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Li Boyuan
Li Boyuan (1867–1906) was the pen name of Li Baojia, a late Qing novelist and newspaper pioneer who wrote Guanchang Xianxing Ji, one of the four great condemnation novels.
Li E
Li E (厉鹗, 1692–1752) was a Chinese Qing dynasty poet, ci lyricist, and scholar who led the Zhexi school of ci poetry and compiled the Songshi Jishi anthology.
Li Guan (Tang dynasty)
Li Guan (李观) was a Tang dynasty prose writer and poet (766–794), known for his argumentative fu and his association with Han Yu's ancient-style prose circle.
Li Guangtian
Li Guangtian (李广田) was a Chinese essayist, poet, and educator, one of the 1930s "Han Garden poets," who served as president of Yunnan University from 1957 to 1960.
Li Hua (Tang dynasty)
Li Hua (李華) was a Tang dynasty prose writer and poet known for the anti-war rhapsody Diaogu zhanchang wen and as a forerunner of the classical prose revival.
Li Jianwu
Li Jianwu (1906–1982), who wrote under the pen name Liu Xiwei, was a Chinese playwright, critic, and translator of French literature, best known for his complete Chinese Molière.
Li Jinfa
Li Jinfa (李金发, 1900–1976) was a Chinese poet and sculptor, born in Meixian, Guangdong, who introduced French Symbolism into Chinese poetry and helped found modern sculpture education in China.
Li Lüyuan
Li Lüyuan (李绿园, 1707–1790) was a Qing dynasty writer and juren from Baofeng, Henan, author of Qilu Deng, a 108-chapter vernacular novel about a prodigal son's reform.
Li Shen
Li Shen (李绅, 772–846), courtesy name Gongchui, was a Tang dynasty poet and chancellor whose poems on farmers' sufferings are still memorized by Chinese children.
Li Yongping
Li Yongping (李永平, 1947–2017), Sarawak-born Taiwanese novelist and translator, author of Jiling Chunqiu and the Moon River trilogy; first Malaysian-Chinese winner of Taiwan's National Award for Arts.
Li-Young Lee (李立扬)
Li-Young Lee (李立扬), born 1957 in Jakarta, is an American poet of Rose, The City in Which I Love You, and The Invention of the Darling; refugee son of Mao's physician, 2024 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner.
Liam O'Flaherty
Liam O'Flaherty (Liam Ó Flaithearta, 1896–1984) was an Irish novelist and short story writer from Inis Mór, Aran Islands, author of The Informer, Famine, and the Irish-language collection Dúil, and co-founder of the first Communist Party of Ireland.
Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty (born 1966) is an Australian novelist whose ten novels have sold more than 25 million copies and include Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers.
Liang Chenyu
Liang Chenyu (梁辰鱼, courtesy name Bolong) was a Ming dynasty playwright, sanqu poet, and musician from Kunshan, Jiangsu, whose play Huansha Ji first carried Kunqu onto the stage.
Liang Hong
Liang Hong (梁鸿), courtesy name Boluan, was an Eastern Han poet and recluse from Fufeng, known for the satirical Song of the Five Sighs and his respected marriage with Meng Guang.
Liang Shiqiu
Liang Shiqiu (梁實秋, born Liang Zhihua, 1903–1987) was a Chinese essayist, literary critic, and translator, the first Chinese to translate Shakespeare's complete plays into vernacular prose.
Liang Yusheng
Liang Yusheng (梁羽生), born Chen Wentong (1924–2009), was a Chinese novelist from Guangxi who wrote the first new school wuxia novel and 35 such novels between 1954 and 1983.
Liao Yan
Liao Yan (廖燕, 1644–1705) was a Chinese prose writer, playwright, and thinker of the early Qing dynasty who attacked the eight-legged examination essay and Neo-Confucian orthodoxy.
Libanius
Libanius (Λιβάνιος) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician of Antioch in Roman Syria, c. 314–393, the most distinguished teacher of rhetoric in the fourth-century Eastern Roman Empire.
Lília Momplé
Lília Momplé (born 1935) is a Mozambican fiction writer from Ilha de Moçambique whose works, including the novel Neighbours, retell Mozambique's colonial and postcolonial history from the perspective of women.
Lilian Jackson Braun
Lilian Jackson Braun (1913–2011), American cozy mystery author of the 29-book The Cat Who... series (1966–2007) featuring columnist Jim Qwilleran and Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum; 18-year hiatus, Edgar-nominated return in 1986; MWA award endowed by her estate.
Liliana Heker
Liliana Heker (born 1943, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist who co-founded the influential magazines El Escarabajo de Oro and El Ornitorrinco.
Lima Barreto
Lima Barreto, born Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto, was a Brazilian novelist and journalist (1881–1922) whose fiction attacked racism and official nationalism in the First Republic.
Lin Bai
Lin Bai (林白, born 1958) is a Chinese novelist known for A War of One's Own and as a leading figure of 1990s personal and women's writing.
Lin Haiyin
Lin Haiyin (林海音, 1918–2001), born Lin Hanying, was a Taiwanese writer and editor best known for the autobiographical collection My Memories of Old Beijing and for championing postwar Taiwanese writers.
Lin Jinlan
Lin Jinlan (林斤澜; born Lin Qinglan, 1923–2009) was a Chinese short story writer from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, who wrote about 200 stories and never a novel, grouped with Wang Zengqi as a peak of post-1976 short fiction.
Lin King
Lin King (金翎, born 1993) is a Taiwanese-American writer and translator whose English translation of Yang Shuang-zi's Taiwan Travelogue won the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2026 International Booker Prize, the first Mandarin-translated winner.
Lin Shu
Lin Shu (林紓, 1852–1924) was a Chinese writer and translator who rendered more than 160 Western and Japanese novels into classical Chinese without knowing any foreign language.
Lin Wenyue
Lin Wenyue (林文月, 1933–2023) was a Taiwanese scholar, essayist, and translator who taught Chinese literature at National Taiwan University and made the first complete Chinese translation of The Tale of Genji.
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang (林语堂) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor whose bestsellers explained China to the West and who spent three decades building the MingKwai Chinese typewriter.