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Afghanistan

* Aliyeh Ataei (born 1981) *

Khaled Hosseini Khaled Hosseini (;Pashto/Dari ; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan Americans, Afghan-American novelist, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician. His debut novel ''The Kite Runner'' (2003) wa ...

(born 1965)

Albania

* Dritero Agolli (1931–2017) *

Ismail Kadare Ismail Kadare (; spelled Ismaïl Kadaré in French; born on 28 January 1936) is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a leading international literary figure and intellectual. He focused on poetry until the pu ...

(born 1936) *

Fatos Kongoli Fatos Kongoli (born January 12, 1944) has recently become one of the most forceful and convincing representatives of contemporary Albanian prose. Biography He was born and raised in Elbasan and studied at the Qemal Stafa High School, in Tirana, A ...

(born 1944) *

Faik Konitza Faik Bey Konica (later named ''Faïk Dominik Konitza'', 15 March 1875 – 15 December 1942) was an important figure in Albanian language and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Prewar Albanian minister to Washington, his litera ...

(1875–1942) *

Migjeni Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (; 13 October 191126 August 1938), commonly known by the acronym pen name Migjeni, was an Albanian poet and writer, considered one of the most important of the 20th century. After his death, he was recognized as one of th ...

(1911–1938) * Haki Stermilli (1895–1953) *

Jakov Xoxa Jakov Xoxa (15 April 1923 – 11 November 1979) was an author from Albania of the 20th century. Biography Xoxa had ethnic Aromanian origins from Korçë. He born in the town of Fier, Albania on April 15, 1923 and died on November 11, 1979. H ...

(1923–1979)

Algeria

Marguerite Taos Amrouche Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (born 4 March 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia; died 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel. Biography She was ...

(1913–1976) *

Rachid Boudjedra Rachid Boudjedra ( ar, رشيد بوجدرة) (b. 5 September 1941 in Aïn Beïda, Algeria) is an Algerian poet, novelist, playwright and critic. Boudjedra wrote in French from 1965 to 1981, at which point he switched to writing in Arabic, often ...

(born 1941) *

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( , ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history. His work ...

(1913–1960) *

Mohammed Dib Mohammed Dib ( ar, محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and children's literature in the French language. He is probably Algeria's most prolific ...

(1920–2003) *

Tahar Djaout Tahar Djaout (11 January 1954 – 2 June 1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. He was assassinated in 1993 by the Armed Islamic Group. Early life He was born in 1954 in Oulkhou, a village in the Kabylie region. After unive ...

(1954–1993) *

Assia Djebar Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar ( ar, آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted fo ...

(1936–2015) *

Frantz Fanon Frantz Omar Fanon (, ; ; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist, and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have b ...

(1925–1961), originally from

Martinique Martinique ( , ; gcf, label=Martinican Creole, Matinik or ; Kalinago: or ) is an island and an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France. An integral part of the French Republic, Martinique is located in th ...

Mouloud Feraoun Mouloud Feraoun (8 March 1913 – 15 March 1962) was an Algerian writer and martyr of the Algerian revolution born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylie. Some of his books, written in French, have been translated into several languages including English and Ge ...

(1913–1962) *

Mouloud Mammeri Mouloud Mammeri () was an Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist. Biography He was born on December 28, 1917, in Ait Yenni, in Tizi Ouzou Province, French Algeria. He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated t ...

(1917–1989) *

Rachid Mimouni Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) (20 November 1945 – 12 February 1995) was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist. Mimouni wrote novels describing Algerian society in a realist style. He was threatened by ...

(1945–1995) *

Ahlam Mostaghanemi Ahlem Mosteghanemi ( ar, أحلام مستغانمي), alternatively written Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) is an Algerian writer who has been called "''probably the world's best-known Arabophone woman novelist''". She was the first Algerian wom ...

(born 1953) *

Leïla Sebbar Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) is a French-Algerian author. Early life Leïla Sebbar was born on 9 November 1941, in Aflou. The daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father, she spent her youth in French Algeria before leaving aged seventeen fo ...

(born 1941) *

Kateb Yacine Kateb Yacine (; 2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber cause. Biography Kateb Yacine was officially bo ...

(1929–1989)

Roman Empire, Ancient Latin authors

Apuleius Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day ...

(c. 124–c. 170) *

Petronius Gaius Petronius Arbiter"Gaius Petronius Arbiter"
José Eduardo Agualusa José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha (born December 13, 1960) is an Angolan journalist and writer of Portuguese and Brazilian descent. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently he resides in the Island of Mozambiqu ...

(born 1960) *

Sousa Jamba Sousa Jamba (born 9 January 1966)"Who's Who - Angola: ...

(born 1966) *

Ondjaki Ndalu de Almeida (born July 5,1977) is a writer born in Angola who uses the pen name Ondjaki. He has written poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts. Career Ondjaki studied sociology at the University of Lisbon, ...

(born 1977) *

Pepetela Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction. He writes under the name Pepetela. A Portuguese Angolan, Pepetela was born in Benguela, Portuguese Angola, and fought as a member of the MPLA in the long g ...

(born 1941) * Oscar Ribas (1909–2004) * Manuel Rui (born 1941) *

José Luandino Vieira José Luandino Vieira (born José Vieira Mateus da Graça on 4 May 1935) is an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels. Biography Vieira was born in Lagoa de Furadouro, Ourém, Portugal to impoverished parents—his father was a cobbler, his m ...

(born 1935)

Antigua and Barbuda

Marie-Elena John Marie-Elena John is a Caribbean writer whose novel, ''Unburnable'', was published in 2006. She is an Africanist, development and women’s rights specialist, currently serving as the Senior Racial Justice Lead at UN Women. Biography John was bor ...

Argentina

Marcos Aguinis Marcos Aguinis (born 13 January 1935) is an Argentine writer. Trained in medical studies, music and psychoanalysis, his work and his thoughts are focused on the notions of independence, democracy and rejection of authoritarianism. He is a propon ...

(born 1935) *

César Aira César Aira ( Argentine Spanish: ; born 23 February 1949 in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentinian writer and translator, and an exponent of contemporary Argentinian literature. Aira has published over a hundred short book ...

(born 1949) *

Adolfo Bioy Casares Adolfo Bioy Casares (; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fa ...

(1914–1999) *

Abelardo Castillo Abelardo Castillo (March 27, 1935 – May 2, 2017) was an Argentine writer, novelist, essayist, diarist, born in the city of San Pedro, Buenos Aires. He practised amateur boxing in his youth. He also directed the literary magazines ''El Escarab ...

(1935–2017) * Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) * Macedonio Fernandez (1874–1952) *

Ricardo Güiraldes Ricardo Güiraldes (13 February 1886 — 8 October 1927)Escuela Normal Superior de Chascomús was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel ''Don Segundo Sombra' ...

(1886–1927) * Sylvia Iparraguirre (born 1947) *

Leopoldo Marechal Leopoldo Marechal (June 11, 1900 – June 26, 1970) was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century. Biographical notes Born in Buenos Aires into a family of French and Spanish descent, Marechal became a primary sch ...

(1900–1970) *

Manuel Puig Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne (December 28, 1932 – July 22, 1990), commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are '' La traición de Rita Hayworth'' (''Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'', 1968), ''Boquitas pint ...

(1932–1990) *

Andrés Rivera Andrés Rivera, born Marcos Ribak (December 12, 1928 – December 23, 2016) was an Argentine writer, born in Buenos Aires. He was at various points a textile worker, a journalist, and a writer. From 1953–1957, Rivera worked as a journalis ...

(1928–2016) *

Juan José Saer Juan José Saer ( Serodino, Santa Fe, Argentina, June 28, 1937Paris, France, June 11, 2005) was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. He is ...

(1937–2005) *

Ernesto Sábato Ernesto Sabato (June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary wo ...

(1911–2011) *

Luisa Valenzuela Luisa Valenzuela Levinson (born 26 November 1938) is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She may be bes ...

(born 1938) *

Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known bo ...

(1899–1986)

Armenia

Michael Arlen Michael Arlen (16 November 1895 – 23 June 1956), born Dikran Kouyoumdjian ( hy, Տիգրան Գոյումճեան), was a British essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter of Armenians, Armenian origin, who had his ...

(1895–1956) *

Zori Balayan Zori (), also rendered as zōri ( ja, , ), are thonged Japanese sandals made of rice straw, cloth, lacquered wood, leather, rubber, or—most commonly and informally—synthetic materials. They are a slip-on descendant of the tied-on sandal. ...

(born 1935) *

Ruben Hovsepyan Ruben Hovsepyan ( hy, Ռուբեն Հովսեփյան; 5 May 1939 – 27 October 2016) was an Armenian novelist, translator and editor who became politically active in the 1990s, and, as member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, served in ...

(1939–2016) * Levon Khechoyan (1955–014) *

Yervant Odian Yervant Odian ( hy, Երուանդ Օտեան or Երվանդ Օտյան; 19 September 1869 – 1926) was an Ottoman Armenian satirist, journalist and playwright. He is regarded as one of the most influential Armenian satirists, along with his ...

(1869–1926) * Alexander Shirvanzade (1858–1935) *

Zabel Yesayan Zabel Yesayan (Armenian: Զապէլ Եսայեան; 4 February 1878 – 1943) was a prominent figure in the Armenian academic and political community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zabel Yesayan's books, articles, and s ...

(1878–1943)

Assyrian

Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...

(1883–1931) *

Thea Halo Thea Halo (born 1941) is an American writer and painter of Assyrian and Pontic Greek heritage. Born in New York City, she is the 8th child of Abraham and Sano Halo (original name Euthemia "Themia", Pontic Greek: Ευθυμία). Thea began writ ...

(born 1941) * Ivan Kakovitch (1933–2006) *

Rosie Malek-Yonan Rosie Malek-Yonan (b. July 4, 1965) is an Assyrian-American actress, author, director, public figure and activist. Malek-Yonan became a noted pianist at an early age. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge, she settled in the United ...

(born 1965) * Obelit Yadgar (born 1945)

Australia

Austria

Vicki Baum Hedwig "Vicki" Baum (; he, ויקי באום; January 24, 1888 – August 29, 1960) was an Austrian writer. She is known for the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' ("People at a Hotel", 1929 — published in English as ''Grand Hotel (novel), Gran ...

(1888–1960) *

Hugo Bettauer Maximilian Hugo Bettauer (18 August 1872 – 26 March 1925) was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, who was murdered by a Nazi Party follower on account of his opposition to antisemitism. He was well known in his lifetime; many of his book ...

(1872–1925) *

Thomas Bernhard Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizati ...

(1931–1989) *

Hermann Broch Hermann Broch (; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: '' The Sleepwalkers'' (''Die Schlafwandler,'' 1930–32) and '' The Death of Virgil'' (''Der Tod des Vergil,'' 1945). ...

(1886–1951) *

Peter Handke Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored t ...

(born 1942) *

Josef Haslinger Josef Haslinger (born July 5, 1955) is an Austrian writer. Haslinger was born in Zwettl, Lower Austria. He studied philosophy, drama and Germanic studies at the University of Vienna. He received his PhD in 1980. Since then he has been working as ...

(born 1955) *

Elfriede Jelinek Elfriede Jelinek (; born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voi ...

(born 1946) * Robert Musil (1880–1942) *

Joseph Roth Moses Joseph Roth (2 September 1894 – 27 May 1939) was an Austrian journalist and novelist, best known for his family saga '' Radetzky March'' (1932), about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, his novel of Jewish life '' Job'' ...

(1894–1939) *

Robert Schneider Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is an American musician and mathematician. He is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer of rock/pop band the Apples in Stereo and has produced and performed on albums by Neutral Milk Ho ...

(born 1961) *

Arthur Schnitzler Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist. Biography Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy ...

(1862–1931) * Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914) * Stefan Zweig (1881–1942)

Azerbaijan

Akram Aylisli Akram Najaf oglu Naibov ( az, Əkrəm Nəcəf oğlu Naibov, born December 6, 1937), better known by his pen name Akram Aylisli, is an Azerbaijani writer, playwright, novelist and former member of parliament.Üçüncü çağırış Azərbaycan Res ...

(born 1937) * Alaviyya Babayeva (1921–2014) * Afag Masud (born 1957) * Elchin Safarli (born 1984) *

Kurban Said Kurban Said ( az, Qurban Səid/, ) is the pseudonym of the author of ''Ali and Nino'', a novel originally published in 1937 in the German language by the Austrian publisher E.P. Tal. The novel has since been published in more than 30 languages. ...

Bangladesh

Humayun Ahmed Humayun Ahmed (; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and professor. His breakthrough was his debut novel '' Nondito Noroke'' published in 1972. He wrote over 20 ...

(1948–2012) * Shaheen Akhtar (born 1962) *

Monica Ali Monica Ali FRSL (born 20 October 1967) is a British writer of Bangladeshi and English heritage. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by ''Granta'' magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut nove ...

(born 1967) * Tahmima Anam (born 1975) *

Humayun Azad Humayun Azad (born Humayun Kabir; 28 April 1947 – 12 August 2004) was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, short-story writer, critic, linguist, columnist and professor of Dhaka University. He wrote more than sixty titles. He was awarded the Bangl ...

(1947–2004) * Dilara Hashem (1935–2022) *

Taslima Nasrin Taslima Nasrin (born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh ...

(born 1962) *

Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam ( bn, কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, ; 24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, Bengali literature, writer, Bangladeshi music, musician, and is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul is regarded as one ...

(1899–1976) * Rizia Rahman (1939–2019) *

Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance ...

(born 1940)

Barbados

* Austin Clarke (1934–2016) *

Geoffrey Drayton Geoffrey Drayton (13 February 1924 – 2017) was a Barbadian novelist, poet and journalist. Life Geoffrey Drayton was born in Barbados, and received his early education there. In 1945, he went to Cambridge University, where he read economics, af ...

(1924–2017) *

George Lamming George William Lamming OCC (8 June 19274 June 2022) was a Barbadian novelist, essayist, and poet. He first won critical acclaim for ''In the Castle of My Skin'', his 1953 debut novel. He also held academic posts, including as a distinguished v ...

(1927–2022 *

Karen Lord Karen Lord (born 22 May 1968) is a Barbadian writer of speculative fiction. Her first novel, ''Redemption in Indigo'' (2010), retells the story "Ansige Karamba the Glutton" from Senegalese folklore and her second novel, ''The Best of All Possib ...

Glenville Lovell Glenville Lovell (born 1955) is a Barbadian writer, dancer, novelist and playwright. Lovell was born in a Chattel house in Parish Land, Christ Church, Barbados and grew up around rich storytelling among the sugar cane workers. His first novel, ...

(born 1955)

Belarus

Vasil Bykaŭ Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ (often spelled Vasil Bykov, be, Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў, russian: Василь Влади́мирович Быков) (19 June 1924 – 22 June 2003) was a prolific Soviet and Belarus ...

(1924–2003) * Uładzimir Karatkievič (1930–1984) * Jakub Kołas (Kanstancy Mickievič) (1882–1956) * Janka Kupała (Ivan Łucevič) (1882–1942) * Ivan Šamiakin (1921–2004)

Belgium

Nicolas Ancion Nicolas Ancion is a Belgian writer born in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, in 1971. His parents were professional puppeteers. Writer He writes fiction for adults, young adults and children and is the author of several theater plays and poetry collec ...

(born 1971) *

Cornelis de Bie Cornelis de Bie (10 February 1627 – ) was a Flemish ''rederijker'', poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish a ...

(1627–c. 1715) *

Louis Paul Boon Louis Paul Boon (15 March 1912, in Aalst – 10 May 1979, in Erembodegem) was a Belgian writer of novels, poetry, pornography, columns and art criticism. He was also a painter. He is best known for the novels ''My Little War'' (1947), the diptych ...

(1912–1979) *

Hendrik Conscience Henri (Hendrik) Conscience (3 December 1812 – 10 September 1883) was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper cl ...

(1812–1883) *

Ernest Claes Andreas Ernestus Josephus Claes (24 October 1885 in Zichem – 2 September 1968 in Elsene) was a Belgian author. He is best known for his regional novels, including ''De Witte'' ("Whitey"), which was the source material for the first Flemish mov ...

(1885–1968) *

Hugo Claus Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (; 5 April 1929 – 19 March 2008) was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also l ...

(1929–2008) * Christine D'Haen (1923–2009) *

Johan Daisne Johan Daisne was the pseudonym of Flemish author Herman Thiery (2 September 1912 – 9 August 1978). Born in Ghent, Belgium, he attended the Koninklijk Atheneum before studying Economics and Slavic languages at Ghent University, receiving his do ...

(1912–1978) * Charles De Coster (1827–1879) *

Willem Elsschot Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder (7 May 1882 – 31 May 1960), was a Belgian writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot (). One of the most prominent Flemish authors, his most famous work, ''Cheese'' (1933) is the most translated ...

(1882–1960) *

Jef Geeraerts Jozef Adriaan Anna Geeraerts (23 February 1930 – 11 May 2015), better known as Jef Geeraerts, was a Belgian writer. Geeraerts was born in Antwerp. After his studies in political and administrative sciences at the Colonial University of Belgiu ...

(1930–2015) *

Guido Gezelle Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle (1 May 1830 – 27 November 1899) was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium. He is famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect. Life Gezelle was born in Bruges in ...

(1830–1899) *

Marnix Gijsen Marnix Gijsen (20 October 1899 – 29 September 1984) was a Belgian writer. His real name was Joannes Alphonsius Albertus Goris; his pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen). Early years Gijsen w ...

(1899–1984) *

Hubert Lampo Hubert Leon Lampo ( Antwerp, 1 September 1920 – Essen, 12 July 2006) was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. His most famous book is '' De komst van Joachim Stiller'' ("The coming of Joachim Stiller", 1960), in ...

(1920–2006) *

Rosalie Loveling Rosalie Loveling (20 March 1834 – 4 May 1875) was a Flemish author of poetry, novels, and essays. Biography Rosalie Loveling was born in Nevele, Belgium, and was the older sister of Virginie Loveling, also an author, with whom she co-wrote ...

(1834–1875) *

Virginie Loveling Virginie (Marie) Loveling (17 May 1836 – 1 December 1923) was a Flanders, Flemish author of poetry, novels, essays and children's stories. She also wrote under the pseudonym W. E. C. Walter. Biography Virginie Loveling was born in Nevele i ...

(1836–1923) *

Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in ...

(1862–1949) *

Alice Nahon Alice Nahon (16 August 1896 – 21 May 1933) was a Belgian poet from Antwerp. Biography Alice Nahon was born in Antwerp on 23 August 1896. She was the third child in a family of eleven children. Her father, Gerard L. Nahon, was born in the Neth ...

(1896–1933) *

Amélie Nothomb Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (), better known by her pen name Amélie Nothomb (; born 13 August 1967),''État présent de la noblesse belge'', éditions of 1979, 1995 and 2010. Her birth is announced in n° 87, aout 1967, p. 340 of the ''Bull ...

(born 1966) *

Anne Provoost Anne Provoost (born 26 July 1964) is a Flemish author who now lives in Antwerp with her husband and three children. Career Anne Provoost was born in the Belgian town of Poperinge. She grew up in a family of four children in West Flanders and w ...

(born 1964) *

Maria Rosseels Maria, Baroness Rosseels (23 October 1916 – 18 March 2005), also known with her pen name "E. M. Vervliet", was a Belgian Catholic writer. Biography The first years of her life, she lived in the Goedendagstraat in Borgerhout. When Maria was 7 y ...

(1916–2005) *

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Early life and education ...

(1903–1989) *

Stijn Streuvels Stijn Streuvels (3 October 1871, Heule, Kortrijk - 15 August 1969, Ingooigem, Anzegem), born Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, was a Flemish Belgian writer. Biography He started writing at a very young age. He was inspired by his uncle, th ...

(1871–1969) *

Herman Teirlinck Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck (Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, 24 February 1879 – Beersel-Lot, 4 February 1967) was a Belgian writer. He was the fifth child and only son of Isidoor Teirlinck and Oda van Nieuwenhove, who were both teachers in Brussels. As a ...

(1879–1967) * Felix Timmermans (1886–1947) *

André Henri Constant van Hasselt André Henri Constant van Hasselt ( nl, Andries Hendrik van Hasselt; 5 January 18061 December 1874) was a Dutch-Belgian writer and poet who wrote mainly in French. Life Born at Maastricht, Van Hasselt was first educated at the ''Koninklijk Athen ...

(1806–1874) *

Karel Van Mander Karel van Mander (I) or Carel van Mander I (May 1548 – 2 September 1606) was a Flemish painter, poet, art historian and art theoretician, who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life. He is mainly remembe ...

(1548–1606) *

Emile Verhaeren Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *'' Emil and the Detecti ...

(1855–1916) *

Peter Verhelst Peter Verhelst (born 28 January 1962) is a Belgian Flemish people, Flemish novelist, poet and dramatist. He won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for ''Tongkat''. Life Peter Verhelst was born in Bruges, Belgium. In his youth, he was extremely inte ...

(born 1962) *

Gerard Walschap Jacob Lodewijk Gerard, Baron Walschap (Londerzeel-St. Jozef, 9 July 1898 – Antwerp, 25 October 1989), was a Belgian writer. Early life He went to ''highschool'' at the ''Klein seminarie'' in Hoogstraten, and later in Asse. His Flemish aware ...

(1898–1989) *

Jan Frans Willems Jan Frans Willems (11 March 1793 – 24 June 1846) was a Flemish writer and ''father'' of the Flemish movement. Willems was born in the Belgian city of Boechout, while that was under French occupation. He started his career in the office of a not ...

(1793–1846) *

Marguerite Yourcenar Marguerite Yourcenar (, , ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903 – 17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist, who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the ''Prix Fem ...

(1903–1987) * Lode Zielens (1901–1944)

Belize

Zee Edgell Zelma Inez Edgell, better known as Zee Edgell, MBE (21 October 1940 – 20 December 2020), was a Belizean-born American writer who published four novels. She retired as a full, tenured professor of English at Kent State University. Biography Z ...

(1940–2020) *

Evan X Hyde Evan Anthony Hyde (better known as Evan X Hyde; born 30 April 1947) is a Belizean writer, journalist, media executive and former politician. He publishes and writes for the nation's largest newspaper, ''Amandala'', and oversees its subsidiaries, ...

(born 1947) * John Alexander Watler (1938–2015) *

Colville Young Sir Colville Norbert Young (born 20 November 1932) is a Belizeans, Belizean politician who served as the 2nd Governor-General of Belize. He is also a patron of the Scouting, Scout Association of Belize. He was appointed as the Governor-General ...

(born 1932) * Edward Broaster *

Emory King Emory King (February 22, 1931, Jacksonville, Florida, United States – August 14, 2007) was a Belizean historian, author, and journalist. He served the nation of Belize in a number of capacities, including as National Film Commissioner. Trav ...

(1931–2007)

Benin

* Berte-Evelyne Agbo (''see also''

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 � ...

) * Florent Couao-Zotti (born 1964) * Richard Dogbeh (''see also''

Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its c ...

and

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

) * Adélaïde Fassinou (born 1955)

Bermuda

* Angela Barry *

Brian Burland Brian Burland (23 April 1931 – 11 February 2010) was a Bermudian writer, who was the author of nine acclaimed novels Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić ( sr-Cyrl, Иво Андрић, ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in ...

(1892–1975) *

Andrej Nikolaidis Andrej Nikolaidis (born 1974) is a Montenegrin- Bosnian novelist, columnist, and political adviser. His novel ''Sin'' (The Son) won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011. The English translation was published in 2013 by Istros Books i ...

(born 1974) *

Meša Selimović Mehmed "Meša" Selimović (; ; 26 April 1910 – 11 July 1982) was a Yugoslav writer, whose novel '' Death and the Dervish'' is one of the most important literary works in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Some of the main themes in his works are the ...

(1910–1982)

Botswana

* Caitlin Davies (born 1964), born in Britain *

Unity Dow Unity Dow ( Diswai; born 23 April 1959) is a Motswana lawyer, human rights activist, specially elected member of parliament, and a writer. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Botswana and in various government ministries. Born ...

(born 1959) *

Bessie Head Bessie Amelia Emery Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986) was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that are ...

(1937–1986), born in South Africa

Brazil

José Alencar José Alencar Gomes da Silva (; 17 October 1931 – 29 March 2011) was a Brazilian people, Brazilian businessman, entrepreneur and politician who served as the 23rd vice president of Brazil from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2010. In business fr ...

(1931–2011) *

Manuel Antônio de Almeida Manuel Antônio de Almeida (November 17, 1831 – November 28, 1861) was a Brazilian satirical writer, medician and teacher. He is famous for the book '' Memoirs of a Police Sergeant'', written under the pen name Um Brasileiro ( en, A Brazilian ...

(1831–1861) *

Jorge Amado Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in ...

(1912–2001) *

Mário de Andrade Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer. He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetr ...

(1893–1945) *

Oswald de Andrade José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born, spent most of his life and died in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a m ...

(1890–1954) *

Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, ''Machado,'' or ''Bruxo do Cosme Velho''Vainfas, p. 505. (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short stor ...

(1839–1908) *

Lima Barreto Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (13 May 1881 – 1 November 1922) was a Brazilian novelist and journalist. A major figure in Brazilian Pre-Modernism, he is famous for the novel '' Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma'', a bitter satire of the first ...

(1881–1922) *

Chico Buarque Francisco Buarque de Hollanda (born 19 June 1944), popularly known simply as Chico Buarque, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. He is best known for his music, which often includes social, economic, ...

(born 1944) *

Lúcio Cardoso Joaquim Lúcio Cardoso Filho, known as Lúcio Cardoso (August 14, 1912 – September 22, 1968), was a Brazilian novelist, playwright, and poet. Biography The son of an impoverished but prominent family in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, Lúcio Cardoso wa ...

(1912–1968) *

Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho de Souza (, ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel ''The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller and he has published 28 more books ...

(born 1947) * Rubem Fonseca (1925–2020) *

Clarice Lispector Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector ( uk, Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор); December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works exp ...

(1920–1977) *

Joaquim Manoel de Macedo Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (June 24, 1820 – May 11, 1882) was a Brazilian novelist, doctor, teacher, poet, playwright and journalist, famous for the romance '' A Moreninha''. He is the patron of the 20th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. ...

(1820–1882) *

Raduan Nassar Raduan Nassar (born November 27, 1935, in Pindorama, São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer. The son of Lebanese immigrants, he moved to São Paulo when he was a teenager. He studied Law and Philosophy at the University of São Paulo. In 1970, he wrot ...

(born 1935) *

Raul Pompéia Raul d'Ávila Pompeia (April 12, 1863 – December 25, 1895) was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer and chronicler. He is famous for the Impressionist romance ''O Ateneu''. He is patron of the 33rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. ...

(1863–1895) *

Fernando Sabino Fernando Tavares Sabino (October 12, 1923 – October 11, 2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist. Life Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, the son of Dominic Sabino and D. Odette Tavares Sabino. He lived there until he was twe ...

(1923–2004) *

Moacyr Scliar Moacyr Jaime Scliar (March 23, 1937February 27, 2011) was a Brazilian writer and physician. Most of his writing centers on issues of Jewish identity in the Diaspora and particularly on being Jewish in Brazil. Scliar is best known outside Brazil ...

(1935–2011) *

Graciliano Ramos Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira () (October 27, 1892 – March 20, 1953) was a Brazilian modernist writer, politician and journalist. He is known worldwide for his portrayal of the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian ''sert� ...

(1892–1953) *

José Lins do Rego José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacul ...

(1901–1957) *

João Ubaldo Ribeiro João Ubaldo Ribeiro (January 23, 1941 – July 18, 2014) was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short stories have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was a member of the B ...

(1941–2014) *

João Guimarães Rosa João Guimarães Rosa (; 27 June 1908 – 19 November 1967) was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer and diplomat. Rosa only wrote one novel, '' Grande Sertão: Veredas'' (known in English as ''The Devil to Pay in the Backlands''), a revoluti ...

(1908–1967) *

Murilo Rubião Murilo Rubião (1 June 1916 – 16 September 1991) was a Brazilian writer. His entire work consists of short stories, best described as surreal fables in the tradition of Franz Kafka - this being so, Rubião's work must be seen as part of the M ...

(1916–1991) * Érico Veríssimo (1905–1975) * Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923–1922)

Bulgaria

Emil Andreev Emil Andreev (Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: Емил Андреев) (born 1 September 1956, Lom, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian people, Bulgarian author, playwright, and novelist. Biography Emil Andreev graduated from English Language Studies from ...

(born 1956) * Zdravka Evtimova (born 24 July 1959) * Agop Melkonyan (1949–2006) * Albena Stambolova (born 1957)

Burkina Faso

Nazi Boni Nazi Boni (December 31, 1909, in Bwan, Upper Senegal and Niger – May 16, 1969, in Kokologho, Upper Volta) was a politician from Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). In 1948 Boni was elected to the French National Assembly on behalf of the Voltaic ...

(1909–1969) * Sarah Bouyain (born 1968) *

Norbert Zongo Norbert Zongo (31 July 1949 – 13 December 1998), also known under the pen name of Henri Segbo or H.S., was a Burkinabé investigative journalist who managed the newspaper ''L'Indépendant'' in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Under Zongo's supervi ...

(1949–1998)

Cameroon

Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda (c. 1941 – February 1, 2014) was a Cameroonian novelist, chemist, and paramount chief of the Ewondo and Bene people. Early in life, Ahanda worked for the Chemistry Department of the University of Yaoundé. She la ...

(c.1941–2014) *

Francis Bebey Francis Bebey (, 15 July 1929 in Douala, Cameroon – 28 May 2001 in Paris, France) was a Cameroonian writer and composer. Early life Francis Bebey was born in Douala, Cameroon, on 15 July 1929. Bebey attended college in Douala, where he studied ...

(1929–2001) *

Mongo Beti Alexandre Biyidi Awala (30 June 1932 – 8 October 2001), known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian writer. Beti spent much of his life in France, studying at the Sorbonne and becoming a professor at Lycée Pierre Corneille. Life ...

, pseudonym of Alexandre Biyidi Awala (1932–2001) * Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) *

Mbella Sonne Dipoko Mbella Sonne Dipoko (February 28, 1936 in Douala – December 5, 2009 in Tiko) was a novelist, poet and painter from Cameroon. He is widely considered to be one of the foremost writers of literature in English from Cameroon. Early life Mbell ...

(1936–2009) *

Frieda Ekotto Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic. She is Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and is currently the Hunting Family Fellow at the Institute ...

* Jean-Louis Njemba Medu (1902-1966) * Ferdinand Oyono (1929–2010) * René Philombé (1930–2001)

Canada

Rebecca Agatha Armour Rebecca Agatha Armour (25 October 1845 – 24 April 1891) was a Canadian teacher and novelist born in Fredericton, New Brunswick.''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'', eds Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy (London: ...

(1845–1891) *

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nin ...

(born 1939) * Irene Baird (1901–1981) *

Mary Balogh Mary Balogh (born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944) is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance, born and raised in Swansea. In 1967, she moved to Canada to start a teaching career, married a local coroner and settled in Kipling, Sas ...

(born 1944) *

Pierre Berton Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster. Berton wrote 50 best-selling books, mainly about Canadiana, Canadian history and popular culture. He also wr ...

(1920–2004) *

Marie-Claire Blais Marie-Claire Blais (5 October 1939 – 30 November 2021) was a Canadian writer, novelist, poet, and playwright from the province of Québec. In a career spanning seventy years, she wrote novels, plays, collections of poetry and fiction, newspa ...

(1939–2021) *

Morley Callaghan Edward Morley Callaghan (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality. Biography Of Canadian/English-immigrant parentage,Clara Thomas, ''Canadian Novelists 192 ...

(1903–1990) * Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958) *

Robertson Davies William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...

(1913–1995) * Ranj Dhaliwal (born 1976) *

Réjean Ducharme Réjean Ducharme (August 12, 1941 – August 21, 2017) was a Québécois novelist and playwright who resided in Montreal. He was known for his reclusive personality and did not appear at any public functions since his first successful book was ...

(1941–2017) * Louis Emond (born 1969) *

Musharraf Ali Farooqi Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 26 July 1968) is a Pakistani-Canadian author, translator, and storyteller. Farooqi was among the five writers shortlisted for Asia's most prestigious literary prize in 2012. In addition to his fiction and translatio ...

(born 1968) *

Timothy Findley Timothy Irving Frederick Findley Timothy Findley's
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Gayleen Froese Gayleen Froese (born 1972) is a Canadian novelist and singer-songwriter. She is the author of two paranormal mystery novels, the urban fantasy novel "The Dominion", and the Ben Ames Casefiles series of detective novels. Her third novel, "The Girl ...

(born 1972) *

Donald Jack Donald Lamont Jack (6 December 1924 – 2 June 2003) was an English and Canadian novelist and playwright. Life Jack was born in Radcliffe, Bury, England and grew up in Britain, attending the well regarded Bury Grammar School and Marr College an ...

(1924–2003) *

Hugh MacLennan John Hugh MacLennan (March 20, 1907 – November 9, 1990) was a Canadian writer and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award. Family and childhood MacLennan was born in Glace B ...

(1907–1990) *

Margaret Laurence Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-pr ...

(1926–1987) *

Stephen Leacock Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known ...

(1869–1944) *

Yann Martel Yann Martel, (born 25 June 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel ''Life of Pi'', an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent ...

(born 1963) *

Rohinton Mistry Rohinton Mistry (born 1952) is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012. Each of his first three novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His ...

(born 1952) *

Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with ''Anne of Green Gables''. She ...

(1874–1942) * Susanna Moodie (1803–1885) *

Christopher G. Moore Christopher G. Moore (born 8 July 1952) is a Canadian writer of twenty-seven novels, six works of non-fiction, editor of three anthologies, and author of four radio dramas. He is best known for his trilogy ''A Killing Smile'' (1991), ''A Bewitch ...

(born 1952) *

Farley Mowat Farley McGill Mowat, (May 12, 1921 – May 6, 2014) was a Canadian writer and environmentalist. His works were translated into 52 languages, and he sold more than 17 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Can ...

(1921–2014) *

Alice Munro Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move f ...

(born 1931) *

Michael Ondaatje Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller P ...

(born 1943) *

Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and '' Barney's Version'' (1997). His 1970 novel '' St. Urbain's Horseman'' and 1989 novel ...

(1931–2001) *

Gabrielle Roy Gabrielle Roy (March 22, 1909July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba and one of the major figures in French Canadian literature. Early life Roy was born in 1909 in Saint-Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, and ...

(1909–1983) * Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861–1947) *

Carol Shields Carol Ann Shields, (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel ''The Stone Diaries'', which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as ...

(1935–2003) * Catharine Parr Traill (1802–1899) *

Roland Michel Tremblay Roland Michel Tremblay (born October 15, 1972 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a French Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and science-fiction consultant. He has been living in London since 1995. Biography Roland Michel Tremblay ...

(born 1972) *

Jane Urquhart Jane Urquhart, LL.D (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian novelist and poet. She is the internationally acclaimed author of seven award-winning novels, three books of poetry and numerous short stories. As a novelist, Urquhart is well known for her e ...

(born 1949)

Cape Verde

Germano Almeida Germano Almeida (; born 31 July 1945) is a Cape Verdean author and lawyer. Biography Born on the Cape Verdean island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law at the University of Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo. His novels have been translat ...

(born 1945) * Manuel Lopes (1907–2005)

Catalonia

* Raimon Llull (1235–1315) *

Ramon Muntaner Ramon Muntaner () (1265 – 1336) was a Catalan people, Catalan mercenary and writer who wrote the ''Crònica'', a chronicle of his life, including his adventures as a commander in the Catalan Company. He was born at Peralada. Biography T ...

(c. 1270–1336) *

Joanot Martorell Joanot Martorell (; c. 1410 – 1465) was a Valencian knight and writer, best known for authoring the novel '' Tirant lo Blanch'', written in Valencian and published at Valencia in 1490. This novel is often regarded as one of the peaks of the ...

(1413–1468) *

Narcís Oller Narcís Oller i de Moragas (; 10 August 1846, in Valls – 26 July 1930, in Barcelona) was a Catalan writer, most noted for the novels ''La papallona'' (The Butterfly) which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his m ...

(1846–1930) *

Mercè Rodoreda Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí (; 10 October 1908 – 13 April 1983) was a Catalan novelist. She is considered the most influential contemporary Catalan language writer, as evidenced by the references of other authors in her work and the internation ...

(1909–1983)

Chad

* Marie-Christine Koundja (born 1957)

Chile

Isabel Allende Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born in Lima, 2 August 1942) is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as ''The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

(born 1942) *

Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' (''The Savage Detectives' ...

(1953–2003) *

Francisco Coloane Francisco Coloane Cárdenas (; July 19, 1910 – August 5, 2002) was a Chilean novelist and short fiction writer whose works have been translated into many languages. Some of his books were adapted to theatre and film. Biography He was born i ...

(1910–2002) *

José Donoso José Manuel Donoso Yáñez (5 October 1924 – 7 December 1996), known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United ...

(1924–1996) *

Jorge Edwards Jorge Edwards Valdés (born June 29, 1931) is a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Piñera presidency. Life and career Edwards attended Law School at the Universidad de Chile. D ...

(born 1931) * Baldomero Lillo (1867–1923) * Manuel Rojas (1924–1993) *

Luis Sepúlveda Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura (October 4, 1949 – April 16, 2020) was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the ...

(1949–2020) *

Marcela Serrano Marcela Serrano (born 1951) is a Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel, ''Para que no me olvides'', won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book, ''Nosotras que nos queremos tanto,'' won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for wom ...

(born 1951) *

Mercedes Valdivieso Mercedes Valdivieso (March 1, 1924 – August 3, 1993) was a Chilean writer, known since her earliest writings for the subversive nature of her texts. She was born in Santiago, Chile. She first wrote ''La Brecha'' (''Breakthrough'') in 1961, w ...

(1924–1993)

China

Cao Xueqin Cáo Xuěqín ( ; ); (4 April 1710 — 10 June 1765)Briggs, Asa (ed.) (1989) ''The Longman Encyclopedia'', Longman, was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty. He is best known as the author of ''Dream of the Red Chamber'', one of the Four G ...

(c. 1715–1763) *

Dai Sijie Dai Sijie (born 1954) is a Chinese French author and filmmaker. Early life Dai was born in Putian, Fujian, in 1954. His parents, Professor Dai Baoming and Professor Hu Xiaosu, were professors of medical sciences at West China University ...

(born 1954) *

Gao Xingjian Gao Xingjian (高行健 in Chinese - born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature " ...

(born 1940) *

Han Shaogong Han Shaogong (; born January 1, 1953) is a Chinese novelist and fiction writer. Biography Han was born in Hunan, China. While relying on traditional Chinese culture, in particular Chinese mythology, folklore, Taoism and Buddhism as source of in ...

(born 1953) *

Lao She Shu Qingchun (3 February 189924 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Chinese novelist and dramatist. He was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century Chinese literature, and is best known for his novel '' Rickshaw Boy'' ...

(1899–1966) * Li Yu (1610–1680) *

Lu Xun Zhou Shuren (25 September 1881 – 19 October 1936), better known by his pen name Lu Xun (or Lu Sun; ; Wade–Giles: Lu Hsün), was a Chinese writer, essayist, poet, and literary critic. He was a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. W ...

(1881–1936) *

Mao Dun Shen Dehong (Shen Yanbing; 4 July 1896 – 27 March 1981), known by the pen name of Mao Dun, was a Chinese essayist, journalist, novelist, and playwright. Mao Dun, as a 20th-century Chinese novelist, literary and cultural critic, and Minis ...

(1896–1981) *

Mo Yan Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine ''TIME'' referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirate ...

(born 1955) *

Qian Zhongshu Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998), also transliterated as Ch'ien Chung-shu or Dzien Tsoong-su, was a renowned 20th century Chinese literary scholar and writer, known for his wit and erudition. He is best known for his sati ...

(1910–1998) *

Wang Shuo Wang Shuo (, born August 23, 1958) is a Chinese author, director, actor, and cultural icon. He has written over 20 novels, television series and movies. His work has been translated into Japanese, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Hindi, and ...

(born 1958) *

Wei Jingsheng Wei Jingsheng (; born 20 May 1950) is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. He is most prominent for having authored the essay "The Fifth Modernization", which wa ...

(born 1950) *

Zhang Ailing Eileen Chang ( zh, t=張愛玲, s=张爱玲, first=t, w=Chang1 Ai4-ling2, p=Zhāng Àilíng；September 30, 1920 – September 8, 1995), also known as Chang Ai-ling or Zhang Ailing, or by her pen name Liang Jing (梁京), was a Chinese-born A ...

(1920–1995)

Colombia

Héctor Abad Faciolince Héctor Abad Faciolince (born 1958) is a Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. Abad is considered one of the most talented post-Latin American Boom writers in Latin American literature. Abad is best known for his bestselling nove ...

(born 1958) *

Jaime Manrique Jaime Manrique (born 16 June 1949) is a bilingual Colombian American novelist, poet, essayist, educator, and translator. His work is a representation of his cultural upbringing and heritage mixed with the flavors of his education in English. A pri ...

(born 1949) *

Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo () or Gabito () throughout Latin America. Considered one ...

(1927–2014) *

José Eustasio Rivera José Eustasio Rivera Salas (February 19, 1888 – December 1, 1928) was a Colombian lawyer and author primarily known for his national epic ''The Vortex''. Early life José Eustasio Rivera was born on February 19, 1888 in Aguas Calientes, a ha ...

(1888–1928) *

Álvaro Mutis Álvaro Mutis Jaramillo (August 25, 1923 – September 22, 2013) was a Colombian poet, novelist, and essayist. His best-known work is the novel sequence '' The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll'', which revolves around the character ...

(1923–2013)

Republic of the Congo

Emmanuel Dongala Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala (born 1941) is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He was born in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, in 1941. He was Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock until 2014. As a chemist, hi ...

(born 1941) * Paul Lomami-Tshibamba (1914–1985) *

Henri Lopes Henri Lopes (born 12 September 1937)''International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004'', Europa Publications, p. 339.

(born 1937) * Alain Mabanckou (born 1966) * Jeannette Balou Tchichelle (1947–2005)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

(formerly Zaïre) *

Amba Bongo Amba Bongo is a writer and advocate for refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo-Kinshasa. She mainly works with vulnerable French African women seeking to settle in the United Kingdom. Amba writes novels, poems and short stories Her fir ...

Maguy Kabamba Maguy (Margaret) Rashidi Kabamba (born 3 August 1960) is a writer and translator from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She has a B.A. specialized in Translation from York University, Toronto, Canada and a M.A. with major French, minor Spanish ...

(born 1960) * Sony Labou Tansi (1947–1995) *

V. Y. Mudimbe Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (born 8 December 1941, Jadotville, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history. Mudimbe is Ruth F. DeVarney Prof ...

(born 1941) *

Yamusangie, Frederick Kambemba Frederick Kambemba Yamusangie is a novelist, playwright and poet who was born and partly brought up in Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo) in Africa. He studied communication engineering at the University of Kent at Canterbury i ...

Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitan

Romain Gary Romain Gary (; 2 December 1980), born Roman Kacew (, and also known by the pen name Émile Ajar), was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He i ...

, Russian-born French writer *

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It ...

(1883–1924), lived in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

during

Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...

and

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

; German language writer; see also

German literature German literature () comprises those literature, literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy a ...

Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler, (, ; ; hu, Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931, Koestler join ...

(1905–1983) *

Milan Kundera Milan Kundera (, ; born 1 April 1929) is a Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera's Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, then conferred again in 2019. He "sees himself ...

(born 1929), born in

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

, but moved to France. Multi-language writer. *

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Wes ...

(born 1947), born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer, author of ''

The Satanic Verses ''The Satanic Verses'' is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism ...

Costa Rica

* Fabián Dobles Rodríguez (1918–1997) * Joaquín García Monge (1881–1958) * Yolanda Oreamuno (1916–1956) * Roxana Pinto

Côte d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast

Tanella Boni Tanella Suzanne Boni (born 1954) is an Ivorian poet and novelist. Also an academic, she is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Abidjan. Apart from her teaching and research activities, she was the President of the association of writers ...

(born 1954) *

Micheline Coulibaly Micheline Coulibaly (1950 – 19 March 2003) was a writer from Côte d'Ivoire. She was born in Vietnam but went to school in Côte d'Ivoire. In 1990, she moved to Mexico, in 2000 to Dubai Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is ...

(1950–2003) * Bernard Dadié (1916–2019) * Richard Dogbeh (1932–2003). See also

Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north ...

and

* Fatou Keïta (born 1965) *

Ahmadou Kourouma Ahmadou Kourouma (24 November 1927 – 11 December 2003) was an Ivorian novelist. Life The eldest son of a distinguished Malinké family, Ahmadou Kourouma was born in 1927 in Boundiali, Côte d'Ivoire. Raised by his uncle, he initially pursue ...

(1927–2003) * Werewere-Liking Gnepo (born 1950). See also

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

Véronique Tadjo Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) is a writer, poet, novelist, and artist from Côte d'Ivoire. Having lived and worked in many countries within the African continent and African diaspora, diaspora, she feels herself to be Pan-Africanism, pan-African ...

(born 1955)

Croatia

Marija Jurić Zagorka Marija Jurić (; 2 March 1873 – 30 November 1957), known by her pen name Zagorka (), was a Croatian journalist, writer and women's rights activist. She was the first female journalist in Croatia and is among the most read Croatian writers. Ea ...

(1873–1957) *

Miroslav Krleža Miroslav Krleža (; 7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a Yugoslav and Croatian writer who is widely considered to be the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century. He wrote notable works in all the literary genres, including poetry (''Ba ...

(1893–1981) * Zlata Kolarić-Kišur (1894–1990) *

Ivo Andrić Ivo Andrić ( sr-Cyrl, Иво Андрић, ; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in ...

(1892–1975) *

Ivan Aralica __NOTOC__ Ivan Aralica (born 10 September 1930) is a Croatian novelist and essayist. Born in Promina near Knin, and having finished pedagogical school and Philosophical Faculty at the University of Zadar, Aralica had worked since 1953 as a high ...

(born 1930) * Vesna Krmpotić (1932–2018) *

Tomislav Ladan Tomislav Ladan (25 June 1932 – 12 September 2008) was a Croatian essayist, critic, translator and novelist. Ladan was born in Ivanjica, Serbia, and spent his formative years in his native Bosnia and Herzegovina (Travnik, Bugojno), where he g ...

(1932–2008) *

Dubravka Ugrešić Dubravka Ugrešić (; born 27 March 1949) is a Yugoslav and later Croatian writer. A graduate of University of Zagreb, she has been based in Amsterdam since 1996 and refuses to identify as a Croatian writer. Early life and education Ugrešić ...

(born 1949) * Julijana Matanović (born 1959)

Cuba

Reinaldo Arenas Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a ...

(1943–1990) *

Alejo Carpentier Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (, ; December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French an ...

(1904–1980) *

Daína Chaviano Daína Chaviano () (born 19 February 1957, Havana)Profile
''Encyclopæd ...

(born 1957) *

José Lezama Lima José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910 – August 9, 1976) was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Cuban and Latin American literature. His novel ''Paradiso'' is one of ...

(1910–1976) *

Leonardo Padura Fuentes Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. , he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often refe ...

(born 1955)

Czech Republic

Karel Čapek Karel Čapek (; 9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel '' War with the Newts'' (1936) and play '' R.U.R.'' (''Rossum's Universal ...

(1890–1938) *

Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek (; 1883–1923) was a Czech writer, humorist, satirist, journalist, bohemian and anarchist. He is best known for his novel '' The Fate of the Good Soldier Švejk during the World War'', an unfinished collection of farcical inc ...

(1883–1923) *

Bohumil Hrabal Bohumil Hrabal (; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century. Early life Hrabal was born in Židenice (suburb of Brno) on 28 March 1914, in what was then the province ...

(1914–1997) *

(born 1929) *

Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert (; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Seifert was awarded the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his poetry which endowed with freshness, sensuality and rich inventiveness provides ...

(1901–1986)

Denmark

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...

(1805–1875) * Karen Blixen (1885–1962) (pen name: Isak Dinesen), author of ''

Seven Gothic Tales ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (translated by the author into Danish as: ''Syv Fantastiske Fortællinger'') is a collection of short stories by the Danish author Karen Blixen (under the pen name Isak Dinesen), first published in 1934, three years before ...

'' (1934), ''

Out of Africa ''Out of Africa'' is a memoir by the Danish people, Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called East Africa Protectorate, British East Afr ...

'' (1937) *

Peter Høeg Peter Høeg (born 17 May 1957) is a Danish writer of fiction. He is best known for his novel '' Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' (1992). Early life Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ...

(born 1957) *

Jens Peter Jacobsen Jens Peter Jacobsen (7 April 1847 – 30 April 1885) was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He began the naturalist movement in Danish literature and was a part of the Modern B ...

(1847–1885) * Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873–1950),

Nobel Prize for Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

(1944) *

Christian Jungersen Christian Jungersen (born 10 July 1962 in Copenhagen) is a Danish novelist whose works have been translated into 20 languages. He has published three novels in Danish – ''Krat'' (1999), ''Undtagelsen'' (2004, published in English as ''The Excep ...

(born 1962) *

Morten Korch Morten Luther Gudmund Korch (1876–1954) was a Danish writer who wrote populist stories and romances about rural Denmark. During his lifetime, he was the most widely read author in Denmark. Korch wrote 123 novels, several of which were made ...

(1876–1954) *

Carl Erik Soya Carl Erik Soya, (30 October 1896 – 10 November 1983), also known by the single appellation Soya, was a Danish author and dramatist. His works were often satirical provocations against double standards and dishonesty. In 1975, Soya received Denma ...

(1896–1983)

Djibouti

* Waberi Abdourahman (born 1965)

Ecuador

Jorge Enrique Adoum Jorge Enrique Adoum (June 29, 1926 in Ambato – July 3, 2009 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian writer, poet, politician, and diplomat. He was one of the major exponents of Latin American poetry. His work received such prestigious awards as the first ...

(1926–2009) * Rosalía Arteaga (born 1956) * Aminta Buenaño (born 1958) *

Benjamín Carrión Manuel Benjamín Carrión Mora (April 20, 1897 in Loja – March 9, 1979 in Quito) was an Ecuadorian writer, diplomat and cultural promoter. Biography He was born into an aristocratic family in Loja. He was a lawyer by training, and occupied ...

(1897–1979) * Ileana Espinel (1933–2001) *

María Fernanda Espinosa María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (born 7 September 1964)
United Nations Press Release, BIO/3968, 7 March 2008.

(born 1964) *

Enrique Gil Gilbert Enrique Gil Gilbert (July 8, 1912 – February 21, 1973) was an Ecuadorian novelist, journalist, poet, and a high-ranking member of the Communist Party of Ecuador. Gil Gilbert was born and died in the coastal city of Guayaquil, and was the young ...

(1912–1973) *

Jorge Icaza Jorge Icaza Coronel (July 10, 1906 – May 26, 1978), commonly referred to as Jorge Icaza, was a writer from Ecuador, best known for his novel '' Huasipungo'', which brought attention to the exploitation of Ecuador's indigenous people by Ecuadoria ...

(1906–1978) * Salomon Isacovici (1924–1998) *

Edna Iturralde Edna Iturralde (born 1948) is an Ecuadorian author who has won multiple national and international awards. She is considered the most important figure in children and young adult's literature of her country and, with fifty-seven books published, ...

(born 1948) * Violeta Luna (born 1943) *

José Martínez Queirolo José Martínez Queirolo (March 22, 1931 – October 8, 2008) was an Ecuadorian playwright and narrator. He was the 2001 recipient of the Premio Eugenio Espejo in Literature, awarded to him by President Gustavo Noboa. Martínez Queirolo, k ...

(1931–2008) *

Nela Martínez Nela Martínez Espinosa (November 24, 1912 – July 30, 2004) was an Ecuadorian communist, political militant, activist, and writer. For four days in 1944 she was the leader of Ecuador. Biography Nela Martinez was born in Cañar, Ecuador and ...

(1912–2004) * Juan Montalvo (1832–1889) * Gonzalo Zaldumbide (1884–1965)

Egypt

Alifa Rifaat Fatimah Rifaat (June 5, 1930 – January 1996), better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat ( ar, أليفة رفعت), was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, ...

(1930–1996) * Ahdaf Soueif (born 1950) *

Bahaa Taher Bahaa Taher ( ar, بهاء طاهر; 13 January 1935 – 27 October 2022), sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer who wrote in Arabic. He was awarded the inaugural Inte ...

(born 1935) * Edward al-Kharrat (1926–2015) * Ibrahim Aslan (1935–2012) *

Gamal Al-Ghitani Gamal al-Ghitani, ( ar, جمال الغيطانى, ; 9 May 1945 – 18 October 2015) was an Egyptian author of historical and political novels and cultural and political commentaries and was the editor-in-chief of the literary periodical '' Akh ...

(1945–2015) *

Khairy Shalaby Khairy Shalaby (خيري شلبي) (January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011)Muhammad Husayn Haykal Mohammed Hussein Heikal ( ar, محمد حسين هيكل ; August 20, 1888 – December 8, 1956) was an Egyptian writer, journalist, politician. He held several cabinet posts, including minister of education. Life Haekal was born in Kafr Ghan ...

(1888–1956) * Nabil Farouk (1956–2020) *

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. M ...

(1911–2006),

(1988), famous for the '' Cairo Trilogy'' about life in the sprawling inner city. *

Nawal El Saadawi Nawal El Saadawi ( ar, نوال السعداوي, , 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of ...

(1931–2021) * Saleh Morsi (1939–1996) *

Sonallah Ibrahim Son'allah Ibrahim ( ar, صنع الله إبراهيم ''Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm'') (born 1937) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the " Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are exp ...

(born 1937) *

Tawfiq al-Hakim Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim ( arz, توفيق الحكيم, ; October 9, 1898 – July 26, 1987) was a prominent Egyptian writer and visionary. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. The triumphs and failures that ar ...

(1898–1987) *

Yahya Haqqi Yahya Haqqi (Arabic:) (7 January 1905 – 9 December 1992) (or Yehia Hakki, Yehia Haqqi) was an Egyptian writer and novelist. Born to a middle-class family in Cairo, he was a lawyer by profession who graduated from the Cairo School of Law in 19 ...

(1905–1992) *

Youssef Ziedan Youssef Ziedan ( ar, يوسف زيدان) (born June 30, 1958) is an Egyptian writer and scholar who specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies. He is a public lecturer, columnist, and prolific author of more than 50 books. He is also director ...

(born 1958) *

Yusuf Idris Yusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris ( ar, يوسف إدريس) (May 19, 1927 – August 1, 1991) was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. Biography Idris was born in Faqous. He originally trained to be a doctor, studying at the ...

(1927–1991)

Equatorial Guinea

* María Nsué Angüe (1945–2017) *

Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo Donato Francisco Ndongo-Bidyogo Makina (born 12 December 1950), known as Donato Ndongo, is an Equatoguinean journalist and writer who was one of the most prominent members of Hispanic African movement within the Spanish-speaking world. Early l ...

(born 1950) *

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (born 6 November 1966) is an Equatoguinean author and activist. His parents were from the remote island of Annobón, off the West African coast. He is at the center of the feature award-winning documentary ''The Writer Fr ...

(born 1966)

Estonia

* Sass Henno (born 1982) * Kaur Kender (born 1971) *

Albert Kivikas Albert Kivikas ( in Groß-St. Johannis, Livonia, Russian Empire – 19 May 1978 in Lund) was an Estonian writer and journalist. He is best known as the author of the book '' Names in Marble'' ( et, "Nimed marmortahvlil"), the subject of which i ...

(1898–1978) * Andrus Kivirähk (born 1970) *

Jaan Kross Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer. He won the 1995 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Early life Born in Tallinn, Estonia, son of a skilled metal-worker, Jaan Kross studied at Jakob Westholm Gymnasiu ...

(1920–2007) * Leo Kunnas (born 1967) *

Juhan Liiv Juhan Liiv ( – ) is one of Estonia's most famous poets and prose writers. Childhood Juhan (birth names Johannes) Liiv, the son of Benjamin and Marianna Liiv (née Pärn), was born on 30 April 1864, in Alatskivi Parish (now Peipsiääre P ...

(1864–1913) *

Tõnu Õnnepalu Tõnu Õnnepalu (born 13 September 1962), also known by the pen names Emil Tode and Anton Nigov, is an Estonian poet, author and translator. Õnnepalu was born in Tallinn and studied biology at the University of Tartu from 1980 to 1985. He bega ...

(a.k.a. Emil Tode, born 1962) *

Kersti Merilaas Kersti Merilaas ( in Narva – 8 March 1986 in Tallinn) was an Estonian poet and translator. In addition, she wrote poems and prose for children and plays. Early life and education Kersti Merilaas was born Eugenie Moorberg in Narva, Estonia shor ...

(1913–1986) *

Lilli Promet Lilli Promet (16 February 1922 – 16 February 2007) was an Estonian author. Life Promet was born in Petseri to the Estonian painter, Aleksander Promet. After finishing Tallinn 18th Elementary School, she entered the State Industrial Art School ...

(1922–2007) *Karl Ristikivi (1912–1977) *Raivo Seppo (born 1973) *Juhan Smuul (1922–1971) *A. H. Tammsaare (1878–1940) *Enn Vetemaa (1936–2017) *Heiki Vilep (born 1960)

Ethiopia

*Haddis Alemayehu (1910–2003) *Afawarq Gabra Iyasus, Āfawarq Gabra Iyasus (1868–1947) *Moges Kebede *Dinaw Mengestu (born 1978) *Maaza Mengiste (born 1971) *Nega Mezlekia (born 1958) *Hama Tuma (born 1949) *Berhanu Zerihun (1933/4–1987)

Faroe Islands

Finland

*Juhani Aho (1861–1921) *Tove Jansson (1914–2001), she wrote in Finland-Swedish, Swedish *Aino Kallas (1878–1956), female *Aleksis Kivi (1834–1872) *Väinö Linna (1920–1992) *Johannes Linnankoski (1869–1913) *Arto Paasilinna (1942–2018) *Kalle Päätalo (1919–2000) *Frans Emil Sillanpää (1888–1964),

, 1939 *Mika Waltari (1908–1979)

France

Gabon

*Jean-Baptiste Abessolo (born 1932) *Bessora (born in Belgium) (born 1968) *Rene Maran, born near

(1887–1960) *Angèle Rawiri, Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri (1954–2010)

Gambia

*Ebou Dibba (1943–2000) *Lenrie Peters (1932–2009) *Sally Singhateh (born 1977)

Germany

*Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) *Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), author of ''Berlin Alexanderplatz'' *Hans Fallada (1893–1947) *Theodor Fontane (1819–1898) *Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), polymath *Günter Grass (1927–2015),

(1999) *Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991) *Hermann Hesse (1877–1962),

(1946) *Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) *Ernst Jünger (1895–1998) *Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–974) *Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975) *Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) *Siegfried Lenz (1926–2014) *Andreas Mand (born 1959) *Heinrich Mann (1871–1950) *Thomas Mann (1875–1955),

(1929) *Sten Nadolny (born 1942), author of ''The Discovery of Slowness'' *Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), author of ''Im Westen nichts Neues'', or ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1929) *Bernhard Schlink (born 1944) *W. G. Sebald (1944–2001) *Anna Seghers (1900–1983) *Patrick Süskind (born 1949), author of ''Perfume (book), Perfume'' *Martin Walser (born 1927) *Peter Weiss (1916–1982) *Christa Wolf (1929–2011) *Arnold Zweig (1887–1968)

Ghana

*Nana Achampong (born 1964) *Ama Ata Aidoo (born 1940) *Ayi Kwei Armah (born 1939) *Bediako Asare, also connected with Tanzania *Ayesha Harruna Attah (born 1983) *Nana Oforiatta Ayim *Kofi Awoonor (1935–2013) *Yaba Badoe (born 1955) *Elizabeth-Irene Baitie (born 1970) *Kofi Batsa (1931–1991) *J. Benibengor Blay (born 1915) *William Boyd (writer), William Boyd (born 1952) *Akosua Busia (born 1966) *J. E. Casely-Hayford (1866–1930) *Jojo Cobbinah (born 1948) *Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 1967) *Amma Darko (born 1956) *Lawrence Darmani (born 1956) *Kwame Dawes (born 1962) *Amu Djoleto (born 1929) *Cameron Duodu (born 1937) *Asare Konadu (1932–1994) *B. Kojo Laing (1946–2017) *Lesley Lokko *Nii Ayikwei Parkes (born 1974) *Kobina Sekyi (1892–1956) *Taiye Selasi (born 1979) *Francis Selormey (1927–1988) *Efua Theodora Sutherland (1924–1996)

Greece

*George Leonardos (born 1937) *Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957)

Guatemala

*Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974)

Guinea

*Sirah Balde de Labe *Camara Laye (1928–1980) *Tierno Monénembo (born 1947) *Williams Sassine (1944–1997)

Haïti

*Frankétienne (born 1936) *Clark Parent (born 1951) *Jacques Roumain (1907–1944)

Honduras

*Roberto Castillo (Honduras), Roberto Castillo (1950–2008) *Julio Escoto (born 1944) *Javier Abril Espinoza (born 1967) *Lucila Gamero (1873–1964)

Hong Kong

*Louis Cha (1924–2018) *Ni Kuang (born 1935)

Hungary

*Zoltán Ambrus (1861–1932) *Mihály Babits (1883–1941) *Zsófia Bán (born 1957) *Miklós Bánffy (1873–1950) *Ágota Bozai (born 1965) *György Dalos (born 1943) *Anna Dániel (1908–2003) *József Eötvös (1813–1871) *Péter Esterházy (1950–2016) *Klára Fehér (1919–1996) *István Fekete (1900–1970), author of ''Vuk (novel), Vuk'' *Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922) *Ágnes Gergely (born 1933) *Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954) *Éva Janikovszky (1926–2003), also children's writer *Mór Jókai (1825–1904), foremost 19th-century novelist *Margit Kaffka (1880–1918) *Frigyes Karinthy (1887–1938), author of science-fiction novels *József Kármán (1768–1795) *Zsigmond Kemény (1814–1875) *Rivka Keren (born 1946), writing also in Hebrew language, Hebrew *Imre Kertész (1929–2016),

(2002) *János Kodolányi (1899–1969) *György Konrád (1933–2019) *Károly Kós (1883–1977) *Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936) *László Krasznahorkai (born 1954) *Gyula Krúdy (1878–1933) *Ervin Lázár (1936–2006), author of children's novels *Laura Leiner (born 1985), author of young-adult series *Iván Mándy (1918–1995), author of children's novels *Sándor Márai (1900–1989) *Ferenc Molnár (1878–1952), author of ''The Paul Street Boys'' *Ferenc Móra (1879–1934) *Zsigmond Móricz (1879–1942), foremost novelist of the earlier 20th century *Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910) *Terézia Mora (born 1971), writing in German *Péter Nádas (born 1942) *Borbála Nádasdy (born 1939) *László Németh (1901–1975) *Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy, 1865–1947), writing in English *Géza Ottlik (1912–1990) *Jenő Rejtő (1905–1943) *Henriett Seth F. (born 1980), science-fiction author *Magda Szabó (1917–2007), author of ''The Door (novel), The Door'' *Sándor Szathmári (1897–1974), author of ''Kazohinia'' *Noémi Szécsi (born 1976) *Júlia Székely (1906–1986) *Mária Szepes (1908–2007) *Antal Szerb (1901–1945), author of ''Journey by Moonlight (novel), Journey by Moonlight'' *Edina Szvoren (born 1974) *Áron Tamási (1897–1966) *Kata Tisza (born 1980) *Cécile Tormay (1876–1937) *Albert Wass (1908–1998)

Iceland

*Snorri Sturluson (1179–1241), author of the ''Younger Edda'' *Halldor Laxness, Halldór Laxness (1902–1998),

(1955) *Sjón (born 1962), The Nordic Council's Literature Prize (2005)

Indian subcontinent

*Aravind Adiga (born 1974), English *Ahmad Ali, Ahmed Ali (1910–1994), English, Urdu language, Urdu *Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004), English *Chaudhry Afzal Haq (1891–1942), Urdu, English, Hindi *Manik Bandopadhyay (1908–1956), Bengali *Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (1899–1970), Bengali *Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894–1950), Bengali *Tarashankar Banerjee (1898–1971), Bengali *D. R. Bendre (1896–1981), Kannada *Ramavriksha Benipuri (1899–1968), Hindi *Ruskin Bond (born 1934), English *Nitya Prakash (born 1988), English, Hindi *Buddhadeb Bosu (1908–1974), Bengali, English *Nirendranath Chakravarty (1924–2018), Bengali *Vikram Chandra (novelist), Vikram Chandra (born 1961), English *Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894), Bengali *Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959), English *Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), Bengali *Amit Chaudhuri (born 1962), English *Rajkamal Chaudhary (1929–1967), Hindi *Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Bengali *Manoj Das (1934–2021), Oriya *David Davidar (born 1958) *Shobhaa De (born 1948), English *Anita Desai (born 1937), English *Kiran Desai (born 1971), English *P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi language, Marathi *Eunice De Souza (1940–2017), English *Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born 1956) *Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1824–1873), Bengali, English, French *Lalon Fakir (c. 1772–1890), Bengali *Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934–2012), Bengali *Amitav Ghosh (born 1956), English *Subodh Ghosh (1909–1980), Bengali *Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912) Bengali *Raj Kamal Jha (born 1966), English *Amita Kanekar (born 1965), English *Kavisekhara Dr Umar Alisha, Umar Alisha Kavisekhara (1885–1945), Telugu *Datta Raghunath Kavthekar (1901–1979), Marathi *Prakash Kona (born 1967) *Kuvempu (1904–1994), Kannada *Jhumpa Lahiri (born 1967) *Pankaj Mishra (born 1969) *Piyush Jha (living), English *

(born 1952), English *Narendranath Mitra (1916–1975), Bengali *Gopinath Mohanty (1914–1991), Oriya *Jagadish Mohanty (1951–2013), Odia *Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born 1935), Bengali *Kiran Nagarkar (1942–2019) Marathi, English *R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), English *Bhalchandra Nemade (born 1938), Marathi *Dibyendu Palit (1939–2019), Bengali, English *Surender Mohan Pathak (born 1940), Hindi *Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937), Hindi *Munshi Premchand (1880–1936), Hindi *Tushar Raheja (born 1984), English *Indra Bahadur Rai (1927–2018) Nepali language, Nepali *Rajashree (novelist), Rajashree, English *Raja Rao (1908–2006), English *Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), Bengali *Arundhati Roy (born 1961), English *Rammohan Roy (1772–1833), Bengali, English, Sanskrit *

(born 1947), English *Sarojini Sahoo (born 1956) Odia *Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963), Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit *Vilas Sarang (1942–2015) Marathi, English *D. Selvaraj (1938–2009), Tamil *Samar Sen (1916–1987), Bengali, English *Fakir Mohan Senapati (1843–1918), Oriya *Durjoy Datta (born 1987), English *Vikram Seth (born 1952), author of ''A Suitable Boy'' *Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali also poet, painter, philosopher & Nobel Prize, Nobel laureate *Shashi Tharoor (born 1956), English *Chetan Bhagat (born 1971), English *Rajeeva Nayan Pathak (born 1972), English *Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bengali *Vijayakrishnan (born 1952), Malayalam *Kalki Krishnamurthy (1899–1954), Tamil *Sujatha (writer), Sujatha (1935–2008), Tamil language *Lakshminath Bezbaroa (1864–1938), Assamese language, Assamese *Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942–2011), Assamese, English *Bhabendra Nath Saikia (1932–2003), Assamese *Hiren Gohain (born 1939), Assamese *Nabakanta Barua (1926–2002), Assamese *Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Assamese *Kulpreet Yadav (born 1968), English *M. T. Vasudevan Nair (born 1933), Malayalam *Sudha Murthy (born 1950), Kannada, Marathi, English

Indonesia

*Andrea Hirata (born 1967), Tetralogy of "Laskar Pelangi" (The Rainbow Troops) *Dewi Lestari (born 1976) *Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925–2006), author of the banned 1980 novel ''This Earth of Mankind''

Iraq

*Ahmed Saadawi (born 1973), author of the award-winning Iraqi novel Frankenstein in Baghdad *Diaa Jubaili *Fouad al-Tikerly, best known for his novel al-Rajea al-Baeed, translated into English as The Long Way Back *Haifa Zangana (born 1950), in Baghdad *Hazim Kamaledin (born 1954), best known for his novel Desertified Waters, translated in Ducht as Schoonheid raast in mij tot ik sterf, Longlist International Prize for Arabic Fiction *Ibtisam Abdallah *Inaam Kachachi (born 1952) *Iqbal al-Qazwini *Samīra al-Māni' *Samuel Shimon *Selim Matar *Sinan Antoon

Iran

*Ahmad Mahmoud (1931–2002) *Azar Nafisi (born 1948) *Bozorg Alavi (1904–1997) *Houshang Golshiri (1937–2000) *Jamal Mirsadeghi *Mahmud Doulatabadi (born 1930) *Reza Baraheni (born 1935) *Sadegh Hedayat (1903–1951) *Sadiq Chubak (1916–1998) *Shahrnush Parsipur (born 1946) *Simin Daneshvar (1921–2012) *Zoya Pirzad (born 1952) *Arash Hejazi (born 1971) *Abbas Maroufi (born 1957) *Shahryar Mandanipour (born 1957) *Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923-1969)

Ireland

*Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) *James Joyce (1882–1941) *Flann O'Brien (1911–1966) *Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

Israel

*Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970), Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Prize winner; ''The Bridal Canopy'', ''Yesteryear'' *Aharon Appelfeld, ''Badenheim 1939'' *Naomi Frankel (1918–2009), ''Shaul ve-Yohannah'' (Saul and Joanna) trilogy *David Grossman (born 1954), ''See Under: Love'', ''The Smile of the Lamb'' *Yoram Kaniuk (1930–2013), ''His Daughter'' *Amos Oz (1939–2018), ''Black Box (book), Black Box'', ''My Michael'' *Yaakov Shabtai (1934–1981), ''Past Continuous'' *Meir Shalev (born 1948), ''The Blue Mountain'', ''Esau'' *Michal Govrin (born 1960), ''The Name'', ''Snapshots'' *Chaim Walder (born 1969), ''Kids Speak'' *A. B. Yehoshua, Avraham B. Yehoshua (born 1936), ''A Late Divorce'', ''Mr. Mani''

Italy

*Giulio Angioni (1939–2017) *Riccardo Bacchelli (1891–1985) *Alessandro Baricco (born 1958) *Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) *Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, novelist, ''Terra (novel), Terra'' (1985) is most popular work in English *Alberto Bevilacqua (1934–2013) *Vitaliano Brancati (1907–1954) *Gesualdo Bufalino (1920–19960 *Aldo Busi (born 1948) *Dino Buzzati (1906–1972), ''Il deserto dei Tartari'' (1940) *Italo Calvino (1923–1985), ''Cosmicomics'', ''If On a Winter's Night a Traveler'' (1979) *Luigi Capuana (1839–1915) *Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) *Carlo Cassola (1917–1987) *Saveria Chemotti (born 1947) *Carlo Collodi (1826–1890) *Carmen Covito (born 1948) *Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863–1938) *Massimo D'Azeglio (1798–1866) *Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) *Grazia Deledda (1871–1936) *Umberto Eco (1932–2016) *Elena Ferrante *Beppe Fenoglio (né Giuseppe) *Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) *Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893–1973) *Natalia Ginzburg (1916–1991) *Primo Levi (1919–1987), chemist and novelist *Emilio Lussu (1890–1975) *Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) *Dacia Maraini (born 1936) *Franco Mimmi (born 1942) *Elsa Morante (1912–1985) *Alberto Moravia (1907–1990) *Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) *Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), playwright, ''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' *Vasco Pratolini (1913–1991) *Andrea di Robilant *Emilio Salgari (1862–1911) *Alberto Savinio (1891–1952) *Leonardo Sciascia (1921–1989) *Ignazio Silone (1900–1978) *Mario Soldati (1906–1999) *Italo Svevo (1861–1928) *Antonio Tabucchi (1943–2012), ''Sostiene Pereira (novel), Pereira Declares'' (1994) *Susanna Tamaro (born 1957) *Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957), ''The Leopard'' *Giovanni Verga (1840–1922) *Elio Vittorini (1908–1966)

Jamaica

*Opal Palmer Adisa (born 1954) *Lindsay Barrett (born 1941) *Edward Baugh (born 1936) *James Berry (poet), James Berry (1924–2017) *Eliot Bliss (1903–1990) *Erna Brodber (born 1940) *Colin Channer (born 1963) *Kwame Dawes (born 1962) *Jean D'Costa (born 1937) *Nicole Dennis-Benn *John Edgar Colwell Hearne (1926–1994) *Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) *Herbert de Lisser (1878–1944) *Roger Mais (1905–1955) *Claude McKay (1889–1948) *Pamela Mordecai (born 1942) *Geoffrey Philp (born 1958) *Velma Pollard (born 1937) *Patricia Powell (born 1966) *Victor Stafford Reid (1913–1987) *Joan Riley (born 1958) *Leone Ross (born 1969) *Andrew Salkey (1928–1995) *Olive Senior (born 1941) *Makeda Silvera (born 1955) *Elean Thomas (1947–2004) *Sylvia Wynter (born 1928)

Japan

*Kōbō Abe (1924–1993) *Hiroyuki Agawa (1920–2015) *Sawako Ariyoshi (1931–1984) *Dazai Osamu, Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) *Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986) *Shusaku Endo (1923–1996) *Ichiyō Higuchi (1872–1896) *Masuji Ibuse (1898–1993) *Kyōka Izumi (1873–1939) *Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) (Nobel Prize, 1968) *Natsuo Kirino (born 1951) *Kimitake Hiraoka, Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) *Kenji Miyazawa (1896–1933) *Minae Mizumura (born 1951) *Haruki Murakami (born 1949) *Ryū Murakami *Nisioisin (born 1981) *Kenzaburō Ōe (born 1935) (Nobel Prize, 1994) *Yōko Ogawa (born 1962) *Fuyumi Ono (born 1961) *Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965) *Hirotsu Ryurō (1861–1928) *Murasaki Shikibu *Junzo Shono (1921–2009) *Ayako Sono (born 1931) *Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) *Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) *Shōtarō Yasuoka (1920–2013) *Banana Yoshimoto (born 1964) *Akira Yoshimura (1927–2006) *Junnosuke Yoshiyuki (1924–1994)

Kenya

*Margaret Ogola (1958–2011) *Grace Ogot (1930–2015) *M. G. Vassanji (born 1950) *Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 1938), ''The River Between'', ''Caitaani muthara-Ini'', ''Matigari'' *Meja Mwangi (born 1948) *Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Karen Blixen (1885–1962)

Korea

Kosovo

*Sinan Hasani (1922–2010) *Teki Dervishi (1943–2011) *Rifat Kukaj (1938–2005)

Turkey (Kurds)

*Bachtyar Ali (born 1960) *Jalal Barzanji (born 1953) *Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015) *Ata Nahai *Farhad Pirbal (born 1961) *Mehmed Uzun (1953–2007)

Latvia

*Andrejs Upīts (1877–1970) *Marģeris Zariņš (1910–1993) *Aleksandrs Čaks (1901–1950)

Lebanon

*Hanan al-Shaykh (born 1945) *Youssef Howayek (1883–1962), writer and sculptor *Elias Khoury (writer), Elias Khoury (born 1948) *Amin Maalouf (born 1949) *Widad Sakakini (1913–1991)

Lesotho

*Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948)

Luxembourg

Republic of Macedonia

*Slavko Janevski (1920–2000)

Madagascar

*Michèle Rakotoson (born 1948) *Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1901 or 1903–1937)

Malawi

*Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (born 1955) *Felix Mnthali (born 1933)

Malaysia

*K. S. Maniam (1942–2020)

Mali

*Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1901–1991) *Aïda Mady Diallo *Doumbi Fakoly (born 1944) *Moussa Konaté (1951–2013) *Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017)

Mauritania

*Moussa Ould Ebnou (born 1956)

Mexico

*Juan José Arreola *Nellie Campobello *Laura Esquivel *Carlos Fuentes *Elena Garro *Martín Luis Guzmán *José Emilio Pacheco *Octavio Paz *Juan Rulfo *Agustin Yanez *Jorge Ibargüengoitia *Homero Aridjis

Morocco

*Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003) *Driss Chraïbi (1926–2007) *Edmond Amran El Maleh (1917–2010) *Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938–2009) *Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941–1995) *Laila Lalami (born 1968) *Ahmed Sefrioui (1915–13 July 2004) *Mohamed Zafzaf (1945–2001) *Mohamed Leftah (1946–2008)

Mozambique

*Paulina Chiziane (born 1955) *Mia Couto (born 1955) *Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (born 1957) *Lina Magaia (1940–2011)

Nepal

*Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (1914–1982): Sumnima, Tin Ghumti, Hitlar Ra Yahudi. *Indra Bahadur Rai *Jagadish Ghimire (1946–2013): Lilam, Sabiti. *Khagendra Sangraula (born 1946): Chetanako Pahilo Dak, Amako Chhatapati, Junakiriko Sangit. *Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) *Narayan Wagle *Parijat (writer) (1937–1993): Shirishko Phool (Blue Mimosa), Anido Pahadsangai, Paribhasit Ankhanharu. *Samrat Upadhyay *Sanu Sharma *Sarubhakta (born 1956) *Shrawan Mukarung *Subin Bhattarai (born 1982)

Netherlands

*Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) *Harry Mulisch (1927–2010) *Multatuli (1820–1887) *Tip Marugg (1923–2006) *Cees Nooteboom (born 1933) *Willem Frederik Hermans (1921–1995) *Jan Wolkers (1925–2007) *Gerard van het Reve (1923–2006) *A.F.Th. van der Heijden (born 1951)

New Zealand

*Barbara Anderson (writer), Barbara Anderson (1926–2013) *Catherine Chidgey (born 1970) *Joy Cowley (born 1936) *Nigel Cox (author), Nigel Cox (1951–2006) *Barry Crump (1935–1996) *Tessa Duder (born 1940) *Alan Duff (born 1950) *Kate Duignan (born 1974) *Janet Frame (1924–2004), author of ''An Angel at My Table'' *Maurice Gee (born 1931) *Patricia Grace (born 1937) *Keri Hulme (1947–2021) *Witi Ihimaera (born 1944) *Annamarie Jagose (born 1965) *Fiona Kidman (born 1940) *John A. Lee (1891–1982) *Ngaio Marsh (1895–1982) *Owen Marshall (born 1941) *Frederick Edward Maning (1812–1883) *Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922–1972) *Rosie Scott (1948–2017) *Maurice Shadbolt (1932–2004) *C. K. Stead (born 1932) *Philip Temple (born 1939) *Julius Vogel (1835–1899) *Cherry Wilder (1930–2002)

Nicaragua

*Gioconda Belli (born 1948)

Nigeria

*Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) *Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977) *Teju Cole (born 1975) *Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) *Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) *Helon Habila (born 1967) *Elnathan John (born 1982) *Flora Nwapa (1931–1993) *Chigozie Obioma (born 1986) *Ben Okri (born 1959) *Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941–1995) *Taiye Selasi (born 1979) *Lola Shoneyin (born 1974) *Wole Soyinka (born 1934) *Amos Tutuola (1920–1997)

Norway

*Ingvar Ambjørnsen (born 1956) *Jens Bjørneboe (1920–1976) *Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910) *Johan Borgen (1902–1979) *Lars Saabye Christensen (born 1953) *Olav Duun (1876–1939) *Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) *Jostein Gaarder (born 1952), ''Sophie's World'' *Erik Fosnes Hansen (born 1965) *Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), ''Hunger'' *Sigurd Hoel (1890–1960) *Roy Jacobsen (born 1954) *Alexander Kielland (1849–1906) *Jan Kjærstad (born 1953) *Karl Ove Knausgård (born 1968) *Jonas Lie (writer), Jonas Lie (1833–1908) *Erlend Loe (born 1969) *Gabriel Scott (1874–1958) *Dag Solstad (born 1941) *Sigrid Undset (1859–1952), ''Kristin Lavransdatter'' *Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) *Herbjørg Wassmo (born 1942)

Pakistan

*Ahmad Ali, Ahmed Ali, founder of Pakistan Academy of Letters, fiction writer, poet and scholar *Chaudhry Afzal Haq (1891–1942) *Tariq Ali (born 1943) *

(born 1968) *Zulfikar Ghose (born 1935) *Mohsin Hamid (born 1971) *Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975) *Saadat Hasan Manto (1912–1955), born in India * Ali Akbar Natiq (born 1974) *Uzma Aslam Khan *Kamila Shamsie (born 1973) *Bapsi Sidhwa (born 1938) *Abdullah Hussain (writer), Abdullah Hussain (1920–2014) *Intizar Hussain (1923–2016) *Janbaz Mirza *Mustansar Hussain Tarar (born 1939) *Bano Qudsia *Ashfaq Ahmed (1925–2004) *Mumtaz Mufti (1905–1995) *Naseem Hijazi (c. 1914–1996) *Ibn-e-Safi *Ishtiaq Ahmad (fiction writer), Ishtiaq Ahmed (c. 1941–2015)

Palestine

Panama

Paraguay

*Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga (born 1944) *Augusto Roa Bastos (1917–2005)

Peru

*Ciro Alegría (1909–1967) *José María Arguedas (1911–1969) *Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936) (Nobel Prize, 2010)

Philippines

*Francisco Arcellana (1916–2002) *Lualhati Bautista (born 1945) *Carlos Bulosan (1913–1956) *Jose Dalisay (born 1954) *Eric Gamalinda (born 1956) *N. V. M. Gonzalez (1915–1999) *Jessica Hagedorn (born 1949) *Amado Hernandez (1903–1970) *Stevan Javellana (1918–1977) *Nick Joaquin (1917–2004) *Edgardo Reyes (1936–2012) *José Rizal (1861–1896) *Ninotchka Rosca (born 1946) *Bienvenido Santos (1911–1996) *Lope K. Santos (1879–1963) *Rogelio Sicat (1940–1997) *F. Sionil José (1924–2022) *Edilberto Tiempo (1913–1996) *Edith Tiempo (1919–2011) *Linda Ty-Casper (born 1931)

Poland

*Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965) *Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898–1939) *Tadeusz Konwicki (1926–2015) *Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801) *Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887) *Zofia Nałkowska (1885–1954) *Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969) *Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) *Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) *Jan Potocki (1761–1815) *Bolesław Prus (1847–1912) *Władysław Reymont (1867–1925),

1924, author of ''The Peasants'' *Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) *Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916),

1905, author of ''Quo Vadis (novel), Quo Vadis'' *Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921) *Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925) *Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911–1975)

Portugal

*Antonio Lobo Antunes (born 1942) *Agustina Bessa-Luís (1922–2019) *Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890) *Júlio Dinis (1839–1871) *Almeida Garrett (1799–1854) *Alexandre Herculano (1810–1877) *José Cardoso Pires (1925–1998) *Eça de Queirós (1845–1900) *José Saramago (1922–2010)

Puerto Rico

*Giannina Braschi (born 1953), ''Yo-Yo Boing!'' (1998), and ''El imperio de los suenos/Empire of Dreams'' (1988). *Luis López Nieves (born 1950), ''Seva '' (1984), ''Escribir para Rafa '' (1987), ''La verdadera muerte de Juan Ponce de León '' (2000), ''El corazón de Voltaire '' (2005)

Romania

*Gabriela Adameșteanu (born 1942) *Camil Baciu (1926–2005) *Maria Baciu (born 1942) *Max Blecher (1909–1938)) *Nicolae Breban (born 1934) *Augustin Buzura (1938–2017) *Mateiu Caragiale (1885–1936) *George Călinescu (1899–1965) *Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1956) *Gheorghe Crăciun (1950–2007) *Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) *Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889) *Radu Pavel Gheo (born 1969) *Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Virgil Gheorghiu (1916–1992) *Panait Istrati (1884–1935) *Alexandru Ivasiuc (1894–1935) *Norman Manea (born 1936) *Gib Mihăescu (1894–1935) *Mircea Nedelciu (1950–1999) *Costache Negruzzi (1808–1868) *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu (1876–1955) *Dora Pavel (born 1946) *Camil Petrescu (1894–1957) *Cezar Petrescu (1892–1961) *Dumitru Radu Popescu (born 1935) *Marin Preda (1922–1980) *Liviu Rebreanu (1885–1944) *Doina Ruști (born 1938) *Mihail Sadoveanu (1880–1961) *Zaharia Stancu (1902–1974) *Bogdan Suceavă (born 1969) *Duiliu Zamfirescu (1858–1922)

Russia

*Andrey Bely (1880–1934) *Andrey Bitov (1937–2018) *Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940), author of ''The Master and Margarita'' *Nikolai Chernyshevsky (1828–1889), author of ''What Is To Be Done?'' *Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), author of ''The Brothers Karamazov'', ''Crime and Punishment'' *Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971) *Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), author of ''Dead Souls'' *Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891), ''Oblomov'', a tale of a "superfluous" man *Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) *Anna Kashina, author of ''The Princess of Dhagabad'' *Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) *Leonid Leonov (1899–1994) *Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895) *Vladimir Makanin (1937–2017) *Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) early novels in Russian, later, including ''Lolita'', in English. *Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), refused the

, ''Doctor Zhivago'' *Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837) *Viatcheslav Repin (born 1960), author of novels, short stories and essays in Russian and French *Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) *Ilia Shtemler (born 1933) *Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), ''One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'' *Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875) *Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945) *Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910), author of ''War and Peace, Anna Karenina'' *Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)

Samoa

*Sia Figiel (born 1967) *Albert Wendt (born 1939)

São Tomé and Príncipe

*Sara Pinto Coelho (1913–1990)

Senegal

Serbia

*David Albahari *

*Vladimir Arsenijević *Miodrag Bulatović *Miloš Crnjanski (1893–1977) *Dobrica Ćosić (1921–2014) *Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945) *Danilo Kiš (1935–1989) *Milorad Pavić (writer), Milorad Pavić *Borislav Pekić (1930–1992) *Isidora Sekulić (1877–1958) *

(1910–1982) *Srđan Srdić (born 1977) *Svetlana Velmar-Janković (1933–2014)

Sierra Leone

*Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945) *Aminatta Forna (born 1964)

Slovakia

Slovenia

Somalia

*Maxamed Daahir Afrax *Faarax Maxamed Jaamac 'Cawl', Faarax M. J. Cawl (1937–1991) *Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) *Abdi Sheik Abdi (born 1942) *Waris Dirie (born 1965)

South Africa

*Lionel Abrahams (1928–2004) *Peter Abrahams (1919–2017) *Elleke Boehmer (born 1961) *J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) *K. Sello Duiker (1974–2005) *Athol Fugard (born 1932) *Damon Galgut (born 1963) *Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) *

(1937–1986) *Christopher Hope (novelist), Christopher Hope (born 1944) *Cynthia Jele (living) *Fred Khumalo (born 1966) *Alex La Guma (1925–1985) *Mandla Langa (born 1950) *Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020) *Arthur Maimane (1932–2005) *Zakes Mda (born 1948) *Kirsten Miller (living) *Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015) *Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010) *Alan Paton (1903–1988) *Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) *Sipho Sepamla (1932–2007) *Gillian Slovo (born 1952) *Zukiswa Wanner (born 1976) *Zoe Wicomb (born 1948)

South Korea

Spain

*Leopoldo Alas (1852–1901) *Jesusa Alfau Galván de Solalinde (1895–1943) *Nuria Ano, Núria Añó (born 1973) *Camilo José Cela (1916–2002) *Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), ''Don Quixote'' *Perez Galdos, Pérez Galdós (1843–1920) *Juan Goytisolo (1931–2017) *Javier Marías (born 1951) *Juan Marse, Juan Marsé (1933–2020) *Eduardo Mendoza Garriga, Eduardo Mendoza (born 1943) *Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 1956) *Arturo Pérez-Reverte (born 1951) *Carlos Ruiz Zafón (born 1964) *Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936)

Sri Lanka

*Gunadasa Amarasekara (born 1929) *Anuk Arudpragasam (born 1988) *Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) *Romesh Gunesekera (born 1954) *Karunasena Jayalath (1928–1994) *Shehan Karunatilaka (born 1975) *Rosalind Mendis (1903–1992) *Carl Muller (1935–2019) *Simon Navagattegama (1940–2005) *

(born 1943), ''The English Patient'' *Shyam Selvadurai (born 1965) *W. A. Silva (1890–1957) *S. J. Sindu (born 1987) *Ambalavaner Sivanandan (1923–2018) *Martin Wickremasinghe (1890–1976)

Sudan

*Leila Aboulela (born 1964) *Ibrahim Ishaq (1946–2021) *Rania Mamoun *Ra'ouf Mus'ad, also connected with Egypt *Tayeb Salih (1929–2009) *Sabah Sanhouri (born 1990

Sweden

*Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) *Marianne Fredriksson (1927–2007) *Gustaf Fröding (1860–1911) *Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) *Jan Guillou (born 1944) *Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) *Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974) *Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940),

1909, author of ''The Wonderful Adventures of Nils'' (novel), ''The Emperor of Portugallia'' *Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002) *Henning Mankell (1948–2015) *Harry Martinson (1904–1978) *Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973) *Peter Pohl (born 1940) *Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) *Esaias Tegnér

Switzerland

*Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990), ''The Quarry'' *Max Frisch (1911–1991), ''Stiller'' (1954) (''I'm Not Stiller''), ''Mein Name sei Gantenbein'' (1964) *Christian Kracht (born 1966)

Republic of China, Taiwan

*Pai Hsien-yung (born 1937) *Sanmao (author), Sanmao (1943–1991)

Tanzania

*Mark Behr, also connected with South Africa *Euphrase Kezilahabi (1944–2020) *Abdulrazak Gurnah

Togo

*David Ananou (1917–2000) * Richard Dogbeh, also connected with

and

(1932–2003) *Kossi Efoui (born 1962)

Trinidad and Tobago

*André Alexis (born 1957 *Lisa Allen-Agostini (born 1960s) *Michael Anthony (author), Michael Anthony (born 1930) *Robert Antoni (born 1958) *Dionne Brand (born 1953) *Ralph de Boissière (1907–2008) *Ramabai Espinet (born 1948) *Rosa Guy (1922–2012) *Merle Hodge (born 1944) *C. L. R. James (1901–1989) *Barbara Jenkins *Marion Patrick Jones (1931–2016) *Anthony Joseph (born 1966 *Earl Lovelace (born 1935) *Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) *V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) *Elizabeth Nunez *Lakshmi Persaud *M. NourbeSe Philip (born 1947) *Monique Roffey (born 1965) *Lawrence Scott (born 1943) *Samuel Selvon (1923–1994) *Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw (born 1964)

Tunisia

*Hédi Bouraoui (born 1932) *Albert Memmi (1920–2020)

Turkey

*Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, author of ''Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü'', ''Huzur'' *Ahmet Ümit, author of ''Beyoğlu Rapsodisi'' *Ayşe Kulin (born 1941) *Aziz Nesin (1915–1995) *Buket Uzuner (born 1955) *Elif Şafak (born 1971 *Haldun Taner (1915–1986) *Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, author of ''Mai ve Siyah'', ''Aşkı Memnu'' *Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 1958) *Kemal Tahir, author of ''Yorgun Savaşçı'', ''Devlet Ana'', ''Karılar Koğuşu'' *Metin Kaçan (1961–2013) *Oğuz Atay (1934–1977), author of ''Tutunamayanlar'' *Oktay Rifat (1914–1988) *Orhan Kemal (1923–2015), author of ''Bekçi Murtaza'', *Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize author of ''My Name Is Red'' and ''The White Castle'' *Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889–1956) *Rıfat Ilgaz (1911–1993) *Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948), author of ''Kuyucaklı Yusuf'', ''Kürk Mantolu Madonna'' *Sevim Burak (1931–1983) *Sabri Gürses (born 1972) *Yahya Kemal (1884–1958) *Yaşar Kemal (1923–2015), author of ''Mehmed, My Hawk'' *Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (1879–1945) *Yusuf Atilgan, author of ''Anayurt Oteli'', ''Aylak Adam''

Uganda

*Moses Isegawa (born 1963) *Godfrey Kalimugogo (1943–2015) *China Keitetsi (born 1976) *Goretti Kyomuhendo (born 1965) *Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (born 1960s) *Timothy Wangusa (born 1942)

Ukraine

*Emma Andijewska (born 1931) *Eugenia Chuprina (born 1971) *Andrey Kurkov (born 1961) *Larisa Alexandrovna (born 1971)

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

Wales

English language

(born 1944) *Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935) *Ken Follett (born 1949) *Richard Hughes (writer), Richard Hughes (1900–1976), ''A High Wind in Jamaica'' *Jack Jones (novelist), Jack Jones (1884–1970) *Richard Llewellyn (1907–1983), ''How Green Was My Valley'' *Stephen Maybery (born 1949) *Jean Rhys (1890–1979) *Bernice Rubens, author of ''A Solitary Grief'' *Howard Spring (1889–1965)

Welsh language

*Daniel Owen (1836–1895) *Eigra Lewis Roberts (born 1939) *Kate Roberts (author), Kate Roberts (1891–1985)

Northern Ireland

*Colin Bateman (born 1962), ''Divorcing Jack (novel), Divorcing Jack'' *Ronan Bennett (born 1956), ''The Catastrophist'' *Joyce Cary (1888–1957), ''The Horse's Mouth'' *Paul Kearney (born 1967), ''Monarchies of God'' *Benedict Kiely (1919–2007) *Bernard MacLaverty (born 1942), ''Cal (novel), Cal'' *Brian Moore (novelist), Brian Moore (1921–1999), ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne'' *Flann O'Brien (1911–1966), ''The Third Policeman'' *Amanda McKittrick Ross (1860–1939)

United States

Uruguay

*Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015), writer and social commentator. *Mario Benedetti (1920–2009), Uruguay's best-known novelist *Jorge Majfud (born 1969) *Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–1997) *Horacio Quiroga (1878–1937) *Juana de Ibarbourou (1892–1979) *Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira (1875–1924) *Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) *Comte de Lautréamont, Isidore Lucien Ducasse (1846–1870), born in Montevideo though French by nationality *José Enrique Rodó (1871–1917), considered by many to have been Spanish America's greatest philosopher

Venezuela

*Alfredo Armas Alfonzo (1921–1990) *Rufino Blanco-Fombona, Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874–1944) *Mario Briceño Iragorry (1897–1958) *Manuel Díaz Rodríguez (1871–1927) *Mercedes Franco (born 1948) *Alicia Freilich (born 1939) *Rómulo Gallegos (1884–1969) *Salvador Garmendia (1928–2001) *Adriano González León (1931–2008) *Francisco Herrera Luque (1927–1991) *Boris Izaguirre (born 1965) *Eduardo Liendo (born 1941) *Francisco Massiani (1944–2019) *Guillermo Meneses (1911–1978) *Miguel Otero Silva (1908–1985) *Julián Padrón (1910–1964) *Teresa de la Parra (1889–1936) *Mariano Picón Salas (1901–1965) *Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001)

Vietnam

*Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) ''Paradise of the Blind'' *Pham Thi Hoai (born 1960) *Phung Le Ly Hayslip (born 1949) ''When Heaven and Earth Changed Places'' *Bao Ninh (born 1952)

Yiddish

*Sholom Asch (1880–1957) *David Bergelson (1884–1952) *Der Nister (1884–1950) *Shira Gorshman (1906–2001) *Chaim Grade (1910–1982) *Esther Kreitman (1891–1954) *Mendele Moykher Sforim (1836–1917), pseudonym for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch *Joseph Opatoshu (1886–1954) *Yitzok Lebesh Peretz (1852–1915) *Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) (real name: Solomon Rabinovitz), ''Fiddler on the Roof'' was based on his stories *Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904–1991) *Israel Joshua Singer (1893–1944) *Anzia Yezierska (c. 1880–1970)

Zimbabwe

*Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 1959) *Chenjerai Hove (1956–2015) *Doris Lessing, born in Qajar dynasty, Persia, now Iran (1919–2013) *Dambudzo Marechera (1952–1987) *Nozipa Maraire (born 1966) *Charles Mungoshi (1947–2019) *Solomon Mutswairo (1924–2005) *Alexander McCall Smith, also connected with Botswana (born 1948) *Stanlake J. W. T. Samkange, Stanlake Samkange (1922–1988) *Yvonne Vera, also connected with Canada (1964–2005)

References

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