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Kotaro Isaka
Kotaro Isaka (伊坂幸太郎) is a Japanese mystery and suspense novelist, born in 1971 in Chiba Prefecture, best known for Maria Beetle, published in English as Bullet Train.
Kottarathil Sankunni
Kottarathil Sankunni (കൊട്ടാരത്തിൽ ശങ്കുണ്ണി), born Vasudevan Unni, was an Indian Malayalam writer and poet (1855–1937) from Kottayam, best known for Aithihyamala, the eight-volume collection of Kerala's myths and legends.
Kottayam Pushpanath
Kottayam Pushpanath (കോട്ടയം പുഷ്പനാഥ്; born Pushpanathan Pillai, 1937–2018) was an Indian novelist who wrote more than 350 Malayalam detective and horror novels, creating the detectives Marxin and Pushparaj.
Kouji Mori
Kouji Mori (森恒二), born 1966, Japanese manga artist of Holyland, Suicide Island, and Sōsei no Taiga; high school friend of Kentaro Miura and supervisor of the resumed Berserk serialization since June 2022.
Koulsy Lamko
Koulsy Lamko is a Chadian playwright, novelist, and poet-musician who writes in French, known for La phalène des collines, a novel on the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Kovilan
Kovilan (കോവിലൻ) is the pen name of Kandanisseri Vattamparambil Velappan Ayyappan (1923–2010), an Indian Malayalam novelist and freedom fighter who served two decades in the navy and army before writing.
Koyoharu Gotouge (吾峠呼世晴)
Koyoharu Gotouge (吾峠呼世晴) is the anonymous Japanese manga artist, shown as a bespectacled alligator avatar, who created Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2016-2020 across 23 volumes with over 220 million copies in circulation.
Krishan Chander
Krishan Chander (کرشن چندر; 1914–1977) was an Urdu short-story writer and novelist of the Progressive Writers' Movement who wrote more than 500 stories and received the Padma Bhushan in 1969.
Krishna Hutheesing
Krishna Nehru Hutheesing (1907–1967), Indian writer, youngest sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit; independence activist, jail veteran, author of With No Regrets and We Nehrus.
Krishna Sobti
Krishna Sobti (कृष्णा सोबती; 1925–2019) was an Indian Hindi novelist known for bold women characters and Punjabi-inflected prose; she won the Jnanpith Award in 2017 and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Zindaginama.
Krishnaram Das
Krishnaram Das (কৃষ্ণরাম দাস) was a Bengali poet of the Mangalkavya tradition, active in the second half of the 17th century, and the only poet to compose five separate Mangal Kavyas.
Krišjānis Barons
Krišjānis Barons (1835–1923) was a Latvian folklorist, writer, and publicist known as the "Father of the Dainas," who published 217,996 Latvian folk songs in the six-volume Latvju dainas.
Kristijonas Donelaitis
Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714–1780) was a Lutheran pastor in Prussian Lithuania whose poem Metai, written about 1760–1770, is regarded as the founding work of Lithuanian secular literature.
Kristin Gore
Kristin Gore (born 1977), American writer and daughter of Al Gore; comedy writer on Futurama and Saturday Night Live, author of Sammy's Hill, Sammy's House, and Sweet Jiminy, and co-director of The Beanie Bubble (2023).
Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah (born 1960), also known for The Nightingale, The Four Winds, The Women, is an American novelist and former lawyer with over 25 million books sold; The Nightingale film with the Fanning sisters arrives 2027 and The Fire publishes May 2027.
Kristmann Guðmundsson
Kristmann Guðmundsson (1901–1983) was an Icelandic novelist and poet who lived in Norway from 1924 to 1938, wrote more than thirty novels, and became the second most translated Icelandic author after Halldór Laxness.
Kristofer Janson
Kristofer Janson (1841–1917) was a Norwegian writer, theologian, and Unitarian minister, a leading late-nineteenth-century author and pioneer of fiction in Landsmål who also served Unitarian congregations in Minneapolis and Kristiania.
Krittibas
Krittibas (কৃত্তিবাস) names two subjects in Bengali literature: a Kolkata poetry magazine founded in 1953 under Sunil Gangopadhyay, and Krittibas Ojha, the 15th-century poet whose Bengali Ramayana became a household classic.
Kṛṣṇamiśra
Kṛṣṇamiśra (कृष्णमिश्र) was an eleventh-century Sanskrit poet and dramatist at the Chandella court of central India, author of the Prabodhacandrodaya, a six-act allegorical drama in which personified philosophies fight for the human soul.
Kṛttibās Ojhā
Kṛttibās Ojhā (কৃত্তিবাস ওঝা) was a Bengali poet of the late 14th century, traditionally c. 1381–1461, who produced the first Bengali translation of the Ramayana, the Kṛttivāsī Rāmāyaṇa.
Kshetrayya
Kshetrayya (క్షేత్రయ్య), traditionally born Varadayya, is the attributed author of Telugu padams devoted to Muvva Gopala, a form of Krishna, and is traditionally placed in the seventeenth century.
Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan
Ku. Pa. Rajagopalan (கு. ப. ரா), known by his pen name Ku. Pa. Ra, was a Tamil writer and pioneer of the modern Tamil short story from 1902 to 1944.
Kuber Nath Rai
Kuber Nath Rai, also written Kubernath Ray, was an Indian Hindi writer and scholar best known as a master of the lalit nibandh, winning the Moortidevi Award for Kamdhenu.
Kukrit Pramoj
Kukrit Pramoj (คึกฤทธิ์ ปราโมช) was a Thai politician, writer, and journalist who served as Prime Minister of Thailand in 1975 and was named a National Artist for Literature in 1985.
Kulwant Singh Virk
Kulwant Singh Virk (ਕੁਲਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਕ, 1921–1987) was an Indian short-story writer who wrote chiefly in Punjabi and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Navein Lok.
Kumar Vishwas (कुमार विश्वास)
Kumar Vishwas (कुमार विश्वास), pen name of Vishwas Kumar Sharma, born 1970 in Pilkhuwa, Uttar Pradesh, is a popular Hindi poet of shringar ras, known for "Koi Deewana Kahta Hai", three poetry collections, and stage recitations.
Kumāra Vālmīki
Kumāra Vālmīki (ಕುಮಾರವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿ), pen name of Narahari of Torave, is a Kannada poet of about 1500 CE who wrote the Torave Ramayana, the best-known Kannada retelling of the Ramayana.
Kumaran Asan (കുമാരനാശാൻ)
Kumaran Asan (കുമാരനാശാൻ), 1873-1924, Malayalam poet and social reformer of Kayikkara, Travancore; disciple of Sree Narayana Guru and first SNDP Yogam secretary; author of Veena Poovu, Nalini, Duravastha, and Karuna; died in the Pallana boat accident.
Kumaratunga Munidasa
Kumaratunga Munidasa (1887–1944) was a Sinhalese grammarian, poet, and language reformer who led the Hela movement to purify the Sinhala language in the 1930s and 1940s.
Kumaravyasa
Kumaravyasa (ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸ) was a fifteenth-century Kannada poet whose given name was Narayana. His Karnata Bharata Kathamanjari retells the first ten books of the Mahabharata in verse.