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Hjalmar Bergman
Hjalmar Bergman (1883–1931) was a Swedish novelist and dramatist whose fiction centers on the fictional town of Wadköping; his best-known novel is Markurells i Wadköping (1919).
Hjalmar Söderberg
Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and translator regarded as a major early twentieth-century Swedish author, best known for Doktor Glas and his portraits of Stockholm.
Hnat Khotkevych
Hnat Khotkevych (Ukrainian: Гнат Хоткевич), writing also as Hnat Halaida, was a Ukrainian writer, composer, and bandurist born in Kharkiv in 1877 and executed by the Soviet NKVD in 1938.
Hồ Dzếnh
Hồ Dzếnh, pen name of Hà Triệu Anh, was a Vietnamese poet and writer best known for Quê ngoại and awarded the State Prize in 2007.
Hoài Thanh
Hoài Thanh (1909–1982), born Nguyễn Đức Nguyên, was a Vietnamese literary critic whose Thi nhân Việt Nam (1942), written with his brother Hoài Chân, defined the Thơ mới movement.
Hoàng Cầm
Hoàng Cầm (pen name of Bùi Tằng Việt, 1922–2010) was a Vietnamese poet best known for the poem Bên kia sông Đuống and the collection Về Kinh Bắc.
Hoda Barakat
Hoda Barakat (هدى بركات), born 1952, is a Lebanese novelist who has lived in Paris since 1989, writing in Arabic about war, exile, and marginalized lives.
Holger Drachmann
Holger Drachmann (1846–1908) was a Danish poet, playwright, novelist, and marine painter, one of the first artists of the Skagen colony, best known for "Midsommersangen" (1885).
Holly Black
Holly Black (born 1971) is the American fantasy author of Tithe, The Spiderwick Chronicles with Tony DiTerlizzi, The Folk of the Air (The Cruel Prince), and adult debut Book of Night; Newbery Honor, Nebula, and Mythopoeic Award winner.
Holly Ringland
Holly Ringland, Australian author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2018), The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding (2022), The House That Joy Built (2023), and The World Beneath Her Feet (2026); also co-host of ABC's Back to Nature.
Homen Borgohain
Homen Borgohain (হোমেন বৰগোহাঞি, 1932–2021) was an Assamese novelist, poet, critic, and journalist who won the 1978 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Pita Putra.
Homer (Ὅμηρος)
Homer (Ὅμηρος) is the name tradition gives the poet of the Iliad and Odyssey. Nothing biographical is known; the Homeric Question debates whether one poet composed the epics, probably written down in the mid-eighth century BC.
Homero Aridjis
Homero Aridjis, born in 1940 in Contepec, Michoacán, is a Mexican poet, novelist, diplomat, and environmental activist who founded the Group of 100 and served as president of PEN International.
Hone Tuwhare
Hone Tuwhare (1922–2008) was a celebrated New Zealand poet of Ngāpuhi descent whose 1964 debut collection No Ordinary Sun became one of the country's most widely read poetry books.
Hong Myung-hee
Hong Myung-hee (홍명희, 1888–1968) was a Korean novelist, journalist, and independence activist best known for the historical novel Imkkeokjeong, and who became North Korea's first Vice Premier in 1948.
Hong Ying
Hong Ying (虹影), pen name of Chen Hongying, is a Chinese novelist and poet born in Chongqing in 1962, known for Daughter of the River and K: The Art of Love.
Honor Levy
Honor Levy, American writer from California, Bennington College 2020, author of the Gen Z debut story collection My First Book (Penguin Press, May 14, 2024), New Yorker contributor, Dimes Square figure, Wet Brain podcast co-host.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist born in Tours, author of La Comédie humaine, over 90 linked novels with 2,000+ recurring characters; founder of literary realism, pioneer of the serial novel, married Mme Hanska in 1850.
Hope Against Hope
Hope Against Hope (Russian: Vospominaniya, "memoirs") is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, and his persecution under Stalin, first published in English in 1970.
Horace
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BCE), Roman lyric poet, satirist, and critic of Venusia; author of the Odes, Epodes, Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica; Maecenas's protégé under Augustus.
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), youngest son of Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, wrote The Castle of Otranto, the first Gothic novel, built Strawberry Hill, founded the Strawberry Hill Press, and coined 'serendipity'.
Horacio Carochi
Horacio Carochi, in Italian Orazio Carocci, was a Florentine Jesuit in New Spain whose 1645 grammar of Classical Nahuatl is considered the colonial era's most accurate.
Horacio Castellanos Moya
Horacio Castellanos Moya is a Salvadoran writer and journalist born in 1957 whose novels examine violence, exile, and Central America's failed revolutionary left; he is identified with the 'second boom.'
Horacio Quiroga
Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) was a Uruguayan short story writer, often called the father of the Latin American short story, best known for his jungle tales of Misiones.
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899) was an American author of about 100 juvenile novels, best known for "rags-to-riches" stories in which poor but honest boys rise through hard work and luck.
Hori Tatsuo
Hori Tatsuo (堀辰雄) was a Japanese novelist best known for Kaze tachinu, a story of a man caring for his tubercular fiancée, blending French and classical Japanese traditions.
Hosokawa Yūsai
Hosokawa Yūsai (細川幽斎), personal name Fujitaka, 1534–1610, was a Japanese warrior and poet who served Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu and inherited the Kokin denju.
Hou Zhi
Hou Zhi (侯芝, 1764–1829), courtesy name Ruzhi, was a Qing-dynasty woman writer from Jiangning, now Nanjing, who edited, rewrote, and published tanci fiction, including the 1821 printed edition of Zaisheng yuan.
Houshang Ebtehaj
Houshang Ebtehaj, who wrote under the pen name H. E. Sayeh, was an Iranian poet and Hafez scholar regarded as one of the twentieth century's leading poets.
Houshang Golshiri
Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری) was an Iranian novelist, short-story writer, and critic, a pioneer of modernist Persian fiction best known for his 1968 novel Prince Ehtejab about a dying Qajar prince.