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Yanick Lahens
Yanick Lahens, born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian novelist and essayist who won the 2014 Prix Femina for her novel Bain de lune.
Yanka Bryl
Yanka Bryl (Янка Брыль), born Ivan Antonavich Bryl (1917–2006), was a Belarusian prose writer and translator who co-authored I Am from the Fiery Village (1975), a foundation of Belarusian documentary literature.
Yashpal
Yashpal (यशपाल, 1903–1976) was an Indian Hindi writer and revolutionary who bombed the Viceroy's train in 1929 and later wrote the acclaimed Partition novel Jhootha Sach.
Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成, 1899–1972), Japanese novelist, first Japanese Nobel Literature laureate (1968), New Sensation school founder, author of Snow Country, The Sound of the Mountain, and The Old Capital; died by gas suicide in 1972.
Yasushi Inoue
Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991) was a Japanese novelist and poet who debuted at 42 and became known for The Hunting Gun, The Roof Tile of Tempyō, and Silk Road novels.
Ye Shitao
Ye Shitao (葉石濤, 1925–2008) was a Taiwanese novelist, literary critic, and historian who wrote the first complete history of Taiwanese literature by a Taiwanese author.
Ye Zi
Ye Zi (叶紫, 1910 or 1912 – 1939) was a Chinese writer from Yiyang, Hunan, associated with the League of Left-Wing Writers and known for fiction about peasant life around Dongting Lake.
Yi Cheong-jun
Yi Cheong-jun (이청준, also romanized Lee Cheong-jun) was a South Korean novelist who wrote more than 100 short stories, known for The Wounded and Your Paradise.
Yi In-jik
Yi In-jik (이인직, 1862–1916), pen name Gukcho, was a Korean novelist and journalist known for Tears of Blood (1906), regarded as the first sinsoseol in Korean literature.
Yi Mun-yol
Yi Mun-yol (이문열, born 1948) is a South Korean novelist whose work examines political power, ideology, and human existence; his best-known works include Our Twisted Hero and The Poet, translated into over 20 countries.
Yi Mun-yong
Yi Mun-yong (이무영, 1908–1960) was a South Korean novelist regarded as a forerunner of farmer literature, known for "Slave to Soil" (1940) and the novel Farmers (1950).
Yi Ok
Yi Ok (이옥, 李鈺; 1760–1815) was a Joseon-dynasty writer of hanmun, Chinese-language prose and verse, who lived in Hanyang (Seoul) and is known for 23 tales and a style King Chŏngjo prohibited.
Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa (小川洋子) is a Japanese novelist, born in 1962 in Okayama Prefecture, best known for The Housekeeper and the Professor and The Memory Police.
Yōko Tawada
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子) is a Japanese writer who publishes in both Japanese and German and has won the Akutagawa Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Yolanda Oreamuno
Yolanda Oreamuno (1916–1956) was a Costa Rican novelist, essayist, and short-story writer whose only novel, La ruta de su evasión, won a Central American prize in 1948.
Yom Sang-seop
Yom Sang-seop (염상섭, 1897–1963) was a Korean novelist and critic who helped establish the realist modern novel in colonial Korea; his masterwork is Three Generations (1931).
Yoshie Hotta
Yoshie Hotta (堀田善衞, 1918–1998) was a Japanese novelist and critic who won the 1952 Akutagawa Prize for Hiroba no Kodoku, drawing on his wartime experience in Shanghai.
Youssef Rakha
Youssef Rakha (يوسف رخا; born 1976) is an Egyptian novelist, poet, and essayist who writes in Arabic and English and authored The Book of the Sultan's Seal.
Yu Hua
Yu Hua (余华, born 1960) is a Chinese novelist from Haiyan, Zhejiang, known for the novels To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and Brothers, translated into more than 40 languages.
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫), born Kimitake Hiraoka, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and essayist known for Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
Yumiko Kurahashi
Yumiko Kurahashi (倉橋由美子) was a Japanese novelist of anti-realist, allegorical fiction whose debut story "Partai" (1960) launched a career of fables and satires mocking postwar ideology.
Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera, or Yuri Herrera-Gutiérrez, is a Mexican novelist born in 1970 in Actopan, Hidalgo, known for his borderlands trilogy and for teaching at Tulane University since 2013.
Yusuf al-Qa'id
Yusuf al-Qa'id (يوسف القعيد), born 1944, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose novel War in the Land of Egypt ranked fourth among the best Arabic novels.
Yusuf Atılgan
Yusuf Atılgan (1921–1989) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of the modernist Turkish novel known for Aylak Adam (1959) and Anayurt Oteli (1973).
Yusuf Idris
Yusuf Idris (يوسف إدريس, 1927–1991) was an Egyptian writer and physician whose stories of ordinary Egyptians made him a founder of the modern Arabic short story.
Yvonne Vera
Yvonne Vera (1964–2005) was a Zimbabwean novelist and short-story writer whose five novels, set across different decades of Zimbabwean history, center women's experience and taboo subjects such as rape and political violence.
Zahida Hina
Zahida Hina (زاہدہ حنا), born 1946 in Sasaram, Bihar, is a Pakistani Urdu short story writer, novelist, and columnist who received the SAARC Literary Award in 2001.
Zakaria Tamer
Zakaria Tamer (زكريا تامر, born 1931 in Damascus) is a Syrian short-story writer, regarded as a leading figure of Arabic short fiction, known for Tigers on the Tenth Day.
Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda, pen name of Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (born 1948), is a South African novelist, playwright, and painter considered among the foremost post-apartheid writers.
Zalman Shneour
Zalman Shneour (זלמן שניאור), born Shneur Zalkind, was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet, novelist, and playwright from Shklov who died in New York in 1959.