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Hajime Kōmoto (甲本一)
Hajime Kōmoto (甲本一) is a Japanese manga artist who debuted in 2019 and is best known for Mashle: Magic and Muscles, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2020 to 2023.
Hajra Masroor
Hajra Masroor (ہاجرہ مسرور, 1930–2012) was a Pakistani Urdu short story writer and women's rights campaigner who wrote about women's lives, and sister of novelist Khadija Mastoor.
Hakan Günday
Hakan Günday (born 1976) is a Turkish novelist and screenwriter known for his dark underground literature, especially Daha, which won France's Prix Médicis in 2015.
Håkan Nesser
Håkan Nesser, born 1950 in Kumla, is a Swedish crime writer, creator of the Van Veeteren series set in Maardam and the Barbarotti series, winner of the Glass Key and three Swedish Crime Writers' Academy prizes, convicted of gross tax crime in 2024.
Hakawati
A hakawati (ḥakawātī; حكواتي) is a professional oral storyteller of the Arab world, closely identified with Syrian coffeehouses, who performed tales and epics over many sessions.
Halfdan Rasmussen
Halfdan Rasmussen (1915–2002) was a Danish poet known for humorous nonsense verse and children's rhymes, including the alphabet book Halfdans ABC, and for socially engaged adult poetry.
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil
Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil, also written Halit Ziya, was a Turkish novelist and founder of the modern Turkish novel, author of Mai ve Siyah and Aşk-ı Memnu.
Halim Barakat
Halim Barakat (حليم بركات) was a Syrian-born Arab sociologist and novelist who taught for 27 years at Georgetown University and wrote The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State (1993).
Halldis Moren Vesaas
Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907–1995) was a Norwegian poet and translator writing in Nynorsk, counted among Norway's most read poets; she translated over fifty stage works into Nynorsk.
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Halldór Guðjónsson, 1902–1998) was Iceland's leading twentieth-century novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature 1955, author of Independent People, Salka Valka, and Iceland's Bell.
Hallgrímur Pétursson
Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614–1674) was an Icelandic Lutheran priest and poet whose fifty Passion Hymns, composed in 1659, have been read in Iceland every Lent for over three centuries.
Halyna Pahutiak
Halyna Pahutiak (Галина Пагутяк), born Halyna Moskalets in 1958, is a Ukrainian fantasy writer drawing on Carpathian legends and winner of the 2010 Taras Shevchenko Prize.
Hamid Olimjon
Hamid Olimjon, real name Hamid Olimjonovich Azimov, was an Uzbek poet, playwright, and translator born in Jizzakh in 1909, known for lyrics and dastans like Zaynab va Omon.
Hamka
Hamka was the pen name of Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (1908–1981), an Indonesian Islamic modernist scholar and novelist from Minangkabau, West Sumatra, known for Tafsir Al-Azhar and Tasauf Moderen.
Han Bangqing
Han Bangqing (韩邦庆, 1856–1894), who wrote as Hua Ye Lian Nong, was a late Qing novelist best known for The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai, the major Wu-dialect novel.
Han Kang
Han Kang (한강), South Korean novelist and poet, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first South Korean laureate; author of The Vegetarian (2016 Man Booker International) and Human Acts, on Gwangju 1980 trauma.
Hàn Mặc Tử
Hàn Mặc Tử was the pen name of Nguyễn Trọng Trí (1912–1940), a Vietnamese poet of the New Poetry movement known for "Đây thôn Vĩ Dạ".
Han Shaogong
Han Shaogong (韩少功, born 1953) is a Chinese novelist and essayist from Changsha, Hunan, known for the root-seeking manifesto "The Root of Literature" and the novel A Dictionary of Maqiao.
Han Wo
Han Wo (韓偓, 842–923) was a late Tang dynasty poet and official who served Emperor Zhaozong and founded the sensual Xianglian style of love poetry.
Hanan al-Shaykh
Hanan al-Shaykh (حنان الشيخ), born 1945, is a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and playwright living in London, known for fiction on women's lives in Arab society, including The Story of Zahra.
Hanna Mina
Hanna Mina (حنا مينه, 1924–2018) was a Syrian novelist, a leading figure of the twentieth-century Arabic novel known for social realist fiction about the poor and the sea.
Hannah More
Hannah More was an English playwright, poet, abolitionist, and philanthropist who wrote the Cheap Repository Tracts, supported William Wilberforce's abolition cause, and established Sunday schools in Somerset.
Hanne Ørstavik
Hanne Ørstavik (born 1969) is a Norwegian novelist whose books have been translated into more than 30 languages and won the Gyldendal Prize in 2023.
Hans Andreus
Hans Andreus, pseudonym of Johan Wilhelm van der Zant (1926–1977), was a Dutch poet of the Vijftigers, whose debut collection Muziek voor kijkdieren appeared in 1951.
Hans Børli
Hans Børli (1918–1989) was a Norwegian poet, author, and timber cutter who lived in Eidskog, Norway, and is known as the poet of the forest.
Hans Carossa
Hans Carossa (1878–1956) was a German physician and writer, one of the most widely read German autobiographical prose authors of the 1920s, best known for Rumänisches Tagebuch.
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen (H.C. Andersen), Danish author 1805-1875, born in Odense; literary fairy-tale writer whose tales, including The Snow Queen and The Little Mermaid, are translated into over 160 languages, distinct from the physicist Hans C. Andersen.
Hans E. Kinck
Hans E. Kinck (Hans Ernst Kinck, 1865–1926) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist who renewed Norwegian prose through dialect and psychological fiction.
Hans Egon Holthusen
Hans Egon Holthusen (1913–1997) was a German lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar who became one of the most influential critics of the early Federal Republic.
Hans Erich Nossack
Hans Erich Nossack (1901–1977) was a German writer from Hamburg whose eyewitness report Der Untergang, written weeks after the 1943 firebombing of Hamburg, made him immediately famous.