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Narendra Kohli
Narendra Kohli (नरेन्द्र कोहली, 1940–2021) was a Hindi novelist and playwright credited with pioneering the epic-scale novel, retelling the Ramayana and Mahabharata in a rational idiom; he received the Padma Shri and Vyas Samman.
Narendranath Mitra
Narendranath Mitra (নরেন্দ্রনাথ মিত্র; 1916–1975) was an Indian Bengali writer whose stories depicted Bengal's middle class through the 1943 famine and Partition; his story Abataranika became Satyajit Ray's film Mahanagar.
Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Appanah, born 1973 in Mauritius, is a Mauritian and French novelist whose books about migration and indenture won the Prix Femina in 2025 for La Nuit au cœur.
Natsume Sōseki
Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石, born Natsume Kinnosuke, 1867–1916) is Japan's foremost modern novelist and an English-literature scholar; author of I Am a Cat, Botchan, Kokoro, and the unfinished Meian, London-study alumnus, and face of the 1,000-yen note.
Nayantara Sahgal
Nayantara Pandit Sahgal (born 10 May 1927, Allahabad), Indian English novelist and Nehru niece, author of nine novels including Rich Like Us, Sahitya Akademi Award winner who returned the award in protest.
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi (نذیر احمد دہلوی; 1830–1912), popularly called Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu prose writer and reformer whose 1869 novel Mirat-ul-Urus is regarded as the first regular Urdu novel.
Neela Padmanabhan
Neela Padmanabhan (நீல. பத்மநாபன்), born 1938, is a Tamil writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and essays known for Thalaimuraigal (1968) and the 2007 Sahitya Akademi award.
Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon (1937–2022) was a Brazilian novelist best known for the epic A República dos Sonhos (1984) and as the first woman president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Nellie Campobello
Nellie Campobello, born Francisca Ernestina Moya Luna, was a Mexican writer, dancer, and choreographer whose Cartucho (1931) narrates the Mexican Revolution through a child's voice.
Ng Kim Chew
Ng Kim Chew (黃錦樹, born 1967) is a Malaysian Chinese writer of experimental short fiction and a literary scholar who lives in Taiwan and writes in Chinese.
Ngô Tất Tố
Ngô Tất Tố (吳必素, 1893–1954) was a Vietnamese realist writer best known for the novella Tắt đèn, about a peasant family ruined by the colonial head tax.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Thiong'o Ngũgĩ, 1938-2025), Kenyan novelist and playwright, wrote early novels in English, then switched to Gikuyu after imprisonment in 1977; author of Decolonising the Mind and Wizard of the Crow.
Nguyễn Công Hoan
Nguyễn Công Hoan (1903–1977) was a Vietnamese writer and journalist, a leading figure of Vietnamese critical realism, with over 200 short stories and nearly 30 novels and novellas.
Nguyễn Minh Châu
Nguyễn Minh Châu (1930–1989) was a Vietnamese prose writer and former soldier whose works include Dấu chân người lính (1972), Bến quê (1985), and Chiếc thuyền ngoài xa (1985).
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, born 1976 in Cà Mau, is a Vietnamese writer of Mekong Delta fiction whose Cánh đồng bất tận won the Vietnam Writers' Association Award.
Nguyễn Quang Sáng
Nguyễn Quang Sáng, pen name Nguyễn Sáng, was a leading Vietnamese writer of the south (1932–2014), known for Chiếc lược ngà and the screenplay Cánh đồng hoang.
Nh. Dini
Nh. Dini, pen name of Nurhayati Sri Hardini Siti Nukatin (1936–2018), was an Indonesian novelist, poet, and playwright known for feminist themes and novels like Pada Sebuah Kapal.
Nhất Linh
Nhất Linh was the pen name of Nguyễn Tường Tam (1906–1963), a Vietnamese writer, journalist, and politician who led the influential Tự Lực Văn Đoàn group.
Nick Joaquin
Nick Joaquin (Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín, 1917–2004), pen name Quijano de Manila, Filipino National Artist for Literature (1976) and 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate, author of The Woman Who Had Two Navels and A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino.
Nicolás Heredia
Nicolás Heredia (1855–1901) was a Dominican-born novelist and journalist counted among the leading Cuban novelists of the nineteenth century, best known for the novel Leonela.
Nie Hualing
Nie Hualing (聶華苓, 1925–2024), also Hualing Nieh Engle, was a Chinese novelist, translator, and editor who co-founded the University of Iowa's International Writing Program with Paul Engle in 1967; her novel Mulberry and Peach won the 1990 American Book Award.
Niq Mhlongo
Niq Mhlongo, born 1973 in Soweto, is a South African novelist, short story writer, and editor best known for his debut novel Dog Eat Dog (2004).
Nirmal Verma
Nirmal Verma (निर्मल वर्मा, 1929–2005) was an Indian Hindi writer, novelist, and translator, a pioneer of the Nayi Kahani movement who won the Jnanpith Award in 1999 and the Padma Bhushan in 2001.
Niwa Fumio
Niwa Fumio (丹羽文雄, 1904–2005) was a Japanese novelist of the Shōwa era, known for customs novels of love and marriage, war reportage, and Buddhist novels including Shinran.
Njabulo Ndebele
Njabulo Ndebele (Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele), born 1948, is a South African fiction writer, essayist, and academic known for Fools and Other Stories, which won the Noma Award.
Nou Hach
Nou Hach (នូ ហាច, 1916–1975) was a Cambodian novelist from Battambang province, regarded as a founder of modern Khmer literature; his romance Phka Srapon became one of the most famous Khmer novels.
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo, pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (born 1981), is a Zimbabwean novelist twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for We Need New Names and Glory.
O. V. Vijayan
O. V. Vijayan, born Oottupulackal Velukkutty Vijayan, was an Indian Malayalam novelist and political cartoonist (1930–2005) whose debut novel Khasakkinte Ithihasam (1969) is treated as a dividing line in Malayalam fiction.
Oh Jung-hee
Oh Jung-hee (오정희, born 1947) is a South Korean novelist whose fiction centers on women's psychology, alienation, and female identity, winning both the Yi Sang and Dong-in Literary Awards.
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum
Olympe Bhêly-Quenum is a Beninese novelist, short-story writer, and journalist born in Ouidah in the late 1920s, best known for his first novel Un piège sans fin (1960).