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Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq (Michel Thomas), French novelist and poet born 1956 on Réunion; author of Les Particules élémentaires, Plateforme, Soumission, and Goncourt winner La Carte et le territoire; known for succès de scandale reception and prizes.
Michèle Rakotoson
Michèle Rakotoson, born in 1948 in Antananarivo, is a Malagasy novelist and journalist who writes in French and Malagasy and went into political exile in France in 1983.
Mick Herron
Mick Herron, British novelist born in Newcastle, author of the Slough House spy thrillers (Slow Horses, Jackson Lamb) and the Zoë Boehm series; CWA Gold Dagger and Diamond Dagger winner, adapted by Apple TV+.
Mickey Spillane
Mickey Spillane, born Frank Morrison Spillane (1918–2006), was an American crime novelist who created hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer in I, the Jury (1947), selling over 225 million books.
Mieko Kanai
Mieko Kanai (金井美恵子, born 1947) is a Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist from Takasaki, Gunma, known for an anti-realist style and sensuous prose.
Miguel Angel Asturias
Miguel Angel Asturias (1899–1974) was a Guatemalan novelist, poet, and diplomat who in 1967 became the first Latin American novelist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), Spanish author of Don Quixote (two parts, 1605 and 1615), also wrote the twelve Exemplary Novels; fought at Lepanto in 1571, returned from captivity in 1580, and is honored by the April 23 Cervantes Prize.
Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes (Miguel Delibes Setién, 1920–2010) was a Spanish novelist and journalist whose work centers on rural Castile; he won the Premio Cervantes in 1993.
Miguel Otero Silva
Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985) was a Venezuelan novelist, journalist, and politician and a leading exponent of social literature, known for Casas muertas and co-founding the daily El Nacional.
Miguel Syjuco
Miguel Syjuco (born 1976) is a Filipino novelist, journalist, and professor at New York University Abu Dhabi whose debut novel Ilustrado (2010) won the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Miguel Torga
Miguel Torga, pen name of Adolfo Correia Rocha (1907–1995), was a Portuguese poet, short-story writer, and physician, remembered for his sixteen-volume Diário and stories of Trás-os-Montes.
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.
Mikael Niemi
Mikael Niemi (born 1959) is a Swedish author from Pajala in Norrbotten whose comic and crime novels draw on the Tornedalian region, best known for Popular Music from Vittula.
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.
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) was a Russian satirical writer and publicist who under the pen name N. Shchedrin wrote The History of a Town, The Golovlyov Family, and the Fairy Tales.
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.
Mikheil Javakhishvili
Mikheil Javakhishvili (მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი), real surname Adamashvili, was a Georgian writer, born in 1880, who founded the twentieth-century Georgian realist novel and was shot in Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.
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.
Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879–1954), was an Australian writer and feminist whose debut novel My Brilliant Career (1901) led to the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
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).
Milton Hatoum
Milton Hatoum, born in Manaus in 1952 to a Lebanese immigrant family, is a Brazilian novelist whose Amazon-set fiction includes Dois irmãos and has won the Jabuti Prize three times.
Min Jin Lee (이민진)
Min Jin Lee (이민진, born 1968) is a Korea-born American novelist, author of Free Food for Millionaires, the National Book Award finalist Pachinko, and American Hagwon (2026), third of her Diaspora Quartet; New York State Author Laureate 2025–2027.
Minae Mizumura
Minae Mizumura (水村美苗) is a Japanese novelist and essayist known for the prize-winning A True Novel and the 2008 essay The Fall of Japanese in the Age of English.
Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (মীর মশাররফ হোসেন) was a Bengali novelist and playwright best known for Bishad Sindhu, an epic novel on the martyrdom of Imam Hossain at Karbala.
Miriam Tlali
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose Muriel at Metropolitan (1975) was the first novel published by a Black woman in South Africa.
Missouri Williams
Missouri Williams is an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, and editor living in London, known for The Doloriad (2022) and the Booker Prize-longlisted second novel The Vivisectors (2026).
Mitsuyo Kakuta
Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, born 1967) is a Japanese novelist known for fiction about family life and for a modern translation of The Tale of Genji.
Miyuki Miyabe
Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき), born in Tokyo in 1960, is a Japanese novelist of mystery, historical fiction, and fantasy who won the 1999 Naoki Prize for The Reason.