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Kazuko Shiraishi
Kazuko Shiraishi (白石かずこ; real name Hishinuma Kazuko, 1931–2024) was a Japanese poet born in Vancouver, Canada, known for jazz-influenced readings and long poems; her work is translated into more than 20 languages.
Kazumi Yumoto
Kazumi Yumoto (湯本香樹実) is a Japanese author of children's novels and picture books known for treating death and grief; her first novel, The Friends, won the 1997 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award.
Kazuo Dan
Kazuo Dan (檀一雄, 1912–1976) was a Japanese novelist and poet of the Buraiha group who won the Naoki Prize and wrote the autobiographical bestseller Kataku no Hito over about 20 years.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro, born 1954 in Nagasaki, is a British novelist, Booker Prize winner for The Remains of the Day and 2017 Nobel Literature laureate known for unreliable narrators, memory themes, and Never Let Me Go.
Kazushige Abe
Kazushige Abe (阿部和重) is a Japanese novelist, born in 1968 in Yamagata Prefecture, who won the Akutagawa Prize for Grand Finale and the Tanizaki Prize for Pistols.
Kazys Binkis
Kazys Binkis (1893–1942) was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, and journalist who founded the Four Winds avant-garde movement in the 1920s, and with his wife sheltered Jews during the Second World War.
Kazys Boruta
Kazys Boruta (1905–1965) was a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, and translator whose novels Mediniai stebuklai (1938) and Baltaragio malūnas (1945) founded the Lithuanian poetic novel.
Kebede Michael
Kebede Michael was an Ethiopian writer of Amharic poetry, plays, essays, and translations who won the first Haile Selassie I Prize in Amharic Literature in 1964.
Kedarnath Agarwal
Kedarnath Agarwal (केदारनाथ अग्रवाल) was a Hindi poet of the progressive movement, known for poetry rooted in the folk life and peasant struggles of Bundelkhand.
Kedarnath Singh
Kedarnath Singh (केदारनाथ सिंह, 1934–2018) was an Indian Hindi poet, critic, and academic who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1989 and the Jnanpith Award in 2013.
Keiji Nakazawa (中沢啓治)
Keiji Nakazawa (中沢啓治, 1939–2012), Hiroshima-born manga artist and atomic-bomb survivor 1.3 km from the hypocenter, creator of the autobiographical Barefoot Gen (Hadashi no Gen), serialized 1973–1985, translated worldwide and adapted to film, TV, and opera.
Keith Douglas
Keith Douglas was an English poet and tank commander, best known for poems written during the North African campaign and for his desert-war memoir Alamein to Zem Zem.
Keith Waterhouse
Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009), British novelist, playwright, and Fleet Street columnist, author of Billy Liar (1959) and Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell, longtime collaborator of Willis Hall and Daily Mail columnist.
Keiun
Keiun (慶運), also read Kyōun, was a Japanese Tendai monk and waka poet, born in the Einin era and alive until about 1369, named one of the Four Heavenly Kings of waka.
Keki N. Daruwalla
Keki N. Daruwalla (1937–2024) was an Indian poet and novelist in English who also served over three decades as a police and intelligence officer, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984.
Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong (born 1968) is a Canadian author of the New York Times bestselling Women of the Otherworld series (Bitten, 2001), the Cainsville gothic quintet, the Rockton and Haven's Rock mystery series, YA trilogies, and A Rip Through Time.
Kemal Bilbaşar
Kemal Bilbaşar (1910–1983) was a Turkish social realist novelist and teacher, best known for his novel Cemo, which won the Turkish Language Association's Novel Prize in 1967.
Kemal Tahir
Kemal Tahir (İsmail Kemalettin Demir, 1910-1973) was a Turkish novelist of the Republican era, known for social and historical novels such as Devlet Ana and Esir Şehrin İnsanları.
Ken Bugul
Ken Bugul is the pen name of Senegalese novelist Mariétou Mbaye Biléoma, known for her 1982 debut Le Baobab fou and over 30 years of writing in French.
Ken Follett
Ken Follett (born 1949, Cardiff) is a Welsh bestselling author of spy thrillers and historical epics, known for Eye of the Needle, The Pillars of the Earth, and the Kingsbridge and Century series, with over 198 million books sold.
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey (1935–2001), American novelist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, Merry Pranksters leader of the 1964 Furthur bus trip and Acid Tests, later an Oregon farmer and author of Sailor Song.
Ken Liu
Ken Liu (劉宇昆, born 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy author and Chinese-to-English translator; "The Paper Menagerie" swept the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards, and his Three-Body Problem translation won a Hugo.
Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod (Kenneth Macrae MacLeod, born 1954, Stornoway, Scotland) is a Scottish science fiction author of nineteen novels from The Star Fraction (1995) to Beyond the Reach of Earth (2023), winner of three BSFA and three Prometheus Awards, and a friend of Iain Banks.
Ken Walibora
Ken Walibora (Kennedy Waliaula), 1965-2020, Kenyan novelist, journalist, and scholar writing in Kiswahili; author of Siku Njema and Ndoto ya Amerika, three-time Jomo Kenyatta Prize winner, and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
Kenan Orhan
Kenan Orhan, Turkish American short-story writer and novelist (I Am My Country, 2023; debut novel The Renovation, 2026), based in Kansas City; distinct from the 1971 Istanbul-born educator Orhan Kenan and from Prof. Dr. Kaan Orhan.
Kenji Nakagami
Kenji Nakagami (中上健次, 1946–1992) was a Japanese novelist from Shingu, Wakayama, who won the 1976 Akutagawa Prize for Misaki, the first winner born after World War II.
Kennedy Ryan
Kennedy Ryan, pen name of an American romance novelist, author of When You Are Mine (2014), the Skyland trilogy, and Reel; first Black writer to win the RITA Award (2019) and the romance Audie (2022).
Kenneth Burke
Kenneth Duva Burke (1897–1993), American literary theorist and critic of Pittsburgh birth and Andover, NJ residence; founder of dramatism and the pentad (act, scene, agent, agency, purpose), author of A Grammar of Motives and A Rhetoric of Motives.
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932), Scottish-born British writer and Bank of England Secretary, author of The Wind in the Willows (1908), Pagan Papers, The Golden Age, Dream Days, and The Reluctant Dragon.
Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch was an American poet and playwright of the New York School alongside John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara, who taught at Columbia University for over 40 years.