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Bessie Head
Bessie Head (Bessie Amelia Emery Head) was a South African-born novelist exiled in Botswana, known for the novels When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, and A Question of Power.
Bhabendra Nath Saikia
Bhabendra Nath Saikia (ভবেন্দ্ৰনাথ শইকীয়া) was an Assamese novelist, short story writer, playwright, and film director from Assam, India, who won the 1976 Sahitya Akademi Award and a Rajat Kamal for each of his seven films.
Bhagabati Charan Panigrahi
Bhagabati Charan Panigrahi (1908–23 October 1943) was an Odia writer, editor, and political organizer who founded the Nabajuga Sahitya Samsad and pioneered communism in Odisha.
Bhagwati Charan Verma
Bhagwati Charan Verma (भगवतीचरण वर्मा; 1903–1981) was a Hindi novelist, playwright, and poet best known for Chitralekha, and a winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Bhushan.
Bhagwati Kumar Sharma
Bhagwatikumar Sharma (ભગવતીકુમાર શર્મા) was an Indian writer and journalist who wrote in Gujarati and won the 1988 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Asooryalok.
Bhalchandra Nemade
Bhalchandra Nemade (भालचंद्र नेमाडे) is a Marathi novelist, poet, and critic known for Kosala (1963) and for formulating the literary theory of nativism, or deshivad.
Bhisham Sahni
Bhisham Sahni (भीष्म साहनी) was an Indian Hindi writer, playwright, and actor best known for the novel Tamas, an account of the Partition of India, and received the Padma Bhushan in 1998.
Bi Shumin
Bi Shumin (毕淑敏, born 1952) is a Chinese novelist, essayist, and former army physician whose novels include Red Prescription, Blood Ruby, and The Woman Psychologist.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়)
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়), also anglicised Banerjee, 1894–1950, Bengali novelist of Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Aranyak and Chander Pahar; posthumous 1951 Rabindra Prize for Ichhamati.
Bienvenido Santos
Bienvenido Santos (1911–1996) was a Filipino novelist, short story writer, and poet whose work chronicles Filipino exile in America; his collection Scent of Apples won the 1980 American Book Award.
Bilge Karasu
Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) was a Turkish writer known for experimental, densely symbolic fiction treating loneliness, fear, and death; his novel Gece (Night) won the Pegasus Literature Award.
Bimal Mitra
Bimal Mitra (বিমল মিত্র, 1912–1991) was an Indian Bengali writer of novels and short stories in Bengali and Hindi, best known for Saheb Bibi Golam.
Binapani Mohanty
Binapani Mohanty (Odia: ବୀଣାପାଣି ମହାନ୍ତି; 1936–2022) was an Indian Odia short story writer and novelist whose story "Pata Dei" won the 1990 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924–1997) was an Indian writer in Assamese, the first Assamese author to receive the Jnanpith Award, given in 1979 for his novel Mrityunjay.
Boubacar Boris Diop
Boubacar Boris Diop, born in 1946 in Dakar, is a Senegalese novelist who writes in French and Wolof and won the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Bozorg Alavi
Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی), born Sayyed Mojtabā Alavi, was an Iranian leftist writer and a founder of modern Persian prose fiction, best known for his 1952 novel Her Eyes.
Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta (Florence Onyebuchi Emecheta, 1944–2017) was a Nigerian-born British novelist who wrote about the lives of African women; her best-known books include The Joys of Motherhood.
C. Radhakrishnan
C. Radhakrishnan (സി. രാധാകൃഷ്ണൻ, born 1939) is a Malayalam novelist, science writer, and film director from Kerala whose first novel won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1962.
C. T. Msimang
C. T. Msimang, born Christian Themba Msimang in 1944, is a South African writer, poet, and linguist noted among Zulu poets, known for novels like Buzani kuMkabayi.
C. V. Raman Pillai
C. V. Raman Pillai (സി.വി. രാമൻപിള്ള; 1858–1922) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote in Malayalam. Known as the "Scott of Malayalam," he introduced the historical novel to Malayalam with Marthanda Varma (1891).
Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu, full name Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu, was a Brazilian writer and journalist, born in 1948 and best known for the landmark story collection Morangos mofados (1982).
Calixthe Beyala
Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian-born novelist writing in French who has published close to twenty works since 1987 and won the Académie française grand prix in 1996.
Camara Laye
Camara Laye (1928–1980) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French, known for L'Enfant noir (1953) and Le Regard du roi (1954), seminal works of African fiction.
Can Themba
Can Themba (1924–1967) was a South African teacher, journalist, and short story writer, a leading figure of Drum magazine and author of the celebrated story "The Suit".
Can Xue
Can Xue (残雪) is the pen name of a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer, active since 1985, known for surrealist, dream-like novels that earned her the label "China's Kafka".
Carl de Souza
Carl de Souza, born 1949 in Rose Hill, Mauritius, is a Mauritian novelist writing in French whose fiction explores identity and intercommunal tension in postcolonial Mauritius.
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías (1928–2012), Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat of the Latin American Boom; author of La región más transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Aura, and Terra Nostra; Cervantes Prize 1987, never awarded the Nobel.
Carlos Heitor Cony
Carlos Heitor Cony (1926–2018) was a Brazilian writer and journalist from Rio de Janeiro, author of Quase Memória and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Carlos Luis Fallas
Carlos Luis Fallas, known as Calufa (1909–1966), was a Costa Rican novelist and communist activist whose protest novels Mamita Yunai and Marcos Ramírez made him the leading writer of the Generación del 40.
Carlos María Ocantos
Carlos María Ocantos (1860–1949) was an Argentine novelist and diplomat who published twenty realist novels as Novelas argentinas, joined the Real Academia Española in 1897, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1943.