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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1919 to 1994) was a Palestinian novelist, poet, painter, and translator who settled in Baghdad, wrote novels of Palestinian exile, and translated Shakespeare into Arabic.
Jacint Verdaguer
Jacint Verdaguer (1845–1902) was a Catalan Romantic poet and priest, central figure of the Renaixença and founder of modern Catalan literature, known for the epics L'Atlàntida and Canigó.
Jacinto Benavente
Jacinto Benavente (1866–1954) was a Spanish dramatist who wrote more than 170 plays, led the renewal of Spanish theater, and won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Jacinto Grau
Jacinto Grau (1877–1958) was a Spanish playwright whose tragedy-farce El señor de Pigmalión (1921) won acclaim in Paris and Prague while remaining almost unstaged in Spain.
Jack Cope
Jack Cope (Robert Knox Cope, 1913–1991) was a South African novelist, short story writer, poet, and editor known for fiction about South Africa's racial history.
Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins, pen name of Henry (Harry) Patterson (1929–2022), British thriller writer of 85 novels including The Eagle Has Landed; also wrote as Martin Fallon, Hugh Marlowe, and James Graham; 250 million copies sold.
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), American novelist and poet of On the Road, coined the Beat Generation. French-Canadian-born Lowell, Massachusetts writer of spontaneous prose; died at 47 of liver damage.
Jack London
Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney, was an American writer and socialist activist best known for The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906).
Jack Spicer
Jack Spicer, born John Lester Spicer, was an American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance who assembled his poems into "books" and described poetry as "dictation."
Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne (born 1978, Bristol) is a British playwright and screenwriter known for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, His Dark Materials, Help, Emmy-winning Adolescence, the 2026 Lord of the Flies series, and as president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
Jack Vance
Jack Vance (John Holbrook Vance, 1916–2013), American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery author of The Dying Earth, Demon Princes, and Lyonesse; Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, and World Fantasy winner, SFWA Grand Master.
Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins, British-born novelist of Hollywood sex-and-power bestsellers; author of The World is Full of Married Men (1968), Hollywood Wives (1983), and the Lucky Santangelo series; sold over 500 million books; died 2015.
Jackie Phamotse
Jackie Phamotse (Katleho Jaqueline Phamotse), South African self-published novelist of the BARE thriller series including The Blesser's Game; won the 2020 SA Book Award, signed with Penguin Random House in 2024, and served two years' house arrest for defaming the Kumalos.
Jacob Cats
Jacob Cats was a Dutch poet and statesman of the Golden Age who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland and became the most widely read writer of the Dutch Republic.
Jacob van Maerlant
Jacob van Maerlant (ca. 1230–ca. 1300) was a Flemish poet who wrote over 230,000 lines of Middle Dutch verse, first making scientific and historical knowledge available in the vernacular.
Jacopone da Todi
Jacopone da Todi, also known as Iacopone da Todi, was an Italian Franciscan friar and religious poet, born around 1230, probably the author of the Stabat Mater.
Jacqueline Carey
Jacqueline Carey, born 1964 in Highland Park, Illinois, is an American fantasy author and New York Times bestseller, creator of the Kushiel's Legacy series beginning with the Locus Award-winning Kushiel's Dart (2001), plus The Sundering, Santa Olivia, and Agent of Hel.
Jacqueline Susann
Jacqueline Susann was an American bestselling novelist whose 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls became one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century; she died in 1974.
Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson (born 1945, Bath) is a British children's author of over 100 books including The Story of Tracy Beaker, Children's Laureate 2005-2007, Dame Grand Cross 2025, most borrowed UK library author.
Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert (1900–1977) was a French poet and screenwriter whose collection Paroles (1946) made him one of the most widely read French poets of the twentieth century.
Jacques Rabemananjara
Jacques Rabemananjara (1913–2005) was a Malagasy poet and statesman who wrote in French and won the Académie française's Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 1988.
Jacques Roumain
Jacques Roumain (1907–1944) was a Haitian poet, novelist, and ethnographer who founded the Haitian Communist Party and the Bureau d'Ethnologie, and wrote Gouverneurs de la rosée.
Jacques Stephen Alexis
Jacques Stephen Alexis (Jacques Stéphen Alexis) was a Haitian novelist and neurolog known for Compère Général Soleil and killed opposing the Duvalier dictatorship in 1961.
Jafar Jabbarly
Jafar Jabbarly (Cəfər Cabbarlı) was an Azerbaijani playwright, poet, and film writer regarded as the founder of modern Azerbaijani drama; his plays include Sevil and Aydın.
Jagan Nath Azad
Jagan Nath Azad (جگن ناتھ آزاد, 1918–2004) was an Indian Urdu poet, critic, and scholar of Allama Iqbal who migrated to Delhi at Partition and wrote over 50 books.
Jagannatha Dasa
Jagannatha Dasa (ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଦାସ) was a sixteenth-century Odia Vaishnava poet and mystic, born around 1490, who flourished at the court of Gajapati Prataparudra Deva and wrote the Odia Bhagavata.
Jagannatha Panditaraja
Jagannatha Panditaraja (पण्डितराज जगन्नाथ) was a 17th-century Sanskrit poet, critic, and scholar at the court of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, who wrote the poetics treatise Rasagangadhara.
Jagnayaka
Jagnayaka (जगनायक) is a name cited in connection with Apabhramsha Jain poetry whose identity remains unverified, and no specialist source attributes a work to him.
Jahanara Imam
Jahanara Imam (জাহানারা ইমাম, 1929–1994), honored as Shaheed Janani, was a Bengali writer and teacher whose day-by-day diary of the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war became an immediate bestseller.
Jaime Gil de Biedma
Jaime Gil de Biedma (Jaime Gil de Biedma y Alba, 1929–1990) was a Spanish poet and critic, a central figure of the Generation of the 50 in postwar Spanish poetry.