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T. Padmanabhan (writer)
T. Padmanabhan (ടി. പദ്മനാഭൻ), born 1931 in Kannur district, Kerala, is an Indian writer who has written only Malayalam short stories, about 200 across seven decades, winning major literary awards.
Tahar Ouettar
Tahar Ouettar (الطاهر وطار, 1936–2010) was an Algerian novelist and dramatist who wrote in Arabic; his 1974 novels al-Laz and al-Zilzal were among the first after independence.
Takeshi Kaiko
Takeshi Kaiko (開高健, 1930–1989) was a Japanese postwar novelist and essayist who won the Akutagawa Prize in 1958 for "The Naked King" and wrote acclaimed Vietnam War novels.
Talip Apaydın
Talip Apaydın (1926–2014) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer whose plain-language fiction depicted the Anatolian village, winning the Madaralı and Orhan Kemal novel awards.
Tamura Toshiko
Tamura Toshiko (田村俊子, 1884–1945), real name Satō Toshiko, was a Japanese novelist, a leading professional woman writer of the Taishō period who later edited the women's magazine Nüsheng in occupied Shanghai.
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; 1898–1971) was a leading Bengali novelist and short-story writer, known as the artist of rural Bengal, who won the 1966 Jnanpith Award for his novel Ganadevata.
Tash Aw
Tash Aw is a Malaysian novelist and essayist, born in 1971 and raised in Kuala Lumpur, whose five novels examine class, migration, and the Chinese diaspora.
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (তসলিমা নাসরিন), born 1962 in Mymensingh, is a Bangladeshi Bengali writer, physician and feminist, author of Lajja, exiled since 1994 and a Sakharov Prize laureate.
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad (توفيق يوسف عواد, 1911–1989) was a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and diplomat counted among the leading Lebanese novelists of the twentieth century, known for al-Raghif and Tawahin Bayrut.
Tayeb Salih
Tayeb Salih (الطيب صالح, 1929–2009) was a Sudanese novelist whose Season of Migration to the North was declared the most important Arabic novel of the 20th century.
Teresa de la Parra
Teresa de la Parra, pen name of Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo, was a Venezuelan novelist best known for Ifigenia (1924) and Las memorias de Mamá Blanca.
Tetsuo Miura
Tetsuo Miura (三浦哲郎, 1931–2010) was a Japanese novelist from Aomori who won the 1961 Akutagawa Prize for Shinobu Kawa, known as Shame in the Blood.
Thạch Lam
Thạch Lam (1909 or 1910 – 1942) was the pen name of Nguyễn Tường Lân, a Vietnamese short-story writer and member of the Tự Lực văn đoàn.
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (തകഴി ശിവശങ്കരപിള്ള), known as Thakazhi after his birthplace, was a Malayalam novelist who portrayed peasants and fisherfolk in Kerala and won the 1984 Jnanpith award.
Thein Pe Myint
Thein Pe Myint (1914–1978) was a Burmese writer, journalist, and politician who wrote the bestselling 1936 novel Modern Monk and founded the Botahtaung newspaper in 1958.
Thomas Head Raddall
Thomas Head Raddall (1903–1994) was a Canadian writer of historical fiction and popular history about Nova Scotia, winning the Governor General's Award three times, twice for non-fiction.
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally, born in 1935, is an Australian novelist and nonfiction writer whose 1982 novel Schindler's Ark won the Booker Prize and inspired Spielberg's Oscar-winning film Schindler's List.
Thomas King
Thomas King (born 1943) is an American-born Canadian novelist, essayist, and broadcaster who has written about Indigenous life in North America; his works include Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water, and The Inconvenient Indian.
Thoppil Mohamed Meeran
Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1944 – 2019) was an Indian writer in Tamil and Malayalam who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997 for his novel Saivu Narkali.
Tie Ning
Tie Ning (铁凝, born 1957) is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer, president of the China Writers Association, known for "Oh, Xiangxue" and the novel Rose Gate.
Tierno Monénembo
Tierno Monénembo, pen name of Thierno Saïdou Diallo, is a Guinean French-language novelist known for novels of exile and dictatorship, winner of the 2008 Prix Renaudot.
Tim Winton
Tim Winton (Timothy John Winton, born 1960) is an Australian novelist and environmentalist from Perth, Western Australia; four-time Miles Franklin winner (Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music, Breath), twice Booker-shortlisted, author of Juice, and leader of the Save Ningaloo Reef campaigns.
Tô Hoài
Tô Hoài (1920–2014), born Nguyễn Sen, was a Vietnamese writer of nearly 200 works, best known for the children's classic The Adventures of a Cricket (1941).
Tokunaga Sunao
Tokunaga Sunao (徳永直, 1899–1958) was a Japanese proletarian writer best known for Taiyo no nai machi (A Street Without Sun, 1929), based on his experience of a printing-plant strike.
Tokutomi Roka
Tokutomi Roka, real name Tokutomi Kenjiro, was a Japanese novelist and essayist of the Meiji and Taisho periods known for Hototogisu and Shizen to Jinsei.
Tologon Kasymbekov
Tologon Kasymbekov (Төлөгөн Касымбеков) was a Kyrgyz writer, People's Writer of Kyrgyzstan and Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic, best known for the historical novel The Broken Sword (1966).
Tomás Carrasquilla
Tomás Carrasquilla was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, regarded as the leading figure of Antioquia's literary tradition and best known for La Marquesa de Yolombó.
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934–2010) was an Argentine novelist, journalist, and Rutgers professor whose novels La novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995) blend history and myth about Peronism.
Toshio Shimao
Toshio Shimao (島尾敏雄; 1917–1986) was a Japanese novelist who drew on his wartime kamikaze service and his wife's mental illness, writing the acclaimed The Sting of Death.
Toshiyuki Horie
Toshiyuki Horie (堀江敏幸, born 1964) is a Japanese writer and scholar of French literature who won the Akutagawa Prize for The Bear and the Paving Stone.