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Johnston, Jennifer
Jennifer Johnston is an Irish novelist whose works deal with political and cultural tensions in Ireland, with an......
Jones, Henry Arthur
Henry Arthur Jones was an English playwright who first achieved prominence in the field of melodrama and who later......
Jones, T. Gwynn
T. Gwynn Jones was a Welsh-language poet and scholar best known for his narrative poems on traditional Celtic themes.......
Jonson, Ben
Ben Jonson was an English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second......
Jordan, June
June Jordan was an African American author who investigated both social and personal concerns through poetry, essays,......
Jordan, Thomas
Thomas Jordan was an English poet, playwright, and prolific Royalist pamphleteer who was laureate to the city of......
Josipovici, Gabriel
Gabriel Josipovici is a French-born British novelist, literary theorist, dramatist, and short-story writer whose......
Joyce, James
James Joyce was an Irish novelist noted for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods......
Judson, E.Z.C.
E.Z.C. Judson was an American adventurer and writer, an originator of the so-called dime novels that were popular......
Kaiser, Georg
Georg Kaiser was a leading German Expressionist dramatist. Kaiser’s father was a merchant, and he apprenticed in......
Kalidasa
Kalidasa was a Sanskrit poet and dramatist, probably the greatest Indian writer of any epoch. The six works identified......
Kalisky, René
René Kalisky was a Belgian writer of Polish descent who is best known for the plays he wrote in the last 12 years......
Kamban, Gudmundur
Gudmundur Kamban was one of Iceland’s most important 20th-century dramatists and novelists. His work, which is......
Kanin, Garson
Garson Kanin was an American writer and director who was perhaps best known for several classic comedies written......
Kan’ami
Kan’ami was a Japanese actor, playwright, and musician who was one of the founders of Noh drama. Kan’ami organized......
Karnad, Girish
Girish Karnad was an Indian playwright, author, actor, and film director whose movies and plays, written largely......
Katayev, Valentin
Valentin Katayev was a Soviet novelist and playwright whose lighthearted, satirical treatment of postrevolutionary......
Kateb Yacine
Kateb Yacine was an Algerian poet, novelist, and playwright, one of North Africa’s most respected literary figures.......
Katona, József
József Katona was a Hungarian lawyer and playwright whose historical tragedy Bánk bán achieved its great reputation......
Kaufman, George S.
George S. Kaufman was an American playwright and journalist, who became the stage director of most of his plays......
Kaufman, Moisés
Moisés Kaufman is a Venezuelan-born playwright and director who is best known for perceptive and moving plays often......
Kavanagh, Patrick
Patrick Kavanagh was a poet whose long poem The Great Hunger put him in the front rank of modern Irish poets. Kavanagh......
Kawatake Mokuami
Kawatake Mokuami was a versatile and prolific Japanese dramatist, the last great Kabuki playwright of the Tokugawa......
Keane, Molly
Molly Keane was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright whose subject was the leisure class of her native Ireland.......
Kelly, George
George Kelly was a playwright, actor, and director whose dramas of the 1920s reflect the foibles of the American......
Kelly, Hugh
Hugh Kelly was a British dramatist, critic, and journalist who was, for a time, a serious rival of the playwright......
Kemal, Namık
Namık Kemal was a Turkish prose writer and poet who greatly influenced the Young Turk and Turkish nationalist movements......
Kemble, Fanny
Fanny Kemble was a popular English actress who is also remembered as the author of plays, poems, and reminiscences,......
Kerr, Jean
Jean Kerr was an American writer, remembered for her plays and for her humorous prose on domestic themes. Jean......
Khatibi, Abdelkebir
Abdelkebir Khatibi was a Moroccan educator, literary critic, and novelist. He was a member of the angry young generation......
Kheraskov, Mikhail Matveyevich
Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov was an epic poet, playwright, and influential representative of Russian classicism......
Kielland, Alexander Lange
Alexander Lange Kielland was a novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist, one of the “big four” (with Henrik......
Kikuchi Kan
Kikuchi Kan was a playwright, novelist, and founder of one of the major publishing companies in Japan. As a student......
Killigrew, Thomas
Thomas Killigrew was an English dramatist and playhouse manager who was better known for his wit than for his plays,......
Kinoshita Junji
Kinoshita Junji was a playwright, a leader in the attempt to revitalize the post-World War II Japanese theatre.......
Kirkwood, James
James Kirkwood was an American librettist, actor, author, and playwright who, together with Nicholas Dante, wrote......
Kisfaludy, Károly
Károly Kisfaludy was a Romantic dramatist, the first Hungarian playwright to achieve considerable popular success.......
Kivi, Aleksis
Aleksis Kivi was the father of the Finnish novel and drama and the creator of Finland’s modern literary language.......
Klabund
Klabund was an Expressionist poet, playwright, and novelist who adapted and translated works from Chinese, Japanese,......
Klaj, Johann
Johann Klaj was a German poet who helped make mid-17th-century Nürnberg a centre of German literature. Klaj studied......
Kleist, Heinrich von
Heinrich von Kleist was a German dramatist, among the greatest of the 19th century. Poets of the Realist, Expressionist,......
Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger was a dramatist and novelist, a representative of the German literary revolt against......
Klíma, Ivan
Ivan Klíma is a Czech author whose fiction and plays were long banned by his country’s communist rulers. Klíma......
Kniaźnin, Franciszek Dionizy
Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin was a Polish poet, playwright, and translator, a court poet of the princely Czartoryski......
Koch, Frederick Henry
Frederick Henry Koch was the founder of the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina and is considered......
Koch, Kenneth
Kenneth Koch was an American teacher and author noted especially for his witty, often surreal, sometimes epic,......
Kochanowski, Jan
Jan Kochanowski was a humanist poet who dominated the culture of Renaissance Poland. Born into the country nobility,......
Kokoschka, Oskar
Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian painter and writer who was one of the leading exponents of Expressionism. In his......
Komparu Zempō
Komparu Zempō was a nō dramatist and actor, grandson of nō actor and dramatist Komparu Zenchiku. Zempō was one......
Komparu Zenchiku
Komparu Zenchiku was a nō actor and playwright who also wrote critical works on drama. Zenchiku, who married a......
Kopit, Arthur
Arthur Kopit was an American playwright best known for Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m......
Kops, Bernard
Bernard Kops was an English playwright, novelist, and poet known for his works of unabashed sentimentality. Kops......
Kotlyarevsky, Ivan
Ivan Kotlyarevsky was an author whose burlesque-travesty of Virgil’s Aeneid was the first work written wholly in......
Kotzebue, August von
August von Kotzebue was a German playwright widely influential in popularizing poetic drama, into which he instilled......
Kourouma, Ahmadou
Ahmadou Kourouma was an Ivorian novelist and playwright who wrote in a form of French that scandalized the establishment......
Kramer, Larry
Larry Kramer was an American playwright, screenwriter, and gay rights activist whose confrontational style of advocacy,......
Krasiński, Zygmunt
Zygmunt Krasiński was a Polish Romantic poet and dramatist whose works dealt prophetically with the class conflict......
Kraus, Karl
Karl Kraus was an Austrian journalist, critic, playwright, and poet who has been compared with Juvenal and Jonathan......
Krige, Uys
Uys Krige was a South African dramatist, poet, translator, and short-story writer. Krige was educated at the University......
Krleža, Miroslav
Miroslav Krleža was an essayist, novelist, poet, and playwright who was a dominant figure in modern Croatian literature.......
Kruczkowski, Leon
Leon Kruczkowski was a Polish novelist and playwright remembered for his novelistic presentation of Poland’s past......
Kréa, Henri
Henri Kréa was an Algerian-born poet, dramatist, and novelist whose works deal with alienation and identity, nature,......
Krėvė-Mickievičius, Vincas
Vincas Krėvė-Mickievičius was a Lithuanian poet, philologist, and playwright whose mastery of style gave him a......
Kume Masao
Kume Masao was a novelist and playwright, one of Japan’s most popular writers of the 1920s and ’30s. As a student,......
Kundera, Milan
Milan Kundera was a Czech novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet whose works combine erotic......
Kushner, Tony
Tony Kushner is an American dramatist who became one of the most highly acclaimed playwrights of his generation......
Kyd, Thomas
Thomas Kyd was an English dramatist who, with his The Spanish Tragedy (sometimes called Hieronimo, or Jeronimo,......
Kästner, Erich
Erich Kästner was a German satirist, poet, and novelist who is especially known for his children’s books. He was......
Körner, Theodor
Theodor Körner was a German patriotic poet of the war of liberation against Napoleon in 1813 whose death in Lützow’s......
Kürnberger, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Kürnberger was an Austrian writer known for his participation in the Austrian revolution of 1848 and......

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