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Enrique Jaramillo Levi
Enrique Jaramillo Levi, born 1944 in Colón, Panama, is a Panamanian short-story writer, poet, essayist, and editor, best known for Duplicaciones (1973), written under Juan Rulfo's mentorship.
Enrique López Albújar
Enrique López Albújar (1872–1966) was a Peruvian judge and writer whose Cuentos andinos (1920) began indigenist narrative and whose novel Matalaché (1928) was the first negrista novel of Peru.
Epeli Hauʻofa
Epeli Hauʻofa (1939–2009) was a Tongan writer and anthropologist at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, known for the essay "Our Sea of Islands" and his satirical fiction.
Erico Verissimo
Erico Verissimo (1905–1975) was a Brazilian novelist from Rio Grande do Sul, known for the O tempo e o vento trilogy and Olhai os lírios do campo.
Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and trained physicist whose three novels on solitude include El túnel (1948), and who led the 1984 Nunca Más report.
Es'kia Mphahlele
Es'kia Mphahlele, born Ezekiel Mphahlele in Pretoria in 1919, was a South African writer and teacher whose memoir Down Second Avenue became a landmark of African literature.
Étienne Goyémidé
Étienne Goyémidé (1942–1997) was a Central African novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for the novels Le silence de la forêt and Le dernier survivant de la caravane.
Etienne van Heerden
Etienne van Heerden, born 1954, is a South African novelist and University of Cape Town professor who writes in Afrikaans, best known for his breakthrough novel Toorberg.
Euphrase Kezilahabi
Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020) was a Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar of Swahili literature, a pioneer of free verse whose novel Rosa Mistika was later translated by Yale University Press.
Eustaquio Palacios
José Eustaquio Palacios (1830–1898) was a Colombian writer, lawyer, educator, and journalist from Roldanillo, remembered for the historical novel El Alférez Real (1886), a portrait of colonial society in Santiago de Cali.
Evelio Rosero
Evelio Rosero, full name Evelio José Rosero Diago, is a Colombian novelist born in Bogotá in 1958, known for fiction confronting the violence of Colombia's armed conflict.
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere (عز الدين شكري فشير), born in 1966, is an Egyptian novelist, diplomat, and academic. Three of his ten Arabic novels were nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
F. Sionil José
F. Sionil José (Francisco Sionil José, 1924–2022) was a Filipino novelist and journalist named National Artist for Literature in 2001, best known for the five-novel Rosales Saga.
Fanny Buitrago
Fanny Buitrago is a Colombian novelist, playwright, and storyteller born in Barranquilla in 1946, known for El hostigante verano de los dioses (1963) and Caribbean coast settings.
Fathi Ghanim
Fathi Ghanim, also romanized Fathy Ghanem, was an Egyptian novelist and journalist (1924–1999), best known for his four-voice 1961 novel The Man Who Lost His Shadow.
Fatou Diome
Fatou Diome, born in Senegal in 1968, is a Senegalese writer living in France whose debut novel Le Ventre de l'Atlantique (2003), about migration between Senegal and France, became a bestseller.
Fei Ming
Fei Ming (废名) was the pen name of Feng Wenbing (1901–1967), a Chinese novelist and poet whose lyrical, pastoral fiction, including The Bridge, influenced Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi.
Félix Couchoro
Félix Couchoro (1900–1968) was a novelist and journalist, born in Dahomey and later a Togolese citizen, one of the first African novelists writing in French.
Feng Jicai
Feng Jicai (冯骥才) is a Chinese novelist, painter, and cultural scholar based in Tianjin, known for fiction about Tianjin street life and for leading the rescue of China's folk cultural heritage.
Feng Menglong
Feng Menglong (馮夢龍, 1574–1646) was a Ming dynasty writer, editor, and publisher from Suzhou best known for compiling the Sanyan, three collections of 120 vernacular short stories.
Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (1929–2010) was a Cameroonian novelist and diplomat whose three French-language anticolonial novels of the 1950s, notably Houseboy, are classics of African literature; he later served decades as a diplomat and government minister.
Fernando Sabino
Fernando Sabino (Fernando Tavares Sabino, 1923–2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist from Belo Horizonte, best known for the crônica and the novel O Encontro Marcado.
Fernando Vallejo
Fernando Vallejo, full name Fernando Vallejo Rendón, is a Colombian novelist, essayist, and filmmaker who left Colombia in 1971, known for Our Lady of the Assassins and his critique of Colombian society.
Flavio Herrera
Flavio Herrera (1895–1968) was a Guatemalan novelist, short-story writer, poet, and lawyer of the Generation of 1920, credited with introducing the haikú into Guatemalan literature.
Flora Nwapa
Flora Nwapa, born Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa, was a Nigerian novelist, teacher, and publisher whose debut Efuru (1966) made her the first Nigerian woman novelist to publish in English.
Florent Couao-Zotti
Florent Couao-Zotti, born in 1964 in Pobé, Benin, is a Beninese novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose fiction centers on the streets and margins of Cotonou.
Fogwill
Fogwill was the pen name of Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (1941–2010), an Argentine writer of novels, stories, poetry, and essays, best known for the Malvinas War novel Los pichiciegos.
Francisco Arcellana
Francisco Arcellana (1916–2002) was a Filipino writer, essayist, and teacher who shaped the modern Philippine short story in English and was named National Artist for Literature in 1990.
Francisco Coloane
Francisco Coloane Cárdenas (1910–2002) was a Chilean writer whose fiction centers on Patagonia and the southern oceans, winning the Premio Nacional de Literatura in 1964.
Francisco Espínola
Francisco Espínola, known as Paco Espínola (1901–1973), was a Uruguayan writer, journalist, and teacher, a leading nativismo figure whose novel Sombras sobre la tierra is a classic of the Uruguayan novel.