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K. Sello Duiker
K. Sello Duiker (Kabelo Sello Duiker, 1974–2005) was a South African novelist and screenwriter whose novels Thirteen Cents and The Quiet Violence of Dreams made him a prominent post-apartheid voice.
K. Surendran
K. Surendran (കെ. സുരേന്ദ്രൻ) was a Malayalam novelist, critic, and playwright from Kerala who wrote more than 40 works, winning the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Maya.
Kaarlo Sarkia
Kaarlo Sarkia, born Kaarlo Teodor Sulin, was a Finnish lyric poet and translator of the interwar Tulenkantajat generation; Unen kaivo (1936) is his principal work.
Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan
Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan (കടമ്മനിട്ട രാമകൃഷ്ണൻ; 1935 – 2008) was a Malayalam poet known for bringing the rhythms of Kerala's Padayani folk ritual arts into modern verse.
Kader Abdolah
Kader Abdolah is the pen name of Iranian-born Dutch writer Hossein Sadjadi, who fled Iran in 1985 and became one of the Netherlands' most-read authors.
Kadyr Myrza Ali
Kadyr Myrza Ali (Қадыр Мырза Әлі) was a Kazakh poet, writer, and translator who co-wrote the lyrics of Kazakhstan's first national anthem and published over 50 poetry collections.
Kae Tempest
Kae Tempest (born 1985, London), formerly Kate Tempest, is an English poet, rapper, playwright, and novelist blending spoken word with hip hop; Ted Hughes Award winner for Brand New Ancients, Mercury-nominated for Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos, came out non-binary in 2020, transitioned by 2025.
Kaga no Chiyo
Kaga no Chiyo (Chiyo-ni) was a Japanese haiku poet of the mid-Edo period, the most celebrated female haiku poet of her era, known for her morning-glory verse.
Kagami Shikō
Kagami Shikō (各務支考, 1665–1731) was a Japanese haikai poet and theorist of the mid-Edo period, one of Matsuo Bashō's ten great disciples and founder of the Mino school.
Kahlil Gibran (جبران خليل جبران)
Kahlil Gibran (جبران خليل جبران, 1883–1931), Lebanese-born poet, painter, and Mahjar writer of The Prophet; also Gibran Khalil Gibran, Pen League founder, best-selling American poet of the twentieth century.
Kaifi Azmi (کیفی اعظمی)
Kaifi Azmi (کیفی اعظمی), born Sayed Athar Hussain Rizvi, was an Indian Urdu poet and Hindi film lyricist of the Progressive Writers' Movement; films Kaagaz Ke Phool, Haqeeqat, Heer Raanjha; Sahitya Akademi Award 1975; died 10 May 2002 in Mumbai.
Kaj Munk
Kaj Munk, born Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen, was a Danish pastor and playwright, the leading Danish dramatist of the 1930s, killed by German occupiers in 1944.
Kaka Kalelkar
Kaka Kalelkar, born Dattatreya Balkrishna Kalelkar (1885–1981), was an Indian educationist, essayist, and Gandhian worker ranked among the major Gujarati prose stylists; Gandhi called him "Savai Gujarati".
Kakkanadan
Kakkanadan (കാക്കനാടൻ), 1935 to 2011, was the pen name of George Varghese, an Indian writer who led modernist Malayalam fiction and won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.
Kalapi
Kalapi (કલાપી) was the pen name of Sursinhji Takhtasinhji Gohil, Thakore Saheb of Lathi in Saurashtra, and a Gujarati poet who lived from 1874 to 1900 and died by poisoning at 26.
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi
Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1901–1991) was an Indian poet, novelist, and dramatist who wrote in Odia, led the Sabuja literary movement, and wrote the classic novel Matira Manisha.
Kalju Lepik
Kalju Lepik (1920–1999) was an Estonian poet exiled in Stockholm from 1944, one of the best-known Estonian poets of the later 20th century, with work translated into a dozen languages.
Kalki Krishnamurthy
Kalki Krishnamurthy (கல்கி கிருஷ்ணமூர்த்தி), pen name of R. Krishnamurthy (1899-1954), Tamil novelist, journalist, and freedom fighter; author of Ponniyin Selvan, Sivakamiyin Sapatham, and Alai Osai, and founder of the Kalki weekly.
Kama Sywor Kamanda
Kama Sywor Kamanda, born 1952 in Luebo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a French-language poet, novelist, playwright, and storyteller known for the Kamanda Tales and winners of the Prix Paul Verlaine and Heredia prizes.
Kamal Kumar Majumdar
Kamal Kumar Majumdar (কমলকুমার মজুমদার; 1914–1979) was a Bengali fiction writer who wrote in formal sadhu Bengali, best known for the novel Antarjali Yatra and a prose style critics call unrepeatable.
Kamala Markandaya
Kamala Markandaya, pen name of Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, was an Indian-born British novelist (1924–2004) whose first novel, Nectar in a Sieve (1954), became an international bestseller taught in American schools.
Kamala Surayya
Kamala Surayya (31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009), born Kamala Das, pen name Madhavikutty, was an Indian poet and writer in English and Malayalam known for confessional poetry, My Story (1973), and her 1999 conversion to Islam.
Kamau Brathwaite
Kamau Brathwaite, born Lawson Edward Brathwaite (1930–2020), was a Barbadian poet and historian whose trilogy The Arrivants and concept of nation language reshaped Caribbean literature in English.
Kamini Roy
Kamini Roy (কামিনী রায়; 1864–1933) was a Bengali poet and feminist who in 1886 became one of British India's first women honors graduates, taking Sanskrit honors from Bethune College.
Kamo no Mabuchi
Kamo no Mabuchi (賀茂真淵; 1697–1769) was a Japanese kokugaku scholar and poet who made a comprehensive philological study of the Man'yōshū and championed its ancient poetic style.
Kampaṉ
Kampaṉ (கம்பன்), also romanized Kambar or Kamban, was a medieval Tamil poet, probably of the 12th century, honored as Kavicakravarti, whose Irāmāvatāram became the definitive Tamil version of the Rāmāyaṇa.
Kamus-ı Türkî
Kamus-ı Türkî (قاموس تركى) is a monolingual dictionary of Ottoman Turkish by Şemseddin Sami, published in Istanbul in 1899-1900, a foundation of later Turkish dictionaries.
Kan Chazan
Kan Chazan (菅茶山, 1748–1827) was a Japanese Confucian scholar and kanshi poet of the late Edo period who ran a private school in Bingo Province.
Kanae Minato (湊かなえ)
Kanae Minato (湊かなえ), born 1973 in Hiroshima, is a Japanese mystery novelist whose debut Confessions (告白) won the 2009 Honya Taisho and was filmed in 2010; known for iya-misu, later works include Akeboshi and Okoku.
Kanagaki Robun
Kanagaki Robun (仮名垣魯文, 1829–1894) was a Japanese gesaku writer and journalist known for comic works satirizing Westernized customs, including Aguranabe, and for founding popular small newspapers.