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Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Ginzburg, born Natalia Levi (1916–1991), was an Italian novelist and essayist who won the Strega Prize for Lessico famigliare in 1963 and sat in Parliament from 1983.
Natalia Toledo
Natalia Toledo, also known as Natalia Toledo Paz, is a Mexican poet and storyteller born in Juchitán, Oaxaca, in 1967, who writes bilingually in Isthmus Zapotec and Spanish.
Natasha Brown (author)
Natasha Brown (born 1990, London) is a British novelist, author of Assembly (2021) and Universality (2025); Cambridge maths graduate, former finance worker, Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2023, Booker-longlisted.
Natavan
Natavan, formally Khurshidbanu Natavan, was an Azerbaijani poet and philanthropist, daughter of the last khan of Karabakh, who led Shusha's Majlis-i Uns society and built the city's water pipeline.
Nathacha Appanah
Nathacha Appanah, born 1973 in Mauritius, is a Mauritian and French novelist whose books about migration and indenture won the Prix Femina in 2025 for La Nuit au cœur.
Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute (Natalia Tcherniak, 1900–1999), Russian-born French novelist, playwright, and lawyer; nouveau roman pioneer; author of Tropismes, L'Ère du soupçon, Le Planétarium, and Enfance.
Nathan Alterman
Nathan Alterman (Hebrew: נתן אלתרמן; 1910–1970) was an Israeli poet born in Warsaw, whose weekly rhymed column The Seventh Column made him an unofficial national poet.
Nathan Zach
Nathan Zach (נתן זך; born Harry Seitelbach, 1930 to 2020) was an Israeli poet, critic, and translator who led the poets that changed Hebrew poetry in the 1950s and 1960s.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), American novelist and short-story writer born in Salem, Massachusetts; author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables; descendant of a Salem witch-trial judge.
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), founded by Chris Baty in 1999, challenged writers to draft 50,000 words of a novel each November, peaking at 413,295 participants in 2022 before the nonprofit closed in 2025.
Natsume Sōseki
Natsume Sōseki (夏目漱石, born Natsume Kinnosuke, 1867–1916) is Japan's foremost modern novelist and an English-literature scholar; author of I Am a Cat, Botchan, Kokoro, and the unfinished Meian, London-study alumnus, and face of the 1,000-yen note.
Natsuo Kirino
Natsuo Kirino (桐野夏生) is a Japanese novelist born in 1951 in Kanazawa, best known for her 1997 crime novel Out, which was nominated for the 2004 Edgar Award.
Naum Korzhavin
Naum Korzhavin, pen name of Naum Mandel, was a Russian dissident poet who was arrested under Stalin, emigrated to the United States in 1973, and died in 2018.
Navlekhan Puraskar
Navlekhan Puraskar (नवलेखन पुरस्कार, "new writing award") is an annual literary prize given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to young Hindi authors, below forty, for their first ever creations.
Nayantara Sahgal
Nayantara Pandit Sahgal (born 10 May 1927, Allahabad), Indian English novelist and Nehru niece, author of nine novels including Rich Like Us, Sahitya Akademi Award winner who returned the award in protest.
Nazik al-Malaika
Nazik al-Malaika (نازك الملائكة), 1923–2007, was an Iraqi poet who pioneered Arabic free verse with her 1947 poem "The Cholera" and wrote its first prosody theory.
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi (نذیر احمد دہلوی; 1830–1912), popularly called Deputy Nazir Ahmad, was an Urdu prose writer and reformer whose 1869 novel Mirat-ul-Urus is regarded as the first regular Urdu novel.
Nâzım Hikmet
Nâzım Hikmet was a Turkish poet and playwright, born in 1902, who introduced free verse into modern Turkish poetry and died in exile in Moscow in 1963.
Nazrul studies
Nazrul studies is the scholarly field devoted to the life, literature, music, and thought of Kazi Nazrul Islam, the Bengali Rebel Poet and national poet of Bangladesh.
ND Stevenson
ND Stevenson (born 1991), full name Nate Diana Stevenson, formerly Noelle Stevenson, is an American cartoonist and animation producer, creator of Nimona, cocreator of Lumberjanes, and showrunner of Netflix's She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
Ndre Mjeda
Ndre Mjeda (1866–1937) was an Albanian poet, Catholic priest, and linguist from Shkodër, known for Vaji i bylbylit and Juvenilia and for helping create the unified Albanian alphabet.
Neal Asher
Neal Asher (born 1961, Billericay, Essex) is a British science fiction author, creator of the Polity universe of AI-governed far-future space opera, author of Gridlinked, the Agent Cormac, Spatterjay, Transformation, Rise of the Jain, and Time's Shadow series.
Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady (1926-1968), Denver-raised Beat Generation figure, model for Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's On the Road, author of the Joan Anderson Letter, Merry Pranksters bus driver, and 'Cowboy Neal' to the Grateful Dead.
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson (born 1959, Fort Meade, Maryland) is an American novelist, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, Seveneves, and the Bomb Light series; he coined the term metaverse and consulted for Blue Origin from 1999 to 2006.
Necati Cumalı
Necati Cumalı (1921–2001) was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, and lawyer, best known for his tobacco-growing novels of the Aegean, beginning with Tütün Zamanı (1959).
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983) was a Turkish poet, playwright, and ideological writer whose Kaldırımlar shaped Republican-era literature and whose magazine Büyük Doğu led an Islamic movement.
Ned Vizzini
Ned Vizzini (1981-2013), American young adult author of Be More Chill and It's Kind of a Funny Story, based on his psychiatric hospitalization; adapted to film in 2010; died by suicide at 32.
Nedim Gürsel
Nedim Gürsel, born 1951 in Gaziantep, is a Turkish novelist and critic who has lived in Paris since 1971, teaching Turkish literature at the Sorbonne and working at CNRS.
Neela Padmanabhan
Neela Padmanabhan (நீல. பத்மநாபன்), born 1938, is a Tamil writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and essays known for Thalaimuraigal (1968) and the 2007 Sahitya Akademi award.
Neema Parvini
Neema Parvini, known online as Academic Agent, is a British Shakespeare scholar turned political commentator associated with elite theory and the dissident right, author of ten books.