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Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías (1928–2012), Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat of the Latin American Boom; author of La región más transparente, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Aura, and Terra Nostra; Cervantes Prize 1987, never awarded the Nobel.
Carlos Heitor Cony
Carlos Heitor Cony (1926–2018) was a Brazilian writer and journalist from Rio de Janeiro, author of Quase Memória and a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Carlos Luis Fallas
Carlos Luis Fallas, known as Calufa (1909–1966), was a Costa Rican novelist and communist activist whose protest novels Mamita Yunai and Marcos Ramírez made him the leading writer of the Generación del 40.
Carlos María Ocantos
Carlos María Ocantos (1860–1949) was an Argentine novelist and diplomat who published twenty realist novels as Novelas argentinas, joined the Real Academia Española in 1897, and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1943.
Carlos Nejar
Carlos Nejar, born in 1939 in Porto Alegre, is a Brazilian poet and novelist who has published more than 70 books and chairs no. 4 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Carlos Reyles
Carlos Reyles was a Uruguayan novelist, essayist, and rancher (1868–1938) whose fiction moved from naturalism to modernismo and the rural novel, with works including Beba, La raza de Caín, and El terruño.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964–2020), Barcelona-born Spanish novelist, author of La sombra del viento and the Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados tetralogy; most-read Spanish writer after Cervantes, 50 million copies, died in Los Angeles.
Carmen Conde
Carmen Conde (Carmen Conde Abellán; 1907–1996) was a Spanish poet and novelist from Cartagena who in 1978 became the first woman elected to the Real Academia Española.
Carmen Laforet
Carmen Laforet, full name Carmen Laforet Díaz, was a Spanish novelist whose debut Nada won the first Premio Nadal in 1945 and became a landmark of postwar fiction.
Carmen Martín Gaite
Carmen Martín Gaite (1925–2000) was a Spanish novelist and essayist of the Generación del 55 whose El cuarto de atrás won the Premio Nacional de Literatura.
Carmen Naranjo
Carmen Naranjo (1928–2012) was a Costa Rican novelist, poet, and playwright known for Los perros no ladraron (1966), who also served as Costa Rica's Minister of Culture and ambassador to Israel.
Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955, Glasgow) is a Scottish poet and playwright, UK Poet Laureate 2009 to 2019, the first woman and first openly lesbian laureate. Known for The World's Wife, Mean Time, and Rapture, she teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Carola Saavedra
Carola Saavedra is a Chilean-born Brazilian novelist, born in Santiago in 1973 and raised in Rio de Janeiro, whose novel Flores azuis won the APCA prize.
Caroline Kepnes
Caroline Kepnes (born 1976), American author from Cape Cod, Brown alumna, New York Times bestselling writer of the You series (You, Hidden Bodies, You Love Me, For You and Only You, You First) and Providence, adapted into Netflix's You; directing The Attentionist.
Caroline Wahl
Caroline Wahl (born 1995, Mainz) is a German novelist and author of the bestsellers 22 Bahnen (2023), Windstärke 17 (2024), Die Assistentin (2025), and 1999 Meter über dem Meer (2026).
Carrie Ingalls
Carrie Ingalls (Caroline Celestia Ingalls Swanzey, 1870–1946), Laura Ingalls Wilder's younger sister beyond the 'Baby Carrie' character: South Dakota typesetter, manager of four frontier newspapers, Topbar homesteader, and Keystone wife of David Swanzey.
Carry van Bruggen
Carry van Bruggen, pen name of Carolina Lea de Haan (1881–1932), was a Dutch writer whose final novel Eva (1927) was the first Dutch novel of consciousness.
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers (Lula Carson Smith, 1917–1967), American Southern Renaissance novelist of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, and The Ballad of the Sad Café; themes of loneliness, misfits, and the grotesque.
Carys Davies
Carys Davies, Welsh novelist and short story writer, author of West, The Mission House, and Clear; winner of the 2025 Ondaatje Prize, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Wales Book of the Year, and Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.
Casey McQuiston
Casey McQuiston is an American author of queer romantic comedies. Their debut, Red, White & Royal Blue, was a 2019 bestseller and received a 2023 Emmy-nominated film.
Casey Motsisi
Casey Motsisi, born Moses Motsisi, was a South African journalist and short story writer best known for his humorous Drum magazine columns on township life.
Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare, pen name of Judith Rumelt, American YA fantasy author of The Mortal Instruments and the Shadowhunter Chronicles; born in Tehran, Iran; over 50 million copies in print; also writes the adult Chronicles of Castellane.
Cassiano Ricardo
Cassiano Ricardo, full name Cassiano Ricardo Leite (1895–1974), was a Brazilian poet and journalist, a leader of the 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna and author of the epic Martim Cererê.
Castro Alves
Castro Alves (Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves, 1847–1871) was a Brazilian Romantic poet whose abolitionist verse, including "O navio negreiro", earned him the epithet Poet of the Slaves.
Catharine Macaulay
Catharine Macaulay, née Sawbridge (1731–1791), was an English republican historian and political writer whose eight-volume History of England made her a celebrated voice of eighteenth-century British radicalism.
Catherine Cookson
Catherine Cookson (1906–1998), British novelist of Tyneside working-class life; born in South Shields, wrote over 100 titles, sold over 100 million copies, and was the most-borrowed UK library author for 17 years.
Catherine Dickens
Catherine Dickens, née Hogarth (1815–1879), Edinburgh-born wife of Charles Dickens, mother of his ten children, separated from him in 1858 amid his Ellen Ternan affair; reassessed by Lillian Nayder's 2011 biography.
Catherine Wells
Catherine Wells: Amy Catherine "Jane" Robbins Wells (1872-1927), British poet and short story writer, second wife of H.G. Wells, author of The Book of Catherine Wells (1928); also the name of a contemporary American science fiction author of Beyond the Gates (1999).
Cavalier poets
The Cavalier poets were a group of mid-seventeenth-century English lyric poets, principally Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace, named for their royalist allegiance rather than any shared style.
Caya Makhélé
Caya Makhélé, pen name of Joseph Makélé, is a Congolese novelist, playwright, and stage director living in France, best known for the prize-winning La Fable du cloître des cimetières.