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Neidhart von Reuental
Neidhart von Reuental, also der von Riuwental, was a German Minnesänger of the first half of the 13th century, founder of satirical courtly village poetry.
Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, British author of The Sandman comics and novels American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book; Newbery, Hugo, and Nebula winner; later faced sexual assault allegations and publisher consequences.
Neil M. Gunn
Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), born Dunbeath, Caithness, was a Scottish novelist of the interwar Scottish Literary Renaissance; a former Customs and Excise officer, his Highland River (1937) won the James Tait Black Prize and The Silver Darlings (1941) was a bestseller.
Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss, American journalist and author of The Game (2005), the bestseller that popularized pick-up artistry under his pseudonym Style; later wrote The Truth (2015) and celebrity memoirs like The Dirt.
Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon (1937–2022) was a Brazilian novelist best known for the epic A República dos Sonhos (1984) and as the first woman president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Nelio Biedermann
Nelio Biedermann, born 2003 in Zurich, is a Swiss novelist. His historical family saga Lázár (2025) sold more than 200,000 copies in German and was shortlisted for the Schweizer Buchpreis.
Nellie Campobello
Nellie Campobello, born Francisca Ernestina Moya Luna, was a Mexican writer, dancer, and choreographer whose Cartucho (1931) narrates the Mexican Revolution through a child's voice.
Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren, born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham, was an American novelist and essayist who wrote about Chicago's outcasts and won the first National Book Award for fiction for The Man with the Golden Arm.
Nelson DeMille
Nelson DeMille (Nelson Richard DeMille, 1943-2024), American thriller novelist, author of the John Corey series (Plum Island), By the Rivers of Babylon, and The General's Daughter; Vietnam veteran, 17-time New York Times bestseller, died September 17, 2024.
Nelson Rodrigues
Nelson Rodrigues (Nelson Falcão Rodrigues, 1912–1980) was a Brazilian journalist and playwright whose 1943 play Vestido de Noiva is credited as the start of modern theater in Brazil.
Nelson Saúte
Nelson Saúte is a Mozambican writer, born in Maputo in 1967, known for the novel Rio dos bons sinais and his anthologies of Mozambican poetry.
Nemichandra
Nemichandra (also Nemicandra) is the name of two medieval Indian Jain figures: Nemichandra Siddhantacakravarti, the 10th-century scholar of the Trilokasāra, and a 12th-century Kannada poet.
Neoclassicists
The Neoclassicists (Неокласики), or Kyiv Neoclassicists, were five Ukrainian poets active from the late 1910s to the early 1930s who built a classical 'great style' of Ukrainian literature.
Neofit Rilski
Neofit Rilski (Неофит Рилски) was a Bulgarian monk, grammarian, and teacher whose Bolgarska gramatika of 1835 was the first Bulgarian grammar and a foundation of modern literary Bulgarian.
Neoterics
The Neoterics were a group of first-century BCE Roman poets, including Catullus and Licinius Calvus, who wrote short, highly polished verse modeled on Hellenistic Greek poetry.
Nergisi
Nergisi (نركسي; full name Mehmed Nergisi, c. 1580–1635) was a Bosnian-born Ottoman scholar and court chronicler, the most famous master of ornate Ottoman prose, known for the entirely prose Hamse-i Nergisî.
Nescio
Nescio, Latin for "I don't know", was the pen name of Dutch writer Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh (1882–1961), best known for the novellas De uitvreter and Titaantjes.
Neshat Esfahani
Neshat Esfahani (نشاط اصفهانی), full name Mirza Abdolvahab Mousavi, was a Qajar-era Iranian poet, calligrapher, and statesman who served as Iran's first foreign minister under Fath-Ali Shah.
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute, pen name of Nevil Shute Norway (1899-1960), British aeronautical engineer and novelist; R100 airship engineer and Airspeed founder who wrote 24 bestsellers including A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
Nevill Coghill
Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) was an Irish-born English literary scholar, Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, best known for his best-selling 1951 verse translation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Ng Kim Chew
Ng Kim Chew (黃錦樹, born 1967) is a Malaysian Chinese writer of experimental short fiction and a literary scholar who lives in Taiwan and writes in Chinese.
Ngaio Marsh
Ngaio Marsh (Edith Ngaio Marsh, 1895-1982) was a New Zealand crime novelist and theatre director, one of the four Queens of Crime with Christie, Sayers, and Allingham. She wrote 32 detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn and directed Shakespeare in Christchurch.
Ngô Tất Tố
Ngô Tất Tố (吳必素, 1893–1954) was a Vietnamese realist writer best known for the novella Tắt đèn, about a peasant family ruined by the colonial head tax.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Thiong'o Ngũgĩ, 1938-2025), Kenyan novelist and playwright, wrote early novels in English, then switched to Gikuyu after imprisonment in 1977; author of Decolonising the Mind and Wizard of the Crow.
Nguyễn Bính
Nguyễn Bính (1918–1966) was a Vietnamese poet of the New Poetry movement, known for verse in the folk lục bát meter drawn from village life.
Nguyễn Công Hoan
Nguyễn Công Hoan (1903–1977) was a Vietnamese writer and journalist, a leading figure of Vietnamese critical realism, with over 200 short stories and nearly 30 novels and novellas.
Nguyễn Duy
Nguyễn Duy (Nguyễn Duy Nhuệ, born 1948) is a Vietnamese poet best known for the poem Ánh trăng and for modernizing the traditional lục bát verse form.
Nguyễn Huy Tự
Nguyễn Huy Tự (1743–1790) was a Vietnamese civil and military official and poet of the late Lê dynasty, best known as the author of the Nôm verse romance Hoa Tiên.
Nguyễn Khoa Điềm
Nguyễn Khoa Điềm, born 1943 in Thừa Thiên–Huế, is a Vietnamese poet and former Minister of Culture, known for Đất Nước from the epic Mặt đường khát vọng.
Nguyễn Khuyến
Nguyễn Khuyến, known by the title Tam Nguyên Yên Đổ, was a Vietnamese Confucian scholar and poet (1835–1909) celebrated as the last great poet of medieval Vietnamese literature.