Enrique Pérez López

Enrique Pérez López is director of the…

Fausto Guadarrama López

Fausto Guadarrama López lives in the state of Mexico,…

Tom La Farge

Tom La Farge wrote two novels, Zuntig and The Crimson Bears, and a book of tales, Terror of Earth.

Charles La Shure

Charles La Shure has lived in Korea, where he studies and translates Korean literature, among other things, since 1995.

Elin Anna Labba

Elin Anna Labba is a journalist and former editor in chief of Nuorat who was awarded the 2020 August Prize for best nonfiction title.

Souad Labbize

Souad Labbize is the recipient of the 2020 Prix de la Méditerranée de la Poésie.

Andrea G. Labinger

Andrea Graubart Labinger received her BA degree in…

Ann-Helén Laestadius

Ann-Helén Laestadius is an author and journalist from Kiruna, Sweden.

Dany Laferrière

Born in Port-au-Prince in 1953, Dany Laferrière…

Eduardo Lago

A resident of New York City for the last twenty-two…

Francisco Laguna-Correa

Francisco is a bilingual Mexican writer, born in Mexico…

Yanick Lahens

Yanick Lahens lives in Haiti. She is the author of…

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and translator.

Tiina Laitila Kälvemark

Tiina Laitila Kälvemark (b. 1970) hails…

Ayavi Lake

Her glasses, at once a reflection and filter of reality,…

Cari Lake

Cari Lake is projects and translation grants officer…

Roseann Lake

Roseann Lake is an American/Spanish journalist perhaps…

Amara Lakhous

Amara Lakhous was born in Algiers in 1970. He has…

Laurence Laluyaux

Laurence Laluyaux was born in Paris. She studied French…

Agnes Lam

Agnes Lam is a Macau-born scholar and writer and the vice-president of Macau PEN.

Cristina Lambert

Cristina Lambert was born in Argentina and moved to…

John Lambert

John Lambert was born in Ottawa in 1960 and grew up…

Stéphane Lambert

Poet, novelist, and essayist Stéphane…

Koulsy Lamko

Koulsy Lamko was born in 1959 in Chad and exiled in…

Tahar Lamri

Author and essayist Tahar Lamri was born in Algiers,…

Leena Lander

Born in 1956, the Finnish author Leena Lander has…

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, Paulo Coelho, and José de Alencar and shorter fiction by Lima Barreto, Rachel de Queiroz, Osman Lins, and Moacyr Scliar.

Susanna Lang

Susannan Lang is a poet and translator from French.

Norah Lange

Born in 1905 to Norwegian parents in Buenos Aires,…

Agnes Scott Langeland

Born in Scotland, Agnes Scott Langeland has resided…

Shams Langeroody

Shams Langeroody is one of the most prominent literary…

Matthew Lansburgh

Matthew Lansburgh lives in New York, where he works…

Ingrid Lansford

Ingrid Lansford grew up in Denmark and Germany. She…

Abel Lanzac

Abel Lanzac is the pseudonym of Antonin Baudry, a…

Yitzhak Laor

Yitzhak Laor, born in 1948, in Pardes Hannah, Israel,…

Ngo Tu Lap

Ngo Tu Lap is the winner of seven literary prizes…

Fouad Laroui

Fouad Laroui is a economist and writer born in 1958…

Lola Larra

Lola Larra was born in Santiago, Chile, grew up in…

Stéphane Larue

Stéphane Larue was born in Longueuil in 1983.…

Olivia Lasky

Olivia Lasky is an Oslo-based translator who focuses on Norwegian to English literary translations and Sámi literature.

Renate Latimer

Renate Latimer taught German and Comparative literature…

Aurora Lauzardo

Aurora Lauzardo has a BA in comparative literature…

Claire Lavagnino

Daniel Laverdure

Daniel Laverdure is the author of Ma Mère Poule,…

Mishka Lavigne

Mishka Lavigne is a playwright and literary translator.

Louise Law Lok-man

Louise Law Lok-Man (羅樂敏) graduated…

Jeffrey Lawrence

Jeffrey Lawrence is Associate Professor of English…

Priscilla Layne

Priscilla Layne is a PhD candidate in the Department…

Ervin Lázár

Ervin Lázár (1936–2006) was a…

Rouja Lazarova

Rouja Lazarova was born in Sofia in 1968 and immigrated…

Việt Lê

Việt Lê is an artist, writer, and curator. Lê is an…

Maximilien Le Roy

Maximilien Le Roy was born in Paris in 1985.…

Miguel León-Portilla

Miguel León-Portilla (b. 1926) is recognized…

Luke Leafgren

Luke Leafgren has published five translations of Arabic novels and received the 2018 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize.

Addie Leak

Addie Leak is a co-translator of Mostafa Nissabouri’s For an Ineffable Metrics of the Desert and Hisham Bustani’s Waking Up to My Distorted City.

Mélanie Leclerc

Mélanie Leclerc was born in 1977 and lives with her…

Etienne Lécroart

Etienne Lécroart (b. 1960) is a French cartoonist…

Lazer Lederhendler

Lazer Lederhendler is a literary translator based…

Geesu Lee

Geesu Lee is a legal advocate who is interested in…

JeeYoung Lee

Recipient of multiple artistic awards including the…

Krys Lee

Krys Lee is the author of the short story collection Drifting…

Mara Lee

Mara Lee is a Swedish poet, novelist and scholar.…

Shirley Lee

Shirley Lee was born in South Korea.

Lee Lee Ji Myung

Lee Ji Myung lives in South Korea.

Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of fourteen books,…

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

Nichole LeFebvre

Nichole LeFebvre is a writer and artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Noémi Lefebvre

Noémi Lefebvre is the author of four novels.

Mohamed Leftah

Mohamed Leftah was born in Settat, Morocco, in 1946.…

Marc Legendre

Marc Legendre (1956) lives and works on El Hierro,…

Isabelle Lehn

Isabelle Lehn was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1979.…

Liel Leibovitz

A native of Tel Aviv, Israel, Liel Leibovitz is the…

Laura Leichum

Laura Leichum is a poet and translator living in Washington,…

S. J. Leinbach

S. J. Leinbach (Pittsburgh, 1977) is a literary and…

Juan Mari Lekuona

Juan Mari Lekuona (1927–2005), a priest, studied…

Stanisław Lem

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) was a Polish…

Pavel Lembersky

Pavel Lembersky was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and came…

Luisa Leme

Luisa Leme is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker…

Paulo Lemos Horta

Paulo Lemos Horta is a writer, translator, and literary…

Rafael Lemus

Rafael Lemus was born in Mexico City in…

Tom Leonard

The poet, dramatist, and essayist Tom Leonard was…

Julie Lequin

Julie Lequin (born in Laval, Quebec in 1979) is a…

Rika Lesser

Rika Lesser is the author of three books of poetry…

Mara Faye Lethem

Mara Faye Lethem is an award-winning translator of…

Emily Lever

Emily Lever is a French-American writer. She has written…

James Lever

Hanoch Levin

Hanoch Levin (1943–1999) was a Palestinian playwright born to Holocaust survivors from Poland.

Daniel Levin Becker

Daniel Levin Becker is the youngest member of the Oulipo.

Daniel Levine

Daniel Levine is the author of Hyde (HMH 2014),…

Suzanne Jill Levine

Suzanne Jill Levine has received many honors for her…

Jasna Levinger

Along with her husband, Edward Dennis Goy, Jasna Levinger…

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse served as the founding…

Alexis Levitin

Alexis Levitin has published forty-seven books…

Caryl Lewis

Caryl Lewis is an award-winning Welsh-language author…

Cheri Lewis

Cheri Lewis (Chitre, Panama) has been a columnist for the daily newspaper La Prensa and the magazine Blank.

Sophie Lewis

Sophie Lewis translates from French and Portuguese.…

Tess Lewis

Tess Lewis is a translator from German and French…

Tracy K. Lewis

Holding the rank of Distinguished Teaching Professor…

Raphaëlle Leyris

Raphaëlle Leyris is a journalist for Le…

Henrry Lezama

Henrry Lezama's translations of essays, poems, and…

Lhashamgyal

Lhashamgyal has published ten books in Tibetan and Chinese, including works of translation.

Chen Li

Chen Li (1954- ), born and raised in Hualien, on the…

Yang Lian

Yang Lian was born in Switzerland in 1955, and grew…

Zhang Lian

Zhang Lian was an elementary school teacher for several…

Yan Lianke

Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China.…

Dante Liano

Dante Liano was born in Guatemala in 1948.…

Rebecca Liao

Rebecca Liao is co-founder and CEO at Saga, a protocol for launching the next 1,000 chains in the multiverse.

Claudia Lightfoot

Claudia Lightfoot has lived in Havana for ten years,…

Nenden Lilis A.

Nenden Lilis A., born in Malangbong-Garut (West Java)…

Conceição Lima

Conceiçao Lima was born in 1961 in the island nation…

Dot Lin

Dot Lin currently works in publishing and lives in…

Eleen Lin

Eleen Lin was born in Taiwan and grew up in Thailand.…

Jiann I. Lin

Jiann I. Lin collaborated previously with David Young…

Kenneth Linden

Kenneth Linden has an M.A. from Indiana University’s…

Mathieu Lindon

Mathieu Lindon was born in 1955. He is a literary…

Byron Lindsey

Byron Lindsey is a translator of contemporary Russian…

Daryl Lindsey

Daryl Lindsey works as a journalist and literary translator for German publications, including Der Spiegel and Die Zeit.

Merethe Lindstrøm

Merethe Lindstrøm (b. 1963) made her debut…

Andrea Lingenfelter

Andrea Lingenfelter’s translations include The Changing…

Liniers

Liniers is Ricardo Siri's second name. Born in…

Maritta Lintunen

Maritta Lintunen has written short stories, poems,…

Françoise Lionnet

Françoise Lionnet teaches French, Francophone,…

Matt Lipps

Ewa Lipska

Ewa Lipska was born in Kraków in the Polish…

James E. Lipson

Luiz Carlos Lisboa

Luiz Carlos Lisboa is the author of over forty books…

David Lisenby

David Lisenby lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where…

Toming Jun Liu

Toming Jun Liu is the pen name of Liu Jun. Liu was…

Janet Livingstone

Janet Livingstone was born in Boston, Massachusetts,…

Julio Llamazares

Julio Llamazares was born in the now-vanished town…

Eduardo del Llano

Eduardo del Llano was born in Moscow in 1962 and lives in Havana.

Luljeta Lleshanaku

Luljeta Lleshanaku is the author of eight poetry collections published in Albania.

Bruno Lloret

Bruno Lloret was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1990.

Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Antonia Lloyd-Jones translates from Polish, and is…

Iwan Llwyd

Iwan Llwyd was born in Llanidloes, mid-Wales, forty-six…

Robin Llywelyn

Robin Llywelyn was born in 1958 in Llanfrothen, Gwynedd,…

Max Lobe

Max Lobe was born in Douala, Cameroon. At eighteen…

Joe Lockard

Joe Lockard is an associate professor of English at…

Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro

Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro had two novelettes published in…

Victoria Lomasko

Victoria Lomasko graduated in 2003 from the Moscow…

Lucie Lomová

Lucie Lomová is a Czech comic-book author, illustrator,…

Naomi Long Eagleson

Naomi Long Eagleson is the author of Radiant Field,…

Fabrizio Longo

Fabrizio Longo (Genoa, 1978) has worked as an illustrator…

Rosamund Looney

Rosamund Looney recently graduated from Barnard College…

Phillip Lopate

Phillip Lopate was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943.…

Francisco Solano Lopez

Francisco Solano López (1928-2011) was one…

Antón Lopo

Antón Lopo is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in Galician literature.

Vladimir Lorchenkov

Vladimir Lorchenkov, writer and journalist, was…

Ray Loriga

The author, screenwriter, and director Ray Loriga…

Jacqueline Loss

Jacqueline Loss is a professor of Latin American and…

Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott is the translator of Lucía Estrada’s Katabasis…

El Habib Louai

El Habib Louai is a Moroccan Amazigh poet, translator, musician, and assistant professor of English at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco.

Nawel Louerrad

Nawel Louerrad was born in 1981 in Oran, Algeria.…

Rosie Louise Hedger

Rosie Hedger is a literary translator from Norwegian into English.

Edival Lourenço

Edival Lourenço was born in Iporá, Goiás, in 1952.…

Julia Lovell

Julia Lovell teaches Chinese history and literature…

Elizabeth Lowe

Elizabeth Lowe translates fiction from Brazilian and…

Raquel Lubartowski

Author and screenwriter Raquel Nogara Lubartowski…

Fatos Lubonja

Few have done more to struggle for and constructively…

Christine De Luca

Christine De Luca (née Pearson) was born and…

Erri De Luca

Erri De Luca was born in Naples in 1950 and lives…

Xavier Luffin

Xavier Luffin is a Professor of Arabic Literature…

José Luís Peixoto

José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal’s most…

Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew…

Alberto Luna

Alberto Luna, S. J., was born in Caazapá, Paraguay,…

Ilana Luna

Ilana Luna is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at Arizona State University.

Kristian Lundberg

Kristian Lundberg (1966–2022) was a Swedish writer and poet whose work explored labor, class, and religion.

Katherine Lundy

Katherine Lundy is a former Fulbright Fellow and an MA student studying Japanese translation at the University of Massachusetts.

Yin Luoth

Darrin Zammit Lupi

Photojournalist Darrin Zammit Lupi (b. 1968) was born…

Jerzy Lutowski

Jerzy Lutowski was born in 1923 in Lviv in what is now…

Ölziitögs Luvsandorj

Ölziitögs Luvsandorj (b. 1972) is an author, poet,…

Avrom Lyesin

Avrom Lyesin (Avrohom Lyesin, Abraham Liesin; 1872-1938)…

Niels Lyngsø

Niels Lyngsø (b. 1968) debuted in 1992 with the poetry collection Maske & Maskine (Mask & Machine).

M. Lynx Qualey

Marcia Lynx Qualey is an editor, writer, occasional translator, and speaker who focuses on Arabic literature and translation.

Win Lyovarin

Two-time S.E.A. Write Award winner for Thai literature…