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Rahi Masoom Raza
Rahi Masoom Raza (1927–1992), born Syed Masoom Reza Abedi, was an Indian Urdu and Hindi novelist and screenwriter best known for Aadha Gaon and Mahabharat.
Raja Alem
Raja Alem (رجاء عالم) is a Saudi novelist and playwright from Mecca whose symbolic fiction centers on Mecca itself. In 2011 she was the first woman to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Raja Rao
Raja Rao (1908–2006), Indian novelist of Kanthapura and The Serpent and the Rope, pioneer of Indian writing in English; Vedanta-inflected fiction, Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Bhushan, 1988 Neustadt Prize.
Rajam Krishnan
Rajam Krishnan (ராஜம் கிருஷ்ணன், 1925–2014) was an Indian Tamil writer who wrote more than forty novels and won the 1973 Sahitya Akademi Award for Verukku Neer.
Rajani Kanta Bordoloi
Rajani Kanta Bordoloi (ৰজনীকান্ত বৰদলৈ, 1867–1939) was an Assamese novelist and journalist, honored as Upanyas Samrat and the Scott of Assam, whose nine novels include Miri Jiyori and Manomati.
Rajendra Yadav
Rajendra Yadav (राजेन्द्र यादव, 1929–2013) was a Hindi novelist, critic, and editor of Hans, best known for the novel Sara Akash and the Nayi Kahani movement.
Rajinder Singh Bedi
Rajinder Singh Bedi (راجندر سنگھ بیدی; 1915–1984) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer ranked second only to Manto, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for Ek Chadar Maili Si.
Ram Sarup Ankhi
Ram Sarup Ankhi (ਰਾਮ ਸਰੂਪ ਅਣਖੀ; 1932–2010) was a Punjabi writer, poet, and novelist who won the 1987 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Kothe Kharak Singh.
Ramanlal Desai
Ramanlal Vasantlal Desai (રમણલાલ દેસાઈ; 1892–1954) was a Gujarati novelist, playwright, and poet of the Gandhian era who wrote about 68 books, including the popular novel Divyachakshu.
Ramapada Chowdhury
Ramapada Chowdhury (রমাপদ চৌধুরী; 1922–2018) was an Indian Bengali novelist and editor known for novels such as Kharij and Banpalashir Padabali, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.
Ramesh Bikal
Ramesh Bikal (रमेश विकल), born Rameshwar Prasad Chalise (1928–2008), was a Nepali short story writer, novelist, and playwright known for social realism; he won the Madan Puraskar in 1962.
Ranjit Desai
Ranjit Desai (रणजित देसाई, 1928–1992) was a Marathi novelist, short-story writer, and playwright from Maharashtra, India, whose historical novels Swami and Shriman Yogi won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri.
Raphaël Confiant
Raphaël Confiant, born 1951 in Le Lorrain, Martinique, is a Martinican writer and academic who co-founded the Créolité movement, signing the 1989 manifesto Éloge de la créolité.
Raul Pompeia
Raul Pompeia (Raul Pompéia), full name Raul de Ávila Pompeia, was a Brazilian Realist and Naturalist novelist and caricaturist, best known for the school novel O Ateneu, published in 1888.
Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) was a Cuban novelist, poet, and playwright who became a prominent critic of Fidel Castro, suffered imprisonment, and died in exile in New York in 1990.
Remy Sylado
Remy Sylado was an Indonesian writer, poet, musician, and actor born in 1945 in Makassar, who pioneered puisi mbeling and wrote more than 50 novels.
René Avilés Fabila
René Avilés Fabila (1940–2016) was a Mexican writer, journalist, and academic known for fantastic tales and political satire, best remembered for the novel El gran solitario de Palacio.
René Philombé
René Philombé was the pen name of Philippe-Louis Ombedé (1930–2001), a Cameroonian novelist, poet, and playwright, paralyzed by polio in 1955, who won the Prix Mottart.
Ricardo Güiraldes
Ricardo Güiraldes (1886–1927) was an Argentine writer, born in Buenos Aires to an aristocratic family, whose novel Don Segundo Sombra (1926) became a classic of gaucho literature.
Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia (Ricardo Emilio Piglia Renzi) was an influential Argentine novelist and literary critic whose novels include Respiración artificial (1980), Plata quemada (1997), and Blanco nocturno (2010).
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan, born in Tasmania in 1961, is an Australian novelist who won the 2014 Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Richard Rive
Richard Moore Rive was a South African short-story writer and teacher in Cape Town who wrote against apartheid and authored the 1986 novel 'Buckingham Palace', District Six.
Richard Wagamese
Richard Wagamese (1955–2017) was an Ojibway Canadian novelist, journalist, and storyteller from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Ontario, best known for his 2012 novel Indian Horse.
Rieko Matsuura
Rieko Matsuura (松浦理英子, born 1958) is a Japanese novelist from Matsuyama known for fiction about sex, the body, and gender, including The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P.
Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt (1900–1942) was an Argentine novelist, playwright, and journalist whose raw, colloquial prose portrayed alienated characters in Buenos Aires in novels like Los siete locos and El juguete rabioso.
Roberto Burgos Cantor
Roberto Burgos Cantor (1948–2018) was a Colombian novelist from Cartagena, known for La ceiba de la memoria and winner of the 2018 Premio Nacional de Novela.
Roberto J. Payró
Roberto J. Payró (Roberto Jorge Payró, 1867–1928) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and playwright whose ironic fiction and La Nación reporting made him a founder of national theater.
Rodolfo Teófilo
Rodolfo Teófilo, full name Rodolfo Marcos Teófilo, was a Brazilian pharmacist, novelist, and sanitarian in Ceará who led a private smallpox vaccination campaign and wrote the Naturalist novel A Fome (1890).
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Rodrigo Rey Rosa (born 1958, Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan novelist, short-story writer, and filmmaker, mentored by Paul Bowles and known for El material humano and Cárcel de árboles.
Roger Mais
Roger Mais was a Jamaican journalist, novelist, poet, playwright, and painter, born in Kingston in 1905 and celebrated as a critic of British colonial rule in Jamaica.