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Colonel Muhammad Khan
Colonel Muhammad Khan (کرنل محمد خان) was a Pakistani army officer and leading Urdu humorist whose comic autobiography Bajang Aamad made him famous in 1966.
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead (born 1969) is an American novelist raised in Manhattan who won two consecutive Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, for The Underground Railroad (2016) and The Nickel Boys (2019).
Columella
Columella, born Lucius Iunius Moderatus Columella (c. 4–70 CE), was a Roman agricultural writer from Gades in Spain whose twelve-book De re rustica on farming survives complete.
Comte de Lautréamont
Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore Ducasse (1846–1870), a French-language poet whose prose epic Les Chants de Maldoror became a foundational text for the Surrealists.
Conceição Lima
Conceição Lima, born Maria da Conceição de Deus Lima (1961–2026), was a Santomean poet and BBC journalist whose four poetry collections explore colonial history and independence.
Concha Espina
Concha Espina (Concepción Espina y Tagle, 1869–1955) was a Spanish novelist and journalist, the first Spanish woman nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, losing by one vote in 1926.
Conference of African Writers of English Expression
The Conference of African Writers of English Expression, held at Makerere University in Kampala in June 1962, was the first continental gathering of African writers in English.
Cong Weixi
Cong Weixi (从维熙) is a Chinese novelist, born in 1933 in Yutian, Hebei, called the father of "Great Wall literature", fiction about prisons during the Cultural Revolution.
Congress of South African Writers
The Congress of South African Writers (COSAW), founded in July 1987 under Njabulo Ndebele, was a non-racial writers' organization that opposed apartheid and promoted literature.
Conn Iggulden
Conn Iggulden (born 1971) is a British historical novelist, author of the Emperor series on Julius Caesar, the Conqueror series on Genghis Khan, the Wars of the Roses and Nero trilogies, and The Dangerous Book for Boys with brother Hal.
Connie Palmen
Connie Palmen, born 1955 in Sint Odilienberg, is a Dutch writer and philosopher whose 1991 debut De wetten sold more than 400,000 copies within a year.
Conrad Busken Huet
Conrad Busken Huet (1826–1886) was a Dutch writer and critic, regarded as the most important Dutch literary critic of the nineteenth century, whose cultural history Het land van Rembrand opened a new genre in Dutch letters.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898) was a Swiss writer who composed in German, known for historical novellas like Das Amulett and Jürg Jenatsch and for formally exact lyric poetry.
Conrado Nalé Roxlo
Conrado Nalé Roxlo (1898–1971) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and humorist from Buenos Aires who made his name as a poet with El grillo in 1923.
Constance Garnett
Constance Garnett, née Black (born December 19, 1862, in Brighton, though some sources give 1861; died 1946), was an English translator who produced about 70 volumes of Russian literature.
Constancia de la Mora
Constancia de la Mora (1906–1950) was a Spanish writer, granddaughter of Antonio Maura, who directed the Republican foreign press office and wrote the 1939 autobiography In Place of Splendor.
Constantijn Huygens
Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687) was a Dutch poet, diplomat, and composer who served the stadtholders of the House of Orange and wrote over 75,000 lines of verse.
Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine P. Cavafy (Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης, 1863–1933), Greek poet of Alexandria, author of "Ithaka" and "Waiting for the Barbarians"; obscure in life, canonized posthumously via Forster, Auden, and Merrill; archive held by Onassis Foundation.
Contemporáneos
Los Contemporáneos were a Mexican literary group of poets, essayists, and dramatists active from the late 1910s through the 1930s, named after their magazine Contemporáneos, published from 1928 to 1931.
Cora Coralina
Cora Coralina was the pen name of Ana Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto Bretas, a Brazilian poet and short-story writer from Goiás who published her first book at 75.
Cora Sandel
Cora Sandel, pen name of Sara Fabricius (1880–1974), was a Norwegian writer and painter best known for the semi-autobiographical Alberte trilogy about a woman's path to becoming a writer.
Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith was the pen name of Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (1913–1966), an American professor and science fiction author whose stories share the far-future Instrumentality of Mankind history.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., American novelist of Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road; National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and MacArthur Fellow.
Cornelius Nepos
Cornelius Nepos (c. 99–24 BC), Cisalpine Gaul-born Roman biographer, friend of Cicero, Catullus, and Atticus; wrote De viris illustribus, of which the foreign generals book and lives of Cato and Atticus survive.
Corsino Fortes
Corsino Fortes (Corsino António Fortes; 1933–2015) was a Cape Verdean poet, lawyer, judge, and diplomat whose epic trilogy A Cabeça Calva de Deus made him a central figure of Cape Verdean literature.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (born 1971, Toronto) is a British-Canadian science fiction author, blogger, and digital rights activist, coiner of the term "enshittification", author of Little Brother and Attack Surface, and an EFF and Open Rights Group figure opposed to DRM.
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) was an English poet best known for The Angel in the House, whose title named the Victorian ideal of the devoted wife.
Crack Movement
The Crack movement (Generación del Crack) was a group of Mexican novelists whose 1996 manifesto called for demanding, formally ambitious fiction over nationalism and market conventions.
Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson, born in Michigan in 1975 and based in Portland, Oregon, is an American graphic novelist whose books include Blankets, Habibi, and Ginseng Roots.
Creation Society
The Creation Society was a Chinese literary society founded in Tokyo in 1921 by Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, and others, a pioneer of romantic and revolutionary literature.