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Mollanepes
Mollanepes (1810–1862) was a leading Turkmen classical poet of the 19th century, celebrated for his love lyrics and his destan Zohre and Tahir, a classic of Turkmen literature.
Molly Bloom (author)
Molly Bloom, the "Poker Princess," is the American author of the 2014 memoir Molly's Game about running high-stakes celebrity poker games in Los Angeles and New York, adapted into Aaron Sorkin's 2017 Oscar-nominated film.
Molly Elliot Seawell
Molly Elliot Seawell (1853–1916) was an American novelist and essayist from Gloucester County, Virginia, who published almost forty volumes of fiction and nautical books and was a leading opponent of woman suffrage.
Molodniak
Molodniak (Молодняк) was a Ukrainian literary organization of young Komsomol writers, active from 1926 to 1932 in Kharkiv, formed after the split of the writers' union Hart and liquidated in 1932.
Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson is an American novelist (born 1957, Green Bay, Wisconsin), author of Anywhere But Here, The Lost Father, Off Keck Road, and Commitment, UCLA professor, Paris Review publisher, and biological sister of Steve Jobs.
Mongane Wally Serote
Mongane Wally Serote, born 1944 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, is a South African poet and novelist, the leading literary voice of the Black Consciousness movement in the 1970s.
Mongo Beti
Mongo Beti, pen name of Cameroonian writer Alexandre Biyidi-Awala (1932–2001), was a leading figure of Africa's independence-generation literature whose novels satirized French colonial rule and later neocolonial dictatorship.
Monica Ruwanpathirana
Monica Ruwanpathirana (1946–2004) was a leading Sri Lankan poet and short story writer who wrote in Sinhala and published 23 books, winning the State Literary Award three times.
Monika Fagerholm
Monika Fagerholm, born 1961 in Kyrkslätt, Finland, is a Finland-Swedish author writing in Swedish, one of Finland's internationally best-known writers and winner of the August, Finlandia, and Nordic Council Literature Prizes.
Monika Mann
Monika Mann (1910–1992), German writer, feuilletonist, and pianist, fourth of six children of Thomas and Katia Mann; survivor of the 1940 City of Benares sinking that drowned her husband Jenő Lányi, and author of the 1956 memoir Vergangenes und Gegenwärtiges.
Monique Ilboudo
Monique Ilboudo is a Burkinabè writer, lawyer, and politician, born in Ouagadougou in 1959, whose 1992 novel Le Mal de Peau was the first by a woman in Burkina Faso.
Moniro Ravanipour
Moniro Ravanipour (منیرو روانیپور) is an Iranian fiction writer and poet from Bushehr, known for the novel Ahl-e Gharq; imprisoned in the 1980s, she left Iran for the United States in 2006.
Montague Summers
Montague Summers (Augustus Montague Summers, 1880–1948), English cleric and scholar of the Restoration theatre, Gothic fiction, and the occult; author of The History of Witchcraft and Demonology and vampire studies.
Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato (José Renato Monteiro Lobato, 1882–1948) was a Brazilian writer and publisher who created the Sítio do Picapau Amarelo children's books and pioneered Brazil's publishing industry.
Moorkoth Kumaran
Moorkoth Kumaran was an Indian writer and journalist from North Malabar and a disciple of Sree Narayana Guru who wrote the Guru's first biography and edited several early Malayalam journals.
Mór Jókai
Mór Jókai (Jókai Mór, 1825–1904), Hungarian novelist called 'prince of Hungarian novel writing,' author of Az arany ember, Egy magyar nábob, and A kőszívű ember fiai; 1848 revolutionary, editor, MP, and Hungarian Academy member.
Mordecai Richler
Mordecai Richler (1931–2001) was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and essayist from Montreal, best known for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and his controversial writing on Quebec nationalism.
Morija school of Sesotho writing
The Morija school of Sesotho writing was a group of Basotho writers and missionaries at Morija, Lesotho, who produced the first written Sesotho literature from the 1860s.
Morikawa Kyoroku
Morikawa Kyoroku (森川許六, 1656–1715) was a Japanese haikai poet and painter of the Edo period, a Hikone retainer and one of the ten great disciples of Matsuo Bashō.
Mosab Abu Toha
Mosab Abu Toha (مصعب أبو توهة), born 1992 in Al-Shati camp, Gaza, is a Palestinian poet and librarian who founded the Edward Said Library and won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary; author of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (2022) and Forest of Noise (2024).
Moscow Time (poetry group)
Moscow Time (Московское время) was a Soviet poetry group formed in Moscow in 1974, its core members Sergei Gandlevsky, Bakhyt Kenzheev, Alexander Soprovsky, and Alexei Tsvetkov.
Moses ibn Ezra
Moses ibn Ezra (c. 1055 – after 1138), known as ha-Sallaḥ and Abu Harun Musa, was a Hebrew poet, critic, and philosopher of al-Andalus's Golden Age born in Granada.
Moshe Broderzon
Moshe Broderzon (משה בראָדערזאָן, 1890–1956) was a Yiddish poet, playwright, and theater organizer active in Łódź, where he founded Yung-yidish and ran the cabaret Ararat.
Motahar Hossain Chowdhury
Motahar Hossain Chowdhury (মোতাহের হোসেন চৌধুরী, 1903–1956), who published as Syed Motaher Hossain Chowdhury, was a Bengali essayist of Dhaka's Buddhir Mukti movement, known for Sangskriti Katha.
Moti Lal Saqi
Moti Lal Saqi (1936–1999) was an Indian Kashmiri poet, critic, and folklorist who wrote in Kashmiri and Urdu and won the 1981 Sahitya Akademi Award for his poetry collection Mansar.
Moti Nandi
Moti Nandi (মতি নন্দী), real name Motilal Nandy, was an Indian Bengali writer and sports journalist of Kolkata who established sports fiction as a Bengali genre, writing Koni, Striker, and Stopper.
Moti Prakash
Moti Prakash (Sindhi: موتي پرڪاش, 1931–2015) was an Indian Sindhi writer and educationist whose travelogue Se Sabh Sandhiyam Saah Sen won the 1988 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Motiejus Valančius
Motiejus Valančius (1801–1875) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop of Samogitia who led a mass temperance movement, built parish schools, and organized the smuggling of banned Lithuanian books.
Motiram Bhatta
Motiram Bhatta (मोतीराम भट्ट; 1866–1896) was a Nepali poet, playwright, and publisher known as Yuva Kavi who pioneered the Middle Period of Nepali literature and wrote the first Nepali biography.
Motoori Ōhira
Motoori Ōhira (本居大平, 1756–1833) was a Japanese kokugaku scholar and poet of the late Edo period, adopted heir of Motoori Norinaga who led the Suzunoya school.