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Lina Kostenko
Lina Kostenko (Ліна Костенко), born 19 March 1930, is a Ukrainian poet and a leading figure of the shistdesiatnyky, whose works include Marusia Churai (1979) and Berestechko (1999).
Lincoln Child
Lincoln Child (born 1957, Westport, Connecticut) is an American thriller novelist, coauthor with Douglas Preston of the Agent Pendergast series starting with Relic (1995), and author of solo Jeremy Logan novels such as Deep Storm and The Third Gate. Not to be confused with thriller writer Lee Child.
Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell (Linda C. Emery, born 1945), American teacher and writer, widow of Bruce Lee; author of the 1975 memoir Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew, consultant on Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, and Bruce Lee Foundation co-founder.
Lindsey Collen
Lindsey Collen, born 1948 in South Africa, is a Mauritian novelist and activist whose novel The Rape of Sita won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was banned.
Ling Mengchu
Ling Mengchu (1580–1644), a Ming dynasty writer from Wucheng, wrote the Erpai vernacular story collections, Pai'an jingqi (1628) and Erke pai'an jingqi (1632), totaling 78 stories.
Lino Novás Calvo
Lino Novás Calvo (1903–1983) was a Galician-born Cuban writer and journalist, author of Pedro Blanco, el negrero (1933) and a leading Cuban short-story writer who went into US exile after the Cuban Revolution.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958) was a German-Jewish novelist and anti-fascist exile whose historical novels, including Jud Süss (1925), made him one of the most widely translated German authors.
Lionel Abrahams
Lionel Abrahams (1928–2004) was a South African poet, novelist, critic, editor, and publisher whose magazine The Purple Renoster and Renoster Books brought the first volumes of Oswald Mtshali and Mongane Wally Serote into print during apartheid.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver, 1957) is an American novelist and Spectator columnist, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003), winner of the 2005 Orange Prize and adapted into Lynne Ramsay's 2011 film starring Tilda Swinton.
Lionel Trilling
Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) was an American literary critic, teacher, and novelist who spent his career at Columbia University; his best-known book, The Liberal Imagination (1950), argued that literary imagination was essential to democracy.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), also Lisa Brennan, is an American memoirist, daughter of Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs; her debut memoir Small Fry (2018) was a NYT bestseller about her Silicon Valley childhood.
List of children's literature writers
List of children's literature writers: compilations of authors and illustrators for children and young adults, from Comenius, the Grimms, Carroll, and Alcott to Seuss, Sendak, and Carle, organized by age, nationality, or era, and documented in Something About the Author and the CLCD database.
List of Indian poets
List of Indian poets: reference compilations of poets in India's 24 recognized literary languages, from Valmiki and Kalidasa to modern figures, organized by language, period, and Sahitya Akademi honors.
List of poets
A list of poets is a reference compilation that enumerates poets, including biographical directories, working listings, and scholarly indexes. The International Who's Who in Poetry 2025 carries nearly 4,000 entries.
List of Russian-language writers
List of Russian-language writers: authors of prose and poetry in Russian regardless of ethnicity or residence. Includes canon figures, émigré waves, Russophone writers in Kazakhstan and Israel, translingual authors like Shteyngart, and contemporary names from AST and the 2026 Yasnaya Polyana longlist.
List of Western fiction authors
List of Western fiction authors: writers of American West fiction, from founders Owen Wister and Zane Grey, through pulp-era Ernest Haycox and Louis L'Amour, to revisionists McMurtry, McCarthy, and Proulx.
Lithuanian Writers' Union
The Lithuanian Writers' Union (Lietuvos rašytojų sąjunga, LWU) is an association of about 360 professional poets, prose writers, and translators in Lithuania, headquartered in Vilnius since 1990.
Liu Baiyu
Liu Baiyu (刘白羽, born Liu Yuzan) was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and war correspondent who won the Stalin Prize in 1950 and the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1991.
Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (刘慈欣), born 1963, is a Chinese science-fiction writer and former engineer whose 2015 Hugo Award for The Three-Body Problem was a first for translated novels.
Liu Dakui
Liu Dakui (刘大櫆, 1698–1779) was a Qing dynasty prose writer and literary theorist from Tongcheng, Anhui, the middle of the Three Ancestors of the Tongcheng school.
Liu E
Liu E, also known as Liu Tieyun, was a late Qing Chinese writer and oracle bone collector best known as the author of The Travels of Lao Can.
Liu Kexiang
Liu Kexiang (劉克襄; real name Liu Tzu-kuei, born 1957) is a Taiwanese poet, essayist, and naturalist writer whose bird-centered work established nature writing as a genre in Taiwan.
Liu Ling (poet)
Liu Ling (劉靈), courtesy name Bolun, was a Chinese poet of Pei state, in present-day Anhui, known as one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
Liu Rushi
Liu Rushi (柳如是, 1618–1664), known as Hedong Jun, was a Chinese courtesan, poet, calligrapher, and painter of the late Ming and early Qing, one of the Eight Beauties of Qinhuai.
Liu Xinglong
Liu Xinglong (刘醒龙, born 1956) is a Chinese novelist from Hubei known for realist rural fiction and winner of the Lu Xun and Mao Dun literature prizes.
Liu Xinwu
Liu Xinwu (刘心武) is a Chinese writer born in 1942 in Chengdu, best known for the 1977 story The Class Teacher, the inaugural work of scar literature.
Liu Yichang
Liu Yichang (1918–2018), born Liu Tongyi in Shanghai, was a Chinese novelist and editor, a central figure of Hong Kong literature known for the experimental novels The Drunkard and Duidao.
Liu Zaifu
Liu Zaifu (劉再復, born 1941, Fujian Nan'an) is a Chinese literary theorist, former head of the CASS Institute of Literature, exponent of literary subjectivity, co-author with Li Zehou of Farewell to Revolution (1995), and self-exiled writer in the United States since 1989.
Liu Zhenyun
Liu Zhenyun (刘震云), born 1958, is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter from Yanjin, Henan, a leading "new realism" writer who won the 2011 Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Liverpool poets
The Liverpool poets, also called the Mersey poets, are Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Brian Patten, whose 1967 anthology The Mersey Sound brought poetry to a mass audience.