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Heinrich Landesmann
Heinrich Landesmann, known by the pen name Hieronymus Lorm, was an Austrian poet, novelist, and philosopher who became deaf and blind and devised the Lorm alphabet.
Heinrich Laube
Heinrich Laube (1806–1884) was a German novelist, dramatist, journalist, and theater director, born in Silesia, banned with the 'Young German' authors in 1835, and head of Vienna's Burgtheater from 1849 to 1867.
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann, in full Luiz Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), was a German satirical novelist and essayist, brother of Thomas Mann, best known for Professor Unrat and Der Untertan.
Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist, full name Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (1777–1811), was a German poet, dramatist, and journalist whose plays The Broken Jug and Penthesilea and novella Michael Kohlhaas are classics.
Heiti Talvik
Heiti Talvik was an Estonian poet, known as the intellectual leader of the Arbujad literary group. He published Palavik (1934) and Kohtupäev (1937) before being arrested by the Soviets in 1945.
Hélder Proença
Hélder Proença was a Guinea-Bissauan poet and PAIGC politician, born in 1956 in Bolama, who wrote in Portuguese and Creole before his assassination in June 2009.
Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore (1952–2017), British poet, novelist, and children's author; winner of the inaugural Orange Prize for A Spell of Winter (1996); wrote The Siege, The Betrayal, the Ingo series, and posthumous Costa-winning Inside the Wave.
Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding (born 1958) is the British novelist and journalist who created Bridget Jones, first in a 1995 Independent column, then in four novels including Bridget Jones's Diary (1996), credited with founding chick lit.
Helen Garner
Helen Garner, born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1942, is an Australian writer whose novel Monkey Grip became a classic and whose nonfiction follows Australian court trials, winning the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2025.
Hella S. Haasse
Hella S. Haasse (Hélène Serafia Haasse, 1918–2011) was a Dutch writer whose debut novella Oeroeg and historical novels made her one of the most translated Dutch authors.
Helle Helle
Helle Helle, born Helle Olsen in 1965 in Nakskov, is a Danish author known for spare, understated realism in everyday settings, winning major Danish prizes including the Critics' Prize.
Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda
Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda, known after 2023 as Heloisa Teixeira, was a Brazilian literary critic and professor who shaped the study of marginal poetry and feminism in Brazil.
Helon Habila
Helon Habila is a Nigerian novelist born in 1967 in Kaltungo, Nigeria, author of Waiting for an Angel, Oil on Water, and Travellers, and winner of the Caine Prize.
Hem Barua
Hem Barua (হেম বৰুৱা; 1915–1977) was an Assamese poet, essayist, and politician who served three Lok Sabha terms, led the Praja Socialist Party, and pioneered modern Assamese poetry.
Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay
Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay (হেমচন্দ্র বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; 1838–1903) was a Bengali poet and lawyer, best known for the epic Vrittasanghara and patriotic poems such as Bharat Sangeet (1870).
Hemchandra Barua
Hemchandra Barua (হেমচন্দ্ৰ বৰুৱা; 1835–1896) was an Assamese grammarian, lexicographer, satirist, and social reformer, best known for compiling Hemkosh, the first etymological dictionary of Assamese.
Hemchandra Goswami
Hemchandra Goswami (1872–1928) was an Assamese poet, editor, and manuscript scholar who wrote the first Assamese sonnet, co-founded the magazine Jonaki, and preserved Assam's old manuscripts and chronicles.
Hemendra Kumar Roy
Hemendra Kumar Roy (হেমেন্দ্রকুমার রায়), born Prasaddas Ray (1888–1963), was a Bengali writer from Calcutta who pioneered children's adventure, detective, and science fiction, creating Jayanta-Manik and Bimal-Kumar and the classic Jokher Dhan.
Hendrik Conscience
Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883) was a Flemish writer who published the first Dutch-language novel in Belgium and gave Flanders its national epic, De Leeuw van Vlaenderen (1838).
Hendrik Marsman
Hendrik Marsman (1899–1940) was a Dutch poet, translator, and critic, a leading interwar Dutch-language writer whose poem Herinnering aan Holland (1936) was named the Dutch-language poem of the century in 2000.
Hendrik Tollens
Hendrik Tollens (1780–1856) was a Dutch poet, considered the most important national poet of the nineteenth-century Netherlands, known for the anthem "Wien Neêrlands bloed" and the epic about the Nova Zembla wintering.
Hendrik van Veldeke
Hendrik van Veldeke, also Heinrich von Veldeke, was a poet of the Meuse region active in the late twelfth century, the first Dutch writer known by name.
Hennie Aucamp
Hennie Aucamp, born Hendrik Christoffel Lourens Aucamp (1934–2014), was a South African Afrikaans writer known as the father of literary cabaret and winner of the 1982 Hertzog Prize.
Henning Mankell
Henning Mankell (1948–2015), Swedish novelist and theater director, creator of Inspector Kurt Wallander; ten Ystad-set crime novels (1991–2009), 40 million copies in 45 languages, Teatro Avenida in Maputo, Nordic noir leader.
Henri Bosco
Henri Bosco (1888–1976) was a French novelist whose Provençal novels include Malicroix and the school classic L'Enfant et la rivière; he won the 1945 Prix Renaudot.
Henri Charrière
Henri Charrière, called Papillon (1906-1973), French convict and author of the 1969 bestseller Papillon about the French Guiana penal colony; archival research shows his famous Devil's Island escape was fictional.
Henri Lopès
Henri Lopès (1937–2023) was a Congolese novelist and diplomat who served as prime minister of the People's Republic of Congo and later as ambassador to France.
Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian-born French poet and painter, author of Plume, Un barbare en Asie, and the mescaline books Misérable Miracle and L'Infini turbulent, known for calligraphy-inspired ink drawings.
Henri Queffélec
Henri Queffélec (1910–1992) was a French novelist and screenwriter, considered the great French-language maritime novelist of the 20th century, known for Un recteur de l'île de Sein.
Henri Troyat (Лев Асланович Тарасов)
Henri Troyat (Lev Aslanovich Tarasov), French novelist and biographer born in Moscow in 1911 to an Armenian family; Goncourt 1938, Académie française 1959, author of Tolstoy, Pushkin, and tsar biographies.