehmed Rauf
Mehmed Rauf (1875–1931) was an Ottoman and Turkish novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist of the Servet-i Fünûn movement, best known for Eylül (1901), regarded as the first psychological novel in Turkish literature.
Mempo Giardinelli
Mempo Giardinelli (born 1947) is an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and journalist from Resistencia, Chaco, exiled in Mexico in 1976 to 1984 during the military dictatorship.
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera
Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera (Juana Mercedes Cabello Llosa, 1845–1909) was a Peruvian novelist and essayist who initiated the realist novel in Peru and advocated women's education.
Mia Couto
Mia Couto, pen name of António Emílio Leite Couto, is a Mozambican novelist, poet, and biologist born in 1955 in Beira, known for fiction shaped by Mozambique's wars.
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje (Philip Michael Ondaatje), Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, novelist and editor; author of The English Patient (Booker 1992, Golden Booker 2018), Anil's Ghost, Running in the Family; five Governor General's Awards; Companion of the Order of Canada; lives in Toronto.
Michèle Rakotoson
Michèle Rakotoson, born in 1948 in Antananarivo, is a Malagasy novelist and journalist who writes in French and Malagasy and went into political exile in France in 1983.
Mieko Kanai
Mieko Kanai (金井美恵子, born 1947) is a Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist from Takasaki, Gunma, known for an anti-realist style and sensuous prose.
Miguel Angel Asturias
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) was a Guatemalan novelist, poet, and diplomat who in 1967 became the first Latin American novelist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Miguel Otero Silva
Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985) was a Venezuelan novelist, journalist, and politician and a leading exponent of social literature, known for Casas muertas and co-founding the daily El Nacional.
Miguel Syjuco
Miguel Syjuco (born 1976) is a Filipino novelist, journalist, and professor at New York University Abu Dhabi whose debut novel Ilustrado (2010) won the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Mikheil Javakhishvili
Mikheil Javakhishvili (მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი), real surname Adamashvili, was a Georgian writer, born in 1880, who founded the twentieth-century Georgian realist novel and was shot in Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.
Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879–1954), was an Australian writer and feminist whose debut novel My Brilliant Career (1901) led to the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Milton Hatoum
Milton Hatoum, born in Manaus in 1952 to a Lebanese immigrant family, is a Brazilian novelist whose Amazon-set fiction includes Dois irmãos and has won the Jabuti Prize three times.
Minae Mizumura
Minae Mizumura (水村美苗) is a Japanese novelist and essayist known for the prize-winning A True Novel and the 2008 essay The Fall of Japanese in the Age of English.
Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (মীর মশাররফ হোসেন) was a Bengali novelist and playwright best known for Bishad Sindhu, an epic novel on the martyrdom of Imam Hossain at Karbala.
Miriam Tlali
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose Muriel at Metropolitan (1975) was the first novel published by a Black woman in South Africa.
Mitsuyo Kakuta
Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, born 1967) is a Japanese novelist known for fiction about family life and for a modern translation of The Tale of Genji.
Mo Yan (莫言)
Mo Yan (莫言), pen name of Guan Moye, born 1956 in Gaomi, Shandong, Chinese novelist and 2012 Nobel Literature laureate, the first Chinese national winner, author of Red Sorghum, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, and Frogs.
Moacyr Scliar
Moacyr Scliar (1937–2011) was a Brazilian physician and writer from Porto Alegre whose fiction and essays made him a leading voice of contemporary Brazilian literature.
Mochtar Lubis
Mochtar Lubis (1922–2004) was an Indonesian journalist and novelist, chief editor of the independent daily Indonesia Raya and repeatedly imprisoned under Soekarno and Suharto.
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (محمدعلی جمالزاده, 1892–1997) was an Iranian writer, a pioneer of modern Persian prose fiction, whose 1921 collection Yeki bud yeki nabud introduced the modern short story.
Mohammed al-Murr
Mohammed al-Murr (محمد المر), born in Dubai in 1955, is an Emirati short-story writer and official who served as Speaker of the Federal National Council from 2011.
Mohammed Berrada
Mohammed Berrada (محمد برادة, born 1938 in Rabat) is a Moroccan novelist, critic, and translator who writes in Arabic and is a leading figure of the contemporary Moroccan novel.
Mohammed Dib
Mohammed Dib (محمد ديب, 1920–2003) was an Algerian novelist, poet, and playwright who wrote in French and helped found Algerian literature, best known for his Algeria trilogy.
Mohammed Zafzaf
Mohammed Zafzaf (محمد زفزاف, 1945–2001) was a Moroccan novelist and short-story writer, the godfather of modern Moroccan fiction, known for works treating marginality and taboo in Moroccan Arabic.