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Chu Tien-wen
Chu Tien-wen (朱天文), born 1956 in Taipei, is a Taiwanese writer and screenwriter, the principal screenwriter for director Hou Hsiao-hsien, including A City of Sadness, which won the Golden Lion at Venice.
Cíntia Moscovich
Cíntia Moscovich, born 1958 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is a Brazilian writer and teacher of literary creation known for short fiction combining subtle humor and melancholy with Jewish and female themes.
Cirilo Villaverde
Cirilo Villaverde (1812–1894) was a Cuban novelist, journalist, and independence activist, best known for the antislavery novel Cecilia Valdés, completed in New York in 1882.
Ciro Alegría
Ciro Alegría (1909–1967) was a Peruvian novelist of the indigenist school, best known for El mundo es ancho y ajeno (Broad and Alien Is the World, 1941).
Clara Obligado
Clara Obligado, born in Buenos Aires in 1950, is an Argentine writer living in Madrid since her 1976 exile, known for short fiction and novels.
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector (Chaya Pinkhasovna Lispector, 1920–1977), Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and journalist of the introspective school; author of Perto do Coração Selvagem, A Paixão Segundo G.H., Água Viva, and A Hora da Estrela.
Coelho Neto
Coelho Neto, full name Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto (1864–1934), was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, journalist, and politician, and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Cola Debrot
Cola Debrot (1902–1981) was a Dutch Antillean writer, poet, physician, and diplomat who served as the first Antillean-born governor of the Netherlands Antilles from 1962 to 1970.
Colette Khoury
Colette Khoury (كوليت خوري) was a Syrian novelist and journalist, granddaughter of prime minister Faris al-Khoury, whose frank debut novel Days with Him (1959) made her a pioneer of Arab feminist literature.
Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough (1937–2015), Australian novelist and neurophysiologist, author of The Thorn Birds (over 30 million copies sold) and the seven-volume Masters of Rome series on the late Roman Republic.
Colonel Muhammad Khan
Colonel Muhammad Khan (کرنل محمد خان) was a Pakistani army officer and leading Urdu humorist whose comic autobiography Bajang Aamad made him famous in 1966.
Cong Weixi
Cong Weixi (从维熙) is a Chinese novelist, born in 1933 in Yutian, Hebei, called the father of "Great Wall literature", fiction about prisons during the Cultural Revolution.
Cristina Peri Rossi
Cristina Peri Rossi, born 1941 in Montevideo, is a Uruguayan writer of fiction, poetry, and essays who has lived in exile in Barcelona since the 1970s and won the Premio Cervantes in 2021.
Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza, born 1964, is a Mexican writer, historian, and critic known for genre-crossing work and for Liliana's Invincible Summer, the memoir that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize.
Cristovão Tezza
Cristovão Tezza (born 1952) is a Brazilian novelist, essayist, and former university professor best known for O filho eterno (2007), which won every major Brazilian literary prize.
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) was a Nigerian novelist, pharmacist, and broadcaster who wrote about urban life, best known for People of the City (1954) and Jagua Nana (1961).
D. O. Fagunwa
D. O. Fagunwa, full name Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa, was a Nigerian novelist, born in 1903, who wrote five pioneering novels of spiritual adventure in the Yorùbá language.
Dalip Kaur Tiwana
Dalip Kaur Tiwana (ਦਲੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਟਿਵਾਣਾ; 1935–2020) was a Punjabi novelist who wrote about women's lives and won the Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Shri.
Dambudzo Marechera
Dambudzo Marechera (Charles William Marechera, 1952–1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet whose stream-of-consciousness debut, The House of Hunger, won the 1979 Guardian Fiction Prize.
Dan Jacobson
Dan Jacobson (1929–2014) was a South African-born novelist, essayist, and critic who lived mostly in Britain, published about 26 books, and taught English at University College London.
Daniachew Worku
Daniachew Worku (Amharic: ዳኛቸው ወርቁ, 1936–1994) was an Ethiopian writer of novels, plays, and poetry in Amharic and English, best known for The Thirteenth Sun (1973).
Daniel Moyano
Daniel Moyano (1930–1992) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and violinist whose fiction centers on marginalization and uprooting in Argentina's provinces; he lived in exile in Madrid after 1976.
Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière, born Windsor Klébert Laferrière in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian-born novelist and essayist in French who joined the Académie française in 2013.
David Malouf
David Malouf (1934–2026) was an Australian novelist, poet, and essayist known for Johnno and Remembering Babylon; he won the Miles Franklin Award twice and the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
David Rubadiri
David Rubadiri (James David Rubadiri, 1930–2018) was a Malawian poet, novelist, academic, and diplomat who served as Malawi's first permanent representative to the United Nations before decades of exile.
David Viñas
David Viñas was an Argentine novelist, essayist, playwright, and literary critic who co-founded the review Contorno in 1953 and read Argentine literature through its political history.
Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Demetrio Aguilera Malta (1909–1981) was an Ecuadorian novelist, playwright, and diplomat, a member of the Grupo de Guayaquil and one of the early practitioners of magical realism in Latin American fiction.
Devibharathi
Devibharathi (தேவிபாரதி) is the pen name of Rajasekaran, a Tamil writer from western Tamil Nadu who won the 2023 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Neervazhi Padooum.
Dhrubajyoti Bora
Dhrubajyoti Bora (ধ্ৰুৱজ্যোতি বৰা), born 1955, is an Assamese writer and medical doctor who won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Katha Ratnakar and served as president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha.
Dhumaketu
Dhumaketu (ધૂમકેતુ, "comet") was the pen name of Gujarati writer Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892–1965), a pioneer of the Gujarati short story who published 24 short-story collections.