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Lai He
Lai He (賴和, 1894–1943) was a Taiwanese physician, poet, novelist, and activist from Changhua, honored as the father of Taiwan new literature and a pioneer of Hoklo vernacular writing.
Lake Poets
The Lake Poets, also known as the Lake School, were English Romantic poets of the early 19th century, chiefly Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Robert Southey, who lived in the Lake District.
Lakshmi Nandan Bora
Lakshmi Nandan Bora (লক্ষ্মীনন্দন বৰা) was an Indian Assamese novelist and short story writer who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Patal Bhairavi and the Padma Shri.
Lakshminath Bezbaroa
Lakshminath Bezbaroa (লক্ষ্মীনাথ বেজবৰুৱা; 1864–1938) was an Assamese writer, satirist, and editor, called the father of the Assamese short story, who edited Jonaki and wrote Assam's anthem.
Laksmi Pamuntjak
Laksmi Pamuntjak (born 1971) is an Indonesian novelist, poet, journalist, and food writer based in Jakarta, whose novel Amba, set against Indonesia's 1965 massacres, became a national bestseller.
Lal Behari Day
Lal Behari Day (লালবিহারী দে; 1824 to 1892) was a Bengali Christian minister, professor, and writer, known for the novel Govinda Samanta and Folk-Tales of Bengal.
Lalithambika Antharjanam
Lalithambika Antharjanam (ലളിതാംബിക അന്തർജ്ജനം; 1909–1987) was an Indian author and social reformer who wrote in Malayalam, best known for her novel Agnisakshi, which won the 1977 Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award.
Lambda Literary Awards
Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys): annual US awards for LGBTQ+ literature, founded 1989 by Lambda Rising bookstore's Deacon Maccubbin, now 26 categories judged by panels, ceremony in New York City.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes (James Mercer Langston Hughes, 1901–1967) was an American poet, playwright, novelist, and columnist, a leading Harlem Renaissance figure known for jazz- and blues-inflected poems like "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," The Weary Blues, and "Harlem."
Lani Wendt Young
Lani Wendt Young, born 1973, is a Samoan writer and publisher known for the Telesā young adult fantasy series, the first series of YA novels set in Samoa.
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (兰陵笑笑生, "The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling") is the unidentified pseudonymous author of the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase).
Lara Love Hardin
Lara Love Hardin, American literary agent, ghostwriter, and author; founder of True Literary, ex-co-CEO of Idea Architects; wrote The Sun Does Shine and the memoir The Many Lives of Mama Love, a 2024 Oprah's Book Club pick.
Larry McMurtry
Larry McMurtry (1936–2021), American novelist, screenwriter, and antiquarian bookseller from Archer City, Texas; author of the Pulitzer-winning Lonesome Dove and Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain screenplay with Diana Ossana.
Larry Niven
Larry Niven (Laurence van Cott Niven, born 1938), American hard science fiction author, SFWA Grand Master 2014, creator of the Known Space future history and the Ringworld novels, five-time Hugo winner and frequent collaborator with Jerry Pournelle.
Lars Ahlin
Lars Ahlin (1915–1997) was a Swedish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, ranked among the leading Swedish novelists of the twentieth century; he debuted with Tåbb med manifestet in 1943.
Lars Amund Vaage
Lars Amund Vaage, born 1952 in Kvinnherad, Norway, is a Nynorsk author whose music-inflected novels include the breakthrough Rubato (1995) and the Brage Prize-winning bestseller Syngja (2012).
Lars Gustafsson
Lars Gustafsson (1936–2016) was a Swedish writer and philosopher, professor at the University of Texas at Austin, best known for the novel cycle Cracks in the Wall.
Lars Gyllensten
Lars Gyllensten (1921–2006) was a Swedish author, physician, and histologist who was permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy and chaired the Nobel Foundation from 1987 to 1993.
Lars Norén
Lars Norén was a Swedish poet, playwright, and director whose partly autobiographical family dramas of the early 1980s made him one of Sweden's internationally best-known dramatists.
Lars Saabye Christensen
Lars Saabye Christensen is a Norwegian novelist, poet, and screenwriter born in Oslo in 1953 whose breakthrough novel Beatles (1984) became one of Norway's biggest sales successes.
Larysa Hienijuš
Larysa Hienijuš (Ларыса Геніюш), born Miklaševič, was a Belarusian poet and General Secretary of the exiled Belarusian government; sentenced in 1949 to 25 years in Gulag camps, she died in 1983.
László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter, born in 1954, known for absurdist fiction in long winding sentences and the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
László Németh
László Németh (1901–1975) was a Hungarian writer, essayist, playwright, and physician, a leading interwar népi figure whose novels, notably Iszony, were translated into many languages.
Latifa al-Zayyat
Latifa al-Zayyat (لطيفة الزيات) was an Egyptian novelist, critic, and political activist, best known for her 1960 novel The Open Door and her leadership of the 1946 student movement.
Latife Tekin
Latife Tekin (born 1957) is a Turkish novelist and screenwriter known for blending magical realism, poverty, and migration in novels such as Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (1983).
Latin biography
Latin biography is the body of biographical writing composed in Latin at Rome, a Greek-derived genre whose leading authors were Cornelius Nepos, Plutarch, and Suetonius.
Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivel, born in Mexico City in 1950, is a Mexican novelist and screenwriter whose first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (1989), became one of the best-selling Latin American novels.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957), American author of the Little House series (1932–1943), fiction based on her frontier childhood; written with editor-daughter Rose Wilder Lane; The First Four Years posthumous 1971.
Laura Mestre Hevia
Laura Mestre Hevia (1867–1944) was a Cuban Hellenist, essayist, and translator, the first woman to translate the Iliad and Odyssey directly from ancient Greek into Spanish.
Lauren Weisberger
Lauren Weisberger (born 1977, Scranton, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist and former Anna Wintour assistant at Vogue whose 2003 debut The Devil Wears Prada spawned films, a West End musical, and over 12 million books sold.