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Ashapurna Devi
Ashapurna Devi (আশাপূর্ণা দেবী; 1909–1995) was an Indian Bengali novelist who received the Jnanpith Award in 1976 and is best known for the Satyabati trilogy of feminist novels.
Ashokamitran
Ashokamitran (அசோகமித்திரன்), born Tyagarajan in 1931 in Secunderabad, was a Tamil novelist and short story writer who won the 1996 Sahitya Akademi award; he died in 2017.
Assia Djebar
Assia Djebar (1936–2015), pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, was an Algerian novelist and filmmaker who wrote on Algerian women and in 2005 became the first North African member of the Académie française.
Astrid Roemer
Astrid Roemer (1947–2026) was a Surinamese-Dutch writer of novels, poetry, and drama, best known for her decolonization trilogy Onmogelijk moederland and as the first Surinamese winner of Dutch literature's highest awards.
Atin Bandyopadhyay
Atin Bandyopadhyay (অতীন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian writer of Bengali literature, born in 1934 in what is now Bangladesh, best known for his Partition novel Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje.
Augusto Guzmán
Augusto Guzmán (Augusto Guzmán Martínez, 1903–1994) was a Bolivian novelist, historian, and literary critic of the Generación Combativa, best known for his Chaco War novel Prisionero de guerra (1937).
Augusto Monterroso
Augusto Monterroso, born José Augusto Monterroso Bonilla, was a Guatemalan writer, master of microfiction, best known for the one-sentence story "El dinosaurio" and exiled in Mexico from 1944.
Augusto Roa Bastos
Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005) was a Paraguayan novelist, considered the most important Paraguayan writer of the twentieth century, known for Yo el Supremo and the 1989 Cervantes Prize.
Austin Clarke (novelist)
Austin Clarke, full name Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke (1934–2016), was a Barbadian-born Canadian novelist and essayist who won the 2002 Giller Prize for The Polished Hoe.
Autran Dourado
Autran Dourado, born Waldomiro Freitas Autran Dourado (1926–2012), was a Brazilian novelist from Minas Gerais known for Ópera dos Mortos and winner of the 2000 Prêmio Camões.
Ayako Sono
Ayako Sono (曽野綾子) was a Japanese Catholic novelist and essayist whose fiction explored war, society, and religion, and who chaired the Nippon Foundation from 1995 to 2005.
Ayi Kwei Armah
Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1939) is a Ghanaian novelist and essayist whose fiction examines colonialism and neocolonialism, most famously in The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968).
Aziz Nesin
Aziz Nesin (Mehmet Nusret Nesin, 1915–1995) was a Turkish humorist, novelist, and publisher, founder of Markopaşa and the Nesin Foundation, author of Zübük and Yaşar Ne Yaşar Ne Yaşamaz.
B. Jeyamohan
B. Jeyamohan (ஜெயமோகன்), born 1962 in Nagercoil, is an Indian Tamil and Malayalam novelist, critic, and screenwriter, known for the 26-volume Mahabharata retelling Venmurasu and films like Ponniyin Selvan and Naan Kadavul.
Bahaa Taher
Bahaa Taher (بهاء طاهر), sometimes transliterated Bahaa Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and translator who won the first Arabic Booker in 2008 for Sunset Oasis, dying in 2022 at 87.
Bahram Sadeghi
Bahram Sadeghi (بهرام صادقی, 1937 to 1985) was an Iranian physician, poet, and modernist fiction writer best known for his novella Malakut (1961), a landmark of twentieth-century Persian fiction.
Baltasar Lopes da Silva
Baltasar Lopes da Silva, who wrote poetry as Osvaldo Alcântara, was a Cape Verdean writer and lawyer who co-founded Claridade in 1936 and wrote the novel Chiquinho (1947).
Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな; real name Yoshimoto Mahoko) is a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo in 1964, best known for her debut Kitchen (1987) and fiction about loss and healing, published in over 30 countries.
Banaphool
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, best known by his pen name Banaphool, was an Indian Bengali writer and physician who wrote hundreds of short stories, novels, and plays.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়)
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়), was an Indian Bengali novelist born in 1838 whose Anandamath contains Vande Mataram.
Bảo Ninh
Bảo Ninh (Hoàng Ấu Phương, born 1952) is a Vietnamese novelist, author of Nỗi buồn chiến tranh (The Sorrow of War), translated into about 20 languages, winner of the 1994 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and 2016 Simhun Prize.
Bapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa (1938-2024), Pakistani Parsi novelist, author of Cracking India (Ice-Candy-Man) and The Crow Eaters; wrote five novels on Partition, Parsi identity, and women, adapted by Deepa Mehta.
Barış Bıçakçı
Barış Bıçakçı (born 1966, Adana) is a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and translator whose plain, minimalist fiction is set almost entirely in Ankara, making him closely identified with the capital in contemporary Turkish literature.
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a Franco-Rwandan writer of novels, short stories, and poetry whose work centers on the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, memory, and exile between generations.
Beatriz Guido
Beatriz Guido (1922–1988) was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter whose political novels made her one of Argentina's most widely read writers of the 1950s to 1970s.
Ben Okri
Ben Okri, born in Nigeria in 1959, is a Nigerian-born British novelist and poet whose novel The Famished Road won the 1991 Booker Prize, making him its first Black and youngest winner.
Benito Lynch
Benito Lynch (Benito Eduardo Lynch) was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer of gauchesca literature, known for Los caranchos de La Florida and El inglés de los güesos.
Berdi Kerbabaev
Berdi Kerbabaev, born in 1894, was a Soviet Turkmen writer, poet, and playwright regarded as a founder of Soviet-era Turkmen literature, best known for the historical novel The Decisive Step.
Bernard Dadié
Bernard Dadié (1916–2019) was an Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and folklorist regarded as the father of Ivorian literature, whose Climbié (1956) was the first Ivorian novel.
Bernardo Carvalho
Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for Nove noites (2002) and Mongólia (2003), which build detective-like investigations around travel, archives, and unstable narration.