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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, born Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, was a Spanish Romantic poet and prose writer (1836–1870), best known for the lyric Rimas and the supernatural tales Leyendas.
Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal
Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal (born 1945) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, and politician from Tuluá, best known for his 1971 novel of the Colombian political violence, Cóndores no entierran todos los días.
Gustavo Sainz
Gustavo Sainz (Gustavo Sainz Jormor) was a Mexican novelist and essayist of the La Onda movement, best known for his debut novel Gazapo (1965), which sold 34,000 copies in under two years.
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919–2000) was a Polish writer, essayist, and literary critic, a major figure of émigré literature best known for A World Apart, his account of imprisonment in Soviet labor camps.
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a French writer, disciple of Flaubert, author of nearly 300 short stories and six novels including Boule de suif, Bel-Ami, Pierre et Jean, and Le Horla.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay (born 1954, Weyburn, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian author of historical fantasy, co-editor of The Silmarillion, creator of The Fionavar Tapestry and Tigana, and winner of the 2008 World Fantasy Award for Ysabel.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), American poet of Chicago's South Side and author of A Street in Bronzeville, Annie Allen, and We Real Cool; first Black Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry (1950), Illinois poet laureate 1968–2000.
György Bessenyei
György Bessenyei was a Hungarian writer, philosopher, and cultural politician who led the first phase of the Hungarian Enlightenment, dated from his four publications of 1772.
György Konrád
György Konrád, published in English as George Konrád, was a Hungarian novelist, essayist, and sociologist whose debut novel The Case Worker (1969) drew on his work as a children's welfare supervisor.
Gyula Illyés
Gyula Illyés, born Illés Gyula, was a leading Hungarian poet, novelist, and dissident whose People of the Puszta (1936) exposed the plight of landless farm servants.
Gyula Krúdy
Gyula Krúdy (Krúdy Gyula, 1878–1933) was a Hungarian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, a master of modern Hungarian prose best known for the Szindbád cycle.
H. A. Murena
H. A. Murena, pen name of Héctor Alberto Álvarez (1923–1975), was an influential Argentine essayist, novelist, and poet whose El pecado original de América (1954) examined American identity, and who first translated Walter Benjamin into Spanish.
H. B. Jassin
H. B. Jassin (Hans Bague Jassin, 1917–2000) was an Indonesian literary critic nicknamed the Pope of Indonesian Literature; his papers became a leading Jakarta research center.
H. C. Branner
H. C. Branner, full name Hans Christian Branner, was a Danish writer (1903–1966) known for psychologically probing novels and for raising the radio play to a serious art form.
H. D. F. Kitto
H. D. F. Kitto (Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto, 1897–1982) was a British classical scholar, professor of Greek at Bristol, and author of Greek Tragedy and The Greeks.
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells (1866–1946), British novelist and social commentator, a father of science fiction with Verne and Gernsback; wrote The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and over 150 books predicting atomic weapons and aerial war.
H. I. E. Dhlomo
H. I. E. Dhlomo (Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo, 1903–1956) was a South African playwright, poet, and journalist, described as the first major black playwright in South Africa.
H. J. C. Grierson
Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson, known as H. J. C. Grierson, was a Scottish literary scholar and editor whose 1912 edition of Donne reshaped modernist criticism.
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft (Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 1890–1937), Providence, Rhode Island writer of weird fiction and cosmic horror, creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and At the Mountains of Madness.
H. Rider Haggard
Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925), English novelist of imperial adventure fiction, author of King Solomon's Mines, She, and the Allan Quatermain series; also colonial administrator, agricultural reformer, and friend of Andrew Lang and Kipling.
Ha Jin
Ha Jin (哈金), pen name of Jin Xuefei (born 1956, Liaoning), Chinese-American novelist and poet writing in English; National Book Award winner for Waiting (1999), exiled after Tiananmen, author of War Trash and A Map of Betrayal.
Haakon Chevalier
Haakon Chevalier (1901–1985), American writer and Berkeley professor of French literature, translator of Malraux, Aragon, and Dalí, and close friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose 1943 approach about passing secrets to the Soviets became the Chevalier incident at the 1954 security hearing.
Habib Jalib
Habib Jalib (حبیب جالب), pen name of Habib Ahmed, was a Pakistani revolutionary Urdu poet known for resistance poetry against military rule, including his 1962 poem "Dastoor".
Habibi
Habibi (Habîbî, حبيبى) was a 15th-century Azerbaijani poet who served the Aqqoyunlu and Safavid courts, won the title 'king of poets' from Shah Ismail, and influenced Fuzuli.
Haddis Alemayehu
Haddis Alemayehu (ሐዲስ ዓለማየሁ) was an Ethiopian novelist, diplomat, and minister, best known for Fikir iske Mekabir, a cornerstone of Amharic literature published in the 1960s.
Hadraawi
Hadraawi, pen name of Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame, was a Somali poet and playwright, jailed five years by Siad Barre's regime and widely seen as Somalia's greatest modern poet.
Hafeez Jalandhari
Hafeez Jalandhari (1900 to 1982) was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet who wrote the lyrics of Pakistan's national anthem and the four-volume epic Shahnama-e-Islam, earning the title Firdausi-e-Islam.
Hafid Bouazza
Hafid Bouazza (1970–2021) was a Moroccan-born Dutch writer of novels, stories, plays, essays, and translations whose exuberant prose won the Gouden Uil prize for Paravion (2003).
Hafiz Barkhurdar
Hafiz Barkhurdar (Punjabi: حافظ برخوردار; 1658–1707) was a Punjabi Sufi poet of the qissa tradition, best known for his Mirza Sahiban and for writing during Aurangzeb's reign.
Hajime Isayama (諫山 創)
Hajime Isayama (諫山 創), born 1986 in Oyama, Japan, is the manga artist creator of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin), serialized 2009-2021 in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, 34 volumes, over 100 million copies, Kodansha Manga Award winner.