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Amir Hassan Cheheltan
Amir Hassan Cheheltan (امیرحسن چهلتن), born 1956 in Tehran, is an Iranian novelist and essayist known for the Tehran trilogy and The Calligrapher of Isfahan.
Amish Tripathi
Amish Tripathi (born 1974, Bombay), Indian novelist of the Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series, former banker and diplomat; over 8 million copies sold across 21 languages.
Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri is an Indian novelist, essayist, critic, and Hindustani classical vocalist, born in Calcutta in 1962, known for eight novels and his critique of Indian writing in English.
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh, born in Calcutta in 1956, is an Indian writer whose novels and nonfiction explore history, migration, and climate change from a postcolonial perspective.
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar (অমিয়ভূষণ মজুমদার) was an Indian Bengali novelist and short-story writer whose fiction is closely identified with North Bengal, where he lived most of his life.
Amos Oz (עמוס עוז)
Amos Oz (עמוס עוז), born Amos Klausner, was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and professor of literature whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Amos Tutuola
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was a Nigerian novelist who drew his books from Yoruba folklore; The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) made him his country's first internationally recognized writer.
Amrit Rai
Amrit Rai (अमृत राय; 1921–1996) was a Hindi novelist and translator, best known as the son of Premchand and author of the biography Kalam ka Sipahi.
Ana Lydia Vega
Ana Lydia Vega, who also writes as Talía Cuervo, is a Puerto Rican writer born in 1946, known for irony, humor, and stories on Caribbean identity and language.
Ananda Devi
Ananda Devi is a Mauritian novelist and poet who writes in French and won the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, awarded in October 2023.
Anders Bodelsen
Anders Bodelsen (1937–2021) was a Danish author and journalist, a leading realist of the welfare society, whose breakthrough suspense novels came in 1968 and were widely translated and filmed.
André Brink
André Brink (André Philippus Brink, 1935-2015), South African novelist and Die Sestigers figure; author of Kennis van die Aand, the first banned Afrikaans novel, and A Dry White Season.
Andrea Hirata
Andrea Hirata, born in 1967 on Belitung Island, is an Indonesian novelist whose debut Laskar Pelangi (The Rainbow Troops, 2005) sold more than five million copies and became his country's most translated novel.
Andrés Rivera
Andrés Rivera, pen name of Marcos Ribak (1928–2016), was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer known for La revolución es un sueño eterno and El farmer.
Andrew Salkey
Andrew Salkey (1928–1995) was a Caribbean novelist, poet, and broadcaster born in Panama to Jamaican parents. At the BBC he championed West Indian writers and co-founded the Caribbean Artists Movement in London in 1966.
Ángel del Campo
Ángel del Campo (1868–1908), a Mexican writer and journalist who wrote under the pseudonyms Micrós and Tick-Tack, is counted among the leading costumbristas of late nineteenth-century Mexico.
Ángeles Mastretta
Ángeles Mastretta, full name María de los Ángeles Mastretta Guzmán, is a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and journalist born in Puebla in 1949, known for Arráncame la vida and Mal de amores.
Ango Sakaguchi
Ango Sakaguchi (坂口安吾, 1906–1955), real name Sakaguchi Heigo, was a Japanese novelist and essayist in the Buraiha decadent school, best known for his 1946 essay "Discourse on Decadence."
Anita Desai
Anita Desai (Anita Mazumdar, born 1937, Mussoorie) is an Indian novelist writing in English, author of Cry, the Peacock, Clear Light of Day, In Custody, and Fasting, Feasting; three-time Booker shortlistee and mother of Kiran Desai.
Antonio Callado
Antonio Callado (Antônio Carlos Callado) was a Brazilian journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright whose novel Quarup (1967) became a landmark portrait of Brazil's political crisis.
Antônio Sales
Antônio Sales (1868–1940) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist, and politician from Ceará, best known for founding the Padaria Espiritual in 1892 and for the novel Aves de arribação.
Anuradha Sharma Pujari
Anuradha Sharma Pujari (অনুৰাধা শৰ্মা পূজাৰী; born 1964 in Jorhat, Assam) is an Assamese novelist, essayist, and journalist who edits the weekly Sadin and won the 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Anwar Sajjad
Anwar Sajjad (انور سجاد; 1934–2019) was a Pakistani Urdu fiction writer, playwright, and physician, a leading modernist known for symbolic short stories like Gaae and for PTV plays.
Aravind Adiga (ಅರವಿಂದ್ ಅಡಿಗ)
Aravind Adiga (ಅರವಿಂದ್ ಅಡಿಗ), Indian English novelist born 1974 in Madras, former TIME Mumbai correspondent, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut The White Tiger; also wrote Between the Assassinations, Last Man in Tower, Selection Day, and Amnesty.
Arishima Takeo
Arishima Takeo (有島武郎) was a Japanese novelist and essayist of the Shirakaba school, best known for Aru onna; in 1922 he gave his Hokkaido farm to its tenants.
Armijn Pane
Armijn Pane (1908–1970) was an Indonesian writer and journalist who co-founded the magazine Pujangga Baru in 1933 and wrote Belenggu (1940), a landmark of pre-war Indonesian fiction.
Armonía Somers
Armonía Somers was the pen name of Armonía Liropeya Etchepare Locino (1914–1994), a Uruguayan writer whose erotic 1950 novel La mujer desnuda caused an unprecedented scandal.
Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001) was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, and politician considered the leading figure of twentieth-century Venezuelan literature, known for the novel Las lanzas coloradas and the phrase "Sembrar el petróleo."
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy (born 1961, Shillong) is an Indian novelist, essayist, and activist whose debut The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker Prize, sold over 6 million copies, and led to her career in political nonfiction.
Asai Ryōi
Asai Ryōi (浅井了意, ca. 1612–1691) was a Japanese writer and Jōdo Shinshū priest of the early Edo period, best known for the ghost-story collection Otogi-bōko (1666).