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Miguel Otero Silva
Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985) was a Venezuelan novelist, journalist, and politician and a leading exponent of social literature, known for Casas muertas and co-founding the daily El Nacional.
Miguel Syjuco
Miguel Syjuco (born 1976) is a Filipino novelist, journalist, and professor at New York University Abu Dhabi whose debut novel Ilustrado (2010) won the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Miguel Torga
Miguel Torga, pen name of Adolfo Correia Rocha (1907–1995), was a Portuguese poet, short-story writer, and physician, remembered for his sixteen-volume Diário and stories of Trás-os-Montes.
Mihai Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu (Mihail Eminovici, 1850–1889), Romania's national poet and leading Romantic, author of Luceafărul, editor of Timpul, Junimea member, whose manuscripts and contested legacy define Romanian literature.
Mihail Sadoveanu
Mihail Sadoveanu (born Mihail Ursachi, 1880–1961) was a major Romanian novelist and academician, author of Baltagul, Hanu-Ancuței, and Frații Jderi; elected to the Romanian Academy in 1921 and later a communist-era political figure.
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz (1773–1805) was a Hungarian poet of Debrecen, considered the greatest poet of the Hungarian Enlightenment, known for the Lilla Songs and the comic epic Dorottya.
Mihály Vörösmarty
Mihály Vörösmarty, in Hungarian Vörösmarty Mihály, was a Hungarian poet, dramatist, and critic of the Romantic movement, best known for Szózat (1836) and the epic Zalán futása.
Mihri Hatun
Mihri Hatun (Mihrî Hâtun), pen name Mihrî, was an Ottoman divan poet born in Amasya around 1455-1460, the first Ottoman woman poet whose complete divan survives.
Mika Waltari
Mika Waltari (1908–1979) was a Finnish author whose historical novel The Egyptian (1945), set in ancient Egypt, became the highest-selling Finnish novel worldwide and was filmed in 1954.
Mikael Nalbandian
Mikael Nalbandian (Միքայել Նալբանդյան) was an Armenian writer, publicist, and philosopher, born in 1829, who wrote the lyrics of Armenia's national anthem, "Mer Hayrenik".
Mikael Niemi
Mikael Niemi (born 1959) is a Swedish author from Pajala in Norrbotten whose comic and crime novels draw on the Tornedalian region, best known for Popular Music from Vittula.
Mikhail Bakhtin (Михаил Михайлович Бахтин)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (Михаил Михайлович Бахтин, 1895–1975), Russian philosopher and philologist; creator of polyphony, dialogism, carnivalization, and the chronotope; author of Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics and the Rabelais book.
Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков)
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков), 1891–1940, Russian writer, playwright, and trained doctor. Author of The Master and Margarita, The White Guard, and The Heart of a Dog; his work was censored under Stalin and mostly published posthumously, with the key novel appearing censored in 1966–67.
Mikhail Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов)
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), 1814–1841, Russian Romantic poet and author of A Hero of Our Time; exiled for 'Death of the Poet', killed in a duel with Martynov at Pyatigorsk.
Mikhail Naimy
Mikhail Naimy (ميخائيل نعيمة) was a Lebanese writer and poet who co-founded the New York Pen League with Kahlil Gibran and wrote The Book of Mirdad.
Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Prishvin (Михаил Пришвин) was a Russian and Soviet prose writer known for nature writing and children's books, and for diaries kept from 1905 to 1954.
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) was a Russian satirical writer and publicist who under the pen name N. Shchedrin wrote The History of a Town, The Golovlyov Family, and the Fairy Tales.
Mikhas Charot
Mikhas Charot (Міхась Чарот), pen name of Mikhail Kudzelka, was a Belarusian poet, playwright, and editor who led the literary organization Maladniak and was shot in Minsk in 1937.
Mikhas Lynkov
Mikhas Lynkov (Belarusian: Міхась Лынькоў) was a Belarusian Soviet prose and children's writer who wrote Mikolka-paravoz and the epic Memorable Days, named People's Writer of the Byelorussian SSR in 1962.
Mikhas Zaretski
Mikhas Zaretski (Міхась Зарэцкі; pen name of Mikhail Yavkhimavich Kasyankou, 1901–1937) was a Belarusian prose writer, playwright, translator, and critic, a leading romantic figure in Soviet Belarusian prose who was executed in 1937 and rehabilitated posthumously.
Mikheil Javakhishvili
Mikheil Javakhishvili (მიხეილ ჯავახიშვილი), real surname Adamashvili, was a Georgian writer, born in 1880, who founded the twentieth-century Georgian realist novel and was shot in Stalin's Great Purge in 1937.
Miklós Radnóti
Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet, one of the most translated of his century, murdered on a death march in 1944; his last poems were found in a notebook on his exhumed body.
Mikołaj Rej
Mikołaj Rej, also spelled Rey, was a Polish Renaissance writer, poet, and Calvinist activist who wrote exclusively in Polish and is traditionally called the father of Polish literature.
Milan Begović
Milan Begović (1876–1948) was a Croatian writer and playwright best known for his dramas and for the libretto of Jakov Gotovac's opera Ero s onoga svijeta (1936).
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera (1929–2023), Czech-French novelist and essayist, author of The Joke, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being; exiled to France in 1975, stripped of Czechoslovak citizenship in 1979, wrote in French from 1993.
Miles Franklin
Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (1879–1954), was an Australian writer and feminist whose debut novel My Brilliant Career (1901) led to the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Milo Urban
Milo Urban, born Milan Anton Urban (1904–1982), was a Slovak prose writer, journalist, and translator who modernized interwar Slovak prose, best known for the novel Živý bič (1927).
Milton Hatoum
Milton Hatoum, born in Manaus in 1952 to a Lebanese immigrant family, is a Brazilian novelist whose Amazon-set fiction includes Dois irmãos and has won the Jabuti Prize three times.
Min Jin Lee (이민진)
Min Jin Lee (이민진, born 1968) is a Korea-born American novelist, author of Free Food for Millionaires, the National Book Award finalist Pachinko, and American Hagwon (2026), third of her Diaspora Quartet; New York State Author Laureate 2025–2027.
Min Thu Wun
Min Thu Wun (မင်းသုဝဏ်), born U Wun, was a Burmese poet and scholar who helped launch the Khit-San literary movement and pioneered Burmese children's poetry.