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Louise Bogan
Louise Bogan (1897–1970) was an American poet and literary critic who reviewed poetry for The New Yorker for 38 years and became the first woman Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.
Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich (Karen Louise Erdrich, born 1954) is an Ojibwe American novelist of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, author of Love Medicine, The Round House (National Book Award), and The Night Watchman (Pulitzer), and owner of Birchbark Books.
Louise Glück
Louise Glück (1943–2023), American poet of austere, plainspoken lyricism; author of Firstborn (1968), The Wild Iris (1992, Pulitzer), Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014, National Book Award); 2020 Nobel laureate, US poet laureate 2003–2004, Yale professor.
Louise Kennedy (writer)
Louise Kennedy, Irish writer from Holywood near Belfast, author of Trespasses (2022) and The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac; former chef, Women's Prize shortlist, BAFTA-winning Channel 4 adaptation, lives in Sligo.
Louise Mensch
Louise Mensch (Louise Bagshawe), born 1971, British Conservative MP for Corby 2010-2012, chick-lit novelist with 2 million sales, Murdoch committee questioner, later Heat Street journalist in New York covering Trump-Russia.
Louise Penny
Louise Penny, born Toronto 1958, Canadian crime author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series set in fictional Three Pines, Québec; 18 million copies, 32 languages, eight Agatha Awards, Clinton collaboration State of Terror.
Lu Guimeng
Lu Guimeng (died 881) was a late Tang dynasty Chinese poet, essayist, and agronomist who lived as a scholar-recluse farming his estate at Fuli near Suzhou.
Lu Jia
Lu Jia (陆贾) was a Western Han dynasty essayist, diplomat, and advisor to Liu Bang, known for the Xinyu (New Discourses) and for twice securing the submission of Nanyue.
Lu Xun (鲁迅)
Lu Xun (鲁迅), pen name of Zhou Shuren (1881–1936), Shaoxing-born founder of modern Chinese literature; author of 'Diary of a Madman', 'The True Story of Ah Q', Call to Arms; New Culture Movement leader.
Lu Yao
Lu Yao (路遥, born Wang Weiguo, 1949–1992) was a Chinese novelist from Shaanxi whose novella Life and novel Ordinary World won the Mao Dun Prize.
Lualhati Bautista
Lualhati Bautista (1945–2023) was a Filipina novelist and screenwriter known for honest realism and women's issues, winning Palanca Awards for Gapô, Dekada '70, and Bata, Bata, Paano Ka Ginawa?
Lucan
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, 39–65 CE) was a Roman poet whose epic Bellum Civile, on the war between Caesar and Pompey, is his only surviving work.
Lucebert
Lucebert, the pseudonym of Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk (1924–1994), was a Dutch poet and visual artist who led the experimental Vijftigers movement and is counted among the major Dutch-language poets of the twentieth century.
Luci Tapahonso
Luci Tapahonso, born 1953, is a Navajo poet from Shiprock, New Mexico, who served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation from 2013 to 2015.
Lucian
Lucian of Samosata, a second-century Greek-language satirist of Syrian parentage born in Commagene, wrote the True Stories and dialogues among the dead that shaped later literature.
Lucila Gamero de Medina
Lucila Gamero de Medina (1873–1964) was a Honduran novelist, physician, and feminist activist, the first Honduran novelist, best known for Blanca Olmedo, the first novel by a woman in Central America.
Lucilius
Gaius Lucilius (c. 180–102/1 BC) was a Roman poet of Suessa Aurunca who wrote thirty books of satires from about 130 BC and helped establish Roman verse satire.
Lucinda Riley
Lucinda Riley, also known as Lucinda Edmonds, was an Irish novelist best known for the Seven Sisters series inspired by the Pleiades, published from 2014 to 2023.
Lúcio Cardoso
Lúcio Cardoso (Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, 1912–1968) was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, poet, and diarist from Minas Gerais, a central figure of 1930s and 1940s Brazilian psychological fiction.
Lucretius
Lucretius, or Titus Lucretius Carus, was a Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher of the mid-90s to mid-50s BCE, author of the six-book poem De rerum natura.
Lucy Hawking
Lucy Hawking, British journalist and children's author born 1969 (Goodreads: 1970), daughter of Stephen Hawking, co-creator of the seven-book George's Secret Key science series and the Princess Olivia climate series.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables (1908), raised in Cavendish, P.E.I.; over 50 million copies sold in 36 languages; also wrote the Emily trilogy.
Lucy Steeds
Lucy Steeds (born 1994, London) is a British novelist whose debut The Artist (John Murray Press, 2025), set in 1920s Provence, won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025.
Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian Renaissance poet of the Este court at Ferrara, author of the chivalric epic Orlando furioso (1516, expanded 1532, 46 cantos in ottava rima), plus Satires and comedies; his dispute with Tasso and influence on English literature mark him out.
Ludu Daw Amar
Ludu Daw Amar (လူထုဒေါ်အမာ, 1915-2008), Burmese journalist and writer, co-founded the Ludu newspaper and press in Mandalay with Ludu U Hla, wrote editorials during his 1953 imprisonment, and authored works on Burmese performing arts and Mandalay culture.
Ludu U Hla
Ludu U Hla (လူထုဦးလှ, 1910–1982) was a Burmese journalist and publisher who founded the Ludu newspaper in Mandalay with his wife, the writer Ludu Daw Amar.
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), born in Bergen and professor at the University of Copenhagen, was a Danish-Norwegian dramatist and historian whose satirical comedies, including Jeppe på Bjerget and Erasmus Montanus, founded modern Danish-Norwegian literature.
Ludwig Anzengruber
Ludwig Anzengruber, who wrote under the pseudonym Ludwig Gruber, was an Austrian dramatist and novelist known for peasant plays and the novels Der Schandfleck and Der Sternsteinhof.
Ludwig Börne
Ludwig Börne, born Juda Löb Baruch (1786–1837), was a German political writer and journalist who led German revolutionary liberalism from Paris exile with his Letters from Paris.
Ludwig Thoma
Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921) was a German author, publisher, and satirist, regarded as the Bavarian writer par excellence, known for the Lausbubengeschichten and the comedy Moral.