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Nguyễn Minh Châu
Nguyễn Minh Châu (1930–1989) was a Vietnamese prose writer and former soldier whose works include Dấu chân người lính (1972), Bến quê (1985), and Chiếc thuyền ngoài xa (1985).
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, born 1976 in Cà Mau, is a Vietnamese writer of Mekong Delta fiction whose Cánh đồng bất tận won the Vietnam Writers' Association Award.
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (born 1973) is a Vietnamese poet, novelist, and translator who writes poetry in Vietnamese and fiction in English, including the novels The Mountains Sing and Dust Child.
Nguyễn Quang Sáng
Nguyễn Quang Sáng, pen name Nguyễn Sáng, was a leading Vietnamese writer of the south (1932–2014), known for Chiếc lược ngà and the screenplay Cánh đồng hoang.
Nguyễn Tuân
Nguyễn Tuân (1910–1987) was a Vietnamese writer and essayist, celebrated as the master of the tùy bút and honored with the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 1996.
Nh. Dini
Nh. Dini, pen name of Nurhayati Sri Hardini Siti Nukatin (1936–2018), was an Indonesian novelist, poet, and playwright known for feminist themes and novels like Pada Sebuah Kapal.
Nhất Linh
Nhất Linh was the pen name of Nguyễn Tường Tam (1906–1963), a Vietnamese writer, journalist, and politician who led the influential Tự Lực Văn Đoàn group.
Ni Kuang
Ni Kuang (倪匡), born Ni Yiming in Shanghai, was a prolific Hong Kong writer and screenwriter who created the Wesley science fiction series and wrote about 300 film scripts.
Niaz Fatehpuri
Niaz Fatehpuri, pen name of Niaz Mohammad Khan, was an Urdu poet, fiction writer, and critic who founded and edited the major literary journal Nigar.
Nicander
Nicander (Νίκανδρος) of Colophon was a Greek didactic poet of the 2nd century BC whose surviving poems, the Theriaca and the Alexipharmaca, treat venomous creatures and poisons.
Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra (1914-2018), Chilean poet, mathematician and physicist, brother of Violeta Parra, creator of antipoetry with Poemas y antipoemas (1954); National Literature Prize 1969, Cervantes Prize 2011.
Nicholas Boggs
Nicholas Boggs, American writer and independent scholar, author of the New York Times bestselling James Baldwin biography Baldwin: A Love Story (FSG, 2025) and co-editor of Little Man, Little Man (2018); Yale BA, Columbia PhD.
Nicholas Mosley
Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (1923–2017), English novelist and biographer, eldest son of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; author of Accident, Impossible Object (first Booker shortlist), Hopeful Monsters (Whitbread 1990), and his father's two-volume biography.
Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks (Nicholas Charles Sparks, born 1965) is an American novelist, author of The Notebook and roughly two dozen New York Times bestselling love stories, over 100 million copies sold, eleven film adaptations, and a Broadway musical.
Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn (born 1960, Scituate, Massachusetts) is an American poet and memoirist, author of Some Ether and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, adapted as the film Being Flynn; he teaches at the University of Houston.
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 1957), English novelist and screenwriter, author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down; twice Oscar-nominated for An Education and Brooklyn; not the sculptor born 1980.
Nick Joaquin
Nick Joaquin (Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín, 1917–2004), pen name Quijano de Manila, Filipino National Artist for Literature (1976) and 1996 Ramon Magsaysay Award laureate, author of The Woman Who Had Two Navels and A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino.
Nico Walker
Nico Walker (born 1985), American novelist from Cleveland; not Nick Walker or Nicole Walker. Former Army medic with 250+ Iraq missions who robbed 10 banks, wrote the NYT-bestselling PEN/Hemingway finalist novel Cherry in prison, adapted as a 2021 Russo brothers film.
Nicolaas Beets
Nicolaas Beets (1814–1903) was a Dutch writer, Dutch Reformed minister, and professor of church history, best known under the pseudonym Hildebrand for Camera Obscura (1839).
Nicolae Steinhardt
Nicolae Steinhardt, born Nicu-Aurelian Steinhardt (1912–1989), was a Romanian essayist and literary critic who converted to Orthodoxy as a political prisoner and became a monk at Rohia Monastery.
Nicolai Lilin
Nicolai Lilin, pen name of Nicolaj Verjbitkii, born in Bender, Transnistria, is an Italian-naturalized Russian writer, author of Educazione siberiana (2009) and Free Fall, whose memoir claims he later admitted were embellished.
Nicolas Born
Nicolas Born, born Klaus Jürgen Born (1937 to 1979), was a German novelist, poet, and essayist, a leading figure of the Neue Subjektivität whose last novel, Die Fälschung, was filmed by Volker Schlöndorff.
Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Guillén (1902–1989) was a Cuban poet and journalist regarded as the national poet of Cuba, a central figure of Afro-Cuban poetry whose work fused son rhythms with social protest.
Nicolás Heredia
Nicolás Heredia (1855–1901) was a Dominican-born novelist and journalist counted among the leading Cuban novelists of the nineteenth century, best known for the novel Leonela.
Nida Fazli
Nida Fazli (Urdu: ندا فاضلی), born Muqtada Hasan Fazli, was an Indian poet and songwriter who wrote in Urdu and Hindi and gave Urdu poetry a colloquial tone.
Nie Hualing
Nie Hualing (聶華苓, 1925–2024), also Hualing Nieh Engle, was a Chinese novelist, translator, and editor who co-founded the University of Iowa's International Writing Program with Paul Engle in 1967; her novel Mulberry and Peach won the 1990 American Book Award.
Nigâr Hanım
Nigâr Hanım (Nigâr bint-i Osman) was an Ottoman Turkish poet and diarist, known as the first to publish poetry under her own name in the Western tradition.
Nihar Ranjan Gupta
Nihar Ranjan Gupta (নীহাররঞ্জন গুপ্ত; 1911–1986) was an Indian Bengali physician and popular novelist, creator of the detective Kiriti Roy, who wrote over 200 books.
Nihon Bungeika Kyōkai
Nihon Bungeika Kyōkai (日本文藝家協会, Japan Writers' Association) is Japan's professional association for literary writers, founded by Kikuchi Kan in 1946 to protect writers' rights and manage literary copyrights.
Nijō Tameyo
Nijō Tameyo (二条為世, 1250–1338) was a Japanese court noble and poet who compiled two imperial waka anthologies and led the Nijō school, the dominant tradition of medieval court poetry.