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Nalini Bala Devi
Nalini Bala Devi (নলিনীবালা দেৱী, 1898–1977) was an Assamese poet known for nationalistic and mystical poetry, and the first woman president of the Assam Sahitya Sabha.
Nalinidhar Bhattacharya
Nalinidhar Bhattacharya (নলিনীধৰ ভট্টাচাৰ্য) was an Assamese poet and critic, a leading Jayanti-era voice, who won the 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award and was elder brother of novelist Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya.
Nam Cao
Nam Cao (1917–1951) was the pen name of Trần Hữu Tri, a leading Vietnamese realist writer best known for the novella Chí Phèo and the novel Sống mòn.
Namakkal Kavignar
Namakkal Kavignar (நாமக்கல் கவிஞர்), born V. Ramalingam Pillai (1888–1972), was a Tamil poet and freedom fighter whose nationalist songs called Tamils to Gandhi's non-violent struggle.
Namdeo Dhasal
Namdeo Dhasal (नामदेव ढसाळ), 1949 to 2014, was a Marathi poet and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India, whose 1972 collection Golpitha broke with Marathi poetic conventions.
Namvar Singh
Namvar Singh (नामवर सिंह, 1926–2019) was an Indian Hindi literary critic whose Kavita ke Naye Pratiman (1968) reoriented modern Hindi poetry criticism; he won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1971.
Nanak Singh
Nanak Singh (1897–1971), born Hans Raj, was a Punjabi novelist and poet called the father of the Punjabi novel who wrote Khooni Vaisakhi after surviving the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi
Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi (ન્હાનાલાલ દલપતરામ કવિ; 1877–1946) was a Gujarati poet, playwright, and critic, son of the poet Dalpatram, who created the non-metrical dolanshaili style and wrote the epic Kurukshetra.
Nancy Mitford
Nancy Mitford (1904–1973), English novelist and biographer, eldest of the six Mitford sisters; author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, popularizer of U and non-U, and writer of Madame de Pompadour and The Sun King.
Nancy Morejón
Nancy Morejón (Nancy Morejón Hernández) is a Cuban poet born in Havana in 1944, known for her poetry on Afro-Cuban identity and for winning Cuba's National Prize for Literature in 2001.
Nand Das
Nand Das (नंददास) was a sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint of the Braj Bhasha language, ranked second only to Surdas among the eight Ashtachhap poets of the Pushtimarg.
Nanda Kishore Bal
Nanda Kishore Bal (ନନ୍ଦ କିଶୋର ବଳ), 1875 to 1928, was an Indian Odia poet and novelist honored as Palli Kabi for tender lyrics of rural Odisha.
Nandadāsa
Nandadāsa (नंददास) was a 16th-century Braj Bhāṣā devotional poet of the Kṛṣṇa-worshipping Puṣṭimārga and one of the eight Aṣṭachāp poets, ranked the finest after Sūrdās and best known for the Rās Pañcādhyāyī.
Nanne Choda
Nanne Choda (Telugu: నన్నె చోడుడు, Nanne Chodudu) was a 12th-century Telugu poet and ruling prince of the Telugu Choda family, known for the epic Kumara Sambhavamu.
Naomi Ishiguro
Naomi Ishiguro (born 1992), British author and daughter of Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro; wrote Escape Routes (2020), Common Ground (2021), and the anime-inspired fantasy The Rainshadow Orphans (2026).
Naomi Novik
Naomi Novik (born 1973), American fantasy author of the Temeraire series (Napoleonic Wars with dragons), Uprooted, Spinning Silver, and the Scholomance trilogy; Nebula and Locus winner and Archive of Our Own co-founder.
Naomi Swartzentruber
Naomi Swartzentruber (born 1980) is an ex-Amish American memoirist and influencer (@amishinspiration), distinct from the Odon, Indiana homemaker of the same name. Raised Swartzentruber Amish in Michigan, she left at 17 in 1997, danced for 20 years, and published The Amazing Adventures of an Amish Stripper in 2023.
Naoya Matsumoto (manga artist)
Naoya Matsumoto (松本直也) is a Japanese manga artist, creator of Kaiju No. 8 (怪獣8号) on Shonen Jump+ (2020–2025, 18 million copies), plus Nekowappa!, Pochi & Kuro, and the spin-off Kaiju No. 8 side B.
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon Hill, 1883–1970), American self-help author of Think and Grow Rich (1937) and The Law of Success (1928). Known for the disputed claim that Andrew Carnegie commissioned his success research; historians, including Carnegie biographer David Nasaw, found no evidence of the meeting.
Narayan Gangopadhyay
Narayan Gangopadhyay (নারায়ণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়; born Taraknath Gangopadhyay, 1918–1970) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, critic, and professor of Bengali at the University of Calcutta, best known as the creator of the comic adolescent character Tenida.
Narayan Shyam
Narayan Shyam (نارائڻ شيام), born Narayan Gokuldas Nagwani (1922–1989), was a Sindhi-language poet who settled in Delhi after Partition and helped found modern Sindhi poetry, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1970.
Narendra Kohli
Narendra Kohli (नरेन्द्र कोहली, 1940–2021) was a Hindi novelist and playwright credited with pioneering the epic-scale novel, retelling the Ramayana and Mahabharata in a rational idiom; he received the Padma Shri and Vyas Samman.
Narendranath Mitra
Narendranath Mitra (নরেন্দ্রনাথ মিত্র; 1916–1975) was an Indian Bengali writer whose stories depicted Bengal's middle class through the 1943 famine and Partition; his story Abataranika became Satyajit Ray's film Mahanagar.
Naresh Mehta
Naresh Mehta (नरेश मेहता; 1922–2000), born Purnashankar Shukla, was a Hindi poet, novelist, and playwright who received the 1992 Jnanpith Award for his poetry collection Aranya.
Narottam Das
Narottam Das (नरोत्तमदास) was a 16th-century Krishna-devotee poet of the Hindi bhakti period, a Kanyakubja Brahmin from Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, whose surviving Braj poem Sudama Charit retells the story of Sudama and Krishna.
Naseem Hijazi
Naseem Hijazi (نسیم حجازی), born Sharif Husain in 1914, was an Urdu novelist whose Islamic historical fiction, including Shaheen and Khak aur Khoon, shaped generations of readers.
Nashanivtsy
Nashanivtsy (Belarusian: нашаніўцы) were the Belarusian writers, publicists, and cultural figures grouped around the weekly newspaper Naša Niva, published in Vilna from 1906 to 1915.
Nasir Kazmi
Nasir Kazmi (ناصر کاظمی), full name Nasir Raza Kazmi, was a Pakistani Urdu poet born in 1925 who settled in Lahore after partition and is counted among the founders of the modern Urdu ghazal.
Nasrallah Munshi
Nasrallah Munshi (نصرالله منشی) was a Persian secretary at the Ghaznavid court who rendered the Arabic Kalila wa Dimna into ornate Persian prose between 1143 and 1146.
Nat Nakasa
Nat Nakasa, born Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa, was a South African journalist and short-story writer who worked for Drum magazine, became the Rand Daily Mail's first black columnist, and founded The Classic.