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Karl Vennberg
Karl Gunnar Vennberg (1910–1995) was a Swedish poet and critic, a leading figure of the 1940s modernist fyrtiotalism movement, and winner of the 1972 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Karl-May-Gesellschaft
The Karl-May-Gesellschaft (KMG), or Karl May Society, is a German literary society founded in 1969 to study the life and work of writer Karl May, creator of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand.
Kārlis Skalbe
Kārlis Skalbe (1879–1945) was a Latvian poet, writer, and politician best known as the master of the Latvian literary fairy tale and author of Winter Tales.
Károly Kisfaludy
Károly Kisfaludy (Kisfaludy Károly, 1788–1830) was a Hungarian poet, dramatist, and painter, a founder of Hungarian national romanticism and the Hungarian comedy who edited the almanac Aurora.
Karrine Steffans
Karrine Steffans, pen name of Elisabeth Ovesen (born 1978, St. Thomas), is a former hip-hop video dancer nicknamed Superhead whose 2005 New York Times bestselling memoir Confessions of a Video Vixen named celebrity lovers; she retired the pen name in 2015.
Kartar Singh Duggal
Kartar Singh Duggal (1917–2012) was an Indian writer, mainly in Punjabi, who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965 and the Padma Bhushan in 1988.
Karus Kahaniec
Karus Kahaniec (Belarusian: Карусь Каганец), pen name of Kazimir Kastravitski (1868–1918), was a Belarusian poet, dramatist, and author of the first Belarusian primer, and a relative of Guillaume Apollinaire.
Kashinath Singh
Kashinath Singh (काशीनाथ सिंह), born in 1937, is a Hindi novelist and Banaras Hindu University professor best known for the novel Kashi ka Assi, set in Banaras.
Kashiram Das
Kashiram Das was a Bengali poet of the early 1600s best known for the Kashidasi Mahabharata, a Bengali rendering of Vyasa's Sanskrit epic praised by Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
Katarina Frostenson
Katarina Frostenson (Alma Katarina Frostenson Arnault, born 1953) is a Swedish poet and playwright, a member of the Swedish Academy from 1992 to 2019, who won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2016.
Kate Atkinson (writer)
Kate Atkinson (born 1951, York) is a British novelist, author of Whitbread winner Behind the Scenes at the Museum, the Costa-winning Life After Life and A God in Ruins, and the six Jackson Brodie crime novels adapted by the BBC as Case Histories.
Kate Bornstein
Kate Bornstein (born 1948), also known as a gender outlaw, is an American author, playwright, and performance artist; Gender Outlaw (1994), My Gender Workbook, and Hello, Cruel World made her a leading nonbinary gender theorist.
Kate Chopin
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (1850–1904), was an American writer of novels and short stories set mostly in Louisiana, best known for The Awakening (1899).
Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo (born 1964), also published as Katherine DiCamillo, is an American children's author and two-time Newbery Medalist living in Minneapolis, known for Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux, and Flora & Ulysses.
Kate Grenville
Kate Grenville is an Australian novelist, born in Sydney in 1950, best known for The Secret River (2005), which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Kate Roberts (author)
Kate Roberts (1891–1985) was a Welsh-language novelist and short-story writer, called 'Queen of Our Literature', best known for the 1936 quarrying novel Feet in Chains.
Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine (كاتب ياسين, 1929–1989) was an Algerian novelist and playwright whose 1956 novel Nedjma is a foundational text of North African literature in French.
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883–1969) was an Australian novelist, playwright, and co-founder of the Communist Party of Australia, best known for The Pioneers, Working Bullocks, and Coonardoo.
Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter (Callie Russell Porter, 1890–1980), American short-story writer and journalist, author of "Flowering Judas," "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," "Noon Wine," and the only novel Ship of Fools (1962); Pulitzer and National Book Award winner, Texas-born modernist.
Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn (1945–2016), American Portland novelist and boxing journalist, author of Geek Love (1989), a National Book Award finalist about a carnival family that engineers its own freak-show children; also wrote Attic, Truck, and posthumous Toad.
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, 1888–1923), New Zealand-born modernist short story writer; author of Prelude, Bliss, and The Garden Party; died of tuberculosis at Fontainebleau; ranked with Woolf and Joyce.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt (born 1989), American author and animal advocate, daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, wife of Chris Pratt; wrote Rock What You've Got, The Gift of Forgiveness, and children's books, hosts BDA Baby.
Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Jessie Raine (1908-2003), British visionary poet and Blake scholar; author of Stone and Flower and Blake and Tradition; co-founder of Temenos journal and the Temenos Academy.
Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (1947-1997) was an American experimental novelist and performance artist of punk feminism, known for Blood and Guts in High School and Empire of the Senseless and for cut-up collage and plagiarism of Genet, Burroughs, and Gibson.
Kathy Etchingham
Kathy Etchingham (Kathleen Mary Etchingham, born 1946, Derby) is a 1960s London club DJ, Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend 1966-1969, inspiration for The Wind Cries Mary, memoirist of Through Gypsy Eyes (1998), and libel case winner.
Kathy Reichs
Kathy Reichs (born 1948) is an American forensic anthropologist, UNC Charlotte professor, and creator of the Temperance Brennan novels (Déjà Dead, 1997) and the Virals series; she produced the Fox TV show Bones.
Kauromal Chandanmal Khilnani
Kauromal Chandanmal Khilnani (ديوان ڪوڙو مل چندن مل کلناڻي, 1844–1916), known as Diwan Kauromal, was a Sindhi writer, educationist, and administrator called the father of Sindhi prose.
Kazi Abdul Wadud
Kazi Abdul Wadud (কাজী আবদুল ওদুদ; 1894–1970) was a Bengali educator and essayist who led the Buddhir Mukti free-thought movement through the Muslim Sahitya Samaj of Dhaka in the 1920s and 1930s.
Kazi Nazrul Islam (কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম)
Kazi Nazrul Islam (কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম), 1899–1976, the Rebel Poet and national poet of Bangladesh, author of "Bidrohi" and about 4,000 Nazrul Geeti songs; brought to Dhaka in 1972, citizen 1976.
Kazuki Takahashi (高橋和希)
Kazuki Takahashi (高橋和希, 1961–2022), Japanese manga artist and creator of Yu-Gi-Oh! (遊☆戯☆王), serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1996–2004; its card game became Konami's record-selling OCG. Died 2022 off Okinawa during a rescue attempt.