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Minae Mizumura
Minae Mizumura (水村美苗) is a Japanese novelist and essayist known for the prize-winning A True Novel and the 2008 essay The Fall of Japanese in the Age of English.
Minamoto no Michitomo
Minamoto no Michitomo (源通具, 1171–1227) was a Japanese court noble and waka poet who served as one of the six compilers of the imperial anthology Shinkokin Wakashū, completed in 1205.
Minamoto no Shigeyuki
Minamoto no Shigeyuki (源重之), a mid-Heian Japanese waka poet who died around 1000, is counted among the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals and appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Minamoto no Shitagō
Minamoto no Shitagō (源順, 911–983) was a mid-Heian period Japanese poet and scholar who compiled the Wamyō Ruijushō, Japan's oldest surviving semantically classified dictionary, and served as one of the Five Men of the Pear Chamber.
Minamoto no Toshiyori
Minamoto no Toshiyori (源俊頼, 1055–1129) was a Japanese poet of the late Heian period who compiled the fifth imperial waka anthology, the Kinyō Wakashū, and wrote the poetics treatise Toshiyori Zuinō.
Minna Canth
Minna Canth, born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnsson (1844–1897), was a Finnish writer and playwright, the first Finnish-language woman writer, whose birthday, 19 March, is Finland's Day of Equality.
Mir Abdul Hussain Sangi
Mir Abdul Hussain Sangi (مير عبدالحسين سانگي) was a Sindhi poet and prose writer of the Talpur dynasty who founded the Sindhi ghazal by fusing Persian conventions with Sindhi idiom.
Mir Amman
Mir Amman (میر امن), or Mir Amman Dehlavi, was an Urdu prose writer from Delhi who worked at Fort William College; his Bagh-o-Bahar became a foundational text of Urdu prose.
Mir Mosharraf Hossain
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (মীর মশাররফ হোসেন) was a Bengali novelist and playwright best known for Bishad Sindhu, an epic novel on the martyrdom of Imam Hossain at Karbala.
Mir Taqi Mir
Mir Taqi Mir (میر تقی میر, 1723–1810), called Khuda-e-Sukhan, was an 18th-century Urdu ghazal poet born in Agra who wrote six divans, the tazkira Nikat ush-Shu'ara, and the autobiography Zikr-i Mir, dying in Lucknow.
Miriam Tlali
Miriam Tlali (1933–2017) was a South African novelist and short-story writer whose Muriel at Metropolitan (1975) was the first novel published by a Black woman in South Africa.
Mirjaqip Dulatuli
Mirjaqip Dulatuli (Міржақып Дуlatuly), also known as Mirzhakyp Dulatov, was a Kazakh poet and Alash Orda leader who penned the national awakening text Oyan! Qazaq (1909).
Miron Białoszewski
Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) was a Polish poet, prose writer, and playwright, a major figure of twentieth-century Polish literature known for his experimental, colloquial poetic language.
Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani
Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani (1854–1896) was an Iranian writer and nationalist ideologue of the late Qajar era, executed in Tabriz in 1896 for alleged links to the Shah's assassination.
Mirza Fatali Akhundov
Mirza Fatali Akhundov (Mirzə Fətəli Axundov, 1812–1878) was an Azerbaijani writer, philosopher, and literary critic called the "Muslim Molière"; his six comedies founded Azerbaijani drama, and a 1873 Baku performance began professional theater there.
Mirza Kalich Beg
Mirza Kalich Beg (مرزا قليچ بيگ; 1853–1929), honorifically styled Shams-ul-Ulama, was a Sindhi writer and civil servant who wrote several hundred books and pioneered the Sindhi novel.
Mirza Shafi Vazeh
Mirza Shafi Vazeh (Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh, pen name Vazeh) was an Azerbaijani poet, calligrapher, and teacher born in Ganja in 1794, who became known to Europe through German translations of his poems.
Mirzo Tursunzoda
Mirzo Tursunzoda (1911–1977) was a Tajik Soviet poet and playwright, chairman of the Writers' Union of the Tajik SSR from 1946 and winner of the Lenin Prize.
Misri Shah
Syed Misri Shah (سيد مصري شاه) was a Sindhi Sufi poet and saint of Nasarpur, Sindh, titled the King of Sindhi Kafi for his pioneering sung lyric poetry.
Missouri Williams
Missouri Williams is an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, and editor living in London, known for The Doloriad (2022) and the Booker Prize-longlisted second novel The Vivisectors (2026).
Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom (born 1958, Passaic, New Jersey), American author and Detroit Free Press sports columnist; wrote Tuesdays with Morrie (1997), the bestselling memoir, plus novels like The Five People You Meet in Heaven; founder of SAY Detroit and the Have Faith Haiti orphanage.
Mitsuharu Kaneko
Mitsuharu Kaneko (金子光晴, 1895–1975), real name Yasukazu, was a Japanese poet known for antiwar and anti-establishment verse through the wartime years, most notably the collection Same (Sharks, 1937).
Mitsuru Adachi (あだち 充)
Mitsuru Adachi (あだち 充), born 1951, is a Japanese manga artist known for baseball series like Touch, H2, and MIX, with more than 200 million copies sold in Japan.
Mitsuyo Kakuta
Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代, born 1967) is a Japanese novelist known for fiction about family life and for a modern translation of The Tale of Genji.
Miyoko Matsutani
Miyoko Matsutani (松谷みよ子) was a Japanese children's author and folklorist whose career ran from 1951 to 2015, best known for the fantasy Tatsu no ko Tarō and the Momo-chan series.
Miyoshi Tatsuji
Miyoshi Tatsuji (三好達治, 1900–1964) was a Japanese poet, translator, and critic born in Osaka, who became a central figure of Shōwa lyrical poetry after his 1930 debut collection Sokuryōsen.
Miyuki Miyabe
Miyuki Miyabe (宮部みゆき), born in Tokyo in 1960, is a Japanese novelist of mystery, historical fiction, and fantasy who won the 1999 Naoki Prize for The Reason.
Mizancı Murat
Mizancı Murat (Mizancı Murad), born Mehmed Murad in Dagestan in 1854, was an Ottoman journalist and historian who led the Young Turk opposition to Sultan Abdülhamid II.
Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi
Mkhitar Ayrivanetsi (Մխիթար Այրիվանեցի) was a 13th-century Armenian vardapet, historian, poet, and composer at Ayrivank monastery, today Geghard near Yerevan, known for a chronicle printed in 1860 as Patmutiwn Hayots.
Mkhitar Gosh
Mkhitar Gosh (Մխիթար Գոշ) was an Armenian vardapet, jurist, and fabulist, author of the 1184 Armenian Law Code and the first literary prose fable collection in Armenian.