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Christer Kihlman
Christer Kihlman (1930–2021) was a Finland-Swedish author and cultural writer who drew wide attention in the 1960s and 1970s with novels treating alcoholism, bisexuality, and family breakdown.
Christina Stead
Christina Stead was an Australian novelist and short story writer best known for The Man Who Loved Children (1940), the 1965 reissue of which brought her international acclaim.
Christoph Hein
Christoph Hein, born 1944 in Silesia, is a German novelist, playwright, and essayist known for the novella Der fremde Freund (1982) and as a chronicler of German-German relations.
Christopher Buckley (novelist)
Christopher Buckley (b. 1952), American novelist and political satirist, son of William F. Buckley Jr.; author of Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Boomsday; distinct from the poet Christopher Buckley.
Christopher Hope
Christopher Hope is a South African novelist and poet, born in Johannesburg in 1944, who left South Africa in 1975 and writes satirical fiction about apartheid.
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), British-born novelist and diarist, U.S. citizen from 1946, author of Goodbye to Berlin, The Berlin Stories (basis of Cabaret), A Single Man, and Christopher and His Kind.
Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is a Greek-Australian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, born in Melbourne in 1965, whose fourth novel The Slap sold over one million copies worldwide.
Christy Brown
Christy Brown (1932–1981), Irish writer, painter, and poet with cerebral palsy who controlled only his left foot; author of My Left Foot (1954) and Down All the Days (1970); subject of Jim Sheridan's 1989 Oscar-winning film.
Chu Tien-hsin
Chu Tien-hsin (朱天心, born 1958) is a Taiwanese writer of mainlander descent, sister of Zhu Tianwen, whose fiction on memory and Taipei includes The Old Capital (1997).
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.
Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk, born 1962 in Pasco, Washington, is the transgressive fiction author of Fight Club (1996) and Survivor, Choke, Haunted, Rant, and the Fight Club 2 and 3 graphic novels.
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).
Claire Douglas
Claire Douglas is a British Sunday Times bestselling author of standalone psychological thrillers such as The Couple at No 9 and The Wrong Sister. Former journalist; won the 2013 Marie Claire Debut Novel Award with The Sisters; published a thriller a year through her twelfth book.
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.
Clara Reeve
Clara Reeve (1729–1807) was an English novelist and critic from Ipswich, Suffolk, whose Gothic novel The Old English Baron and literary history The Progress of Romance made her an early shaper of the Gothic genre.
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.
Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), American poet, sculptor, and weird-fiction author of the Weird Tales trio with Lovecraft and Howard; creator of Zothique, Hyperborea, Averoigne, and the Dying Earth tales.
Claude Simon
Claude Simon (1913–2005) was a French novelist who won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, associated with the Nouveau Roman and known for La Route des Flandres.
Clive Barker
Clive Barker (born 1952, Liverpool) is a British horror and dark fantasy author, filmmaker, and artist, creator of Books of Blood, The Hellbound Heart, and the Hellraiser franchise, now returning with Library of the Dead and Hellraiser: Revival.
Clive Cussler
Clive Cussler (1931–2020), American adventure novelist, creator of the Dirk Pitt series and five other thriller series, author of over eighty books, and founder of the wreck-hunting NUMA.
Coco Mellors
Coco Mellors (born 1989, London) is a British novelist, NYT bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein (2022) and Blue Sisters (2024), both translated into over thirty languages and adapted for screen.
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
Colette, in full Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), was a French novelist, journalist, and performer whose work drew closely on her own life, including Chéri and the Claudine novels.
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.
Colin Dexter
Colin Dexter, full name Norman Colin Dexter, was an English crime writer who created Inspector Morse, the Oxford detective of thirteen novels and a hit television series.
Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover, born 1979 in Sulphur Springs, Texas, is the American 'CoHo' author of Slammed and It Ends with Us; self-published from 2012, boosted by BookTok, with 35+ million books sold and film adaptations underway.
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.