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Zee Edgell
Zee Edgell, born Zelma Inez Tucker in 1940, is a Belizean novelist whose debut Beka Lamb (1982) was the first novel of newly independent Belize to reach an international audience.
Zeng Pu
Zeng Pu (曾朴, 1872–1935) was a Chinese novelist, translator, and publisher, best known for the historical novel Niehai Hua, one of four late Qing condemnation novels Lu Xun identified.
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghe'i
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghe'i (زینالعابدین مراغهای, 1839–1910) was an Iranian satirist in Ottoman exile whose Travelogue of Ibrahim Beg is regarded as the first modern Persian novel and helped prepare opinion for the Constitutional Revolution.
Zhang Chengzhi
Zhang Chengzhi (张承志, born 1948) is a Chinese writer of Hui Muslim descent, author of Black Steed and History of the Soul and a founder of the Red Guards.
Zhang Guixing
Zhang Guixing (张贵兴, born 1956) is a Malaysian Chinese novelist based in Taiwan, known for novels set in the Borneo rainforest such as Elephant Herd.
Zhang Henshui
Zhang Henshui (张恨水; born Zhang Xinyuan, 1895 to 1967) was a Chinese novelist and newspaperman whose serialized chapter-form novels made him one of the Republican era's most widely read writers.
Zhang Xianliang
Zhang Xianliang (张贤亮, December 1936 – 2014) was a Chinese writer of labor-camp novels such as Half of Man Is Woman, and later founded the Zhenbeipu Western Film Studio.
Zhang Xinxin
Zhang Xinxin (张辛欣, born 1953) is a Chinese writer and director known for the controversial 1981 story On the Same Horizon and the oral-history work Beijing Ren.
Zhao Shuli
Zhao Shuli (赵树理, 1906–1970) was a Chinese novelist and short-story writer from Shanxi whose rural fiction, notably Little Erhei's Marriage of 1943, made him the model author of the Yan'an literary policy.
Zhong Lihe
Zhong Lihe (鍾理和) was a Taiwanese Hakka novelist and essayist, 1915 to 1960, called the Father of Nativist Literature, best known for Lishan Farm and Rain.
Zhong Zhaozheng
Zhong Zhaozheng (鍾肇政, 1925–2020), Hakka novelist of Longtan, Taoyuan, pioneer of the Taiwanese river novel with Turbidity Trilogy and Taiwanese Trilogy, founder of Wenyou Tongxun, editor of Taiwan Literary Arts, called Mother of Taiwanese Literature.
Zhou Dafu
Zhou Dafu is a Chinese novelist and retired army writer from Dengzhou, Henan, who won the 2008 Mao Dun Literature Prize for Lake Light and Mountain Color.
Zhou Erfu
Zhou Erfu (周而复, born Zhou Zushi, 1914–2004) was a Chinese novelist and calligrapher, best known for the four-part novel Morning in Shanghai about the socialist transformation of Shanghai's capitalist industry.
Zhou Libo
Zhou Libo (周立波) was a Chinese socialist-realist novelist from Yiyang, Hunan, whose 1948 novel The Hurricane, on land reform, won the Stalin Literature Prize; his 1957 Great Changes in a Mountain Village depicted agricultural cooperativization.
Zoë Wicomb
Zoë Wicomb (1948–2025) was a South African writer and academic whose fiction and essays explored colored identity, shame, and apartheid's repressed histories; she won the 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize.
Zong Pu
Zong Pu (宗璞) is the pen name of Chinese writer Feng Zhongpu, born 1928, daughter of philosopher Feng Youlan and author of the novel cycle Wild Gourd Prelude.
Zoya Pirzad
Zoya Pirzad (زویا پیرزاد, born 1952) is an Iranian-Armenian novelist and translator whose debut novel I Will Turn Off the Lights became a bestseller in Iran.