Writers and literary biographies

Kandrat Krapiva

Kandrat Krapiva (Кандрат Крапіва), real name Kandrat Atrakhovich, was a Belarusian Soviet satirical poet, fabulist, and playwright who won two Stalin Prizes and the USSR State Prize.

Kandukuri Veeresalingam (కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం)

Kandukuri Veeresalingam (కందుకూరి వీరేశలింగం, 1848–1919), Telugu social reformer and writer of Rajahmundry; pioneer of women's education, widow remarriage, the first Telugu novel Rajasekhara Charitra, and the Hitakarini Samajam.

Kang Kyong-ae

Kang Kyong-ae (강경애, also romanized Kang Kyeong-ae, pen name Kang Gama) was a Korean novelist of the colonial period, a canonical figure of proletarian literature best known for the 1934 novel The Human Problem.

Kangal Harinath

Kangal Harinath, born Harinath Majumdar (কাঙাল হরিনাথ, 1833–1896), was a Bengali journalist, writer, and Baul song composer of Kumarkhali, Kushtia District, whose paper Grambarta Prokashika defended peasants against indigo planters.

Kangni Alem

Kangni Alem, pen name of Kangni Alemdjrodo, is a Togolese novelist and playwright born in 1966 in Lomé, best known for the award-winning novel Cola Cola Jazz.

Kanhu Charan Mohanty

Kanhu Charan Mohanty (କାହ୍ନୁଚରଣ ମହାନ୍ତି) was an Indian Odia-language novelist who wrote 56 novels from 1930 to 1985 and won the 1958 Sahitya Akademi Award for Kaa.

Kaniyan Pungundranar

Kaniyan Pungundranar was a Sangam-era Tamil poet, remembered for Purananuru poem 192, whose opening line, "Every town is our town; everyone is our kin," is among the most quoted in Tamil literature.

Kannada biographical literature

Kannada biographical literature is the body of biography and autobiography in the Kannada language, running from medieval devotional verse lives of saints to modern prose biography and Dalit autobiography.

Kapilar

Kapilar (கபிலர்) was a Tamil poet of the Sangam age, one of the most prolific poets of the classical anthologies and the devoted celebrator of the patron Pari.

Karacaoğlan

Karacaoğlan is the pen name of a celebrated Turkish folk poet, probably of the 17th century in southern Anatolia, about 500 of whose poems are sung as folk songs.

Karel Hynek Mácha

Karel Hynek Mácha (1810–1836) was a Czech Romantic poet, prose writer, and dramatist, founder of modern Czech poetry, best known for the lyric-epic poem Máj (1836), published shortly before his death at 25.

Karel Jaromír Erben

Karel Jaromír Erben (1811–1870) was a Czech poet, folklorist, and archivist, a leading figure of the Czech National Revival best known for the ballad collection Kytice (1853).

Karel Schoeman

Karel Schoeman (1939–2017) was a South African novelist, historian, and translator who wrote in Afrikaans, producing about 130 books, including nineteen novels, and winning the Hertzog Prize three times.

Karel Sellner

Karel Sellner (1873–1955) was a Czech teacher, school inspector, editor, and prose writer remembered chiefly for fiction set in Czech prehistory and the Mladá Boleslav region during the Counter-Reformation.

Karel van de Woestijne

Karel van de Woestijne (1878–1929) was a Flemish poet, prose writer, and art and literary critic from Ghent, regarded as the leading Dutch-language symbolist in Flanders and its first major poet after Guido Gezelle.

Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen (1885-1962), Danish author also published as Isak Dinesen, wrote in English and Danish. Born and died at Rungstedlund; ran a Kenyan coffee farm 1914-1931; broke through with Seven Gothic Tales (1934) and Out of Africa (1937).

Karin Boye

Karin Maria Boye (1900–1941) was a Swedish poet, novelist, critic, and translator, one of the defining voices of Swedish modernism, best known internationally for the dystopian novel Kallocain (1940).

Karin Fossum

Karin Fossum, born 1954 in Sandefjord, Norway, is a Norwegian author known as the "Norwegian queen of crime" for her psychological crime novels featuring the investigator Konrad Sejer.

Karin Michaëlis

Karin Michaëlis, born Katharina Marie Bech Brøndum (1872 to 1950), was a Danish author and humanitarian whose scandal-novel The Dangerous Age made her world-famous in 1910.

Karin Slaughter

Karin Slaughter (born 1971) is an American crime writer from Georgia, creator of the Grant County and Will Trent series and standalones like Pretty Girls; 40 million copies sold, adapted for Netflix and ABC.

Karl Edward Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) was an American horror and heroic-fantasy writer, psychiatrist, and editor, creator of the cursed immortal Kane and editor of The Year's Best Horror Stories for DAW Books.

Karl Gjellerup

Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857–1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who wrote his major works in German, settled in Dresden, and shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Henrik Pontoppidan.

Karl Heinrich Waggerl

Karl Heinrich Waggerl (1897–1973) was an Austrian writer and former schoolteacher whose rural novels, including Brot (1930), sold over 7 million copies in 12 languages.

Karl Immermann

Karl Leberecht Immermann (1796–1840) was a German novelist, dramatist, poet, and judge in Düsseldorf who wrote Die Epigonen and Münchhausen and led an influential reform of the city theater.

Karl Kraus (writer)

Karl Kraus was an Austrian satirist, poet, and playwright who edited his own Vienna journal, Die Fackel, from 1899 to 1936, attacking press corruption and the decay of German.

Karl May

Karl May (1842–1912), German adventure novelist, creator of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand; best-selling German-language author with over 100 million copies, wrote Wild West and Orient tales without visiting America.

Karl Ove Knausgård

Karl Ove Knausgård (born 1968) is a Norwegian author and publisher, known for the six-volume autobiographical novel Min kamp/My Struggle (2009–2011), the Seasons quartet, and the Morning Star series.

Karl Philipp Moritz

Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793), German novelist and aesthetician, author of the psychological novel Anton Reiser (1785–1790), editor of the Magazine for Empirical Psychology, and professor of aesthetics at the Berlin academy of art.

Karl Ristikivi

Karl Ristikivi (1912–1977) was an Estonian novelist, poet, and literary historian whose debut novel Tuli ja raud (1938) made him a leading Estonian exile writer in Sweden.