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Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत)
Chetan Bhagat (चेतन भगत), born 1974, is an Indian novelist and columnist, author of Five Point Someone, 2 States, and Half Girlfriend, India's bestselling English-language fiction writer with film adaptations like 3 Idiots.
Chi Zijian
Chi Zijian (迟子建, born 1964) is a Chinese novelist from Mohe, Heilongjiang, whose novel The Last Quarter of the Moon won the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Chikamatsu Hanji
Chikamatsu Hanji (近松半二; real name Hozumi Nariteru, 1725–1783) was a Japanese playwright of bunraku puppet theater, active in Osaka, known for Imoseyama Onna Teikin and Keisei Awa no Naruto.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977, Enugu, Nigeria) is a Nigerian novelist and essayist, author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah, and of the TED talk We Should All Be Feminists.
China Miéville
China Miéville (born 1972, Norwich) is a British weird-fiction and New Weird novelist, author of the Bas-Lag trilogy and The City & the City, three-time Arthur C Clarke Award winner and Marxist political writer.
Chinari
Chinari (чинари) was an informal circle of young poets and philosophers in 1920s and 1930s Leningrad, centered on Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky, Leonid Lipavsky, Yakov Druskin, and Nikolai Oleinikov.
Chinghiz Aitmatov
Chinghiz Aitmatov (Чыңгыз Айтматов, Чингиз Айтматов), 1928–2008, Kyrgyz and Russian novelist and diplomat; author of Jamila, The White Ship, The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years; coined mankurt; Lenin Prize laureate.
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, 1930–2013), Nigerian novelist and father of modern African literature; author of Things Fall Apart (1958), founding editor of the African Writers Series, and 2007 Man Booker International Prize winner.
Chinweizu
Chinweizu is a Nigerian critic, poet, and journalist, born in 1943, known for books on decolonization including The West and the Rest of Us and Decolonising the African Mind.
Chips Hardy
Chips Hardy (Edward John Hardy, born 1950, Ealing, London) is an English writer and former advertising creative director, co-creator of the 2017 BBC/FX drama Taboo with Tom Hardy and Steven Knight, novelist of Each Day a Small Victory, and 2018 Writers' Guild award recipient.
Chit Phumisak
Chit Phumisak (จิตร ภูมิศักดิ์) was a Thai Marxist historian, poet, and linguist, remembered as one of Thailand's most influential left-wing intellectuals until his death in 1966.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, born in Kolkata around 1956, is an Indian-American author and University of Houston professor known for The Mistress of Spices and The Palace of Illusions.
Chloe Dalton (author)
Chloe Dalton is a British writer, political adviser, and foreign policy specialist, author of the debut memoir Raising Hare (La liebre y yo), a Wainwright Prize-winning bestseller about raising a wild leveret during the COVID lockdowns.
Chloe Michelle Howarth
Chloe Michelle Howarth (born 1996) is an Irish novelist from West Cork, author of Sunburn (2023), Heap Earth Upon It, and the forthcoming Aftertaste (2027), sapphic literary fiction set in rural Ireland.
Cho Ji-hun
Cho Ji-hun (조지훈; born Jo Dong-tak, 1920 to 1968) was a Korean poet and scholar of Korean literature, a Korea University professor known for poems like "Seungmu".
Cho'lpon
Cho'lpon ("morning star") was the pen name of Uzbek poet, playwright, and translator Abdulhamid Yunusov, born in Andijan in 1897 and executed in Tashkent in 1938 during Stalin's purges.
Choe Myeong-gil
Choe Myeong-gil (崔鳴吉, 1586–1647), pen name Changnang, was a Joseon dynasty Chief State Councillor best known for advocating peace with the Manchus in the wars of 1627 and 1636.
Choi In-hun
Choi In-hun (최인훈, 1936–2018) was a South Korean novelist, poet, and professor whose novel The Square (1960) opened a new era in postwar Korean literature.
Chong Hyon-jong
Chong Hyon-jong (정현종) is a South Korean poet, born in 1939, whose poetry centers on communion between the perceiving self and physical objects; he debuted in 1965.
Chrétien de Troyes
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet, probably from Troyes in Champagne, active from about 1160 to 1181, considered the creator of Arthurian romance as a literary genre.
Chris Abani
Chris Abani, born 1966 in Afikpo, Nigeria, is a Nigerian-born American novelist, poet, and Northwestern University professor whose novel GraceLand (2004) won the PEN/Hemingway Book Prize.
Chris Claremont
Chris Claremont is a British-born American comic book writer, noted for his record sixteen-year run on Marvel's Uncanny X-Men (1975–1991), which included defining stories like "The Dark Phoenix Saga."
Chris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk, born Christopher van Wyk (1957–2014), was a South African poet, editor, and children's writer from Soweto, best known for the poem "In Detention" and the memoir Shirley, Goodness and Mercy.
Chrisann Brennan
Chrisann Brennan, American artist and writer, Steve Jobs's first long-time girlfriend and mother of Lisa Brennan-Jobs; author of the 2013 memoir The Bite in the Apple.
Christa Wolf
Christa Wolf, née Ihlenfeld, was a German novelist and essayist, one of the most important authors of East Germany, known for Divided Heaven, Christa T., and Cassandra.
Christer Kihlman
Christer Kihlman (1930–2021) was a Finland-Swedish author and cultural writer who drew wide attention in the 1960s and 1970s with novels treating alcoholism, bisexuality, and family breakdown.
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769) was a German poet and Leipzig professor whose fables and sacred songs made him one of the most-read authors of his century.
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Morgenstern (1871–1914) was a German poet, translator, and journalist, born in Munich, whose comic verse collection Galgenlieder (1905) made him a pioneer of German nonsense poetry.
Christian Winther
Christian Winther (1796–1876) was a Danish poet of the second Romantic generation, known for the verse narrative Hjortens Flugt (1855) and love poetry centered on Zealand.
Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894), English Victorian poet, author of Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) and Monna Innominata; Anglo-Catholic devotional writer, sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.