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Julio Flórez
Julio Flórez, full name Julio Flórez Roa, was a Colombian poet, the leading representative of late Romanticism, crowned national poet weeks before his death in 1923.
Julio Ramón Ribeyro
Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929–1994) was a Peruvian writer and leading figure of the Generación del 50, best known for the story collection La palabra del mudo.
Julius Gersdorff
Julius Gersdorff was a German poet and songwriter, born in Stettin in 1849, who was nominated for the 1901 Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of 600 to 700 songs.
Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) was a Polish Romantic poet, playwright, and philosopher, one of the three national bards alongside Adam Mickiewicz, and the author of Kordian, Balladyna, and Król-Duch.
Jun Takami
Jun Takami (高見順, 1907–1965), born Takama Yoshio, was a Japanese novelist, poet, and critic whose diary of the Shōwa era, published in 16 volumes, matched his fiction in fame.
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎, 1886–1965), Japanese novelist and essayist of beauty and eroticism; author of The Tattoo, Naomi, The Makioka Sisters, and In Praise of Shadows; Nobel-nominated seven times, 1958–1965.
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is a Dominican American writer best known for his 2007 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Junqueira Freire
Junqueira Freire (Luís José Junqueira Freire, 1832 to 1855) was a Brazilian Benedictine monk and ultraromantic poet of Salvador, Bahia, known for the poetry collection Inspirações do claustro (1855).
Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Junzaburō Nishiwaki (西脇順三郎, 1894–1982) was a Japanese poet and scholar of English literature who taught at Keio University and is regarded as the father of literary surrealism in Japan.
Juozas Aputis
Juozas Aputis (1936–2010) was a Lithuanian prose writer, editor, translator, and critic who modernized the Lithuanian short story during the Soviet-era revival of the 1970s and 1980s.
Juozas Grušas
Juozas Grušas (1901–1986) was a Lithuanian writer and playwright, regarded as one of the most prominent Lithuanian dramatists of the twentieth century, known for historical dramas and tragicomedies.
Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas
Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas (1869–1933) was a Lithuanian Catholic priest, prose writer, and literary historian, a leading figure of the National Revival and author of Pragiedruliai.
Jürgen Becker
Jürgen Becker (1932–2024) was a German writer, poet, and radio drama author based in Cologne who won the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germany's richest literary award, in 2014.
Jurgis Baltrušaitis
Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873–1944) was a Lithuanian and Russian symbolist poet, translator, and diplomat who served as Lithuania's envoy to the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1939.
Jurgis Kunčinas
Jurgis Kunčinas (1947–2002) was a prominent Lithuanian writer, poet, and translator from German, best known for the novel Tūla (1993), an acclaimed portrayal of Vilnius.
Jurgis Savickis
Jurgis Savickis (1890–1952), who wrote under the pen name Rimošius, was a Lithuanian modernist writer and diplomat who served as envoy in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and other posts, dying in exile in France.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Jussi Adler-Olsen (Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen, born 1950) is a Danish crime writer, creator of the Department Q series about detective Carl Mørck, with over 30 million copies sold, the Glass Key and Barry awards, and the Netflix adaptation Dept. Q.
Justin
Justin (Marcus Junianus Justinus) is the otherwise unknown Latin author of an Epitome of Pompeius Trogus' lost universal history, the main surviving source for the Hellenistic kingdoms.
Justinas Marcinkevičius
Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930–2011) was a Lithuanian poet, dramatist, and translator, regarded as the poet of the Nation, whose verse-drama trilogy recreated the birth of Lithuanian statehood and who later helped lead the Sąjūdis independence movement.
Justine Mintsa
Justine Mintsa is a Gabonese novelist and academic of Fang origin who writes in French. She taught English literature at the Université Omar Bongo in Libreville for decades.
Justine Musk
Justine Musk (born 1972) is a Canadian novelist, née Wilson, author of BloodAngel (2005), Uninvited (2007), and Lord of Bones (2008), a Marie Claire essayist, TEDx speaker, and first wife (2000–2008) of Elon Musk, with whom she has six children.
Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (জ্যোতিপ্ৰসাদ আগৰৱালা) was an Assamese poet, playwright, and filmmaker who directed Joymoti (1935), the first Assamese feature film, and composed over 300 songs known as Jyoti Sangeet.
Jyotindra Dave
Jyotindra Dave (જ્યોતીન્દ્ર દવે, 1901–1980) was an Indian humorist and essayist of Gujarati literature, best known for the Rangtarang essay collections and the comic novel Ame Badha, written with Dhansukhlal Mehta.
K. C. Kesava Pillai
K. C. Kesava Pillai (കെ.സി. കേശവപിള്ള, 1868–1913) was a Malayalam poet, playwright, and composer from Paravoor, Kerala, best known for the mahakavya Kesaveeyam and the musical drama Sadarama.
K. Jayatilleke
K. Jayatilleke (Sinhala: කේ. ජයතිලක; born Kaluachchigamage Jayathilaka, 1926–2011) was a Sri Lankan novelist, short-story writer, critic, and publisher in Sinhala, known for the award-winning novel Charitha Thunak (1963).
K. P. Kesava Menon
K. P. Kesava Menon (1886–1978) was an Indian freedom fighter and Gandhian who founded the Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi in 1923 and wrote the autobiography Kazhinja Kalam.
K. P. Ramanunni
K. P. Ramanunni (കെ.പി. രാമനുണ്ണി; born 1955) is a Malayalam novelist and short-story writer who won the 2017 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Daivathinte Pusthakam.
K. S. Narasimhaswamy
K. S. Narasimhaswamy, full name Kikkeri Subbaraya Narasimhaswamy, was an Indian Kannada-language poet known for romantic poetry about married life, especially the collection Mysuru Mallige (1942).
K. Satchidanandan
K. Satchidanandan (Kayamparambath Satchidanandan, born 1946) is an Indian poet writing in Malayalam and English, a leading Malayalam modernist, critic, and translator who served as Secretary of the Sahitya Akademi from 1996 to 2006.
K. Schippers
K. Schippers, the pseudonym of Gerard Stigter, was a Dutch writer and art critic who co-founded Barbarber and used the readymade in poetry.