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Nissim Ezekiel
Nissim Ezekiel (1924–2004), Indian Jewish poet of the Bene-Israel community of Bombay, pioneer of modernist Indian English poetry; wrote A Time to Change, Night of the Scorpion, Latter-Day Psalms; Sahitya Akademi Award 1983, Padma Shri 1988.
Nita Prose
Nita Prose, pen name of Nita Pronovost (born 1972), is a Toronto-based Canadian novelist and former Simon & Schuster Canada editorial director, creator of the #1 NYT-bestselling Molly the Maid series: The Maid (2022), The Mystery Guest, The Mistletoe Mystery, and The Maid's Secret.
Niwa Fumio
Niwa Fumio (丹羽文雄, 1904–2005) was a Japanese novelist of the Shōwa era, known for customs novels of love and marriage, war reportage, and Buddhist novels including Shinran.
Niyi Osundare
Niyi Osundare, born in 1947 in Nigeria, is a Nigerian poet and professor whose accessible, Yoruba-rooted verse made him a leading figure of the alternative generation.
Nizami Aruzi
Nizami Aruzi Samarqandi was a 12th-century Persian poet and prose writer from Samarkand, best known for the Chahar Maqala, his treatise on secretaries, poets, astronomers, and physicians.
Nizami Ganjavi (نظامی گنجوی)
Nizami Ganjavi (نظامی گنجوی), Jamal al-Din Ilyas ibn Yusuf, c. 1141–1209, a Persian-language poet of Ganja whose Khamsa, five masnavi poems including Khosrow o Shirin and Leyli o Majnun, shaped Persian and Islamic literature.
Nizar Qabbani
Nizar Qabbani (نزار قباني) was a Syrian poet and diplomat, one of the most widely read modern Arab poets, known for love poetry and political verse.
Njabulo Ndebele
Njabulo Ndebele (Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele), born 1948, is a South African fiction writer, essayist, and academic known for Fools and Other Stories, which won the Noma Award.
Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor, also Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor, is a Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturist science fiction and fantasy, known for Who Fears Death, the Binti trilogy, the Akata series, Marvel comics, and coining Africanfuturism.
Nobuhiro Watsuki (和月伸宏)
Nobuhiro Watsuki (和月伸宏), real name Nishiwaki Nobuhiro, is a Japanese manga artist best known for Rurouni Kenshin, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 1994 to 1999.
Noémia de Sousa
Noémia de Sousa, born Carolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares (1926–2002), was a Mozambican poet, journalist, and translator known as the mother of Mozambican national poetry.
Nōin
Nōin (能因), secular name Tachibana no Nagayasu, was a Japanese waka poet and wandering monk born in 988 who appears in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu and anticipated Saigyō.
Nonnus
Nonnus of Panopolis was a Greek poet of the fifth century CE from Panopolis in Upper Egypt, author of the Dionysiaca, the longest surviving ancient Greek epic.
Nontsizi Mgqwetho
Nontsizi Mgqwetho, clan name Cizama, was a Xhosa poet who published about 95 poems in Umteteli wa Bantu from 1920 to 1929, the first woman to write substantial isiXhosa poetry.
Nora Barnacle
Nora Barnacle (Nora Joseph Barnacle) was an Irish woman from Galway who left Ireland with James Joyce in 1904, married him in 1931, and inspired Molly Bloom in Ulysses.
Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts (Eleanor Marie Robertson; also J.D. Robb, Sarah Hardesty, Jill March), American romance and suspense novelist with 250+ books, 500 million copies in print, and the In Death series.
Norbert Zongo
Norbert Zongo (1949–1998) was a Burkinabè investigative journalist and novelist who edited the weekly L'Indépendant and was President Blaise Compaoré's most outspoken press critic before his unsolved assassination in December 1998.
Nordahl Grieg
Nordahl Grieg, full name Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg, was a Norwegian poet, playwright, and war correspondent, known for the 1936 poem Til ungdommen and for wartime BBC broadcasts; he was killed over Berlin in 1943.
Norio Sakurai (桜井 のりお)
Norio Sakurai (桜井 のりお), born 1985 in Ageo, Saitama, is a Japanese manga artist for Akita Shoten, creator of Mitsudomoe, Korororo!, Kodomo Gakkyū, and the award-winning romance The Dangers in My Heart (Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu), adapted to anime from 2023.
Norman Lewis (writer)
Norman Lewis (1908–2003) was a British travel writer and novelist, author of A Dragon Apparent, Golden Earth, Naples '44 and The Honoured Society, and of the 1968 Sunday Times report Genocide in Brazil.
Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean (1902-1990), American writer and University of Chicago English professor, author of A River Runs Through It (1976), published at 73, and posthumous Young Men and Fire on the 1949 Mann Gulch fire.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American novelist and New Journalism pioneer, author of The Naked and the Dead, two-time Pulitzer winner for The Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song, six-time husband, 1969 NYC mayoral candidate.
Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye (Herman Northrop Frye; 1912–1991) was a Canadian literary critic at Victoria College, Toronto, whose Anatomy of Criticism sought to make criticism a systematic discipline.
Notker Labeo
Notker Labeo, also called Notker the German or Notker III, was a Benedictine monk of St. Gall who translated Latin school texts into Old High German.
Nou Hach
Nou Hach (នូ ហាច, 1916–1975) was a Cambodian novelist from Battambang province, regarded as a founder of modern Khmer literature; his romance Phka Srapon became one of the most famous Khmer novels.
Novelist
Novelist: a person who writes novels; word from 1575–85, novel from Italian novella. Covers the novel's definition, history from Tale of Genji and Don Quixote, and the novelist's profession.
NoViolet Bulawayo
NoViolet Bulawayo, pen name of Elizabeth Zandile Tshele (born 1981), is a Zimbabwean novelist twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for We Need New Names and Glory.
Novísimos
The novísimos, also called the Generación del 68 or Generación del 70, are Spanish poets named from José María Castellet's 1970 anthology of nine poets.
Nukata no Ōkimi
Nukata no Ōkimi was the leading woman poet of the first period of the Man'yōshū, Japan's oldest surviving poetry anthology, with 12 poems under her name.
O. Henry
O. Henry, pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862–1910), American short story writer of some 300 stories with surprise endings, including "The Gift of the Magi"; ex-convict for embezzlement, New York-set fiction, O. Henry Award namesake.