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N. N. Pillai
N. N. Pillai, born Narayana Pillai (1918–1995), was a Malayalam playwright and actor whose satirical plays toured Kerala through his troupe Viswa Kerala Kala Samithi; he later acted in Godfather.
N. P. Mohammed
N. P. Mohammed (1928 or 1929 – 2003) was a Malayalam novelist and short story writer who portrayed Kerala's Mappila Muslims, chaired the Kerala Sahitya Akademi, and won its national award for Daivathinte Kannu.
N. P. van Wyk Louw
N. P. van Wyk Louw (1906–1970) was an Afrikaans poet, playwright, and critic, the leading figure of the Dertigers who renewed Afrikaans poetry in the 1930s.
N. Pichamurthy
N. Pichamurthy (ந. பிச்சமூர்த்தி, born Vengata Mahalingam, 1900–1976) was a Tamil writer and lawyer from Kumbakonam, pioneer of the free-verse Pudukavithai movement and early Manikodi contributor.
N. S. Madhavan
N. S. Madhavan (എൻ എസ് മാധവൻ), born 1948, is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature known for the novel Lanthan Batheriyile Luthiniyakal and the short story "Higuita".
N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday, born Navarre Scott Mammedaty, was a Kiowa American novelist and poet whose first novel, House Made of Dawn, won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Na. Muthukumar
Na. Muthukumar (நா. முத்துக்குமார்), 1975–2016, Tamil poet and film lyricist from Kanchipuram; won two National Film Awards for Best Lyrics and wrote 1,000-plus songs, including 'Anandha Yazhai' from Thanga Meengal.
Nabakanta Barua
Nabakanta Barua (নৱকান্ত বৰুৱা), who wrote early poems as Sima Dutta, was an Assamese poet and novelist and a pioneer of modern Assamese poetry, winning the 1975 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Nabaneeta Dev Sen (নবনীতা দেব সেন) was an Indian Bengali poet, novelist, children's author, and scholar who wrote more than eighty books and won the Padma Shri in 2000.
Nabarun Bhattacharya
Nabarun Bhattacharya (নবারুণ ভট্টাচার্য; 1948–2014) was an Indian Bengali poet and fiction writer, son of Bijon Bhattacharya and Mahashweta Devi, known for the satirical novel Herbert, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997.
Nābhādāsa
Nābhādāsa, also remembered as Nābhājī, was a Ramanandi devotional poet who composed the Bhaktamāl, a Braj-language verse catalog of saints, around 1600, at the command of his teacher Agradās.
Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch
Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch (نبي بخش خان بلوچ) was a Pakistani folklorist and scholar who documented the language and folklore of Sindh in over 100 volumes.
Nabinchandra Sen
Nabinchandra Sen (নবীনচন্দ্র সেন) was a Bengali poet and writer, one of the leading poets of the pre-Tagore era, known for Palashir Yuddha (1875) and a Bengali Mahabharata epic.
Nader Naderpour
Nader Naderpour (نادر نادرپور) was an Iranian poet of modern Persian poetry who spent his last twenty years in exile, dying in Los Angeles in 2000.
Nadezhda Mandelstam (Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам)
Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам), born Khazina (1899-1980), Russian memoirist, wife of Osip Mandelstam, who preserved his poetry and wrote Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned.
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014), South African novelist and short-story writer, first South African and seventh woman Nobel Literature laureate (1991); author of The Conservationist and Burger's Daughter.
Naevius
Gnaeus Naevius (ca. 270 – ca. 201 BC) was an early Latin poet who served in the First Punic War and wrote the Bellum Punicum, the first Roman national epic.
Nagachandra
Nagachandra (ನಾಗಚಂದ್ರ), a 12th-century Kannada Jain poet titled Abhinava Pampa, wrote the Pampa Ramayana, the first Kannada Ramayana, where Lakshmana slays a tragic Ravana, and the Mallinathapurana.
Nagarjun
Nagarjun (नागार्जुन), born Vaidyanath Mishra and known in Maithili as Yatri, was an Indian poet of the progressive stream of modern Hindi poetry who won the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Naghash Hovnatan
Naghash Hovnatan (Նաղաշ Հովնաթան) was an Armenian ashugh (minstrel-poet), singer, and painter, 1661–1722, whose nickname means "painter" in Persian and who founded the Hovnatanian dynasty of artists.
Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ)
Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ; 1911–2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Arabic-native-language laureate, best known for the Cairo Trilogy.
Nahum Tate
Nahum Tate (1652–1715) was an Irish-born poet and dramatist who served as poet laureate of England from 1692 and adapted Shakespeare's King Lear in 1681, giving it a happy ending.
Nâilî
Nâilî, known as Nâilî-i Kadîm, was an Ottoman divan poet born in Istanbul around 1608 and a leading representative of the sebk-i Hindî Indian style; he died in 1666.
Naim Frashëri
Naim Frashëri (1846–1900) was an Albanian poet of the national awakening, widely considered the national poet of Albania and a central figure of the Albanian Renaissance.
Naivo
Naivo is the pen name of Naivoharisoa Patrick Ramamonjisoa, a Malagasy writer best known for Beyond the Rice Fields, the first novel from Madagascar translated into English.
Naiyer Masud
Naiyer Masud (نیّر مسعود) was an Indian Urdu short story writer, scholar, and translator from Lucknow, known for elliptical fiction and awarded the Padma Shri.
Najm Hosain Syed
Najm Hosain Syed (نجم حسین سید, born 1936) is a Pakistani Punjabi poet, playwright, and literary critic, a central figure in the 1960s revival of Punjabi literature in Lahore.
Nakhchivan literary milieu
The Nakhchivan literary milieu (Naxçıvan ədəbi mühiti) is the community of writers, poets, and scholars centered on Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave, with major figures including Jalil Mammadguluzadeh and Huseyn Javid.
Nalan Xingde
Nalan Xingde (Rongruo), a Qing dynasty poet of 1655 to 1685, was the most celebrated ci lyric poet among the Manchu bannermen and a Kangxi imperial bodyguard.
Nalapat Narayana Menon
Nalapat Narayana Menon (നാലപ്പാട്ട് നാരായണ മേനോൻ; 1887–1954) was a Malayalam poet, philosopher, and social activist from Thrissur district, Kerala, known for the elegy Kannuneerthulli (1927) and Paavangal (1925), his Malayalam translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.