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Dina Salústio
Dina Salústio, pseudonym of Bernardina de Oliveira Salústio, is a Cape Verdean writer born in 1941, the first Cape Verdean woman to publish a novel.
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu is an Ethiopian-American novelist and journalist, born in Addis Ababa in 1978, who won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012 and wrote four novels about African exiles and refugees.
Dokmai Sot
Dokmai Sot (ดอกไม้สด) was the pen name of Mom Luang Buppha Kunchon, a Thai novelist of the 1920s to 1940s counted among the pioneers of the modern Thai novel.
Domingos Olímpio
Domingos Olímpio was a Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and novelist born in Sobral, Ceará, whose naturalist novel Luzia-Homem (1903), drawn from the drought of 1877, secured his literary reputation.
Domingos Pellegrini
Domingos Pellegrini, full name Domingos Pellegrini Júnior, is a Brazilian writer born in Londrina in 1949, a six-time Jabuti winner best known for the novel Terra Vermelha.
Dudhnath Singh
Dudhnath Singh (दूधनाथ सिंह, 1936–2018) was a leading Hindi writer, critic, and editor known for the novels Aakhiri Kalam and Nishkasan and the critical study Nirala: Atmahanta Aastha.
Dung Kai-cheung
Dung Kai-cheung (董啟章, born 1967) is a Hong Kong fiction writer whose novels, including the V City series and Natural History trilogy, reconstruct Hong Kong through fictional archaeology.
Earl Lovelace
Earl Lovelace, born 1935 in Toco, Trinidad, is a Trinidadian novelist, playwright, and essayist known for The Dragon Can't Dance and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Eden Robinson
Eden Robinson (born Vicki Lena Robinson, 1968) is a Canadian novelist of Haisla and Heiltsuk ancestry, known for Monkey Beach (2000) and the Trickster trilogy adapted for television in 2020.
Edgar Mittelholzer
Edgar Mittelholzer (1909–1965) was a Guyanese novelist, born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, the first Caribbean writer to earn his living from writing and author of 23 novels.
Edmond Amran El Maleh
Edmond Amran El Maleh (إدمون عمران المالح, 1917–2010) was a Moroccan Jewish writer, journalist, and Communist activist who wrote in French, publishing his first novel at about age 60.
Eduardo Caballero Calderón
Eduardo Caballero Calderón (1910–1993) was a Colombian novelist, essayist, and journalist whose work centered on Tipacoque, Boyacá; his novels include El Cristo de espaldas and Siervo sin tierra.
Eduardo Gutiérrez
Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851–1889) was an Argentine novelist and journalist whose serialized gaucho novels, especially Juan Moreira, Santos Vega, and Hormiga Negra, made him Argentina's leading popular writer.
Eduardo Mallea
Eduardo Mallea was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and diplomat who directed the literary supplement of La Nación and wrote the influential essay Historia de una pasión argentina (1937).
Edwar al-Kharrat
Edwar al-Kharrat (إدوار الخراط) was an Egyptian novelist, critic, and translator best known for Rama and the Dragon and for formulating the 'New Sensibility' concept in Arabic literature.
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing) was a Chinese novelist and essayist of 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong, known for The Golden Cangue and Love in a Fallen City.
Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran
Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran (1859–1938) was an Icelandic writer, journalist, editor, and leading spiritualist, a pioneer of naturalism in Icelandic literature and a Nobel Prize nominee in 1923 and 1924.
Eka Kurniawan
Eka Kurniawan is an Indonesian novelist whose Beauty Is a Wound and Man Tiger made him the first Indonesian writer nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter who won the 2013 Booker Prize for The Luminaries, the youngest winner ever at age 28.
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) was a Nigerian author and soldier best known for novels of pre-colonial village life, above all his debut novel The Concubine (1966), which sold nearly half a million copies.
Elena Garro
Elena Garro, born Elena Delfina Garro Navarro (1916–1998), was a Mexican novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose first novel, Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963), became an early landmark of magical realism.
Elias Farkouh
Elias Farkouh (إلياس فركوح; 1948–2020) was a Jordanian novelist, short-story writer, and publisher whose novel Ard al-Yambous was shortlisted for the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008.
Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury (إيلياس خوري, 1948–2024) was a Lebanese novelist and public intellectual, one of the leading Arab writers of his generation, best known for Gate of the Sun (1998).
Elin Pelin
Elin Pelin (Елин Пелин), pen name of Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov, was a Bulgarian short-story master born in 1877 who chronicled village life in works like Geratsite and Land.
Elsa Joubert
Elsa Joubert, born Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (1922–2020), was a South African Afrikaans writer best known for the anti-apartheid novel Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena.
Emile Habibi
Emile Habibi (إميل حبيبي, 1922–1996) was a Palestinian writer and politician who stayed in Haifa after 1948, served in the Knesset, and wrote al-Mutasha'il, ranked sixth among the best hundred Arabic novels.
Emilio Rabasa
Emilio Rabasa (1856–1930) was a Mexican novelist, jurist, and politician who wrote under the pen name Sancho Polo and helped introduce realism into the Mexican novel.
Emmanuel Dongala
Emmanuel Boundzeki Dongala, born 1941, is a Congolese chemist and novelist who taught at the University of Brazzaville, fled the 1997 civil war to the United States, and wrote Johnny Mad Dog.
Enrique Amorim
Enrique Amorim (1900–1960) was a Uruguayan novelist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter whose fiction centered on rural society of the Río de la Plata; his best-known novel is La carreta.
Enrique Anderson Imbert
Enrique Anderson Imbert (1910–2000) was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic best known for his 1954 Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana and fantastic fiction.