Category
page 1Male novelists
Danilo Kiš
Serbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989)

Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentine novelist (1914-1999)
Augusto Roa Bastos
Paraguayan writer (1917–2005)
Joaquín Balaguer
President of the Dominican Republic (1906-2002)
Mukhtar Auezov
Kazakh writer

David Albahar
Serbian writer (1948-2023)

Sergio Ramírez
Nicaraguan writer and politician
Ahmadou Kourouma
Ivorian writer (1927-2003)

Mongo Beti
Cameroonian writer
Miljenko Jergović
Croatian writer
Alexander Kazbegi
Georgian writer (1848–1893)

Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian writer and politician (1916–2019)
Radoslav Rochallyi
Slovak philosopher and writer
Cheikh Tidiane Gaye
writer
Mirko Kovač
Yugoslav writer (1938–2013)
Shehan Karunatilaka
Sri Lankan writer
Nicholas Pileggi
American writer
Gamal El-Ghitani
Egyptian author and novelist (1945–2015)
Choʻlpon
Abdulhamid Sulaymon oʻgʻli Yunusov (, 1893 – 4 October 1938), most commonly known by his penname Choʻlpon (sometimes spelled Cholpán in English), was an Uzbek poet, playwright, novelist, and literary translator. Choʻlpon was one of Central Asia's most popular poets during the first half of the 20th century. He was also the first person to translate William Shakespeare's plays into the Uzbek language.
Abdul Rahman Munif
Saudi writer (1933-2004)
Abdulla Qodiriy
Uzbek and Soviet poet, literary translator, and writer (1894–1938)
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo
Mosotho writer (1876–1948)

Ferdinand Oyono
Cameroonian diplomat (1929-2010)
Bahaa Taher
Egyptian writer (1935 – 2022)
Yambo Ouologuem
Malian writer (1940–2017)
Dimitar Dimov
Bulgarian dramatist, novelist and veterinarian (1909-1966)

Tierno Monénembo
Guineane writer
Ibrāhīm Kūnī
Libyan writer
Abraham Mapu
Hebrew novelist (1808–1867)
Ivan Panaev
Russian writer, critic and publisher (1812-1862)
Kristof Magnusson
Icelandic-German writer and translator (born 1976)
Galsan Tschinag
Mongolian writer (born 1944)

Germano Almeida
Cape Verdean writer and lawyer
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina
Spanish writer (1918–1990)
Antonio di Benedetto
Argentine novelist and journalist (1922–1986)
Ramón Fonseca Moraa
Panamanian lawyer
Frank Martinus Arion
writer and poet (1936-2015)
Moussa Konaté
Malian writer (1951–2013)
Aké Loba
Ivorian writer (1927-2012)
Pai Hsien-yung
Taiwanese writer (born 1937)
Massa Makan Diabaté
Malian writer and historian (1938-1988)
Camara Laye
Guinean writer (1928–1980)
Seydou Badian Kouyatén
Malian writer and politician (1928–2018)
Florent Couao-Zotti
writer from Benin
Alexander Druzhinin
Russian writer and magazine editor (1824–1864)
Joseph Diescho
Namibian writer and activist
Leoncio Evita Enoy
Equatoguinean writer and painter (1929–1996)
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
Mozambican writer
Ivan Shamiakin
Belarusian writer and politician (1921-2004)
Dror Mishani
Israeli writer and translator
Haidar Haidar
Syrian writer and novelist (1936–2023)
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Equatoguinean writer
Ivica Đikić
Bosnian-Croatian author and journalist
Alberts Bels
Latvian writer and politician (1938–2024)
Arambilet
Ángel Luis Arambilet Álvarez (born September 16, 1957), generally known professionally as simply Arambilet, is a novelist, poet, screenwriter, painter, graphic artist and filmmaker of Spanish-Dominican descent.

Nikos Nikolaidis
Greek film director

Jean-Marie Adiaffi
writer and filmmaker (1941–1999)
Norbert Zongo
editor of l'Independent in Burkina Faso

Pedro Mir
Dominican Republic writer (1913-2000)

Said Ahmad
Uzbek writer