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Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga, born in 1959 in what was then Southern Rhodesia, is a Zimbabwean writer and film-maker whose 1988 novel Nervous Conditions was the first in English by a Zimbabwean woman.
Twinkle Khanna (ट्विंकल खन्ना)
Twinkle Khanna (ट्विंकल खन्ना), also Tina Jatin Khanna, Indian former actress, columnist and author, daughter of Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, wife of Akshay Kumar; wrote Mrs Funnybones, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, Pyjamas Are Forgiving, Welcome to Paradise.
U. A. Khader
U. A. Khader (യു.എ. ഖാദർ), full name Ussangaantakathu Abdul Khader, was an Indian Malayalam writer of fiction about rural Malabar, known for Thrikkottur Peruma; he died in 2020.
U. R. Ananthamurthy
U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932–2014) was an Indian writer, critic, and professor who pioneered the Navya modernist movement in Kannada literature and won the Jnanpith Award in 1994.
Uanhenga Xitu
Uanhenga Xitu, pen name of Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho (1924–2014), was an Angolan writer and MPLA politician whose best-known work, "Mestre" Tamoda (1974), satirized colonial assimilation.
Uday Prakash
Uday Prakash (उदय प्रकाश, born 1952) is a Hindi short-story writer, novelist, poet, and essayist known for Mohandas, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010.
Umar Kayam
Umar Kayam (1932–2002) was an Indonesian writer, sociologist, and cultural authority who wrote acclaimed fiction on Javanese society and served under the New Order government.
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa is the pen name of Mozambican writer Francisco Esaú Cossa, born in 1957, whose debut novel Ualalapi (1987) is among the most influential works of modern African fiction.
Unni R.
Unni R. (ഉണ്ണി ആർ.) is the pen name of P. Jayachandran, an Indian writer born in 1971 in Kudamaloor, Kerala, who writes Malayalam short stories and film screenplays.
Uno Kōji
Uno Kōji (宇野浩二), real name Uno Kakujiro, was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and critic of the Taishō and Shōwa periods, known for Kura no Naka and Ko o Kashiya.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959) is an Indian novelist and retired civil servant of the Indian Administrative Service, best known for his debut novel English, August (1988) and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Upendranath Ashk
Upendranath Ashk (1910–1996) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began in Urdu in Lahore and became a major, controversial figure of 20th-century Hindi literature, best known for Girti Divarein.
Uroob
Uroob (ഉറൂബ്) was the pen name of P. C. Kuttikrishnan (1915–1979), a Malayalam novelist and screenwriter whose novel Sundarikalum Sundaranmarum won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960.
Usha Priyamvada
Usha Priyamvada, pen name of Usha Nilsson, is an Indian-born American Hindi novelist of the Nayi Kahani movement, best known for her first novel, Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein (1961).
V. K. N.
V. K. N., born Vadakke Koottala Narayanankutty Nair, was a Malayalam writer known for highbrow satire, and won the Sahitya Akademi Award before dying in 2004.
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (വൈക്കം മുഹമ്മദ് ബഷീർ)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (വൈക്കം മുഹമ്മദ് ബഷീർ, 1908-1994), the 'Beypore Sultan', was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and freedom fighter; author of Premalekhanam, Balyakalasakhi, Mathilukal, and Pathummayude Aadu, and Padma Shri recipient in 1982.
Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli, born in Mexico City in 1983, is a Mexican writer whose novels and essays on migration and borders include Tell Me How It Ends and Lost Children Archive.
Vannadasan
Vannadasan (வண்ணதாசன்), pen name of S. Kalyanasundaram, is a Tamil short story writer and poet, born in 1946 in Tirunelveli, who won the 2016 Sahitya Akademi Award for Oru Siru Isai.
Varsha Adalja
Varsha Adalja (વર્ષા અડાલજા), born 1940, is an Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, and editor, a pioneering feminist voice who won the 1995 Sahitya Akademi Award for Ansar.
Ventura García Calderón
Ventura García Calderón (1886–1959) was a Peruvian novelist, short-story writer, and diplomat who spent most of his life in Paris; his most emblematic work is La venganza del cóndor (1924).
Vicente Riva Palacio
Vicente Riva Palacio (1832–1896) was a Mexican writer, historian, and general known for his colonial-era historical novels and for directing México a través de los siglos.
Víctor Manuel Rendón
Víctor Manuel Rendón (1859–1940) was an Ecuadorian doctor, diplomat, and writer known for the French-language novel Lorenzo Cilda; he was nominated for the 1935 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup is a retired Indian diplomat and novelist, best known for Q & A (2005), the novel adapted into the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
Vikram Chandra (novelist)
Vikram Chandra, Indian-born novelist (Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Love and Longing in Bombay, Sacred Games) and author of Geek Sublime; Sacred Games became Netflix's first Indian original series, 2018, with Chandra as executive producer.
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth (विक्रम सेठ), Indian poet and novelist born 1952 in Calcutta, author of the sonnet-novel The Golden Gate and the 1,349-page epic A Suitable Boy; also wrote An Equal Music, From Heaven Lake, and Two Lives.
Virgilio Rodríguez Macal
Virgilio Rodríguez Macal (1916–1964) was a Guatemalan writer, journalist, and diplomat known for criollista novels set in the Petén jungle, including La mansión del pájaro serpiente.
Vishnu Prabhakar
Vishnu Prabhakar (विष्णु प्रभाकर, 1912 to 2009) was a Hindi writer of novels, plays, and biographies, best known for Aawara Masiha and the award-winning Ardhanarisvara.
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, known as V. S. Khandekar, was a Marathi writer who became the first Marathi author to win the Jnanpith Award, for his novel Yayati.
Vũ Trọng Phụng
Vũ Trọng Phụng (1912–1939) was a Vietnamese writer and journalist, a leading realist figure best known for the satirical novels Số đỏ (Dumb Luck) and Trúng số độc đắc.
Vyankatesh Madgulkar
Vyankatesh Madgulkar (व्यंकटेश माडगूळकर; 1927–2001) was a Marathi writer and screenwriter from Maharashtra, known for rural fiction, the novel Bangarwadi, and the 1983 Sahitya Akademi award for Sattantar.