Writers and literary biographies

Makhdoom Nuh

Makhdoom Nuh (مخدوم نوح), a Sufi saint of Hala in Sindh, was a leading Suhrawardi figure and one of the earliest named classical Sindhi poets.

Maksim Bahdanovich (Belarusian: Максім Багдановіч, 1891–1917) was a Belarusian poet, translator, and critic, a founder of modern Belarusian literature whose only lifetime collection, Vyanok, appeared in 1913.

Maksim Haretski

Maksim Haretski (Belarusian: Максім Гарэцкі, 1893–1938) was a Belarusian writer, literary scholar, and lexicographer regarded as a founder of national Belarusian prose; he wrote Two Souls and the first history of Belarusian literature.

Maksim Tank

Maksim Tank (Максі́м Танк, born Jauhen Ivanavich Skurko) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator, born in 1912 and one of the most significant twentieth-century Belarusian poets.

Maksym Rylsky

Maksym Rylsky (Максим Рильський) was a Ukrainian lyric poet, translator, and academician, born and died in Kyiv, known as a master of classical verse and the sonnet.

Malcolm de Chazal

Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) was a Mauritian writer and painter who wrote in French, best known for Sens-Plastique, a volume of aphorisms acclaimed in Paris in 1948.

Malcolm Guite

Malcolm Guite (Ayodeji Malcolm Guite), born 1957 in Ibadan, Nigeria, is a British poet-priest, Church of England clergyman, and Girton College Cambridge chaplain (2003–2020) known for church-year sonnet sequences and Coleridge and Inklings scholarship.

Malik Muhammad Jayasi (मलिक मुहम्मद जायसी)

Malik Muhammad Jayasi (मलिक मुहम्मद जायसी), Sufi poet of Jayas near Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, wrote in Awadhi; his Padmavat (1540, Hijri 947) is the premier Hindavi premakhyan, retelling Ratansen and Padmavati's romance.

Mallinātha

Mallinātha (मल्लिनाथ), also Mallināthasūri, was a 14th and 15th century Sanskrit commentator from the Telugu country, known for the Sañjīvanī glosses on Kālidāsa and called the emperor of commentators.

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman (born 1962) is a British children's and YA author, creator of the Noughts & Crosses series and Pig-Heart Boy, UK Children's Laureate 2013–2015, first black laureate, OBE 2008, PEN Pinter Prize winner.

Malwida von Meysenbug

Malwida von Meysenbug (1816–1903) was a German writer, feminist, and educator, a 1848 revolutionary exile whose bestselling memoir Memoiren einer Idealistin inspired the first German women's movement.

Mamah Borthwick

Mamah Borthwick (Mamah Bouton Borthwick, 1869-1914), American translator of Ellen Key's The Morality of Woman and partner of Frank Lloyd Wright; murdered at Taliesin in 1914; subject of the 2023 biography A Brave and Lovely Woman.

Manaschi

A manaschi (Kyrgyz: манасчы) is a traditional Kyrgyz epic teller who performs the Manas epic without musical accompaniment; UNESCO inscribed the art on its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2009.

Mandla Langa

Mandla Langa (born 1950) is a South African novelist, poet, and journalist who wrote from exile for the ANC and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

Manfred Hausmann

Manfred Hausmann (1898–1986) was a German lyric poet and writer in Bremen, known for the novels Lampioon küßt Mädchen und kleine Birken and Abel mit der Mundharmonika.

Manfred Kyber

Manfred Kyber (1880–1933) was a Baltic German writer from Riga, remembered for his animal stories and fairy-tale plays; his collection Unter Tieren (1912) sold over 200,000 copies.

Manglesh Dabral

Manglesh Dabral (मंगलेश डबराल, 1948–2020) was a Hindi poet, prose writer, translator, and literary journalist from Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, known for Pahad Par Lalten (1981) and the Sahitya Akademi award.

Manik Bandopadhyay

Manik Bandopadhyay (19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956), born Prabodh Kumar Bandopadhyay, was an Indian Bengali novelist and short story writer whose harsh realism included Padma Nadir Majhi and Putulnacher Itikatha.

Manilius

Manilius is a Roman poet known only by name who authored the Astronomica, a five-book didactic poem on astrology written partly under Augustus and probably finished under Tiberius.

Manjhan

Manjhan (मंझन), full name Mir Sayyid Manjhan Shattari Rajgiri, was a north Indian Sufi poet of the Shattari order who wrote the Awadhi romance Madhumalati, active around 1545.

Maṅkha

Maṅkha (मङ्ख, also Maṅkhaka, मङ्खक) was a 12th-century Kashmiri Sanskrit poet, author of the 25-canto mahākāvya Śrīkaṇṭhacarita and the lexicon Maṅkhakośa, who flourished under king Jayasiṃha around 1140.

Manning Clark

Manning Clark (Charles Manning Hope Clark, 1915–1991) was an Australian historian best known for the six-volume A History of Australia (1962–1987) and as a prominent public intellectual.

Mannu Bhandari

Mannu Bhandari (मन्नू भंडारी), born Mahendra Kumari, was an Indian Hindi writer best known for the novels Aapka Bunty and Mahabhoj and for her role in the Nayi Kahani movement.

Manohar Shyam Joshi

Manohar Shyam Joshi (मनोहर श्याम जोशी; 1933 to 2006) was a Hindi novelist and satirist who won the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel Kyaap.

Manoj Das

Manoj Das (1934–2021) was an Indian writer of short stories, novels, and essays in Odia and English, regarded as a doyen of modern Odia literature.

Manouchehr Atashi

Manouchehr Atashi (منوچهر آتشی, 1931–2005) was an Iranian poet, translator, and journalist who gave the landscape and people of southern Iran a voice in modern Persian poetry.

Manuchehri

Manuchehri (منوچهری) was the pen name of Abū'l-Najm Aḥmad of Dāmghān, an 11th-century Persian court poet famed for nature descriptions, wine poetry, and the musammaṭ form.

Manuel Acuña

Manuel Acuña (full name Manuel Acuña Narro, 1849–1873) was a Mexican Romantic poet and playwright whose "Nocturno a Rosario" became one of the most popular poems in the Spanish language.

Manuel Antônio de Almeida

Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831–1861) was a Brazilian novelist whose Memórias de um sargento de milícias is considered the first urban novel in Brazilian literature.