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Kumbhan Das
Kumbhan Das (कुम्भनदास) was a sixteenth-century Braj Bhasha poet of the Ashtachhap, the eight poet-devotees of the Pushtimarg, deputed by Vallabhacharya to sing kirtan before Shrinathji at Govardhan, with about 500 surviving padas.
Kume Masao
Kume Masao (久米正雄), a haiku poet under the pen name Santei, was a Japanese novelist and playwright of the Taishō and Shōwa periods, known for Hotarugusa (1918).
Kundanika Kapadia
Kundanika Kapadia (1927–2020), who wrote as Snehadhan, was a Gujarati novelist, short-story writer, and editor whose feminist novel Saat Pagla Aakashma won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1985.
Kuntala Kumari Sabat
Kuntala Kumari Sabat (Odia: କୁନ୍ତଳା କୁମାରୀ ସାବତ) was an Odia poet, novelist, and physician, remembered as the first significant female poet of modern Odisha and its first woman doctor.
Kunwar Narayan
Kunwar Narayan (कुँवर नारायण) was an Indian Hindi poet, critic, and translator, a leading figure of modern Hindi poetry and winner of the 2008 Jnanpith Award.
Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935) was a German writer, satirist, and lawyer, one of the Weimar Republic's most widely read publicists, writing as Peter Panter and Theobald Tiger.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922–2007), American satirical novelist of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle, Dresden POW, GE publicist, resister of the science-fiction label, and also a visual artist.
Kusumagraj (कुसुमाग्रज)
Kusumagraj (कुसुमाग्रज), pen name of Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (1912–1999), was a leading Marathi poet, playwright, and novelist; author of Vishakha and Natasamrat; winner of the 1974 Sahitya Akademi, 1988 Jnanpith, and 1991 Padma Bhushan awards.
Kuttikrishna Marar
Kuttikrishna Marar (1900–1973) was a Malayalam literary critic and linguist, best known for Bharathaparyatanam, his critical study of the Mahabharata, and Kala Jeevitham Thanne, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and Kendra Sahitya Akademi awards.
Kuvempu
Kuvempu (ಕುವೆಂಪು), pen name of Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa (1904–1994), Kannada poet and Rashtrakavi; author of Sri Ramayana Darshanam, first Kannada Jnanpith winner (1967), and the Karnataka state anthem.
Kuwaiti Writers Association
The Kuwaiti Writers Association (رابطة الأدباء الكويتيين) is a literary society in Kuwait founded in November 1964, best known for its monthly literary magazine Al-Bayan, published since 1966.
Kuzma Chorny
Kuzma Chorny (Belarusian: Кузьма Чорны), pen name of Mikalai Karlavich Ramanoŭski (1900–1944), was a Belarusian prose writer and dramatist often called the founder of the Belarusian novel.
Kuzman Shapkarev
Kuzman Shapkarev (Кузман Шапкарев) was a Bulgarian folklorist and teacher born in Ohrid in 1834, best known for his six-volume collection of Bulgarian folk songs and tales.
Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes, born in Ghana in 1962, is a Jamaican poet and editor, author of some twenty poetry collections and poet laureate of Jamaica since 2024.
Kyallo Wadi Wamitila
Kyallo Wadi Wamitila, born 1966 in Machakos, Kenya, is a Kenyan scholar and novelist who writes in Swahili and is a leading figure of present-day Kenyan Swahili writing.
Kyiv School (poetry)
The Kyiv School (Київська школа поезії) was a Ukrainian poetic group of the late 1960s that wrote hermetic free verse and was banned from print until the 1980s.
Kyōka Izumi (泉鏡花)
Izumi Kyoka (泉鏡花, 1873–1939), real name Kyotaro, was a Japanese novelist and playwright of romance and fantasy, author of Koya Hijiri and Tenshu Monogatari, Ozaki Koyo's disciple, and one of Kanazawa's three great writers.
Kyokutei Bakin
Kyokutei Bakin (曲亭馬琴, 1767–1848), born Takizawa Okikuni, was a Japanese writer of popular fiction, described as Japan's first professional writer and known for Nansō Satomi Hakkenden.
L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), American author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and 13 Oz sequels; also Father Goose, His Book, the 1902 stage musical, and the Oz Film Manufacturing Company.
L. J. Smith (author)
L. J. Smith (1958–2025), whose full name was Lisa Jane Smith, was an American writer of young adult fiction known for The Vampire Diaries and Night World. Her publisher describes her as.
L. P. Hartley
L. P. Hartley, full name Leslie Poles Hartley (1895–1972), was an English novelist and short-story writer whose reputation rests chiefly on The Go-Between and the Eustace and Hilda trilogy.
La mayor
La mayor, Spanish for "the eldest," is how Victoria Ocampo, the eldest of the six Ocampo sisters, is distinguished from her sisters, notably the writer Silvina Ocampo; she founded the magazine Sur.
Labhshankar Thakar
Labhshankar Thakar (લાભશંકર ઠાકર) was a Gujarati poet, playwright, and Ayurvedic physician, a leading modernist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1991 and co-wrote the first absurd play in Gujarati.
Ladislav Fuks
Ladislav Fuks (1923–1994) was a Czech prose writer best known for psychological fiction about fear, persecution, and the Holocaust, including Pan Theodor Mundstock and The Cremator.
Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé
Ladislav Nádaši-Jégé, born Ladislav Nádaši (1866–1940), was a Slovak physician and prose writer from Dolný Kubín, a leading exponent of Slovak naturalism whose works include Adam Šangala and Cesta životom.
Lady Caroline Lamb
Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828), English aristocrat and novelist, wife of future Prime Minister Lord Melbourne; famous for her 1812 affair with Byron and her scandalous 1816 roman a clef Glenarvon.
Lady Colin Campbell
Lady Colin Campbell (Georgia Ariana Ziadie, b. 1949), Jamaican-born royal biographer and socialite; title from 1974 marriage to Lord Colin Campbell; wrote Diana in Private (1992) and Meghan and Harry: The Real Story (2020).
Lady Ise
Lady Ise (伊勢), also known as Ise no go, was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period, active from the 870s to about 938 and ranked with Ono no Komachi.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), English aristocrat, poet, and letter writer; author of the Turkish Embassy Letters and promoter who introduced smallpox variolation to Britain after observing it in Constantinople.
Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo, 小泉八雲), 1850–1904, Greek-born writer of Irish-Greek parentage who worked as a journalist in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Martinique, then settled in Japan, naturalized in 1896, and wrote Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan and Kwaidan.