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Cecelia Ahern
Cecelia Ahern, Irish novelist (born 1981, Dublin), daughter of Bertie Ahern; debut PS, I Love You (2004); 25 million books sold; also created Samantha Who? and Roar (Apple TV+).
Cecil Bødker
Cecil Bødker (1927–2020) was a Danish author best known for the 14-volume Silas series about an orphan boy, begun with Silas og den sorte hoppe in 1967.
Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis (C. Day-Lewis, pseudonym Nicholas Blake), Irish-born British poet (1904–1972), Auden-group 1930s poet, Oxford Professor of Poetry, Virgil translator, and Poet Laureate 1968–1972; father of Daniel Day-Lewis.
Cécile Tormay
Cécile Tormay (1875–1937) was a Hungarian novelist and editor, the leading female figure of the Horthy-era counter-revolution, founding president of MANSZ and author of the memoir An Outlaw's Diary.
Cecília Meireles
Cecília Meireles (1901–1964) was a Brazilian poet and educator from Rio de Janeiro, whose verse novel Romanceiro da Inconfidência (1953) is a landmark of Brazilian modernism.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Cecily von Ziegesar, born 1970, American author and creator of the Gossip Girl and It Girl novel series, written while at Alloy Entertainment; also wrote Cum Laude and Cobble Hill, and the 2027 sequel Blair.
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom) was a Dutch novelist, poet, and travel writer, born in 1933 and regarded as a major postwar Dutch author.
Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng, born 1980, is an American novelist and author of Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts; Harvard graduate and University of Michigan MFA, Pushcart Prize winner whose work has been translated into over thirty languages.
Cemal Süreya
Cemal Süreya (1931–1990), born Cemalettin Seber, was a Turkish poet, essayist, and translator and a leading voice of the İkinci Yeni movement, known for Üvercinka and his magazine Papirüs.
Cemil Meriç
Cemil Meriç (1916–1987) was a Turkish essayist, translator, and thinker who sought to bridge Eastern and Western thought in works like Bu Ülke, despite going blind in 1955.
Cen Shen
Cen Shen (岑参, 715–770) was a Tang dynasty poet who twice served in the Western Regions and wrote more than 70 frontier poems, paired with Gao Shi as "Gao–Cen".
Cenab Şahabeddin
Cenab Şahabeddin, also known as Cenap Şahabettin, was an Ottoman and Turkish poet, prose writer, and physician, the leading poet of the Servet-i Fünûn movement of 1896 to 1901.
César Aira
César Aira, born in 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Argentina, is a prolific Argentine novelist, translator, dramatist, and essayist with more than one hundred books published since 1981.
César Dávila Andrade
César Dávila Andrade (1918–1967) was an Ecuadorian poet, short-story writer, and essayist known as "El Fakir", whose best-known poem is "Boletín y elegía de las mitas" (1959).
César Moro
César Moro, pen name of Alfredo Quíspez Asín (1903–1956), was a Peruvian surrealist poet and painter who wrote nearly all his poetry in French and is seen as a central figure of Latin American surrealism.
César Tiempo
César Tiempo was the pen name of Israel Zeitlin (1906–1980), a Ukrainian-born Argentine writer and playwright known for poetry on Jewish immigrant life in Buenos Aires.
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) was an Italian writer, poet, translator, and editor based in Turin, known for realist novels like La luna e i falò and for introducing American authors to Italian readers.
Cesário Verde
Cesário Verde (José Joaquim Cesário Verde) was a Portuguese poet who worked as a Lisbon merchant, published little in his lifetime, and is now regarded as a precursor of Portuguese Modernism.
Cezar Bolliac
Cezar Bolliac, also spelled Cesar Boliac, was a Romanian Romantic poet, journalist, and archaeologist (1813–1881), a leader of the 1848 Wallachian revolution and a founder of Romanian archaeology.
Chae Man-sik
Chae Man-sik (채만식, 1902–1950) was a Korean novelist, dramatist, critic, and essayist known for satirical fiction dissecting colonial-era Korean society, including "A Ready-Made Life" and "Peace Under Heaven".
Chaim Grade
Chaim Grade (חיים גראַדע) was a Yiddish poet and novelist born in Vilna in 1910, known for works including "My Quarrel With Hersh Rasseyner" and The Yeshiva.
Chairil Anwar
Chairil Anwar (1922–1949) was an Indonesian poet who pioneered modern Indonesian poetry as the leader of the Angkatan '45, writing about seventy poems before dying at 26.
Chandidas
Chandidas (চণ্ডীদাস) is the name borne by one or more medieval Bengali Vaishnava poets, author of Srikrishnakirtan, whose disputed identity is known as the Chandidas problem.
Chandra Kumar Agarwala
Chandra Kumar Agarwala (চন্দ্ৰকুমাৰ আগৰৱালা; 1867–1938) was an Assamese poet, publisher, and tea-planter who served as first editor and financier of Jonaki and pioneered Romanticism in Assamese poetry.
Chandra Sekhar Rath
Chandra Sekhar Rath (ଚନ୍ଦ୍ରଶେଖର ରଥ; 1929–2018) was an Odia-language novelist, essayist, poet, and translator from Odisha, India, whose first novel Yantrarudha (1967) became a significant post-independence work.
Chandradhar Barua
Chandradhar Barua (চন্ৰধৰ বৰুৱা, 1874–1961) was an Assamese poet, playwright, and lawyer of the Jonaki era who served as president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha.
Chandradhar Sharma Guleri
Chandradhar Sharma Guleri (चंद्रधर शर्मा गुलेरी, 1883–1922) was a Hindi writer from Jaipur, author of Usne Kaha Tha, widely regarded as the first modern Hindi short story.
Chandrakant Sheth
Chandrakant Sheth (ચંદ્રકાન્ત શેઠ) was an Indian Gujarati poet, essayist, critic, and editor who won the 1986 Sahitya Akademi Award for his childhood memoir Dhoolmani Paglio.
Chandrashekhara Kambara
Chandrashekhara Kambara, born January 2, 1937, in Ghodageri, Belagavi, Karnataka, is an Indian Kannada poet, playwright, and folklorist who won India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award, in 2010.
Chang Ta-chun
Chang Ta-chun (张大春), born 1957 in Taipei, is a Taiwanese novelist, essayist, and radio storyteller known for realist and postmodern fiction, for The Grand Tang: Li Bai, and for cross-media work including Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster.