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Carlos Reyles
Carlos Reyles was a Uruguayan novelist, essayist, and rancher (1868–1938) whose fiction moved from naturalism to modernismo and the rural novel, with works including Beba, La raza de Caín, and El terruño.
Carmen Naranjo
Carmen Naranjo (1928–2012) was a Costa Rican novelist, poet, and playwright known for Los perros no ladraron (1966), who also served as Costa Rica's Minister of Culture and ambassador to Israel.
Carola Saavedra
Carola Saavedra is a Chilean-born Brazilian novelist, born in Santiago in 1973 and raised in Rio de Janeiro, whose novel Flores azuis won the APCA prize.
Caya Makhélé
Caya Makhélé, pen name of Joseph Makélé, is a Congolese novelist, playwright, and stage director living in France, best known for the prize-winning La Fable du cloître des cimetières.
César Aira
César Aira, born in 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, is a prolific Argentine novelist, translator, dramatist, and essayist with more than one hundred books published since 1981.
Chae Man-sik
Chae Man-sik (채만식, 1902–1950) was a Korean novelist, dramatist, critic, and essayist known for satirical fiction dissecting colonial-era Korean society, including "A Ready-Made Life" and "Peace Under Heaven".
Chandra Sekhar Rath
Chandra Sekhar Rath (ଚନ୍ଦ୍ରଶେଖର ରଥ; 1929–2018) was an Odia-language novelist, essayist, poet, and translator from Odisha, India, whose first novel Yantrarudha (1967) became a significant post-independence work.
Chandradhar Sharma Guleri
Chandradhar Sharma Guleri (चंद्रधर शर्मा गुलेरी, 1883–1922) was a Hindi writer from Jaipur, author of Usne Kaha Tha, widely regarded as the first modern Hindi short story.
Chang Ta-chun
Chang Ta-chun (张大春), born 1957 in Taipei, is a Taiwanese novelist, essayist, and radio storyteller known for realist and postmodern fiction, for The Grand Tang: Li Bai, and for cross-media work including Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster.
Charles Mungoshi
Charles Mungoshi (1947–2019) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short-story writer, poet, and editor who wrote in both Shona and English, known for Waiting for the Rain and two Commonwealth Writers Prizes.
Charu Nivedita
Charu Nivedita (சாரு நிவேதிதா), born 1953 in Tamil Nadu, is a Chennai-based Tamil writer of postmodern, transgressive fiction whose best-known novel, Zero Degree, was published in 1998.
Chaso
Chaso, pen name of Chaganti Somayajulu (1915 to 1994), was a Telugu short story writer who published only about 45 stories yet became a master of the genre.
Cheikh Hamidou Kane
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928–2026) was a Senegalese writer and statesman whose novel L'Aventure ambiguë (1961), a classic of francophone African literature, has been translated into about forty languages.
Chen Duansheng
Chen Duansheng (陳端生, courtesy name Yunzhen, 1751 to about 1796) was a Qing dynasty Chinese woman writer, author of the first seventeen juan of the tanci novel Zaishengyuan.
Chen Ran
Chen Ran (陈染, born 1962 in Beijing) is a Chinese fiction and essay writer whose 1990s novel A Private Life made her a central figure of Chinese women's writing.
Chen Sen
Chen Sen (陈森) was a Qing dynasty novelist of the Daoguang era, author of Pinhua Baojian, a sixty-chapter novel about Beijing actors and the literati who admired them.
Chen Yingzhen
Chen Yingzhen (陳映真), born Chen Yongshan in November 1937, is a Taiwanese writer and publisher, a central figure of postwar left-wing literature and founder of Renjian magazine in 1985.
Chen Zhongshi
Chen Zhongshi (陈忠实, 1942–2016) was a Chinese novelist from Shaanxi Province and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, best known for the novel White Deer Plain.
Chenjerai Hove
Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015) was a Zimbabwean poet, novelist, essayist, and social commentator who wrote in Shona and English; his novel Bones won the 1989 Noma Award.
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत)
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत), born 1974, is an Indian novelist and columnist, author of Five Point Someone, 2 States, and Half Girlfriend, India's bestselling English-language fiction writer with film adaptations like 3 Idiots.
Chi Zijian
Chi Zijian (迟子建, born 1964) is a Chinese novelist from Mohe, Heilongjiang, whose novel The Last Quarter of the Moon won the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977, Enugu, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist and essayist, author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah, and of the TED talk We Should All Be Feminists.
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chinghiz Aitmatov (Чыңгыз Айтматов, Чингиз Айтматов), 1928–2008, Kyrgyz and Russian novelist and diplomat; author of Jamila, The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years; coined mankurt; Lenin Prize laureate.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, 1930–2013), Nigerian novelist and father of modern African literature; author of Things Fall Apart (1958), founding editor of the African Writers Series, and 2007 Man Booker International Prize winner.
Choi In-hun
Choi In-hun (최인훈, 1936–2018) was a South Korean novelist, poet, and professor whose novel The Square (1960) opened a new era in postwar Korean literature.
Chris Abani
Chris Abani, born 1966 in Afikpo, Nigeria, is a Nigerian-born American novelist, poet, and Northwestern University professor whose novel GraceLand (2004) won the PEN/Hemingway Book Prize.
Christina Stead
Christina Stead was an Australian novelist and short story writer best known for The Man Who Loved Children (1940), the 1965 reissue of which brought her international acclaim.
Christopher Hope
Christopher Hope is a South African novelist and poet, born in Johannesburg in 1944, who left South Africa in 1975 and writes satirical fiction about apartheid.
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is a Greek-Australian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, born in Melbourne in 1965, whose fourth novel The Slap sold over one million copies worldwide.
Chu Tien-hsin
Chu Tien-hsin (朱天心, born 1958) is a Taiwanese writer of mainlander descent, sister of Zhu Tianwen, whose fiction on memory and Taipei includes The Old Capital (1997).