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Magda Szabó
Magda Szabó (Szabó Magda, 1917–2007) was a Hungarian novelist, poet, and dramatist, one of the most widely translated Hungarian authors, known above all for her 1987 novel The Door.
Maggie O'Farrell
Maggie O'Farrell (born 1972, Northern Ireland) is an Irish-British novelist, author of Hamnet (Women's Prize and NBCC Award 2020), the Costa-winning The Hand That First Held Mine, the memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, and Land (2026).
Magtymguly Pyragy
Magtymguly Pyragy, also rendered Makhtumkuli Fraghi, was an 18th-century Turkmen poet and Sufi philosopher who wrote in spoken Turkmen and is called the father of Turkmen poetry.
Magzhan Zhumabayev
Magzhan Zhumabayev (Мағжан Жұмабаев; 1893–1938) was a Kazakh poet, teacher, and Alash movement figure, remembered as a founder of modern Kazakh poetry and the poema genre.
Mahadev Desai
Mahadev Desai (મહાદેવ દેસાઈ, 1892–1942) was an Indian independence activist, journalist, and writer who served as Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary from 1917 until his death.
Mahadevi Varma (महादेवी वर्मा)
Mahadevi Varma (महादेवी वर्मा), 1907–1987, leading Hindi Chhayavad poet, its fourth pillar with Nirala, Pant, Prasad; author of Yama (Jnanpith 1982), Neehar, Deepshikha; Padma Vibhushan 1988.
Mahagama Sekara
Mahagama Sekara (මහගම සේකර; 1929–1976) was a Sri Lankan Sinhala-language poet, lyricist, painter, and filmmaker who broke the traditional quatrain form; his 1977 collection Prabuddha is widely seen as his finest work.
Mahasweta Devi (মহাশ্বেতা দেবী)
Mahasweta Devi (মহাশ্বেতা দেবী, 1926–2015), Bengali writer and activist born in Dhaka; author of Aranyer Adhikar, "Draupadi," and Mother of 1084; Jnanpith 1996, Magsaysay 1997, Sahitya Akademi 1979.
Mahim Bora
Mahim Bora (মহিম বৰা; 1924–2016) was an Indian Assamese writer and educationist at Nowgong College whose novel Edhani Mahir Hanhi won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2001; he received the Padma Shri in 2011.
Mahmoud Darwish (محمود درويش)
Mahmoud Darwish (محمود درويش, 1941–2008), Palestine's most eminent poet, author of over 30 poetry books including "Identity Card" and "Rita and the Rifle," PLO executive committee member who wrote the 1988 Declaration of Independence and died in Houston after heart surgery.
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (محمود دولتآبادی, born 1940) is an Iranian novelist and playwright, a leading figure of contemporary Persian prose known for Kelidar and Missing Soluch.
Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (M. A. Behazin)
Mahmoud Etemadzadeh (1915–2006), known by the pen name Behazin (بهآذین), was an Iranian fiction writer and translator who introduced Persian readers to Rolland, Balzac, Shakespeare, and Sholokhov.
Mahmoud Kianoush
Mahmoud Kianoush (محمود کیانوش, 1934–2021) was an Iranian poet, writer, and translator known as the founder of children's poetry in Iran; he moved to London in 1974.
Mahmoud Messadi
Mahmoud Messadi (محمود المسعدي; Mahmud al-Mas'adi, 1911–2004) was a Tunisian writer and politician, considered the foremost Tunisian narrative fiction writer and a pioneer of modern Arabic literature.
Mahmoud Shukair
Mahmoud Shukair (محمود شقير; born 1941 in Jabal al-Mukabbar, Jerusalem) is a Palestinian writer of stories, novels, and children's books, winner of the 2011 Mahmoud Darwish Prize.
Mahmud Taymur
Mahmud Taymur (محمود تيمور, 1894–1973) was an Egyptian writer from a leading literary family who wrote more than fifty books and helped establish the modern Arabic short story.
Mahmut Makal
Mahmut Makal (1930–2018) was a Turkish writer and village teacher whose book Bizim Köy (Our Village, 1950) founded Turkish village literature with its realist accounts of rural poverty.
Mahtob Mahmoody
Mahtob Mahmoody (born 1979), American author and daughter of Betty Mahmoody; held in Iran 1984-1986 with her mother, subject of Not Without My Daughter, author of My Name is Mahtob (2015).
Mai Jia
Mai Jia (麦家, real name Jiang Benhu, born 1964) is a Chinese novelist known for the espionage novels Decoded, In the Dark, and The Message.
Maila Talvio
Maila Talvio, born Maria Winter and married name Mikkola, was a Finnish novelist and translator whose Helsinki historical trilogy Itämeren tytär (1929–1936) developed the Finnish historical novel.
Maironis
Maironis, pen name of Jonas Mačiulis (1862–1932), was a Lithuanian poet and Catholic priest regarded as the most prominent Lithuanian poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Maithili Sharan Gupt
Maithili Sharan Gupt (मैथिलीशरण गुप्त, 1886–1964) was a Hindi poet from Chirgaon near Jhansi whom Mahatma Gandhi honored as Rashtrakavi; his best-known works are Bharat-Bharati and the epic Saket.
Maitreyi Devi
Maitreyi Devi (মৈত্রেয়ী দেবী) was an Indian poet and novelist writing in Bengali, best known for the autobiographical novel Na Hanyate, her response to Mircea Eliade's novel about their romance in 1930s Calcutta.
Maj Sjöwall
Maj Sjöwall (1935–2020) was a Swedish author and translator who, with her partner Per Wahlöö, wrote the ten Martin Beck novels of 1965 to 1975, credited with founding modern Scandinavian crime fiction.
Majaz Lucknawi
Majaz Lucknawi (مجاز لکھنوی), born Asrar-ul-Haq, was an Indian Urdu poet of the Progressive Writers' Movement, best known for the popular nazm "Aawara" and the 1938 collection Aahang.
Majeed Amjad
Majeed Amjad (مجید امجد) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, born in Jhang in 1914 and ranked among the founding figures of the modern Urdu nazm, though he published almost nothing in his lifetime.
Majgull Axelsson
Majgull Axelsson (born 1947) is a Swedish journalist and novelist whose fiction portrays vulnerable people; her breakthrough novel Aprilhäxan (1997) won the August Prize.
Májovci
Májovci, the May school, were a Czech literary group of the late 19th century, named after Mácha's poem Máj and led by Jan Neruda, Vítězslav Hálek, and Karolina Světlá.
Makhambet Otemisuly
Makhambet Otemisuly (1803 or 1804 – 1846) was a Kazakh poet, composer, and warrior who helped lead the 1836–1838 uprising against Khan Zhangir and the Russian Empire.
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
Makhanlal Chaturvedi (माखनलाल चतुर्वेदी; 1889–1968), who wrote as Ek Bharatiya Atma, was an Indian Hindi poet and journalist jailed 12 times for nationalist writing, winner of the first Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi in 1955.