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Yang Kui
Yang Kui (楊逵), born Yang Gui, was a Taiwanese novelist, editor, and social activist who led left-wing literature in Japanese-ruled Taiwan; his story "The Newspaper Boy" was the first by a Taiwanese writer recognized in Japan.
Yang Mo
Yang Mo (杨沫), born Yang Chengye, was a Chinese novelist and screenwriter whose 1958 novel Song of Youth became one of China's most widely read red classics.
Yang Mu
Yang Mu (楊牧) was the pen name of Wang Ching-hsien, a Taiwanese poet and essayist born in Hualien in 1940 who fused Chinese classical tradition with Western literature.
Yang Shuang-zi (杨若慈)
Yang Shuang-zi (楊双子), pen name of Yang Jo-tzu (楊若慈, born 1984), Taiwanese writer of historical yuri fiction; twin sister Yang Jo-hui died 2015. Known for Taiwan Travelogue (臺灣漫遊錄), winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature and 2026 International Booker Prize with translator Lin King.
Yanick Lahens
Yanick Lahens, born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian novelist and essayist who won the 2014 Prix Femina for her novel Bain de lune.
Yanka Bryl
Yanka Bryl (Янка Брыль), born Ivan Antonavich Bryl (1917–2006), was a Belarusian prose writer and translator who co-authored I Am from the Fiery Village (1975), a foundation of Belarusian documentary literature.
Yanka Kupala
Yanka Kupala, pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich (1882–1942), was a Belarusian poet and playwright, a founder of modern Belarusian literature whose collections include Zhaleyka and Guslyar.
Yanka Sipakou
Yanka Sipakou (Янка Сіпакоў), pen name of Ivan Danilavich Sipakou (1936–2011), was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and translator known for village prose and a Belarusian Divine Comedy.
Yanka Zhurba
Yanka Zhurba (Янка Журба) was the pen name of Belarusian poet, teacher, and translator Ivan Yakavlevich Ivashyn (1881–1964), an older-generation Nasha Niva writer who translated Dostoevsky's Poor Folk in 1930.
Yann Martel
Yann Martel, Canadian novelist born 1963 in Salamanca, Spain, author of Life of Pi (2001 Man Booker Prize, 15 million copies, Ang Lee film with four Oscars) and Son of Nobody (2026).
Yao Xueyin
Yao Xueyin (姚雪垠, born Yao Guansan, 1910–1999) was a Chinese novelist from Dengzhou, Henan, whose historical novel Li Zicheng won the first Mao Dun Literary Prize in 1982.
Yaşar Kemal
Yaşar Kemal, born Kemal Sadık Göğceli (1923–2015), was a leading Turkish novelist who drew on oral tradition; his debut novel İnce Memed (1955) won international fame.
Yashpal
Yashpal (यशपाल, 1903–1976) was an Indian Hindi writer and revolutionary who bombed the Viceroy's train in 1929 and later wrote the acclaimed Partition novel Jhootha Sach.
Yasuhisa Hara (原 泰久)
Yasuhisa Hara (原泰久, born 1975, Kiyama, Saga Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist and former systems engineer, creator of the historical manga Kingdom (2006, Weekly Young Jump), based on the Shiji, with over 110 million copies sold and the 2013 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成, 1899–1972), Japanese novelist, first Japanese Nobel Literature laureate (1968), New Sensation school founder, author of Snow Country, The Sound of the Mountain, and The Old Capital; died by gas suicide in 1972.
Yasushi Inoue
Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991) was a Japanese novelist and poet who debuted at 42 and became known for The Hunting Gun, The Roof Tile of Tempyō, and Silk Road novels.
Ye Shengtao
Ye Shengtao (叶圣陶), original name Ye Shaojun, was a Chinese writer, educator, editor, and publisher from Suzhou whose 1923 collection The Scarecrow founded modern Chinese children's literature.
Ye Shitao
Ye Shitao (葉石濤, 1925–2008) was a Taiwanese novelist, literary critic, and historian who wrote the first complete history of Taiwanese literature by a Taiwanese author.
Ye Xie
Ye Xie (葉燮, 1627–1703) was a Chinese poet, official, and literary critic of the early Qing dynasty, best known for Yuan Shi, a systematic treatise on poetics.
Ye Zi
Ye Zi (叶紫, 1910 or 1912 – 1939) was a Chinese writer from Yiyang, Hunan, associated with the League of Left-Wing Writers and known for fiction about peasant life around Dongting Lake.
Yeghishe
Yeghishe (Եղիշե, also written Eghishe or Elishe) was a 5th-century Armenian historian whose History of Vardan recounts the Armenian rebellion of 450–451 against Sasanian Persia.
Yeghishe Charents
Yeghishe Charents (Եղիշե Չարենց), born Yeghishe Abgari Soghomonian, was an Armenian poet and major figure of twentieth-century Armenian poetry, known for "I love my sweet Armenia" and Land of Nairi.
Yehoshua Perle
Yehoshua Perle, also spelled Yehoshue Perle (1888–1943), was a Polish Yiddish novelist and essayist based in Warsaw whose 1935 novel Ordinary Jews is regarded as a Yiddish masterpiece.
Yehuda Alharizi
Yehuda Alharizi (יהודה אלחריזי), also Yehuda ben Shelomo al-Harizi, was a Hebrew poet and traveler from Toledo who established the maqama as a Hebrew literary form in Sefer Tahkemoni.
Yehuda Amichai (יהודה עמיחי)
Yehuda Amichai (יהודה עמיחי), born Ludwig Pfeufer (1924–2000), was an Israeli poet, the leading poet of Israel's Statehood Generation, author of Now and in Other Days (1955) and Open Closed Open, Israel Prize laureate, most translated Israeli poet.
Yevgeny Baratynsky
Yevgeny Baratynsky, also spelled Evgeny Boratynsky, was a Russian poet of the Pushkin era (1800 to 1844), ranked after Pushkin as the 'poet of thought' for his philosophical verse.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Евгений Евтушенко) was a Soviet and Russian poet of the Thaw generation, famous for civic poems like "Babii Yar" and mass public readings.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (Евгений Замятин, 1884–1937), Russian writer and naval engineer, author of the dystopian novel We (Мы, 1920–21), which influenced Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World; censored, expelled from Soviet literary life in 1929, died in Parisian exile.
Yevhen Hrebinka
Yevhen Hrebinka (Євген Гребінка; 1812–1848) was a Ukrainian Romantic writer who wrote fables, poetry, and prose in Ukrainian and Russian, and helped publish Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840.
Yevhen Malaniuk
Yevhen Malaniuk (Євген Маланюк) was a Ukrainian émigré poet of the Prague school and a former UNR army officer, banned in Soviet Ukraine for about seventy years.