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Mongo Beti
Mongo Beti, pen name of Cameroonian writer Alexandre Biyidi-Awala (1932–2001), was a leading figure of Africa's independence-generation literature whose novels satirized French colonial rule and later neocolonial dictatorship.
Monique Ilboudo
Monique Ilboudo is a Burkinabè writer, lawyer, and politician, born in Ouagadougou in 1959, whose 1992 novel Le Mal de Peau was the first by a woman in Burkina Faso.
Moniro Ravanipour
Moniro Ravanipour (منیرو روانیپور) is an Iranian fiction writer and poet from Bushehr, known for the novel Ahl-e Gharq; imprisoned in the 1980s, she left Iran for the United States in 2006.
Moti Nandi
Moti Nandi (মতি নন্দী), real name Motilal Nandy, was an Indian Bengali writer and sports journalist of Kolkata who established sports fiction as a Bengali genre, writing Koni, Striker, and Stopper.
Mouloud Feraoun
Mouloud Feraoun (مولود فرعون, born Aït Chaabane; 1913–1962) was an Algerian novelist and educator, a founder of Algerian francophone literature, assassinated by the OAS days before the 1962 ceasefire.
Mourad Bourboune
Mourad Bourboune, born in Jijel, Algeria in 1938, is an Algerian writer in French whose second novel, Le Muezzin (1968), is a noted denunciation of the post-independence Algerian regime.
Moussa Konaté
Moussa Konaté (1951–2013) was a Malian novelist, playwright, essayist, and publisher, best known for the detective series Les enquêtes du commissaire Habib, set in Bamako.
Mu Shiying
Mu Shiying (穆时英, 1912–1940) was a Chinese modernist novelist from Cixi, Zhejiang, leading writer of the Shanghai New Sensationist school and pioneer of urban fiction.
Muhammad al-Makhzangi
Muhammad al-Makhzangi (محمد المخزنجي), born 1949 in Mansoura, Egypt, is a physician, psychiatrist, and writer known for very short stories and the Chernobyl book Memories of a Meltdown.
Mukhtar Auezov
Mukhtar Auezov (Мұхтар Әуезов, 1897–1961) was a Kazakh writer and scholar who wrote the four-volume novel-epic The Path of Abai, the first in the Kazakh language.
Mulk Raj Anand (मुल्क राज आनंद)
Mulk Raj Anand (मुल्क राज आनंद), 1905–2004, Indian novelist in English, author of Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936), Progressive Writers' Association founder, Marg magazine founder, Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi Award winner.
Mumtaz Mufti
Mumtaz Mufti, born Mufti Mumtaz Hussain (1905–1995), was a Pakistani Urdu fiction writer known for Ali Pur Ka Eli, Alakh Nagri, and the travelogues Labbaik and Hind Yatra.
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部)
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, c. 973–c. 1014) was a Heian-period Japanese woman writer and court lady, author of The Tale of Genji (源氏物語), often called the world's oldest full-length novel. She served Empress Shoshi and left the Murasaki Shikibu Diary and Murasaki Shikibu Collection.
Muratsan
Muratsan (Մուրացան) was the pen name of Grigor Ter-Hovhannisian, an Armenian novelist and playwright (1854–1908) known for the historical novel Gevorg Marzpetuni and the drama Ruzan.
Murilo Rubião
Murilo Rubião (1916–1991) was a Brazilian writer from Minas Gerais, regarded as the precursor of the fantastic short story, whose 33 tales narrate impossible events with complete naturalness.
Mushanokōji Saneatsu
Mushanokōji Saneatsu (武者小路実篤, 1885–1976) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and painter who led the Shirakaba school and founded the utopian New Village community in 1918.
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Mustansar Hussain Tarar (مستنصر حسین تارڑ), born in Lahore in 1939, is a Pakistani Urdu writer best known for travelogues like Niklay Teri Talash Mein and the novel Bahao.
Mya Than Tint
Mya Than Tint (1929–1998) was a prolific Burmese writer jailed for years by Ne Win, known for On the Road to Mandalay, interviews with ordinary Burmese people.
N. Mohanan
N. Mohanan (എൻ. മോഹനൻ) was an Indian writer of Malayalam short fiction and novels from Kerala, best known for the novel Innalathe Mazha, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998.
N. P. Mohammed
N. P. Mohammed (1928 or 1929 – 2003) was a Malayalam novelist and short story writer who portrayed Kerala's Mappila Muslims, chaired the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, and won its national award for Daivathinte Kannu.
N. Pichamurthy
N. Pichamurthy (ந. பிச்சமூர்த்தி, born Vengata Mahalingam, 1900–1976) was a Tamil writer and lawyer from Kumbakonam, pioneer of the free-verse Pudukavithai movement and early Manikodi contributor.
N. S. Madhavan
N. S. Madhavan (എൻ എസ് മാധവൻ), born 1948, is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature known for the novel Lanthan Batheriyile Luthiniyakal and the short story "Higuita".
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Nabarun Bhattacharya (নবারুণ ভট্টাচার্য; 1948–2014) was an Indian Bengali poet and fiction writer, son of Bijon Bhattacharya and Mahashweta Devi, known for the satirical novel Herbert, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997.
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014), South African novelist and short-story writer, first South African and seventh woman Nobel Literature laureate (1991); author of The Conservationist and Burger's Daughter.
Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ)
Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ; 1911–2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Arabic-native-language laureate, best known for the Cairo Trilogy.
Naivo
Naivo is the pen name of Naivoharisoa Patrick Ramamonjisoa, a Malagasy writer best known for Beyond the Rice Fields, the first novel from Madagascar translated into English.
Naiyer Masud
Naiyer Masud (نیّر مسعود) was an Indian Urdu short story writer, scholar, and translator from Lucknow, known for elliptical fiction and awarded the Padma Shri.
Nam Cao
Nam Cao (1917–1951) was the pen name of Trần Hữu Tri, a leading Vietnamese realist writer best known for the novella Chí Phèo and the novel Sống mòn.
Nanak Singh
Nanak Singh (1897–1971), born Hans Raj, was a Punjabi novelist and poet called the father of the Punjabi novel who wrote Khooni Vaisakhi after surviving the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Narayan Gangopadhyay
Narayan Gangopadhyay (নারায়ণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়; born Taraknath Gangopadhyay, 1918–1970) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, critic, and professor of Bengali at the University of Calcutta, best known as the creator of the comic adolescent character Tenida.