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Luigi Meneghello
Luigi Meneghello (1922–2007) was an Italian writer, partisan, and University of Reading professor known for his experimental prose and for I piccoli maestri and Libera nos a malo.
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), Italian playwright, novelist, and short-story writer from Agrigento, Sicily; Nobel Prize in Literature 1934; author of Six Characters in Search of an Author and One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.
Luigi Pulci
Luigi Pulci (1432–1484) was an Italian poet of Florence, best known for Morgante, a comic chivalric poem in ottava rima that preceded Boiardo and Ariosto.
Luis Alfredo Arango
Luis Alfredo Arango (1935–2001) was a Guatemalan poet and narrator from Totonicapán whose work centers on Guatemalan history, memory, and indigenous identity, and the first winner of the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize.
Luís Bernardo Honwana
Luís Bernardo Honwana, born in 1942, is a Mozambican writer and journalist whose single story collection, Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso, became a founding work of Mozambican prose.
Luis Cardoza y Aragón
Luis Cardoza y Aragón (1901 or 1904–1992) was a Guatemalan poet, essayist, and art critic who lived in exile in Mexico, best known for Guatemala, las líneas de su mano (1955).
Luis Carlos López
Luis Carlos López, or el Tuerto López, was a Colombian poet known for bringing the prosaic, everyday details of provincial life into Spanish American poetry.
Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda Bidón (1902–1963) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '27 whose complete poetry is gathered under the title La realidad y el deseo.
Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões (c. 1524/5–1580) was a Portuguese poet and soldier, regarded as Portugal's national poet and author of the 1572 epic Os Lusíadas, which celebrates Vasco da Gama's voyage to India.
Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) was a Spanish Baroque poet from Córdoba, the leading exponent of culteranismo, known for the Fábula de Polifemo and the unfinished Soledades.
Luis de León
Luis de León, or Fray Luis de León, was a Spanish Augustinian friar, poet, and professor at the University of Salamanca, imprisoned by the Inquisition from 1572 to 1576.
Luis de Lión
Luis de Lión, pen name of José Luis de León Díaz, was a Kaqchikel Maya Guatemalan writer and teacher, considered Guatemala's first indigenous writer in Spanish.
Luis G. Urbina
Luis G. Urbina (Luis Gonzaga Urbina, 1864–1934) was a Mexican poet, chronicler, journalist, and diplomat, nicknamed El Viejecito, whose melancholy verse bridges romanticism and modernism.
Luís Gama
Luís Gama, full name Luiz Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (1830–1882), was a Brazilian abolitionist and self-taught lawyer who freed more than 500 enslaved people through freedom suits.
Luís Kandjimbo
Luís Kandjimbo, pen name of Luís Domingos Francisco, is an Angolan essayist, literary critic, and writer born in 1960, and a former Vice-Minister of Culture of Angola.
Luis Martín-Santos
Luis Martín-Santos (1924–1964) was a Spanish psychiatrist, novelist, and anti-Franco militant, known for Tiempo de silencio (1962), the novel that opened the experimental phase of postwar Spanish fiction.
Luis Rafael Sánchez
Luis Rafael Sánchez, born in 1936 in Humacao, Puerto Rico, is a playwright and novelist regarded as the most internationally recognized Puerto Rican writer of his generation.
Luis Rosales
Luis Rosales, full name Luis Rosales Camacho, was a Spanish poet and critic of the Generation of '36 who won the 1982 Premio Cervantes, Spain's highest literary award.
Luis Vidales
Luis Vidales, full name Luis Nelson Vidales Jaramillo, was a Colombian avant-garde poet and communist militant whose 1926 book Suenan timbres made him a central figure of the Colombian vanguard.
Luise Rinser
Luise Rinser (1911–2002) was a German writer of novels, stories, essays, and diaries, one of the most widely read postwar German authors; her breakthrough novel was Mitte des Lebens (1950).
Luiz Costa Lima
Luiz Costa Lima is a Brazilian literary critic and theorist, born in 1937, known for his theory of the "control of the imaginary" and for over twenty books.
Luiz Ruffato
Luiz Ruffato (born 1961) is a Brazilian writer known for the novel Eles eram muitos cavalos and the five-volume Inferno provisório about the working class.
Lumírovci
The lumírovci, or Lumír group, were Czech writers of the 1870s and 1880s grouped around the journal Lumír, known as the cosmopolitan school and led by Jaroslav Vrchlický.
Luo Fu
Luo Fu (洛夫), pen name of Mo Luofu, was a Chinese-language poet born in 1928 who led Taiwanese modernism, co-founded the journal Genesis, and published the long poem Driftwood.
Luuk Gruwez
Luuk Gruwez (born 1953 in Kortrijk) is a Flemish poet, essayist, and prose writer, a central figure in Dutch-language poetry since his breakthrough collection De feestelijke verliezer (1985).
Lycophron
Lycophron of Chalcis was a Greek tragic poet of the Alexandrian Pleiad who worked at the Library of Alexandria and is credited with the cryptic poem Alexandra.
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, born in 1947, is an American short-story writer and translator known for very short fiction and for translations of Proust's Swann's Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Lydia Koidula
Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (1843–1886), was an Estonian national poet and dramatist whose patriotic poem "Mu isamaa on minu arm" became an unofficial anthem.
Lygia Bojunga
Lygia Bojunga, born in 1932, is a Brazilian children's author known for A Bolsa Amarela and the first Brazilian to win both the Hans Christian Andersen and Astrid Lindgren awards.
Lygia Fagundes Telles
Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923 to 2022) was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer who won the 2005 Prêmio Camões and wrote the dictatorship-era novel As Meninas.