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Byambyn Rinchen
Byambyn Rinchen (Бямбын Ринчен, 1905-1977) was a Mongolian scholar, writer, and translator who helped found modern Mongolian literature and wrote Mongolia's first historical film, Tsogt taij.
C. J. Box
C. J. Box, full name Charles James Box Jr., is an American crime and thriller writer born in 1958, best known for the Joe Pickett series about a Wyoming game warden.
C. J. Langenhoven
C. J. Langenhoven, born Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven (1873–1932), was a South African writer and politician who led the campaign for Afrikaans recognition and wrote "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika".
C. J. Sansom
C. J. Sansom (1952–2024), British author of the Shardlake Tudor crime series beginning with Dissolution (2003), plus Winter in Madrid and Dominion; Diamond Dagger winner, over 3 million copies sold.
C. J. Thomas
C. J. Thomas (സി. ജെ. തോമസ്; 1918–1960), full name Chollampel Yohannan Thomas, was a Malayalam playwright and critic whose plays, influenced by Bertolt Brecht, pioneered experimental theater in Malayalam.
C. L. Moore
C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Moore, 1911–1987), American science fiction and fantasy author, creator of Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry, first strong sword-and-sorcery heroine; collaborated with husband Henry Kuttner as Lewis Padgett.
C. P. Snow
C. P. Snow (Charles Percy Snow) was an English novelist and physical chemist known for the Strangers and Brothers series and the 1959 "two cultures" lecture.
C. Radhakrishnan
C. Radhakrishnan (സി. രാധാകൃഷ്ണൻ, born 1939) is a Malayalam novelist, science writer, and film director from Kerala whose first novel won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 1962.
C. S. Forester
C. S. Forester, real name Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, was an English novelist who wrote the Horatio Hornblower series and The African Queen between 1921 and 1966.
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis, 1898–1963), Belfast-born British writer, Oxford and Cambridge scholar, and Christian apologist, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters, member of the Inklings with J. R. R. Tolkien.
C. S. Lewis bibliography
C. S. Lewis bibliography: the published works of C. S. Lewis (1898–1963), over thirty books plus essays, poems, and letters, from Spirits in Bondage (1919) and Mere Christianity (1952) to the Narnia chronicles and Hooper-edited posthumous collections.
C. S. Pacat
C. S. Pacat, Australian fantasy and romance author of the Captive Prince trilogy, the YA Dark Rise series, and GLAAD-nominated Fence comics; known for a LiveJournal-to-Berkley path, DC Comics work, and a pending Dark Rise 3.
C. T. Msimang
C. T. Msimang, born Christian Themba Msimang in 1944, is a South African writer, poet, and linguist noted among Zulu poets, known for novels like Buzani kuMkabayi.
C. V. Raman Pillai
C. V. Raman Pillai (സി.വി. രാമൻപിള്ള; 1858–1922) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote in Malayalam. Known as the "Scott of Malayalam," he introduced the historical novel to Malayalam with Marthanda Varma (1891).
Caedmon
Caedmon was a Northumbrian cowherd at Whitby Abbey who, according to Bede's account, became the first named Old English Christian poet, dying between 670 and 680.
Cædmon
Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman, poet, and monk at Whitby Abbey in Northumbria, active from about 657 to 680, remembered for Cædmon's Hymn, the oldest surviving poem in English.
Caetano da Costa Alegre
Caetano da Costa Alegre (1864–1890) was a São Toméan poet and naval physician based in Lisbon, among the first African poets writing in Portuguese to center racial discrimination in his verse.
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı
Cahit Sıtkı Tarancı, born Hüseyin Cahit, was a Turkish poet born in Diyarbakır in 1910, best known for "Otuz Beş Yaş," which won the 1946 CHP poetry competition.
Cahit Zarifoğlu
Cahit Zarifoğlu, full name Abdurrahman Cahit Zarifoğlu, was a Turkish poet and writer who co-founded the magazine Mavera in 1976 and wrote in many genres.
Cai Yan (蔡琰)
Cai Yan (蔡琰), also Cai Wenji (蔡文姬) or Zhaoji, late Han poet, daughter of Cai Yong; captured by Southern Xiongnu for twelve years, ransomed by Cao Cao, credited with the Beifen shi poems and Hujia shiba pai.
Caio Fernando Abreu
Caio Fernando Abreu, full name Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu, was a Brazilian writer and journalist, born in 1948 and best known for the landmark story collection Morangos mofados (1982).
Calane da Silva
Calane da Silva (1945–2021) was a Mozambican poet, journalist, and university teacher, winner of the José Craveirinha Award and best known for his 1982 poetry volume Dos Meninos da Malanga.
Cale Young Rice
Cale Young Rice was an American poet and dramatist from Dixon, Kentucky, who wrote fifteen volumes of poems and ten poetic dramas, and was married to novelist Alice Hegan Rice.
Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr (1955-2024), American novelist and military historian, son of Beat figure Lucien Carr; author of The Alienist (1994), The Angel of Darkness, The Lessons of Terror, and the 2024 cat memoir My Beloved Monster.
Calixthe Beyala
Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian-born novelist writing in French who has published close to twenty works since 1987 and won the Académie française grand prix in 1996.
Callie Hart
Callie Hart (born 1983, Truro, Cornwall) is a British dark romance and romantasy author living in California; her self-published Quicksilver (2024) became a #1 NYT bestseller and a seven-figure Netflix film adaptation.
Callimachus
Callimachus was a Greek poet and scholar from Cyrene who spent his career at the Ptolemaic court in Alexandria and wrote an estimated 800 volumes of poetry and prose.
Calpurnius Siculus
Calpurnius Siculus is the name under which seven Latin bucolic poems, the Eclogues, are transmitted; one of three Latin pastoral collections to survive entire, it is dated to Nero's reign.
Camara Laye
Camara Laye (1928–1980) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French, known for L'Enfant noir (1953) and Le Regard du roi (1954), seminal works of African fiction.
Camilo Castelo Branco
Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890) was a Portuguese novelist and the leading figure of Romanticism in Portugal, its first professional writer, whose masterpiece Amor de Perdição (1862) remains his most read novel.