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Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell (born 1966, London) is a British children's author and illustrator, creator of How to Train Your Dragon (11 million books, 38 languages, DreamWorks films) and The Wizards of Once; Waterstones Children's Laureate 2019–2022 and literacy campaigner.
Cristina Peri Rossi
Cristina Peri Rossi, born 1941 in Montevideo, is a Uruguayan writer of fiction, poetry, and essays who has lived in exile in Barcelona since the 1970s and won the Premio Cervantes in 2021.
Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza, born 1964, is a Mexican writer, historian, and critic known for genre-crossing work and for Liliana's Invincible Summer, the memoir that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize.
Cristovão Tezza
Cristovão Tezza (born 1952) is a Brazilian novelist, essayist, and former university professor best known for O filho eterno (2007), which won every major Brazilian literary prize.
CrossGen
CrossGen (Cross Generation Comics) was an independent US comic publisher founded by Mark Alessi in 1998 in Oldsmar, Florida, known for the Sigilverse shared universe, salaried in-house creators, and titles like Sigil, Sojourn, and Ruse; it went bankrupt in 2004 and Disney bought its assets.
Cruz e Sousa
Cruz e Sousa, also known as João da Cruz e Sousa, was a Brazilian poet born in Florianópolis whose 1893 works Missal and Broquéis inaugurated Symbolism in Brazil.
Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably active in the 1st century CE, who wrote the only surviving Latin history of Alexander the Great, the Historiae Alexandri Magni.
Curzio Malaparte
Curzio Malaparte, pen name of Kurt Erich Suckert (1898–1957), Italian writer and journalist; author of Kaputt (1944) and La pelle (1949), the coup d'état treatise of 1931, and the Capri villa Casa Malaparte.
Cuttlefish That Loves Diving
Cuttlefish That Loves Diving (爱潜水的乌贼), real name Yuan Ye, is a Chinese web novelist and Qidian platinum author, best known for the Lovecraftian steampunk hit Lord of Mysteries (诡秘之主) and its sequel Circle of Inevitability.
Cynewulf
Cynewulf, also spelled Cynwulf or Kynewulf, is an Old English poet of the ninth century who signed four religious poems, including Elene, with runic acrostics.
Cynthia McLeod
Cynthia McLeod, born Cynthia Henri McLeod-Ferrier in 1936 in Paramaribo, is a Surinamese novelist and historian known for bestselling historical novels about Suriname's plantation and slavery past, including her 1987 debut The Cost of Sugar.
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick (born 1928) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose work centers on Jewish identity; her best-known work is the novella The Shawl.
Cynthia Rylant
Cynthia Rylant, born 1954, is an American author and poet who has written more than one hundred children's books; her novel Missing May won the Newbery Medal in 1993.
Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) was a Nigerian novelist, pharmacist, and broadcaster who wrote about urban life, best known for People of the City (1954) and Jagua Nana (1961).
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1821–1883) was a Polish poet, playwright, and visual artist often regarded as the last great Polish Romantic poet; ignored in his lifetime, he was rediscovered during the Young Poland period.
Cyriel Buysse
Cyriel Buysse (1859–1932) was a Flemish novelist and playwright who introduced French naturalism into Dutch-language literature, writing starkly realistic novels like Het gezin Van Paemel about the poor Flemish countryside.
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly (1903–1974), English critic and editor of Horizon (1939–1949), author of Enemies of Promise (1938), The Rock Pool (1936), and The Unquiet Grave (1944).
Cyril M. Kornbluth
Cyril M. Kornbluth (1923-1958), American science fiction author and Futurian; wrote "The Little Black Bag," "The Marching Morons," and The Space Merchants with Frederik Pohl; 1973 Hugo for "The Meeting."
Cyril Tourneur
Cyril Tourneur (c. 1575 – 1626) was an English Jacobean poet and dramatist known for The Atheist's Tragedy (1611); The Revenger's Tragedy is now usually credited to Thomas Middleton.
Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz, a Polish poet, essayist, and 1980 Nobel laureate, fled communist Poland after World War II and lived until his death in Kraków in 2004.
D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930), English novelist, poet, and critic born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire; author of Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover; repeatedly censored, exiled, and later revived by F. R. Leavis.
D. O. Fagunwa
D. O. Fagunwa, full name Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa, was a Nigerian novelist, born in 1903, who wrote five pioneering novels of spiritual adventure in the Yorùbá language.
D. R. Bendre (ದತ್ತಾತ್ರೇಯ ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರ ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ)
D. R. Bendre (Dattatreya Ramachandra Bendre, ದತ್ತಾತ್ರೇಯ ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರ ಬೇಂದ್ರೆ, pen name Ambikatanayadatta, 1896–1981) was a Kannada Navodaya poet from Dharwad, called Varakavi, who won the Jnanpith Award for Naaku Tanti and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Aralu Maralu.
D. Vinayachandran
D. Vinayachandran (ഡി. വിനയചന്ദ്രൻ) was an Indian Malayalam poet known for the modern prose style, a professor at Mahatma Gandhi University, and winner of the 2006 Asan Puraskaram.
Da Chen
Da Chen, born in Fujian, China, in 1962, was a Chinese American author and Columbia Law School graduate known for his bestselling memoir Colors of the Mountain.
Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini, born in Fiesole in 1936, is an Italian novelist, playwright, and poet whose work centers on women's condition, winning the Premio Strega in 1999.
Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad (1941–2025) was a Norwegian novelist, essayist, and playwright, born in Sandefjord, a central figure of postwar Norwegian literature whose eighteen novels tracked Norwegian society from the 1960s onward.
Dagon Taya
Dagon Taya (ဒဂုန်တာရာ), born Htay Myaing, was a Burmese poet, essayist, and peace activist who led the post-war Sar Pe Thit (New Literature) movement until his death in 2013.
Dahlia de la Cerda
Dahlia de la Cerda (born 1985, Aguascalientes) is a Mexican writer and activist, author of Perras de reserva (Reservoir Bitches), longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, and co-founder of Morras Help Morras.
Dahlia Ravikovitch
Dahlia Ravikovitch (דליה רביקוביץ'; 1936–2005) was an Israeli poet, translator, and peace activist whose 1959 debut, The Love of an Orange, made her a leading Hebrew poet; she won the Israel Prize in 1998.