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Marcel Barrière
Marcel Barrière (1860–1954) was a French man of letters, historian, and former cavalry officer, nominated for the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature and awarded two Académie française prizes.
Marcel Jouhandeau
Marcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979) was a French novelist, essayist, and diarist who wrote more than a hundred books, including the Chaminadour cycle set in his native Guéret.
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust (Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust, 1871–1922), French novelist, author of the seven-volume À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), published 1913–1927, famous for involuntary memory and the madeleine episode.
Maria Dąbrowska
Maria Dąbrowska, born in 1889 near Kalisz, was a Polish novelist and diarist best known for the four-part family saga Noce i dnie (Nights and Days).
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício
Maria Madalena de Martel Patrício (1884–1947) was a Portuguese writer of fiction, poetry, and essay, the first Portuguese woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mark Aldanov
Mark Aldanov (Марк Александрович Алданов), born Mark Aleksandrovich Landau, was a Russian émigré novelist and trained chemist, best known for fiction and essays bitterly critical of the Soviet system.
Marthe Bibesco
Marthe Bibesco, born Princess Marthe Lahovary, was a Franco-Romanian aristocratic writer who chronicled European royalty in French and won the French Academy Grand Prize in 1954.
Martin Andersen Nexø
Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954) was a Danish proletarian novelist and communist whose Pelle the Conqueror became the second most widely distributed Danish literary work after H.C. Andersen.
Max Aub
Max Aub (Max Aub Mohrenwitz) was a Spanish writer, born in Paris in 1903, known for the six-novel cycle El laberinto mágico about the Spanish Civil War.
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky (Maxim Gorky; real name Alexei Maximovich Peshkov), 1868-1936, Russian and Soviet novelist, playwright, and founder of socialist realism, author of The Lower Depths, Mother, and the autobiographical trilogy, never a Communist Party member.
Mercè Rodoreda
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (1908–1983) was a Catalan novelist, short-story writer, poet, and playwright, the most translated Catalan fiction author; her novel La plaça del Diamant appeared in 37 languages.
Mihail Sadoveanu
Mihail Sadoveanu (born Mihail Ursachi, 1880–1961) was a major Romanian novelist and academician, author of Baltagul, Hanu-Ancuței, and Frații Jderi; elected to the Romanian Academy in 1921 and later a communist-era political figure.
Mika Waltari
Mika Waltari (1908–1979) was a Finnish author whose historical novel The Egyptian (1945), set in ancient Egypt, became the highest-selling Finnish novel worldwide and was filmed in 1954.
Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков)
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков), 1891–1940, Russian writer, playwright, and trained doctor. Author of The Master and Margarita, The White Guard, and The Heart of a Dog; his work was censored under Stalin and mostly published posthumously, with the key novel appearing censored in 1966–67.
Mikhas Lynkov
Mikhas Lynkov (Belarusian: Міхась Лынькоў) was a Belarusian Soviet prose and children's writer who wrote Mikolka-paravoz and the epic Memorable Days, named People's Writer of the Byelorussian SSR in 1962.
Mikhas Zaretski
Mikhas Zaretski (Міхась Зарэцкі; pen name of Mikhail Yavkhimavich Kasyankou, 1901–1937) was a Belarusian prose writer, playwright, translator, and critic, a leading romantic figure in Soviet Belarusian prose who was executed in 1937 and rehabilitated posthumously.
Milo Urban
Milo Urban, born Milan Anton Urban (1904–1982), was a Slovak prose writer, journalist, and translator who modernized interwar Slovak prose, best known for the novel Živý bič (1927).
Moa Martinson
Moa Martinson, born Helga Maria Swartz (1890–1964), was a Swedish author and journalist of working-class women's lives, best known for the autobiographical Mia trilogy beginning with Mor gifter sig (1936).
Mykola Khvylovy
Mykola Khvylovy (Микола Хвильовий; born Mykola Fitilov, 1893–1933) was a Ukrainian prose writer and central figure of the 1920s Ukrainian cultural renaissance, later called the Executed Renaissance.
Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg, born Natalia Levi (1916–1991), was an Italian novelist and essayist who won the Strega Prize for Lessico famigliare in 1963 and sat in Parliament from 1983.
Nescio
Nescio, Latin for "I don't know", was the pen name of Dutch writer Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh (1882–1961), best known for the novellas De uitvreter and Titaantjes.
Nikolai Ostrovsky
Nikolai Alekseyevich Ostrovsky (Николай Островский, 1904–1936) was a Soviet writer who, bedridden and nearly blind, wrote the largely autobiographical novel How the Steel Was Tempered, a classic of socialist realism.
Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης)
Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, 1883–1957), Cretan-born Greek novelist, poet, and essayist; author of Askitiki, the 33,333-verse Odyssey, Zorba the Greek, and The Last Temptation of Christ; Nobel runner-up, denounced by the Orthodox Church.
Nina Berberova
Nina Berberova (Нина Николаевна Берберова, 1901–1993) was a Russian writer of the emigration known for fiction about the Russian diaspora and her autobiography The Italics Are Mine.
Oktay Akbal
Oktay Akbal (1923–2015) was a Turkish short-story writer, novelist, and columnist of the Republican era, known for autobiographical Istanbul fiction, plain poetic prose, and a daily Cumhuriyet column until 2014.
Olav Duun
Olav Duun (1876–1939) was a Norwegian novelist and teacher, ranked among Norway's foremost, best known for the six-volume Juvikfolke cycle (1918–1923) and the Medmenneske trilogy (1929–1933).
Olha Kobylianska
Olha Kobylianska (Ольга Кобилянська, 1863–1942) was a Ukrainian modernist prose writer and feminist from Bukovyna who began writing in German and is best known for Tsarivna and Zemlia.
Oskar Braaten
Oskar Braaten (full name Oskar Alexander Braaten, 1881–1939) was a Norwegian novelist, dramatist, and magazine editor who depicted factory life on the east side of Kristiania, now Oslo.
Oskar Luts
Oskar Luts was an Estonian prose writer and playwright, sometimes called the Estonian Dickens, whose novel Kevade (Spring, 1912–1913) remains a core text of Estonian culture.
Ostap Vyshnia
Ostap Vyshnia, pen name of Pavlo Hubenko, was a Ukrainian satirist and humorist, 1889 to 1956, the most widely read Ukrainian prose writer of the 1920s.