Authors beginning with "L"
Enrique Pérez López
Enrique Pérez López is director of the Centro Estatal de Lenguas, Arte y Literatra Indígenas (CELALI).
Fausto Guadarrama López
Fausto Guadarrama López lives in the state of Mexico, home to the Mazahuas. He has written about his people and has become a spokesman for bilingual (indigenous/Spanish) education in...
Tom La Farge
Tom La Farge has written two novels, Zuntig and The Crimson Bears, and a book of tales, Terror of Earth. He co-founded the Writhing Society, a weekly salon for constrained writing in Brooklyn, and...
Dany Laferrière
Born in Port-au-Prince in 1953, Dany Laferrière worked as a journalist in Haïti before moving to Canada in 1976. He also worked as a journalist in Canada, and hosted a television...
Eduardo Lago
A resident of New York City for the last twenty-two years, Eduardo Lago has translated works by Henry James, Hamlin Garland, John Barth, Sylvia Plath, William Dean Howells, Christopher...
Francisco Laguna-Correa
Francisco is a bilingual Mexican writer, born in Mexico City, and now based in Pittsburgh, PA. He is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a...
Yanick Lahens
Yanick Lahens lives in Haiti. She is the author of three short-story collections, including Tante Réisa et les dieux, La petite corruption, and La folie était venue avec le pluie,...
Tiina Laitila Kälvemark
Tiina Laitila Kälvemark (b. 1970) hails from the town of Kärsämäki in northern Ostrobothnia. A resident of Sweden, Laitila Kälvemark writes in Finnish, dipping...
Cari Lake
Cari Lake is projects and translation grants officer at Wales Literature Exchange.
Amara Lakhous
Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has a degree in philosophy from the University of Algiers and another in cultural anthropology from the University la Sapienza, Rome. He recently...
Agnes Lam
Agnes Lam is a Macau-born scholar and writer and the vice-president of Macau PEN. She began contributing poems to local newspapers at thirteen. In 1999, she won the Champion of...
Stéphane Lambert
Poet, novelist, and essayist Stéphane Lambert was born in Brussels in 1974. His essay L’adieu au paysage: Les nymphéas de Claude Monet (Farewell to the...
Koulsy Lamko
Koulsy Lamko was born in 1959 in Chad and exiled in 1983. A playwright, poet, and author of short stories, narratives, and screenplays, he has won many prizes for his writing. His...
Tahar Lamri
Author and essayist Tahar Lamri was born in Algiers, Algeria, and he has lived in Italy since 1987. He is an active part of Ravenna’s local theatrical scene, as well as art director of...
Leena Lander
Born in 1956, the Finnish author Leena Lander has published stories, plays, radio plays and eleven novels, three of which were finalists for the prestigious Finlandia Prize. Known for the...
Clifford E. Landers
Clifford E. Landers has translated from Brazilian Portuguese novels by Rubem Fonseca, Jorge Amado, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Patrícia Melo, Jô Soares, Chico Buarque, Marcos Rey,...
Norah Lange
Born in 1905 to Norwegian parents in Buenos Aires, Norah Lange was a key figure in the Argentinean avant-garde of the early to mid-twentieth century. Though she began her career writing poetry in...
Shams Langeroody
Shams Langeroody is one of the most prominent literary figures of contemporary Iran. He was born in 1951, in Langrood, a costal town edging on the Caspian Sea. Langeroody moved to Rasht, a large...
Yitzhak Laor
Yitzhak Laor, born in 1948, in Pardes Hannah, Israel, is a poet, playwright and novelist. He completed his degree in Theater and Literature at Tel Aviv University. Laor writes literary criticism...
Ngo Tu Lap
Ngo Tu Lap is the winner of seven literary prizes in Vietnam, where he has published four books of fiction, two books of poetry, three books of essays, and many translations. He returned to...
Fouad Laroui
Fouad Laroui is a economist and writer born in 1958 in Oujda, Morocco. Over the past twenty years, Laroui has been consistently building an oeuvre centered around universally contemporary...
Lola Larra
Lola Larra was born in Santiago, Chile, grew up in Caracas, and worked for many years as a journalist in Madrid. In 2006, she returned to Chile, where she began South of Alameda in a notebook...
Stéphane Larue
Stéphane Larue was born in Longueuil in 1983. He received a master’s in comparative literature at Université de Montréal and has worked in the restaurant industry for...
Charles La Shure
Charles La Shure has lived in Korea, where he studies and translates Korean literature, among other things, since 1995. In 2011 he completed his doctoral studies at Seoul National University in...
Aurora Lauzardo
Aurora Lauzardo has a BA in comparative literature the University of Puerto Rico and a PhD in romance languages and literatures from Princeton University. She is a tenured professor at the...
Daniel Laverdure
Daniel Laverdure is the author of Ma Mère Poule, and Ma Mère part en voyage, also published by Éditions Michel Quintin.
Mishka Lavigne
Mishka Lavigne is a playwright and literary translator based in Ottawa/Gatineau. Her plays have been produced, read, and developed in Canada, France, Germany and the United States. Her plays...
Ervin Lázár
Ervin Lázár (1936–2006) was a writer, dramatist, and, thanks to his classic books for children, a household name. His novel The White Tiger (1971) established him as a major...
Rouja Lazarova
Rouja Lazarova was born in Sofia in 1968 and immigrated to Paris in 1991. She first studied philology in college in Sofia, then came to Paris to study political science, including at the...
Maximilien Le Roy
Maximilien Le Roy was born in Paris in 1985. In addition to Les Chemins de traverse, his work about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict includes the collective work Gaza, un...
Miguel León-Portilla
Miguel León-Portilla (b. 1926) is recognized worldwide as the leading authority on Aztec (Nahua) history, literature, and philosophy. His 1959 work, La Filosofia Nahuatl estudiada en sus...
Mélanie Leclerc
Mélanie Leclerc was born in 1977 and lives with her family in the vicinity of Montreal (Quebec, Canada). A graduate of the Université Québec à...
Etienne Lécroart
Etienne Lécroart (b. 1960) is a French cartoonist and musician. He began his career in 1986 and has published extensively in newspapers, magazines, and journals. He has published numerous...
Shirley Lee
Shirley Lee was born in South Korea. She is editor of the leading Web site about North Korea by North Koreans in exile, New Focus International. She is also the translator and editor of the...
Krys Lee
Krys Lee is the author of the short story collection Drifting House and the novel How I Became a North Korean, both published by Viking, Penguin Random House. Her translation...
Mara Lee
Mara Lee is a Swedish poet, novelist and scholar. Her most recent publication is the poetry collection Kärleken och hatet (The Love and the Hate, 2018) in which poetic,...
Lee Ji Myung
Lee Ji Myung lives in South Korea.
Jesse Lee Kercheval
Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of fourteen books, including the poetry collections Dog Angel (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Torres (Editorial Yaugarú). Her translations of the...
Marc Legendre
Marc Legendre (1956) lives and works on El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands, which forms the setting for Waiting for an Island. Legendre studied Applied Art and was editor of the weekly cartoon...
Isabelle Lehn
Isabelle Lehn was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1979. She studied rhetoric, pedagogy and cultural anthropology in Tübingen, where she earned a doctorate in philosophy. As a postdoc, she studied...
Liel Leibovitz
A native of Tel Aviv, Israel, Liel Leibovitz is the author, most recently, of Lili Marlene: The Soldiers' Song of World War II.
Juan Mari Lekuona
Juan Mari Lekuona (1927–2005), a priest, studied at the Gregorian University of Rome and earned a doctorate in mystic literature. He lectured, mostly on the subject of literature, at...
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical, and satirical writer. His books have been translated into forty-one languages and have sold over twenty-seven...
Pavel Lembersky
Pavel Lembersky was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and came to the United States in 1977. He graduated from The University of California at Berkeley with a degree in comparative literature, did...
Luisa Leme
Luisa Leme is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker from Brazil. She has worked for TV Cultura and TV Globo in São Paulo and for the United Nations and other nonprofit organizations in New...
Paulo Lemos Horta
Paulo Lemos Horta is a writer, translator, and literary historian. Born in Budapest to Brazilian parents, he is currently a resident of Abu Dhabi and Barcelona. He is the author of Marvellous...
Rafael Lemus
Rafael Lemus was born in Mexico City in 1977. Narrator, essayist and literary critic, he is the author of the short story collection Informe (Tusquets, 2008, short stories) and...
Emily Lever
Emily Lever is a French-American writer. She has written for Four Pins and Complex and tweets @levzofgrass.
Hanoch Levin
Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) was born in Palestine to Holocaust survivors from Poland. He exploded onto the Israeli theater scene in 1968 with his play You, Me and the Next War, a sharp...
Suzanne Jill Levine
Suzanne Jill Levine has received many honors for her translations of Latin American literature, most recently the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation for Jose Donoso's The...
Daniel Levine
Daniel Levine is the author of Hyde (HMH 2014), which was a New York Times Editor's Choice novel. He studied English literature and creative writing at Brown University and...
Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis translates from French and Portuguese. She has translated works by Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Emmanuelle Pagano, Olivia Rosenthal, Sheyla...
Cheri Lewis
Cheri Lewis (Chitre, Panamá) has been a columnist for daily newspaper La Prensa and the magazine Blank. Her stories have been included in Guía de Viajes...
Caryl Lewis
Caryl Lewis is an award-winning Welsh-language author who has published eleven books for adults, three novels for young adults, and thirteen children’s books. She came to prominence as the...
Raphaëlle Leyris
Raphaëlle Leyris is a journalist for Le Monde, France’s newspaper of record, where she oversees coverage of French and foreign literature.
Chen Li
Chen Li (1954- ), born and raised in Hualien, on the east coast of Taiwan, is one of the best representatives of contemporary Chinese poetry in Taiwan. He started writing poetry in the 1970s,...
Yang Lian
Yang Lian was born in Switzerland in 1955, and grew up in Beijing. He began writing when he was sent to the countryside in the 70s, and on his return became one of the first group of young...
Zhang Lian
Zhang Lian was an elementary school teacher for several years, but he has spent most of his life as a farmer, eking out a living growing sunflowers and potatoes. He has never left the land he...
Yan Lianke
Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of many novels and short-story collections and has won China's two top literary awards, the Lu Xun in 2000 for Nian,...
Dante Liano
Dante Liano was born in Guatemala in 1948. His publications include Jornadas y otros cuentos (1978), La vida insensata (1987), El lugar de su quietud (1989), El hombre de...
Nenden Lilis A.
Nenden Lilis A., born in Malangbong-Garut (West Java) in 1971, works as a lecturer in the Department of Education and Literature at the Indonesian Education University (UPI/Universitas...
Conceição Lima
Conceição Lima was born in Santana on the island of São Tomé in 1961. She studied journalism in Portugal and worked in radio, television, and the press in São...
Dot Lin
Dot Lin currently works in publishing and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Eleen Lin
Eleen Lin was born in Taiwan and grew up in Thailand. She holds an MFA in painting from Yale University School of Art, and a BA from Slade School of Fine Art, UK. Her work has been exhibited in...
Mathieu Lindon
Mathieu Lindon was born in 1955. He is a literary journalist at Libération and the author of Ceux qui tiennent debout (2006), Je vous écris (2004), Ma catastrophe adorée...
Merethe Lindstrøm
Merethe Lindstrøm (b. 1963) made her debut in 1983 with a collection of short stories, and has since published a number of short stories, novels, and a children’s book. Her novel...
Liniers
Liniers is Ricardo Siri's second name. Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Liniers began his career making fanzines. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spirou, La Mano, and other magazines he...
Maritta Lintunen
Maritta Lintunen has written short stories, poems, and three novels. She was shortlisted for the prestigious Runeberg Prize in 2005 and 2006 as well as for the Savonia Prize in 2009 and 2012. Her...
Françoise Lionnet
Françoise Lionnet teaches French, Francophone, and comparative literatures at UCLA. She directs the UCLA Coleman African Studies Center and co-directs the Mellon postdoctoral program...
Ewa Lipska
Ewa Lipska was born in Kraków in the Polish People's Republic in 1945. She studied painting and art history at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and has published nineteen...
Luiz Carlos Lisboa
Luiz Carlos Lisboa is the author of over forty books and more than a dozen translations from English, French, and Spanish into Brazilian Portuguese, including three books by Aldous Huxley. His...
Toming Jun Liu
Toming Jun Liu is the pen name of Liu Jun. Liu was born in Xi'an, China, and is a professor in the Department of English, California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches American...
Janet Livingstone
Janet Livingstone was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and ventured to Czechoslovakia just after the 1989 Velvet Revolution. Among her full-length book translations are Master Your Stage...
Julio Llamazares
Julio Llamazares was born in the now-vanished town of Vegémian, León, in 1955 (the town is now under a reservoir). He graduated in law, but abandoned his practice to work in Madrid...
Eduardo del Llano
Eduardo del Llano was born in Moscow in 1962 and lives in Havana. He founded and directed NOS-Y-OTROS, a group that created literary and theatrical works between 1982 and 1997. His prolific...
Luljeta Lleshanaku
Luljeta Lleshanaku is one of Albania's foremost younger poets. Born in Elbasan in 1968, she grew up under virtual house arrest because of her family's opposition to the Stalinist...
Bruno Lloret
Bruno Lloret was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1990. Nancy (Editorial Cuneta, 2015) is his debut novel and is forthcoming in English by Giramondo. In 2018, he published his second...
Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Antonia Lloyd-Jones translates from Polish, and is the 2018 winner of the Transatlantyk Award for the most outstanding promoter of Polish literature abroad. She has translated works by several of...
Iwan Llwyd
Iwan Llwyd was born in Llanidloes, mid-Wales, forty-six years ago, and now lives in Talybont near Bangor, north Wales. He won the crown at the National Eisteddfod in 1990 for his series of poems...
Robin Llywelyn
Robin Llywelyn was born in 1958 in Llanfrothen, Gwynedd, and was educated locally and at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Joint Honours in Welsh & Irish). He was a National Eisteddfod...
Max Lobe
Max Lobe was born in Douala, Cameroon, in 1986. At eighteen he moved to Switzerland, where he earned a BA in communication and journalism and a master’s in public policy and administration....
Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro
Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro had two novelettes published in Brazilian Asimov’s: hard SF “Mythic Aliens” and “The Ethics of Treason.” The latter was the first alternative...
Victoria Lomasko
Victoria Lomasko graduated in 2003 from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, where she majored in graphic art and book design. She now works as a graphic artist, with a particular focus...
Lucie Lomová
Lucie Lomová is a Czech comic-book author, illustrator, and artist. Her series about two little mice, Anča a Pepík (Annie and Joe), published regularly in...
Naomi Long Eagleson
Naomi Long Eagleson is the author of Radiant Field, a chapbook published by Tinfish Press. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and works as a book editor in Los Angeles....
Fabrizio Longo
Fabrizio Longo (Genoa, 1978) has worked as an illustrator for numerous comics journals. In 2011 he published Un fatto umano with Alessandro Parodi and Manfredi Giffone. The three of them are...
Phillip Lopate
Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943. He has written three personal essay collections, two novels, two poetry collections, a memoir of his teaching experiences, a collection of...
Francisco Solano López
Francisco Solano López (1928-2011) was one of the most important Latin American illustrators of his generation. Perhaps best known in the U.S. for his erotic comics, he illustrated a...
Antón Lopo
Antón Lopo, born in Monforte de Lemos in 1961, is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in Galician literature, and is also recognized for his contributions as a...
Vladimir Lorchenkov
Vladimir Lorchenkov, writer and journalist, was born in Chisinau, Moldova, the son of a Soviet army officer, in 1979. In his childhood he traveled across the Soviet Union and other socialist...
Ray Loriga
The author, screenwriter, and director Ray Loriga (Jorge Loriga Torrenovais) was born in Madrid in 1967. He is the author of the books Lo peor de todo [The Worst Thing of All, 1992],...
Nawel Louerrad
Nawel Louerrad was born in 1981 in Oran, Algeria. After training as an architect, she studied theatrical design in Nantes, then theatrical studies in Montpellier. She returned to Algeria and...
Edival Lourenço
Edival Lourenço was born in Iporá, Goiás, in 1952. He is currently president of the União Brasileira de Escritores-Goiás and occupies the twenty-second chair of...
Raquel Lubartowski
Author and screenwriter Raquel Nogara Lubartowski was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her screenwriting credits include A Bullet for Che (2012), a feature-length narrative film produced by Laroux....
Fatos Lubonja
Few have done more to struggle for and constructively criticize Albania's democracy than Fatos Lubonja, writer, editor of the quarterly journal Përpjekja [Endeavor], and representative...
Christine De Luca
Christine De Luca (née Pearson) was born and brought up in Shetland, spending her formative years in Waas (Walls) on the west side of the mainland. She now lives in the Edinburgh area. In...
Erri De Luca
Erri De Luca was born in Naples in 1950 and lives near Rome today. He is one of contemporary Italy's most acclaimed novelists, who came to writing after a lifetime of political protest and...
José Luís Peixoto
José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal's most acclaimed and successful contemporary novelists. He was born in Galveias, Portugal, in 1974. He has a degree in modern languages...
Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City in 1983 and grew up in South Africa. Her novels and essays have been translated into many languages and her work has appeared in publications including the...
Alberto Luna
Alberto Luna, S. J., was born in Caazapá, Paraguay, in 1960. He studied philosophy at the Instituto Superior de Teología de Asunción and theology at the Centro de...
Jerzy Lutowski
Jerzy Lutowski was born in 1923 in Lviv in what is now Ukraine. In the years of Nazi occupation, he served in the underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and took part in the Warsaw Rising in...
Ölziitögs Luvsandorj
Ölziitögs Luvsandorj (b. 1972) is an author, poet, and freelance journalist. She has published one novel, Nüdnii shilend üldsen zurguud (Images lingering in eyeglasses) in...
Avrom Lyesin
Avrom Lyesin (Avrohom Lyesin, Abraham Liesin; 1872-1938) began his career in Minsk, where he published socialist-revolutionary poetry. He immigrated to the United States in 1897. There his work...
Niels Lyngsø
Niels Lyngsø (b. 1968) debuted in 1992 with the poetry collection Maske & Maskine (Mask & Machine). He has published six collections of poetry and received several Danish...
M. Lynx Qualey
M. Lynx Qualey writes about Arabic literature and translation issues. She blogs daily at http://arablit.wordpress.com.
Win Lyovarin
Two-time S.E.A. Write Award winner for Thai literature Win Lyovarin was born in southern Thailand in 1956, graduated from Chulalongkorn University in architecture, and received a...