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Beimbet Mailin
Beimbet Mailin (Бейімбет Майлин), born 1894, was a Kazakh Soviet writer, playwright, and journalist counted among the founders of Kazakh Soviet literature; he was executed in Stalin's repressions in 1938 and rehabilitated in 1957.
Bella Akhmadulina
Bella Akhmadulina, full name Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (1937–2010), was a Russian poet of the Thaw-generation shestidesyatniki who published her first verses in 1955 and 33 collections.
Belle Burden
Belle Burden, full name Flobelle Fairbanks Burden, is an American author and attorney known for her debut memoir Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, a 2026 number 1 bestseller.
Ben Aaronovitch
Ben Aaronovitch (born 1964, London) is a British author and screenwriter, a Doctor Who writer (Remembrance of the Daleks, 1988) and creator of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy police-procedural series starring Peter Grant.
Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre (born 1963) is a British historian and Times columnist-author of Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, The Spy and the Traitor, and Redwood, distinct from Alasdair MacIntyre, Stuart Macintyre, and Linden MacIntyre.
Ben Okri
Ben Okri, born in Nigeria in 1959, is a Nigerian-born British novelist and poet whose novel The Famished Road won the 1991 Booker Prize, making him its first Black and youngest winner.
Ben Shattuck
Ben Shattuck (born 1984) is an American writer and artist, author of Six Walks (2022) and The History of Sound (2024), which won the 2025 Mark Twain Award and became a Cannes film. He runs Davoll's General Store, South Dartmouth, built 1793.
Benedikt Gröndal
Benedikt Gröndal, full name Benedikt Gröndal Sveinbjarnarson, was an Icelandic poet, philologist, and naturalist, a central figure of late nineteenth-century Icelandic culture best known for the satirical Sagan af Heljarslóðarorustu (1861).
Benedito Nunes
Benedito Nunes (1929–2011) was a Brazilian philosopher and literary critic from Belém, Pará, who read Clarice Lispector through Heidegger and won the 2010 Prêmio Machado de Assis.
Bengali literature
Bengali literature (বাংলা সাহিত্য), writing in the Bengali language of Bangladesh and West Bengal, spans the Charyapada, medieval mangalkavya and Vaishnava padavali, and the modern era of Bankim and Tagore.
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, also spelled Feyjóo, was a Galician Benedictine monk and essayist whose attack on common errors made him a leading figure of the Spanish Enlightenment.
Benito Lynch
Benito Lynch (Benito Eduardo Lynch) was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer of gauchesca literature, known for Los caranchos de La Florida and El inglés de los güesos.
Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spanish Realist novelist, dramatist and Republican politician from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, considered Spain's greatest novelist after Cervantes; author of the 46-volume Episodios nacionales and Fortunata y Jacinta.
Benjamin Wood (writer)
Benjamin Wood (born 1981) is a British novelist, author of The Bellwether Revivals, The Ecliptic, and the Booker-longlisted Seascraper (2025); not the academic or historian of the same name.
Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah (Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah, 1958–2023), Birmingham-born British dub poet and novelist, author of Pen Rhythm, Talking Turkeys, Face and Refugee Boy, OBE refuser, Brunel professor, Peaky Blinders actor.
Benoît de Sainte-Maure
Benoît de Sainte-Maure was a 12th-century Norman or Tourangean poet who wrote the Roman de Troie, around 1160, and the unfinished Histoire des ducs de Normandie.
Benudhar Rajkhowa
Benudhar Rajkhowa was an Assamese poet, playwright, and lexicographer (1872–1955) whose 1917 dictionary of Assamese idioms remains unique in the language; his poetry is called the dawn of Assamese romanticism.
Berdi Kerbabaev
Berdi Kerbabaev, born in 1894, was a Soviet Turkmen writer, poet, and playwright regarded as a founder of Soviet-era Turkmen literature, best known for the historical novel The Decisive Step.
Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell (born 1944), British historical novelist, creator of Sharpe and of Uhtred of Bebbanburg in The Last Kingdom; over 55 novels, 20 million copies sold, TV adaptations starring Sean Bean and Alexander Dreymon.
Bernard Dadié
Bernard Dadié (1916–2019) was an Ivorian novelist, playwright, poet, and folklorist regarded as the father of Ivorian literature, whose Climbié (1956) was the first Ivorian novel.
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) was an American novelist and short story writer of Jewish life who wrote The Natural, The Assistant, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Fixer.
Bernard O'Dowd
Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (1866–1953) was an Australian radical poet and parliamentary draughtsman, best known for the long poem The Bush (1912) and the sonnet 'Australia'.
Bernardas Brazdžionis
Bernardas Brazdžionis, pen name Vytė Nemunėlis, was a Lithuanian poet and editor, a classic of Lithuanian literature who lived in exile in the United States from 1949.
Bernardim Ribeiro
Bernardim Ribeiro, full name Duarte Bernardim Ribeiro, was a Portuguese Renaissance poet and prose writer, born in Torrão around 1480 to 1490, best known for the pastoral novel Menina e Moça.
Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo is a British writer whose work spans fiction, verse fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other shared the 2019 Booker Prize with Margaret Atwood's winning novel, making.
Bernardo Atxaga
Bernardo Atxaga, pen name of Joseba Irazu Garmendia (born 1951), is a Spanish writer who works entirely in Basque; his collection Obabakoak (1988) brought Basque literature its widest audience.
Bernardo Carvalho
Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for Nove noites (2002) and Mongólia (2003), which build detective-like investigations around travel, archives, and unstable narration.
Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink (born 1944, Bielefeld) is a German novelist and retired professor of public law, formerly a judge on the NRW Constitutional Court. Known for the Selb crime trilogy and Der Vorleser (The Reader, 1995), the first German number-one New York Times bestseller, filmed in 2008.
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789–1862) was a Danish Romantic poet and hymn writer, best known for his children's songs, hymns, and historical novels about medieval Danish kings.
Berniece Baker Miracle
Berniece Baker Miracle, born Berniece Inez Gladys Baker, was an American author and older half-sister of Marilyn Monroe who co-wrote the 1994 memoir My Sister Marilyn.