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W. A. Silva
W. A. Silva, full name Wellawattearachchige Abraham Silva (1890–1957), was a Sinhala novelist and journalist from Colombo whose romances and historical novels made him a first best-selling popularizer of the Sinhala novel.
Wang Anyi
Wang Anyi (王安忆, born 1954) is a Chinese novelist, essayist, and Fudan University professor whose Shanghai fiction, especially The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, won the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Wang Chen-ho
Wang Chen-ho (王禎和, 1940–1990) was a Taiwanese novelist from Hualien known for comic stories of small-town people, written in a mix of Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, English, and Japanese.
Wang Shuo
Wang Shuo (王朔, born 1958) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter whose comic, colloquial fiction about disaffected Beijing youth, labeled "hooligan literature," made him famous and controversial.
Wang Wen-hsing
Wang Wen-hsing (王文興; 1939–2023) was a Taiwanese modernist novelist who co-founded Modern Literature, taught at National Taiwan University for four decades, and became known for writing only 20 to 30 characters a day.
Wang Zengqi
Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺, 1920–1997) was a Chinese writer of fiction, essays, and drama, a disciple of Shen Congwen whose 1980 story Receiving the Rule won wide readership.
Waryam Singh Sandhu
Waryam Singh Sandhu (ਵਰਿਆਮ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੰਧੂ; born 1945) is an Indian author of Punjabi short stories, known for Chauthi Koot, which won the 2000 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Wen Kang
Wen Kang (文康) was a Qing dynasty Manchu bannerman novelist, author of Ernü Yingxiong zhuan (The Story of Heroic Sons and Daughters), first printed in 1878.
Williams Sassine
Williams Sassine (1944–1997) was a Guinean novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and satirical journalist writing in French; after 26 years of exile he became a columnist at the satirical weekly Le Lynx.
Wilson Harris
Wilson Harris, born Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018), was a Guyanese novelist, poet, and critic, a former land surveyor whose experimental fiction, including the Guyana Quartet, departed from realism.
Witi Ihimaera
Witi Ihimaera, born in 1944, is a New Zealand writer of Māori descent, the first Māori author to publish a story collection, Pounamu, Pounamu, and a novel.
Wong Bik-wan
Wong Bik-wan (黄碧云; Huang Biyun), born in Hong Kong in 1961, is a Hong Kong novelist, essayist, and former journalist who won the 2014 Dream of the Red Chamber Award.
Wu Cheng'en
Wu Cheng'en (吴承恩, c. 1500–1582, courtesy name Ruzhong) was a Ming-dynasty novelist and minor official from Huai'an, Jiangsu, conventionally credited as the author of Journey to the West.
Wu Ming-yi
Wu Ming-yi (吳明益, born 1971) is a Taiwanese novelist, essayist, and professor at National Dong Hwa University, known for The Man with the Compound Eyes and The Stolen Bicycle.
Wu Zhuoliu
Wu Zhuoliu (吳濁流; born Wu Jiantian, 1900–1976) was a Hakka Taiwanese novelist and poet best known for Orphan of Asia, the first novel to explore Taiwanese identity under colonial rule.
Wu Zuxiang
Wu Zuxiang (吴组缃; 1908–1994) was a Chinese writer and literary scholar from Anhui, known for 1930s realist stories of rural life and Red Chamber scholarship.
Xi Xi
Xi Xi (西西), pen name of Cheung Yin, was a Hong Kong writer of fiction, poetry, and essays whose 1975 novel My City is widely treated as a classic of Hong Kong literature.
Xiao Jun
Xiao Jun, original name Liu Honglin, was a Chinese novelist and leading member of the Northeast Writers Group, best known for The Village in August (1935).
Xiao Sa
Xiao Sa (萧飒), born in 1953, is the pen name of Taiwanese novelist Hsiao Ching-yu, a leading figure of 1980s women's literature known for realist fiction about urban women and marriage.
Xu Dishan
Xu Dishan (许地山), pen name Luohuasheng, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and religious scholar who co-founded the Literary Research Association and became the first Chinese professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Xu Huaizhong
Xu Huaizhong (徐怀中, 1929–2023) was a Chinese military writer and major general whose novel Qianfeng Ji won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2019, when he was about ninety.
Xu Xiaobin
Xu Xiaobin (徐小斌) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter best known for her 1998 novel Yushe, Feathered Serpent, which follows five generations of women from the late Qing onward.
Y. B. Mangunwijaya
Y. B. Mangunwijaya (1929–1999), widely known as Romo Mangun, was an Indonesian Catholic priest, architect, and writer, author of the novel Burung-Burung Manyar and winner of the 1992 Aga Khan Award.
Yahya Haqqi
Yahya Haqqi (يحيى حقي; 1905–1992) was an Egyptian writer and diplomat, a pioneer of the modern Arabic short story best known for the novella Qandil Umm Hashim.
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889–1974) was a Turkish novelist, journalist, and diplomat, a leading figure of early Republican Turkish literature whose novels trace Turkish society from the late Ottoman era to the 1950s.
Yambo Ouologuem
Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017) was a Malian writer whose first novel, Le Devoir de violence, won the 1968 Prix Renaudot, the first awarded to an African writer.
Yan Geling
Yan Geling (严歌苓), born 1958, is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter whose fiction about Chinese women in historical upheaval was adapted into films including The Flowers of War and Youth.
Yang Kui
Yang Kui (楊逵), born Yang Gui, was a Taiwanese novelist, editor, and social activist who led left-wing literature in Japanese-ruled Taiwan; his story "The Newspaper Boy" was the first by a Taiwanese writer recognized in Japan.
Yang Mo
Yang Mo (杨沫), born Yang Chengye, was a Chinese novelist and screenwriter whose 1958 novel Song of Youth became one of China's most widely read red classics.
Yang Shuang-zi (杨若慈)
Yang Shuang-zi (楊双子), pen name of Yang Jo-tzu (楊若慈, born 1984), Taiwanese writer of historical yuri fiction; twin sister Yang Jo-hui died 2015. Known for Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄), winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature and 2026 International Booker Prize with translator Lin King.