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Moufdi Zakaria
Moufdi Zakaria, born Zakaria ben Slimane (1908–1977), was an Algerian poet and nationalist known as the Poet of the Algerian Revolution, who wrote the national anthem "Qassaman".
Mouloud Feraoun
Mouloud Feraoun (مولود فرعون, born Aït Chaabane; 1913–1962) was an Algerian novelist and educator, a founder of Algerian francophone literature, assassinated by the OAS days before the 1962 ceasefire.
Mourad Bourboune
Mourad Bourboune, born in Jijel, Algeria in 1938, is an Algerian writer in French whose second novel, Le Muezzin (1968), is a noted denunciation of the post-independence Algerian regime.
Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti (مريد البرغوثي; born Nawwaf Abdul Raziq Mohammed Barghouti, 1944–2021) was a Palestinian poet and memoirist whose return from exile inspired I Saw Ramallah.
Moussa Konaté
Moussa Konaté (1951–2013) was a Malian novelist, playwright, essayist, and publisher, best known for the detective series Les enquêtes du commissaire Habib, set in Bamako.
Movses Daskhurantsi
Movses Daskhurantsi, also called Movses Kaghankatvatsi, is the traditional name for the author of the History of the Aluank, the main source on Caucasian Albania.
Moyshe Kulbak
Moyshe Kulbak (משה קולבאַק, 1896–1937) was a Yiddish poet, novelist, and dramatist of Smorgon near Vilna, a leading modernist executed in the Stalinist purges of 1937.
Mrinalini Devi (মৃণালিনী দেবী)
Mrinalini Devi (মৃণালিনী দেবী), born Bhabatarini Raichoudhuri of Fultala, Jessore, was Rabindranath Tagore's wife from their 1883 child marriage; she funded the Santiniketan school by selling her jewelry and died in 1902 aged 29.
Mu Shiying
Mu Shiying (穆时英, 1912–1940) was a Chinese modernist novelist from Cixi, Zhejiang, leading writer of the Shanghai New Sensationist school and pioneer of urban fiction.
Muallim Naci
Muallim Naci, born Ömer (1849 or 1850 – 1893), was an Ottoman poet, critic, and lexicographer of the Tanzimat era, famous for his old-versus-new literature debate with Recaizade Mahmud Ekrem.
Muhammad al-Fayturi
Muhammad al-Fayturi (محمد الفيتوري), full name Muhammad Miftah al-Fayturi, was a Sudanese-born poet, 1936 to 2015, known as "the poet of Africa" for collections on African identity and colonialism.
Muhammad al-Maghut
Muhammad al-Maghut (محمد الماغوط; 1934–2006) was a Syrian poet, playwright, and journalist, born in Salamiyah and died in Damascus, widely credited with introducing free verse into Arabic poetry.
Muhammad al-Makhzangi
Muhammad al-Makhzangi (محمد المخزنجي), born 1949 in Mansoura, Egypt, is a physician, psychiatrist, and writer known for very short stories and the Chernobyl book Memories of a Meltdown.
Muhammad Haji Salleh
Muhammad Haji Salleh (born 1942) is a Malaysian poet, translator, and scholar who writes in Malay and English, named National Laureate in 1991 and author of Puitika Sastera Melayu.
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo
Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo (محمد ابراھيم جويو), 1915 to 2017, was a Sindhi scholar, translator, and educationist who published some 400 books while leading the Sindhi Adabi Board.
Muhammad Iqbal (محمد اقبال)
Muhammad Iqbal, known as Allama Iqbal, was a poet and philosopher in British India, born in Sialkot, whose idea of a Muslim homeland helped create Pakistan.
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri
Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (محمد مهدي الجواهري) was an Iraqi poet and journalist, often called the last of the classical Arab poets, born in Najaf around 1899 and died in exile in Syria in 1997.
Muhammad Rida al-Shabibi
Muhammad Rida al-Shabibi (محمد رضا الشبيبي) was an Iraqi scholar, poet, and politician from Najaf who led the Iraqi Scientific Academy and served as Minister of Education.
Muhammad Uthman Jalal
Muhammad Uthman Jalal (محمد عثمان جلال) was an Egyptian translator and zajal poet who adapted French literature into Arabic, best known for al-Shaykh Matluf, his Egyptianized Tartuffe of 1873.
Muhtasham Kashani
Muhtasham Kashani (محتشم کاشانی) was a Persian Safavid poet born and died in Kashan (c. 1528 to 1588), famed for a twelve-strophe elegy on Imam Hosayn's martyrdom at Karbala.
Muiderkring
The Muiderkring, or Muiden circle, is the name given to the poets and scholars who visited writer P.C. Hooft at Muiderslot castle near Amsterdam in the seventeenth century.
Mukagali Makatayev
Mukagali Makatayev (Мұқағали Мақатаев, 1931–1976) was a major Kazakh poet and translator of Dante, Shakespeare, and Whitman, honored with the State Prize of Kazakhstan after his death.
Mukai Kyorai
Mukai Kyorai (向井去来), born Mukai Heijirō, 1651 to 1704, was a Japanese haikai poet, a leading disciple of Matsuo Bashō, and author of Kyoraishō, a key record of Bashō's poetics.
Mukhtar Auezov
Mukhtar Auezov (Мұхтар Әуезов, 1897–1961) was a Kazakh writer and scholar who wrote the four-volume novel-epic The Path of Abai, the first in the Kazakh language.
Mukhtar Shakhanov
Mukhtar Shakhanov (Мұхтар Шаханов, 1942–2026) was a Kazakh poet and playwright known for leading the Zeltoksan commission, serving as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, and being named People's Writer of Kazakhstan in 1996.
Mukundaram Chakravarti
Mukundaram Chakravarti (মুকুন্দরাম চক্রবর্তী), titled Kavikankan, was a sixteenth-century Bengali devotional poet whose Chandimangal, composed in West Bengal, made him regarded as the greatest mangalkavya poet.
Mulk Raj Anand (मुल्क राज आनंद)
Mulk Raj Anand (मुल्क राज आनंद), 1905–2004, Indian novelist in English, author of Untouchable (1935) and Coolie (1936), Progressive Writers' Association founder, Marg magazine founder, Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi Award winner.
Mulla Daud
Mulla Daud (मुल्ला दाऊद) was an Awadhi-language Sufi poet of Dalmau who composed the Chandayan around 1379, retelling the love story of Lorik and Chanda as a Sufi allegory.
Multatuli
Multatuli, pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–1887), was a Dutch writer and former colonial official whose 1860 novel Max Havelaar attacked Dutch colonial abuse.
Mumtaz Mufti
Mumtaz Mufti, born Mufti Mumtaz Hussain (1905–1995), was a Pakistani Urdu fiction writer known for Ali Pur Ka Eli, Alakh Nagri, and the travelogues Labbaik and Hind Yatra.