Authors from Asia
659 popular Asian novelists
This is a list of authors from Asia that were recommended for the Read Around Asia Challenge.
All the novelists listed below where born in Asia.
6. Adib Khorram Iran 
9. Aeham Ahmad Syria 
11. Ahmed Saadawi Iraq 
12. Ahmet Altan Turkey 
16. Akira Yoshimura Japan 
18. Akshaya Raman India 
19. Ali Al Saeed Bahrain 
20. Alka Joshi India
23. Amin Maalouf Lebanon 
26. Amir Falique Brunei 
27. Amish Tripathi India
28. Amit Chaudhuri India
29. Amitav Ghosh India
31. Amrita Pitam India
34. An Na South Korea 
38. Anchee Min China 
40. Angie Kim South Korea
41. Anita Desai India
43. Anosh Irani India
49. Aravind Adiga India
50. Arif Anwar Bangladesh 
51. Arundhati Roy India
56. Axie Oh North Korea 
59. Ayşe Kulin Turkey
60. Aysel Çalişkan Turkey
61. Azar Nafisi Iran
63. Bae Suah South Korea
68. Bandi North Korea
69. Banine Azerbaijan 
70. Banine, Azerbaijan
72. Bapsi Sidhwa Pakistan 
74. Behari Day India
75. Behrouz Boochani Iran
76. Beth Nguyen Vietnam 
77. Betool Khedairi Iraq
78. Bibish Uzbekistan 
79. Bilge Karasu Turkey
85. Burhan Sönmez Turkey
86. C. Pam Zhang China
87. Cao Xueqin China
88. Cassandra Clare Iran
94. Chi Zijian China
99. Chloe Gong China
100. Cho Nam-Joo South Korea
102. Chuden Kabimo India
103. Chuya Nakahara Japan
108. Daniel Nayeri Iran
110. Danny Ramadan Syria
111. David Grossman Israel 
112. Deepa Anappara India
114. Deepti Kapoor India
115. Defne Suman Turkey
116. Dento Hayane Japan
117. Devika Ponnambalam Brunei
118. Di Lu Galay Myanmar 
119. Dima Wannous Syria
120. Dimitri Nasrallah Lebanon
121. Dina Nayeri Iran
122. Dinah Jefferies Malaysia 
123. Dolki Min South Korea
124. Dong Hwa Kim South Korea
125. Doris May Lessing Iran
126. Dorit Rabinyan Israel
127. Dorje Dolma Nepal 
128. Duanwad Pimwana Thailand 
129. Duong Thu Huong Vietnam
130. Durian Sukegawa Japan
131. Ece Temelkuran Turkey
134. Eileen Chang China
135. Eka Kurniawan Indonesia 
138. Elias Khoury Lebanon
139. Elif Safak Turkey
140. Elif Shafak Turkey
142. Ella Leya Azerbaijan
145. Emuna Elon Israel
146. Eshkol Nevo Israel
147. Esther Ahmad Pakistan
148. Etel Adnan Lebanon
149. Etgar Keret Israel
150. Eugenia Kim South Korea
151. Eusebius Pamphilus Israel
152. F.H. Batacan Philippines 
153. Fadia Faqir Jordan 
155. Firoozeh Dumas Iran
156. Fumiko Enchi Japan
157. Fuminori Nakamura Japan
158. Galsan Tschinag Mongolia 
160. Gao Xingjian China
162. Geena Rocero Philippines
163. Geetanjali Shree India
164. Geling Yan China
165. Genki Kawamura Japan
166. Genzaburo Yoshino Japan
169. Gina Apostol Philippines
170. Glenn Diaz Philippines
171. Grace M. Cho South Korea
172. Grigoris Balakian Armenia 
173. Gu Byeong-mo South Korea
174. Gulchehra Hoja China
177. Hala Alyan Palestine 
178. Hamid Ismailov Uzbekistan
181. Han Kang South Korea
182. Hanan Al-Shaykh Lebanon
183. Ḥanān Shaykh Lebanon
184. Hanna Alkaf Malaysia
185. Hao Jingfang China
186. Haoji Chen China
187. Haruki Murakami Japan
188. Hasan Ali Toptas Turkey
189. Ḥasan Balāsim Iraq
190. Hasan Namir Iraq
191. Hassan Blasim Iraq
193. Hiro Arikawa Japan
194. Hiroko Oyamada Japan
195. Hiromi Kawakami Japan
196. Hisham Bustani Jordan
198. Hudā Barakāt Lebanon
199. Humayun Azad Bangladesh
200. Huzama Habayeb Kuwait 
201. Hwang Bo-reum South Korea
202. Hyeonseo Lee North Korea
203. Hyŏn-hŭi Kim North Korea
206. Ihsan Oktay Anar Turkey
207. Ilā Āraba Mahetā India
208. Ilan Pappé Israel
209. Ilana Masad Israel
210. Ilham Tohti China
212. Ismat Chughtai India
213. Iwatobineko Japan
215. J.L. Witterick China
217. Jane Vejjajiva Thailand
218. Janet Trezise Timor-Leste 
219. Jang Eun-Jin South Korea
220. Jang Jin-Sung North Korea
221. Janice Y. K. Lee China
222. Janie Chang China
223. Jasmine Warga Syria
224. Jayant Kaikini India
226. Jean-Paul Sartre France 
228. Jenny Tinghui Zhang China
229. Jeroen Brouwers Indonesia
231. Jessica Zafra Philippines
232. Ji-li Jiang China
234. Jia Pingwa China
235. Jimin Han South Korea
237. Jing-Jing Lee Singapore 
238. Joanne Ramos Philippines
240. Jokha Alharthi Oman 
242. Jose Rizal Philippines
244. Joumana Haddad Lebanon
245. Juhea Kim South Korea
246. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki Japan
247. June Hur South Korea
248. Jung Chang China
249. JUNICHIRO. TANIZAKI Japan
251. K. P. Yohannan India
252. K. S. Maniam Malaysia
253. Kader Abdolah Iran
254. Kahlil Gibran Lebanon
256. Kamila Shamsie Pakistan
257. Kanae Minato Japan
258. Kang Han South Korea
259. Kassem Eid Syria
260. Kathrina Mohd Daud Brunei
261. Kaveh Akbar Iran
262. Kazuo Ishiguro Japan
263. Keigo Higashino Japan
264. Keikichi Ōsaka Japan
265. Kelly Yang China
267. Kenji Miyazawa Japan
268. Kenzaburo Oe Japan
270. Kevin Kwan Singapore
273. Khaled Khalifa Syria
274. Khalil Gibran Lebanon
276. Khurrum Rahman Pakistan
277. Kikuko Tsumura Japan
279. Kim Un-Su South Korea
280. Kim Young-ha South Korea
281. KIM. HYE-JIN South Korea
282. Kiran Desai India
283. Kirstin Chen Singapore
285. Koogi South Korea
286. Kotaro Isaka Japan
287. Kunzang Choden Bhutan 
288. Kurban Said Azerbaijan
289. Kushanava Choudhury India
290. Kwon Yeo-sun South Korea
293. Lavie Tidhar Israel
295. Leigh Bardugo Israel
296. Leonardo Acosta Cuba 
299. Lilian Lee China
300. Linda Rui Feng China
304. Lodongijn Tüdew Mongolia
307. Luís Cardoso Timor-Leste
309. Luís Cardoso Timor-Leste
310. Luma Mufleh Jordan
313. Madhuri Vijay India
316. Mahbod Seraji Iran
317. Mahmoud Darwish Palestine
319. Mahnaz Afkhami Iran
320. Mai Neng Moua Laos 
321. Malala Yousafzai Pakistan
322. Malinda Lo China
323. Manal Sharif Saudi Arabia 
324. Manjushree Thapa Nepal
325. Marguerite Duras Vietnam
326. Maria Dermout Indonesia
327. Mariam Petrosyan Armenia
328. Marie Kondo Japan
331. Marjan Kamali Iran
332. Marjan Kamali Turkey
333. Marjane Satrapi Iran
334. Masaji Ishikawa Japan
335. Meena Kandasami India
336. Megha Majumdar India
337. Meir Shalev Israel
339. Melissa Fu China
341. Mi-Ye Lee South Korea
342. Mia Alvar Philippines
345. Michal Ben-Naftali Israel
347. Michiko Aoyama Japan
348. Mieko Kawakami Japan
349. Miguel Syjuco Philippines
350. Milorad Pavic Serbia 
351. Min Jin Lee South Korea
352. Mineko Iwasaki Japan
353. Mirza Athar Baig Pakistan
355. Mizuki Tsujimura Japan
356. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu China
358. Modris Eksteins Latvia 
361. Mohammed Al Samawi Yemen 
363. Mohammed Hanif Pakistan
365. Mohsin Hamid Pakistan
366. Monica Ali Bangladesh
369. Moustafa Khalifa Syria
370. Muhammad Yunus Bangladesh
371. Muḥsin Ramlī Iraq
373. Mukhtar Mai Pakistan
375. Murasaki Shikibu Japan
376. Nadia Hashimi Afghanistan 
378. Najwa Barakat Lebanon
380. Nami Mun South Korea
382. Naoko Takeuchi Japan
383. Narayan Wagle Nepal
384. Narine Abgarian Armenia
385. Narine Abgaryan Armenia
387. Natsuko Imamura Japan
388. Natsume Soseki Japan
390. Nayrouz Qarmout Syria
391. Nazim Hikmet Turkey
392. Négar Djavadi Iran
394. Ngọc Thuần Nguyễn Vietnam
396. Nhã Thuyên Vietnam
397. Nicola Dinan Malaysia
399. Nigar Alam Pakistan
400. Nihad Sirees Syria
401. Nilanjana Haldar India
405. Nizrana Farook Sri Lanka 
406. Noor Al Noaimi Bahrain
408. Norma Khouri Jordan
410. Nujood Ali Yemen
411. Ocean Vuong Vietnam
412. Oezguer Mumcu Turkey
416. Omar Khayyam Iran
418. Ömür İklim Demir Turkey
419. Orhan Pamuk Turkey
421. Osamu Dazai Japan
422. Otar Chiladze Georgia 
424. Oum Suphany Cambodia 
425. Outhine Bounyavong Laos
428. Padma lakshmi India
431. Parini Shroff India
432. Parinoush Saniee Iran
433. Parīnūsh Sanīʻī Iran
434. Parnaz Foroutan Iran
436. Pascal Khoo Thwe Myanmar
438. Peyami Safa Turkey
440. Pim Wangtechawat Thailand
443. Prāpdā Yun Thailand
444. Preti Taneja India
445. Pyae Moe Thet War Myanmar
447. Qiu Miaojin China
448. Quan Barry Vietnam
450. R. F. Kuang China
451. R.F. Kuang China
452. Rabih Alameddine Lebanon
453. Rabindranath Tagore India
454. Rafik Schami Syria
455. Raja Alem Saudi Arabia
459. Randy Ribay Philippines
460. Rani Manicka Malaysia
461. Rania Al-Abdullah Kuwait
462. Raymond Khoury Lebanon
463. Reimena Yee Malaysia
466. Rin Chupeco Philippines
467. Rohinton Mistry India
468. Roja Chamankar Iran
470. Roma Tearne Sri Lanka
472. Roselle Lim Philippines
473. Rudyard Kipling India
474. Rumaan Alam Bangladesh
476. Rupa Bajwa India
478. Rutu Modan Israel
479. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Japan
482. Sabahattin Ali Turkey
483. Sabba Khan Pakistan
485. Sacina Kuṇḍalakara India
486. Sadeq Hedayat Iran
487. Sadriddin Aĭnī Tajikistan 
488. Sahar Khalifeh Palestine
491. Saleem Haddad Kuwait
492. Salman Rushdie India
493. Salwa Al Neimi Syria
494. Samir Kassir Lebanon
495. Samira Ahmed India
496. Samra Habib Pakistan
497. Sanam Maher Pakistan
499. Sangu Mandanna India
501. Sara Shilo Israel
503. Sarit Yishai-Levi Israel
504. Saroo Brierley India
505. Satoshi Yagisawa Japan
506. Saud Alsanousi Kuwait
507. Saule Doszhan Kazakhstan 
508. Sayaka Murata Japan
511. Seichō Matsumoto Japan
512. Seishi Yokomizo Japan
513. Sejal Badani India
515. Serhiy Zhadan Ukraine 
516. Shahla Ujayli Syria
517. Shahrnush Parsipur Iran
518. Shappi Khorsandi Iran
519. Sharlene Teo Singapore
521. Sheikha Helawy Palestine
522. Shifra Horn Israel
523. Shirin Ebadi Iran
524. Shirō Hamao Japan
525. Shoji Morimoto Japan
526. Shokoofeh Azar Iran
527. Sholeh Rezazadeh Iran
528. Shubhangi Swarup India
529. Shum, Desmond China
530. Shūsaku Endō Japan
532. Siba Shakib Iran
537. Sinan Antoon Iraq
538. Singshong South Korea
541. Somaly Mam Cambodia
543. Soseki Natsume Japan
544. Sosuke Natsukawa Japan
546. Stephanie Foo Malaysia
548. Sue Lynn Tan Malaysia
550. Sulochana Manandhar Nepal
552. Sun-mi Hwang South Korea
553. Sun-Ok Yi North Korea
554. Sunjeev Sahota India
555. Susan Abulhawa Kuwait
557. Tabish Khair India
558. Taha Kehar Pakistan
559. Tahmima Anam Bangladesh
560. Takashi Hiraide Japan
561. Takashi Nagai Japan
563. Talia Carner Israel
564. Tamim Ansary Afghanistan
565. Tan Twan Eng Malaysia
569. Taslima Nasrin Bangladesh
570. Tehmina Durrani Pakistan
571. Teresa Lim Singapore
572. Tezer Özlü Turkey
573. Thanhhà Lai Vietnam
575. Thea Guanzon Philippines
577. Thị Hoài Phạm Vietnam
578. Thich Nhat Hanh Vietnam
579. Thu Huong Duong Vietnam
581. Tian Veasna Cambodia
582. Tiffany Tsao Indonesia
583. Ting-Xing Ye China
584. Tomihiko Morimi Japan
585. Toshikazu Kawaguchi Japan
588. Tsering Dondrup China
590. Tsugumi Ohba Japan
591. Uday Prakash India
592. Un-su Kim South Korea
594. Uuganaa Ramsay Mongolia
595. Vaddey ratner Cambodia
596. Vaishnavi Patel India
597. Vanessa Chan Malaysia
598. Vardges Petrosyan Armenia
599. various Afghanistan
600. Viet Thanh Nguyen Vietnam
601. Vikas Swarup India
602. Vikram Seth India
603. Violet Kupersmith Vietnam
604. Wajdī Ahdal Yemen
606. Wang Xiaobo China
607. Wendy Law-Yone Myanmar
612. Wu Cheng-en China
614. Xiaolu Guo China
617. Xiran Jay Zhao China
620. Yan Lianke China
621. Yangsze Choo Malaysia
622. Yaongyi South Korea
623. Yara Zgheib Lebanon
624. Yasar Kemal Turkey
625. Yasunari Kawabata Japan
627. Yeonmi Park North Korea
628. Ying S. Lee Singapore
631. Yoko Ogawa Japan
632. Yoko Tawada Japan
633. Yom Sang-Seop South Korea
634. Yong Kim North Korea
635. Yoshiki Nakamura Japan
638. Yukiko Motoya Japan
639. Yukio Mishima Japan
640. Yukito Ayatsuji Japan
641. Yuko Tsushima Japan
642. Yun Ko-Eun South Korea
643. Yuval Noah Harari Israel
645. Zarah Ghahramani Iran
647. Zayd Muṭīʻ Dammāj Yemen
649. Zeina Abirached Lebanon
651. Zeruya Shalev Israel
652. Zeyn Joukhadar Syria
653. Zing Tsjeng Singapore
654. Zou Jingzhi China
655. Zoulfa Katouh Syria
656. Zubair Ahmad Pakistan
659. 김효은 South Korea