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Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) was an American poet, essayist, and translator central to the San Francisco Renaissance; he emceed the 1955 Six Gallery reading where Allen Ginsberg first performed "Howl."
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎)
Kenzaburō Ōe (大江健三郎, Oe Kenzaburo), 1935-2023, Japanese novelist and 1994 Nobel Literature laureate from Ehime; wrote A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry, Hiroshima Notes; father of Hikari; anti-nuclear, Article 9 activist.
Kenzo Kitakata
Kenzo Kitakata (北方謙三, Kitakata Kenzō) is a Japanese novelist, born in 1947, who made his name in hard-boiled fiction before writing large-scale historical novels like his 13-volume Sangokushi.
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile, or Bra Willie (1938–2018), South African poet, ANC exile activist, and National Poet Laureate; author of My Name is Afrika (1971) and recipient of the 2008 Order of Ikhamanga in Silver.
Keri Hulme
Keri Hulme (1947-2021), New Zealand novelist and poet of Ngāi Tahu and Orkney descent; her debut novel The Bone People (1984, Spiral Collective) won the 1985 Booker Prize, first for New Zealand and for a debut novel.
Keris Mas
Keris Mas, pen name of Kamaludin Mohamad (1922–1992), was a Malaysian writer, a leading figure of the ASAS 50 movement, and the first Sasterawan Negara in 1981.
Kersti Merilaas
Kersti Merilaas, born Eugenie Moorberg, was an Estonian poet, playwright, and children's author who debuted with Maantee tuuled in 1938 as a member of the Arbujad poets.
Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Ekman, née Hjorth, is a Swedish novelist and essayist born in 1933 who debuted as a crime writer in 1959 and became one of Sweden's most widely read authors.
Kerstin Thorvall
Kerstin Thorvall, full name Kerstin Hilma Margareta Thorvall (1925–2010), was a Swedish author and illustrator whose frank 1976 novel Det mest förbjudna is now a classic.
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai
Kesari Balakrishna Pillai (1889–1960) was a Malayalam writer, critic, and journalist, best known as editor of the newspaper Kesari and for turning readers toward European literature.
Keshavsut
Keshavsut (केशवसुत) was the pen name of Krishnaji Keshav Damle, a Marathi poet regarded as the father of modern Marathi poetry, writing from 1885 to 1905.
Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson (Kevin James Anderson, born 1962, Racine, Wisconsin), American science fiction and fantasy novelist; co-author of the Dune prequels with Brian Herbert, creator of Saga of Seven Suns, WordFire Press publisher.
Kevin Kwan
Kevin Kwan, Singaporean-born American novelist, author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy (2013, 2015, 2017), later Sex and Vanity and Lies and Weddings; Time 100 honoree whose 2018 film adaptation grossed $238.5 million.
Khachatur Abovyan
Khachatur Abovyan (Խաչատուր Աբովյան), born in 1809 near Yerevan, was an Armenian writer and educator regarded as the founder of modern Eastern Armenian literature; he disappeared mysteriously in 1848.
Khadija Mastoor
Khadija Mastoor (خدیجہ مستور, 1927–1982) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist and short story writer best known for Aangan, widely regarded as one of the finest Urdu novels.
Khái Hưng
Khái Hưng (1896–1947), real name Trần Khánh Giư, was a Vietnamese novelist, playwright, and journalist from Hải Phòng, a leading writer of the Tự Lực văn đoàn literary group.
Khal Torabully
Khal Torabully is a Mauritian and French poet, born in Port Louis in 1956, who coined coolitude, a poetics of the indenture experience reclaiming the term "coolie".
Khaled Hosseini
Khaled Hosseini, Afghan-American novelist and former physician, author of The Kite Runner (2003), A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed, and Sea Prayer; UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador since 2006 and founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation.
Khalil Hawi
Khalil Hawi (خليل حاوي; 1919 – 1982) was a Lebanese poet, critic, and professor of Arabic literature at the American University of Beirut, a pioneer of modern Arabic poetry.
Khamsing Srinawk
Khamsing Srinawk (คำสิงห์ ศรีนอก), pen name Lao Khamhom, is a Thai short-story writer from northeastern Thailand, born in 1930 and named National Artist in Literature in 1992.
Khaqani
Khaqani (خاقانی) was a Persian poet of the 12th century, born in Shirvan, regarded as one of the greatest and most difficult masters of the qaṣida.
Khushwant Singh (ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ)
Khushwant Singh (ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ, 1915–2014), Indian novelist, historian and journalist, author of Train to Pakistan and A History of the Sikhs; editor of the Illustrated Weekly and Hindustan Times; Rajya Sabha member 1980–86; Padma Vibhushan 2007. Not the contemporary Chandigarh author of the same name.
Khvandamir
Khvandamir (خواندمیر), born Ghiyas al-Din ibn Humam al-Din al-Husayni, was a Persian historian of Herat who served Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal courts and wrote the universal history Habib al-Siyar.
Ki no Tomonori
Ki no Tomonori (紀友則) was an early Heian Japanese poet, one of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets and a compiler of the Kokin Wakashū, the first imperial poetry anthology.
Ki no Tsurayuki
Ki no Tsurayuki (紀貫之) was an early Heian Japanese poet and courtier who co-compiled the first imperial poetry anthology, the Kokin Wakashū, and wrote the Tosa Diary.
Ki. Rajanarayanan
Ki. Rajanarayanan (கி. ராஜநாராயணன்), known as Ki.Ra., was a Tamil novelist, short story writer, and folklorist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 for Gopallapurathu Makkal.
Kia Asamiya (麻宮 騎亜)
Kia Asamiya (麻宮騎亜), pen name of Michitaka Kikuchi, is a Japanese manga artist and animator born 1963 in Kitakami, Iwate, creator of Silent Möbius and Steam Detectives, Nadesico character designer, and artist on Batman, X-Men, and Marvel's Ultraman comics.
Kikuchi Kan
Kikuchi Kan (real name Kikuchi Hiroshi) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and publisher who founded Bungei Shunjū in 1923 and created the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes.
Kim Chun-su
Kim Chun-su (김춘수, 1922–2004) was a South Korean poet and critic whose poem "Flower" is among the best-known works of modern Korean poetry, and who developed a poetics of "meaningless poetry."
Kim Dong-in
Kim Dong-in (김동인, 1900–1951) was a Korean novelist of the Japanese colonial period who founded the literary magazine Changjo in 1919 and wrote "Gamja" and "Baettaragi."