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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.
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera (1929–2023), Czech-French novelist and essayist, author of The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being; exiled to France in 1975, stripped of Czechoslovak citizenship in 1979, wrote in French from 1993.
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).
Monika Fagerholm
Monika Fagerholm, born 1961 in Kyrkslätt, Finland, is a Finland-Swedish author writing in Swedish, one of Finland's internationally best-known writers and winner of the August, Finlandia, and Nordic Council Literature Prizes.
Mór Jókai
Mór Jókai (Jókai Mór, 1825–1904), Hungarian novelist called 'prince of Hungarian novel writing,' author of Az arany ember, Egy magyar nábob, and A kőszívű ember fiai; 1848 revolutionary, editor, MP, and Hungarian Academy member.
Multatuli
Multatuli, pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–1887), was a Dutch writer and former colonial official whose 1860 novel Max Havelaar attacked Dutch colonial abuse.
Mustafa Kutlu
Mustafa Kutlu (born 1947) is a Turkish storyteller, essayist, and columnist, a prominent figure of the Turkish short story whose work draws on Sufi themes.
Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Коцюбинський, 1864–1913) was a Ukrainian prose writer and ethnographer regarded as a leading master of literary impressionism, known for Intermezzo, Fata Morgana, and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
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.
Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute (Natalia Tcherniak, 1900–1999), Russian-born French novelist, playwright, and lawyer; nouveau roman pioneer; author of Tropismes, L'Ère du soupçon, Le Planétarium, and Enfance.
Nedim Gürsel
Nedim Gürsel, born 1951 in Gaziantep, is a Turkish novelist and critic who has lived in Paris since 1971, teaching Turkish literature at the Sorbonne and working at CNRS.
Nelio Biedermann
Nelio Biedermann, born 2003 in Zurich, is a Swiss novelist. His historical family saga Lázár (2025) sold more than 200,000 copies in German and was shortlisted for the Schweizer Buchpreis.
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.
Nicolaas Beets
Nicolaas Beets (1814–1903) was a Dutch writer, Dutch Reformed minister, and professor of church history, best known under the pseudonym Hildebrand for Camera Obscura (1839).
Nicolas Born
Nicolas Born, born Klaus Jürgen Born (1937 to 1979), was a German novelist, poet, and essayist, a leading figure of the Neue Subjektivität whose last novel, Die Fälschung, was filmed by Volker Schlöndorff.
Nikolai Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь)
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, born Nikolai Vasilyevich Yanovsky, was a Russian-language prose writer of Ukrainian origin, counted among classics of Russian literature and a founder of Russian realism.
Nikolai Leskov
Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Николай Лесков, 1831–1895), Russian writer and critic, pseudonym M. Stebnitsky, author of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, The Enchanted Wanderer, and Levsha, master of skaz oral-style narration.
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.
Oğuz Atay
Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) was a Turkish novelist and civil engineer whose experimental first novel Tutunamayanlar, ignored in his lifetime, became one of Turkish literature's most reprinted works.
Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko, born 1960 in Lutsk, is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist whose 1996 novel Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex became an international event in post-Soviet Ukrainian literature.
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).
Oles Honchar
Oles Honchar (Олесь Гончар) was a Ukrainian writer and public figure whose 1968 novel Sobor (The Cathedral) won readers and was then suppressed by party censorship.
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk, Polish novelist born 1962 in Sulechow, author of Flights and The Books of Jacob; 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature (awarded 2019) and 2018 International Booker Prize winner.
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.