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Munir Niazi
Munir Niazi (منیر نیازی), born Mohammad Muneer Khan, was a Pakistani poet in Urdu and Punjabi known for symbolic, image-rich ghazals and nazms, dying in 2006.
Munis Khwarazmi
Munis Khwarazmi (Shermuhammad Munis; مونس; 1778–1829) was a Khivan historian, poet, and statesman who wrote the official history of the Khanate of Khiva, Firdaws al-iqbal, and served as chief mirab in charge of irrigation.
Muqimi
Muqimi (Муқимий), full name Muhammad Amin-khoja Mirza-khoja o'g'li, 1850–1903, was an Uzbek poet of Kokand who led a satirical school and founded the democratic trend in Uzbek literature.
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部)
Murasaki Shikibu (紫式部, c. 973–c. 1014) was a Heian-period Japanese woman writer and court lady, author of The Tale of Genji (源氏物語), often called the world's oldest full-length novel. She served Empress Shoshi and left the Murasaki Shikibu Diary and Murasaki Shikibu Collection.
Muratsan
Muratsan (Մուրացան) was the pen name of Grigor Ter-Hovhannisian, an Armenian novelist and playwright (1854–1908) known for the historical novel Gevorg Marzpetuni and the drama Ruzan.
Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark (1918-2006), Scottish poet and novelist born Muriel Sarah Camberg, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; 22 novels, Booker shortlistee, Catholic convert, war propaganda worker, lived in Tuscany, DBE 1993.
Murilo Mendes
Murilo Mendes (Murilo Monteiro Mendes, 1901–1975) was a Brazilian poet and art critic who united surrealism and Catholicism within Brazilian Modernism, living his last years in Rome.
Murilo Rubião
Murilo Rubião (1916–1991) was a Brazilian writer from Minas Gerais, regarded as the precursor of the fantastic short story, whose 33 tales narrate impossible events with complete naturalness.
Murō Saisei
Murō Saisei (室生犀星, 1889–1962) was a Japanese poet and novelist from Kanazawa whose 1918 collections gave Taishō poetry a fresh impression and who also wrote Ani Imōto.
Murray Leinster
Murray Leinster, born William Fitzgerald Jenkins, was a prolific American science fiction writer who produced nearly 1,800 stories and patented a projection process used in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Musaemura Zimunya
Musaemura Bonas Zimunya, born 1949 in Mutare, is a Zimbabwean poet and literary scholar writing in English and Shona whose work contrasts the rural Eastern Highlands with the city.
Mushanokōji Saneatsu
Mushanokōji Saneatsu (武者小路実篤, 1885–1976) was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and painter who led the Shirakaba school and founded the utopian New Village community in 1918.
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi
Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi (مشتاق احمد یوسفی; 1923–2018) was a Pakistani Urdu humorist and satirist whose five books made him a leading Urdu humorist of his era.
Muslim ibn al-Walid
Muslim ibn al-Walid (مسلم بن الوليد) was an Arab poet of the early Abbasid period, credited as the first to make badīʿ, rhetorical embellishment, a deliberate poetic program.
Mustafa Kutlu
Mustafa Kutlu (born 1947) is a Turkish storyteller, essayist, and columnist, a prominent figure of the Turkish short story whose work draws on Sufi themes.
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Mustansar Hussain Tarar (مستنصر حسین تارڑ), born in Lahore in 1939, is a Pakistani Urdu writer best known for travelogues like Niklay Teri Talash Mein and the novel Bahao.
Mutsuo Takahashi
Mutsuo Takahashi (高橋睦郎, born 15 December 1937) is a Japanese poet of free verse, haiku, and tanka known for openly homoerotic early poems; he received the Order of Culture in 2024.
Mwalimu Sikujua
Mwalimu Sikujua was a Swahili scribe, poet, and scholar of Mombasa who wrote down hundreds of 19th-century Swahili poems in Arabic script, most importantly the verses of Muyaka bin Haji.
My Century
My Century (Polish: Mój wiek. Pamiętnik mówiony) is an autobiographical work by the Polish poet Aleksander Wat, recorded in conversations with Czesław Miłosz and published in London in 1977.
Mya Than Tint
Mya Than Tint (1929–1998) was a prolific Burmese writer jailed for years by Ne Win, known for On the Road to Mandalay, interviews with ordinary Burmese people.
Mykhailo Drahomanov
Mykhailo Drahomanov (Михайло Драгоманов, 1841–1895) was a Ukrainian historian, folklorist, and political thinker who headed the Ukrainian political emigration in Geneva and founded the journal Hromada.
Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky
Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Коцюбинський, 1864–1913) was a Ukrainian prose writer and ethnographer regarded as a leading master of literary impressionism, known for Intermezzo, Fata Morgana, and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
Mykola Bazhan
Mykola Bazhan (Микола Бажан), 1904 to 1983, was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and Soviet political figure who won two Stalin Prizes and headed the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia.
Mykola Khvylovy
Mykola Khvylovy (Микола Хвильовий; born Mykola Fitilov, 1893–1933) was a Ukrainian prose writer and central figure of the 1920s Ukrainian cultural renaissance, later called the Executed Renaissance.
Mykola Vinhranovsky
Mykola Vinhranovsky (Микола Вінграновський, 1936–2004) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and film director, a leading figure of the Sixtiers generation who won the Shevchenko Prize in 1984.
Mykola Voronyi
Mykola Voronyi (Микола Вороний), also transliterated Mykola Vorony, was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and theater director who pioneered modernist Ukrainian poetry and was executed by Soviet authorities in 1938.
Mykola Zerov
Mykola Zerov (Микола Зеров, 1890–1937) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and literary scholar who led the Neoclassicists, a group of poets, and was executed during the Stalinist terror.
Myra Lewis Williams
Myra Lewis Williams (born 1944), born Myra Gale Brown, is the American author and Atlanta realtor who married Jerry Lee Lewis at 13 in 1957, sparking the scandal that wrecked his career; author of Great Balls of Fire and The Spark That Survived.
N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin (Nora K. Jemisin), American speculative-fiction author based in Brooklyn, New York; first writer to win three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel with the Broken Earth trilogy (2015-2017), also a Nebula, Locus, and MacArthur Fellowship winner.
N. Mohanan
N. Mohanan (എൻ. മോഹനൻ) was an Indian writer of Malayalam short fiction and novels from Kerala, best known for the novel Innalathe Mazha, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998.