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Hugo Mujica
Hugo Mujica (born 1942) is an Argentine poet and Catholic priest who spent seven years as a silent Trappist monk and won the 2025 Premio Loewe.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929) was an Austrian writer who co-founded the Salzburg Festival and wrote the libretti for six Richard Strauss operas, from Elektra to Arabella.
Hugo Wast
Hugo Wast, pen name of Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría (1883–1962), was an Argentine novelist and politician whose Catholic, nationalist fiction made him a best-selling but criticized writer.
Hulda Garborg
Hulda Garborg, born Karen Hulda Bergersen (1862–1934), was a Norwegian novelist and playwright, wife of Arne Garborg, who founded the bunad movement and Det Norske Teatret.
Humayun Ahmed (হুমায়ুন আহমেদ)
Humayun Ahmed (হুমায়ুন আহমেদ), 1948–2012, Bangladeshi novelist, playwright, and filmmaker; debut Nondito Noroke (1972); creator of Himu and Misir Ali; about 300 titles; died in New York, buried at Nuhash Palli.
Humberto Ak'abal
Humberto Ak'abal, also spelled Ak'ab'al, was a K'iche' Maya poet from Momostenango, Guatemala, who wrote in K'iche' and translated his own poetry into Spanish. His work reached more than 20 languages.
Huo Da
Huo Da (霍达) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter of Hui ethnicity, born in Beijing in 1945, known for the Mao Dun Prize-winning novel The Funeral of a Muslim.
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (1864–1944) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, the leading Turkish representative of realism and naturalism, known for novels of late Ottoman Istanbul life.
Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare
Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare (Somali: Xuseen Sheekh Axmed Kaddare, 1934–2015) was a Somali linguist, poet, and politician best known for inventing the Kaddare script for Somali in 1952.
Huy Cận
Huy Cận, pen name of Cù Huy Cận (1919–2005), was a Vietnamese poet of the New Poetry movement whose 1940 collection Lửa thiêng and poem Tràng Giang made him a leading voice.
Huyện Thanh Quan
Bà Huyện Thanh Quan (1805–1848) was a Vietnamese woman poet of Nghi Tàm village near Hanoi, known for Nôm Đường luật verse including the classic Qua đèo Ngang.
Hwang Hyeon
Hwang Hyeon (황현, 1855–1910), pen name Maecheon, was a Korean Confucian scholar, poet, and historian of the late Joseon period who took poison when Japan annexed Korea in 1910.
Hwang Ji-u
Hwang Ji-u (황지우), pen name of Hwang Jae-woo, is a South Korean poet born in 1952, known for leading the deconstructionist wave of 1980s Korean poetry.
Hwang Sok-yong
Hwang Sok-yong (황석영, born 1943) is a South Korean novelist, a leading realist writer whose fiction traces workers, migrants, and political dissidents through modern Korean history.
Hyecho
Hyecho (혜초) was a Silla Buddhist monk of the eighth century who traveled from Tang China to India by sea and back through Central Asia, writing the travelogue Wang ocheonchukguk jeon.
Hyūganatsu (writer)
Hyūganatsu (日向夏, Natsu Hyuuga) is a private Fukuoka-based Japanese light-novel author, creator of The Apothecary Diaries (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto), debuted 2012 via Shōsetsuka ni Narō; over 40 million copies sold, with manga, Nippon TV anime, and French translations.
Hyun Jin-geon
Hyun Jin-geon (현진건, 1900–1943), pen name Bing-heo, was a Korean novelist and journalist who pioneered realist short fiction and is best known for "A Lucky Day" (1924).
I. L. Peretz
I. L. Peretz (1852–1915) was a Yiddish and Hebrew writer of short fiction, drama, and poetry, active in Warsaw and one of the founders of modern Yiddish prose.
Iain Banks
Iain Banks (Iain Menzies Banks, 1954–2013), Scottish novelist; literary fiction as Iain Banks, science fiction as Iain M. Banks; The Wasp Factory (1984) and the nine-novel Culture series; died 9 June 2013.
Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming (1908–1964), English journalist and wartime naval intelligence officer, created James Bond in Casino Royale (1953) and wrote twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections at Goldeneye, Jamaica, plus Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006) was a Scottish poet and artist known for concrete poetry and for Little Sparta, his garden of inscribed poems in the Pentland Hills.
Ian Maclaren
Ian Maclaren was the pen name of John Watson (1850–1907), a Scottish Free Church minister and novelist whose 1894 collection Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush sold over 750,000 copies.
Ian McEwan
Ian Russell McEwan (born 1948, Aldershot) is a British novelist, winner of the 1998 Booker Prize for Amsterdam, shortlisted five times more, famed for Atonement and the early 'Ian Macabre' works, and author of What We Can Know (2025).
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin, Scottish crime writer and creator of Edinburgh detective Inspector John Rebus (first appearing in Knots & Crosses, 1987). Sold an estimated 17 million copies, translated into 22 languages, Gold Dagger 1997 for Black and Blue, OBE, Tartan Noir progenitor.
Ib Michael
Ib Michael is a Danish writer born in 1945 in Roskilde whose novels and travel books blend reality and fantasy, with his breakthrough coming in Kilroy, Kilroy (1989).
Ibn Abi al-Asba'
Ibn Abi al-Asba' (ابن أبي الأصبع) was an Egyptian scholar and poet, called "the poet of Egypt," known for works on badi' and Qur'anic rhetoric.
Ibn al-Balkhi
Ibn al-Balkhi (ابن البلخي) was a Persian author of the Fārs-nāma, the oldest comprehensive Persian history and geography of Fārs, written under Saljuq rule; he died in 1116 or 1117.
Ibn al-Hajjaj
Ibn al-Hajjaj (ابن الحجاج) was an Iraqi poet of the Buyid era who popularized sukhf, obscene scatological parody, after serving as Baghdad's market inspector; he died in 1001.
Ibn al-Mu'tazz
Ibn al-Mu'tazz (861–908) was an Abbasid prince and poet who founded the study of badi', the ornamental devices of Arabic poetry, in his Kitab al-Badi'.
Ibn al-Nadim (ابن النديم)
Ibn al-Nadim (ابن النديم), d. 380/990 or 385/995, Baghdad bookseller and copyist, author of Kitab al-Fihrist (begun 377/987), the foundational ten-discourse Arabic bibliography covering scripts, Qur'an, grammar, poetry, law, philosophy, and sects.