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Kim Dong-ni
Kim Dong-ni (1913–1995), real name Kim Si-jong, was a South Korean novelist and literary theorist who established the pure-literature tradition and championed Korean shamanism and myth in fiction.
Kim Eok
Kim Eok (김억) was a Korean poet, critic, and translator who pioneered free verse in colonial Korea and published Haepariui norae, the first modern Korean poetry collection.
Kim Hyesoon
Kim Hyesoon (김혜순, born 1955) is a South Korean poet known for shamanic, feminist, formally experimental poetry. Her Autobiography of Death won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize, the first won by a Korean poet.
Kim Ji-ha
Kim Ji-ha (김지하; born Kim Yeong-il, 1941–2022) was a South Korean poet and democracy activist whose 1970 satirical poem "Five Bandits" made him a leading opponent of the Park Chung-hee dictatorship.
Kim Jong-gil
Kim Jong-gil, born Kim Chi-gyu (1926 – 1 April 2017), was a South Korean poet, translator, and English literature scholar best known for the poem "Seongtanje" and his English translations of Korean poetry.
Kim Kwang-kyun
Kim Kwang-kyun (김광균, pen name Udu) was a South Korean poet, born in Kaesong in 1914, regarded as a leading 1930s modernist and pioneer of Korean imagist poetry; his first collection, Wasadeung, was published in 1939.
Kim Kwang-lim
Kim Kwang-lim, born Kim Chung-nam, was a South Korean poet and leading postwar modernist known for imagist poems like "Flowers' Rebellion"; he died in 2024, aged 94.
Kim Si-sup
Kim Si-sup (김시습, 1435–1493) was an early Joseon scholar and writer who became a monk after Sejo's usurpation and wrote Geumo sinhwa, Korea's first classical Chinese fiction collection.
Kim Sowol
Kim Sowol (김소월, 1902–1934), pen name of Kim Jeong-sik, was a Korean poet of the Japanese colonial period, best known for the 1922 folk-song poem "Jindallae-kkot" (Azaleas).
Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson (born 1952), American science fiction novelist, author of the Mars trilogy, the Science in the Capital trilogy, and the climate novel The Ministry for the Future; PhD under Fredric Jameson, winner of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy awards.
Kim Su-young
Kim Su-young (김수영, 1921–1968) was a South Korean poet who began as a modernist and, after the 1960 April Revolution, became a leading voice of participatory poetry.
Kim Sung-han
Kim Sung-han (김성한, pen name Hanam, 1919–2010) was a South Korean novelist and poet known for satirical postwar short stories, winning the first Dongin Literary Award in 1956.
Kim Young-ha
Kim Young-ha (김영하, born 1968) is a South Korean novelist and essayist, known for I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and Diary of a Murderer.
Kim Yun-sik
Kim Yun-sik (김윤식, 1936–2018) was a South Korean literary historian and critic who taught at Seoul National University and became one of the central scholars of modern Korean literature.
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995), English comic novelist, poet, and critic, author of Lucky Jim (1954); Booker Prize 1986 for The Old Devils; father of Martin Amis; knighted 1990; moved from Labour left to Thatcherite right.
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai, Indian-born novelist in New York, daughter of Anita Desai; author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), Booker Prize-winning The Inheritance of Loss (2006), and Booker-2025-shortlisted The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny (2025).
Kiran Nagarkar
Kiran Nagarkar (किरण नगरकर; 1942–2019) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote in both Marathi and English, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for Cuckold in 2000.
Kiril Hristov
Kiril Hristov (Кирил Христов, 1875–1944) was a Bulgarian poet, playwright, and translator born in Stara Zagora, one of the most popular Bulgarian poets of the early twentieth century.
Kirsten Thorup
Kirsten Thorup, born 1942 in Gelsted on Funen, is a Danish author of poetry, novels, drama, and television scripts, central to Danish literature since the late 1960s.
Kisa'i Marvazi
Kisa'i Marvazi (کسایی مروزی), born in Marv in 953, was a Persian poet remembered as a pioneer of religious and ethical poetry and author of the earliest Persian elegy on Karbala.
Kisen Hōshi
Kisen Hōshi (喜撰法師), Monk Kisen, was an early Heian Japanese poet named among the Six Poetic Immortals, remembered for a single surviving poem in the Hyakunin Isshu.
Kishwar Naheed
Kishwar Naheed (کشور ناہید) is a Pakistani Urdu poet and prose writer born in 1940, considered a leading feminist voice in Urdu poetry and known for opposing religious extremism.
Kitahara Hakushū
Kitahara Hakushū (北原白秋), real name Kitahara Ryukichi, was a renowned Japanese poet and tanka poet who wrote roughly 1,200 children's songs and helped define modern Japanese poetry before his death in 1942.
Kitamura Kigin
Kitamura Kigin (北村季吟; 1624–1705) was a Japanese poet and classical scholar of the early Edo period, remembered as the teacher who granted Matsuo Bashō his haikai initiation.
Kiyohara no Motosuke
Kiyohara no Motosuke (908–990) was a Japanese waka poet counted among the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, and the father of Sei Shōnagon, author of The Pillow Book.
KJ Charles
KJ Charles is a British romance author who spent twenty years as a London publishing editor. She is known for her queer historical romance, often called "Heyer but gayer."
Kjartan Fløgstad
Kjartan Fløgstad, born 1944, is a Norwegian novelist, poet, essayist, and translator who writes in Nynorsk; his breakthrough novel Dalen Portland (1977) won the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Kjell Espmark
Kjell Espmark (1930–2022) was a Swedish poet, novelist, and literary historian, a member of the Swedish Academy from 1981 who chaired its Nobel Committee for many years.
Kjell Westö
Kjell Westö, born 1961 in Helsinki, is a Finland-Swedish novelist and journalist known for epic novels set in Helsinki; he won the Finlandia Prize in 2006 and the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2014.
Klabund
Klabund was the pen name of Alfred Georg Hermann Henschke (1890–1928), a German poet, dramatist, and translator who adapted Asian literature; his play Der Kreidekreis (1925) later inspired Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.