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Klaus Groth
Klaus Groth, full name Claus Johannes Groth, was a German poet and philologist from Heide who established Low German as a literary language with his 1852 collection Quickborn.
Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann (1906–1949) was a German novelist, essayist, and playwright, son of Thomas Mann, best known for the exile novel Mephisto and his antifascist exile work.
Klaus Rifbjerg
Klaus Rifbjerg (1931–2015) was a Danish writer, critic, and editor who worked in every genre; his novel Den kroniske uskyld and 1960 collection Konfrontation named a whole movement in Danish modernism.
Klāvs Elsbergs
Klāvs Elsbergs (1959–1987) was a Latvian poet, translator, and editor, the son of poet Vizma Belševica, who published two poetry collections and died at 28 in unclarified circumstances.
Knut Faldbakken
Knut Faldbakken, born 1941 in Oslo, is a Norwegian novelist of psychological fiction known for Sin mors hus (1969), the dystopian Uår, and Adams dagbok (1978), with books translated into 18 languages.
Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (Knut Pedersen, 1859–1952), Norwegian novelist and 1920 Nobel Literature laureate for Growth of the Soil; author of Hunger, pioneer of psychological modernism, and Nazi sympathizer who gave his medal to Goebbels.
Knuth Becker
Knuth Becker (1891–1974) was a Danish novelist and poet whose nine-volume partly autobiographical cycle about Kai Gøtsche, published 1932–1956, is the largest of its kind in Danish literature.
Knuts Skujenieks
Knuts Skujenieks (1936–2022) was a Latvian poet and translator who wrote more than 800 poems during a seven-year sentence in Soviet labor camps in Mordovia, unpublished until 1990.
Ko Un
Ko Un (고은) is a South Korean poet born in 1933, a former Buddhist monk known for Maninbo (Ten Thousand Lives), a 30-volume cycle of 4,001 poems.
Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶)
Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶, 1763–1827), real name Kobayashi Yatarō, was an Edo-period haikai poet from Kashiwabara, Shinano, who left about 20,000 hokku in his humorous colloquial "Issa-chō" style and wrote Father's Last-Days Diary and Ora ga Haru.
Kočo Racin
Kočo Racin (Кочо Рацин), born Kosta Solev Apostolov, was a Macedonian poet and communist revolutionary whose 1939 collection Beli mugri is considered the cornerstone of modern Macedonian poetry.
Kofi Awoonor
Kofi Awoonor, born George Awoonor-Williams, was a Ghanaian poet, novelist, and diplomat rooted in Ewe tradition, killed in the 2013 al-Shabaab attack on Nairobi's Westgate mall.
Koikawa Harumachi
Koikawa Harumachi (恋川春町, 1744–1789), real name Kurakoshi Itaru, was a samurai writer and illustrator of mid-Edo Japan who founded the kibyōshi genre with Kinkin sensei eiga no yume in 1775.
Kolbein Falkeid
Kolbein Falkeid (1933–2021) was a Norwegian poet and lyricist from Haugesund, one of the most widely read postwar Norwegian poets, who published more than twenty collections and wrote the lyrics to Vamp's "Tir n'a Noir".
Kong Bunchhoeun
Kong Bunchhoeun (គង្គ ប៊ុនឈឿន), 1939-2016, Khmer novelist, poet, and songwriter, wrote 200+ songs for the golden-age Cambodian pop scene and Sinn Sisamouth, was imprisoned in 1963, survived the Khmer Rouge, won the 2000 ASEAN literary award, and died in exile in Norway.
Kong Shangren
Kong Shangren (孔尚任; 1648–1718) was a Qing dynasty playwright and poet from Qufu, Shandong, a 64th-generation descendant of Confucius best known for the 1699 drama The Peach Blossom Fan.
Konstancja Benisławska
Konstancja Benisławska, née Ryck (1747–1806), was a Polish-language poet of the Polish Livonian nobility, author of the religious verse collection Pieśni sobie śpiewane, published in Vilnius in 1776.
Konstantin Balmont
Konstantin Balmont (1867–1942) was a Russian Symbolist poet, perhaps the best-known living Russian poet of his era, who published 29 books and translated Poe, Shelley, and Whitman.
Konstantin Miladinov
Konstantin Miladinov (Константин Миладинов, 1830 to January 1862) was a poet and folklorist from Struga who compiled Bulgarian Folk Songs with his brother Dimitar and wrote the lyric T'ga za jug.
Konstantin Paustovsky
Konstantin Paustovsky (Константи́н Паусто́вский) was a Russian Soviet writer and master of lyrical prose, best known for the six-part autobiographical epic The Story of a Life.
Konstantin Simonov
Konstantin Simonov (Константин Симонов) was a Soviet poet, novelist, and war correspondent whose 1941 lyric "Wait for Me" became a defining poem of the war against Nazi Germany.
Konstantin Sluchevsky
Konstantin Sluchevsky (Konstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky; 1837–1904) was a Russian poet and prose writer whose dark, philosophical verse was mocked by critics but later claimed by the Symbolists, especially Bryusov.
Konstantin Velichkov
Konstantin Velichkov (Константин Величков, 1855–1907) was a Bulgarian poet, novelist, painter, and statesman who helped prepare the 1876 April Uprising and served as Minister of National Education from 1894.
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (კონსტანტინე გამსახურდია) was a Georgian novelist, one of the most influential 20th-century Georgian writers, known for the modernist Dionysus' Smile and historical novels of medieval Georgia.
Korean Novelists' Association
The Korean Novelists' Association (한국소설가협회) is a South Korean association of fiction writers founded in 1974; it describes itself as the only organization composed solely of novelists.
Kornel Filipowicz
Kornel Filipowicz (1913–1990) was a Polish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter based in Kraków, the longtime partner of the Nobel laureate poet Wisława Szymborska.
Korneli Kekelidze
Korneli Kekelidze (კორნელი კეკელიძე, 1879–1962) was a Georgian philologist and theologian who founded the scholarly study of old Georgian literature, helped found Tbilisi State University, and became an academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
Koryun
Koryun (Կորյուն, also Koriwn) was an Armenian vardapet and author, c. 380–450, whose Life of Mashtots is the earliest surviving biographical work in Armenian literature.
Koshikibu no Naishi
Koshikibu no Naishi (小式部内侍, died 1025) was a Japanese waka poet of the mid-Heian period and daughter of the poet Izumi Shikibu, best known for poem 60 in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Kostis Palamas
Kostis Palamas (Κωστής Παλαμάς, 1859–1943) was a Greek poet, customarily called the national poet of Greece, who wrote the Olympic Hymn for the 1896 Games.