Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter K

Was a Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote in Pashto during the rei

Was a Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote in Pashto during the reign of the Mughal emperors in the seventeenth century, and admonished Afghans to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite. He was a renowned fighter who

Is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and A

Is a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's weekly column, "With Malice towards One and All", carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country.An important Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humor, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several well-known literary and news magazines, as well as two major broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s.

Was an Indian film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English

Was an Indian film director, novelist, screenwriter, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages. He was the maker of important Hindi films like, Saat Hindustani, Shehar Aur Sapna and the screenwriter for the best of Raj Kapoor films.Khwaja Ahmad Abbas is considered one of pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema, having penned films like Neecha Nagar, Jagte Raho, Dharti Ke Lal, Awara, Saat Hindustani and Naya Sansar. [1]

Is an American novelist and playwright. In Britain, as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, she is well kn

Is an American novelist and playwright. In Britain, as the widow of Vivian Stanshall, she is well known as the guardian of his artistic heritage, but elsewhere she is best known for her own work, especially the 2005 novel The Secret Magdalene (pre-empted and republished in March 2007 by Crown, a division of Random House [1]), which deals with gnosis (the direct experience of the divine), told through the Biblical story of Mary Magdalene. Longfellow is also the author of China Blues and Chasing Women.

Is an acclaimed Greek poet

Is an acclaimed Greek poet

A noted author, poet, and columnist in Kerala, India.

A noted author, poet, and columnist in Kerala, India.

An Australian writer of an Aboriginal ancestry. He is a descendant of Nyoongar people.Scott has writ

An Australian writer of an Aboriginal ancestry. He is a descendant of Nyoongar people.Scott has written two novels and a children's book, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies.[1] He began writing shortly after becoming a secondary school teacher of English. His teaching experience included working in urban, rural Australia and in Portugal. He spent some time teaching at an Aboriginal community in the north of Western Australia, where he started to research his family's history.[1]

A Finnish journalist/writer turned serial entrepreneur. He launched his first venture an alternative

A Finnish journalist/writer turned serial entrepreneur. He launched his first venture an alternative newsmonthly City-lehti[1] in 1985, which is still successfully published in all major cities in Finland. He published two acclaimed novels during his early years as an academic and journalist, but later, in his forties, became a full time media- and technology entrepreneur.

Is an Australian writer

Is an Australian writer

A Finnish science fiction novelist. He was also a longtime chairman of the Helsinki Science Fiction

A Finnish science fiction novelist. He was also a longtime chairman of the Helsinki Science Fiction Society, and still is an active member of the Helsinki fandom scene. He runs the most active science fiction oriented website in Finland, Babek Nabel.His first novel Timbuktun hetket ("Timbuktu Moments", 1997) was an eerily prescient tale of a Muslim fundamentalist who is bankrolled by a businessman with ulterior motives to create havoc in order to destabilize an Arab nation's government.

A Japanese author, best known for writing the visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned

A Japanese author, best known for writing the visual novels Tsukihime and Fate/stay night. Renowned for a unique style of storytelling and prose, Nasu is amongst the most prominent visual novelists in Japan.Together with high school classmate and friend, Takeshi Takeuchi, Nasu formed Type-Moon in 2000, originally as a dojin group to create the visual novel Tsukihime, which soon gained immense popularity, much of which is attributed to Nasu's unique style of storytelling. A sequel to Tsukihime, Kagetsu Tohya, was released on August 2001.

Was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko (?´???? ???´????????? ????´???), who was a Ru

Was a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko (?´???? ???´????????? ????´???), who was a Russian science fiction writer and historian. He received a Master's degree in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1981 and wrote his first science fiction story in 1965. Since 1963

An Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel

An Indian author who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize[1] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. She is the daughter of the noted author Anita Desai.Kiran Desai was born in New Delhi, India, and lived there until she was 14. She and her mother then lived in England for a year, and finally moved to the United States where she studied creative writing at Bennington College, Hollins University and Columbia University.[2]

Novelist, playwright, film and drama critic and screenwriter is one of the most significant writers

Novelist, playwright, film and drama critic and screenwriter is one of the most significant writers of postcolonial India.Nagarkar is notable among Indian writers for having written acclaimed novels in more than one language. His first novel, Saat Sakkam Trechalis (later published in English as Seven Sixes Are Forty Three) is considered one of the landmark works of Marathi literature. His novel Ravan and Eddie, begun in Marathi but completed in English, was not published until 1994.

Was a Bulgarian cleric, writer and enlightener, one of the first supporters of literature in modern

Was a Bulgarian cleric, writer and enlightener, one of the first supporters of literature in modern Bulgarian (as opposed to Church Slavonic) and one of the early figures of the Bulgarian National Revival.

Is a prolific American composer of classical music, and a writer. He is often called the “dean

Is a prolific American composer of classical music, and a writer. He is often called the “dean of American choral music”; his first opera, Tartuffe, with more that 350 performances in six countries, has become one of the most popular operas ever written by an American. He has written more than 250 works in almost every genre. In 2002, ASCAP registered performances of his music in 42 countries.

She was born to Jimmy Wark, a solicitor, and Roberta, a schoolteacher. Kirsty Wark was educated at G

She was born to Jimmy Wark, a solicitor, and Roberta, a schoolteacher. Kirsty Wark was educated at Grange Academy in Kilmarnock and Ayr's independent Wellington School. After studying history at the University of Edinburgh, Wark joined the BBC in 1976 as a researcher for BBC Radio Scotland and, in 1982, moved to television, eventually becoming a presenter, including presenting Breakfast Time. In 1988 she was one of the first reporters to cover the Lockerbie disaster

She got her presenting break on Sky Sports News, and since then has been associated with many other

She got her presenting break on Sky Sports News, and since then has been associated with many other sports shows such as 90 Minutes, Soccer Extra, Kirsty and Phil (on BBC Radio 5 Live) and Soccer AM.Since 2000 Gallacher has hosted the Sky One show Kirsty's Home Videos, a satellite equivalent of ITV's You've Been Framed in which viewers send in home videos to be screened. In 2002 she presented the morning show RI:SE, and in 2004 began the show Simply the Best. She has made guest appearances on They Think It's All Over and A Question of Sport, and she is a regular guest on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

Was an Indian historian. He wrote many historical books, mainly on medieval India. Many of his books

Was an Indian historian. He wrote many historical books, mainly on medieval India. Many of his books, such as History of the Khaljis and Twilight of the Sultanate, are regarded as standard works.[1][2][3]He obtained his Master's degree in 1941 at the University of Allahabad. In 1945 he obtained his D.Phil. with a dissertation on the history of the Khaljis. This dissertation formed the basis for his book History of the Khaljis.

An Indian politician and a former[1]Two-term Member of Parliament from[2]the Vaishali constituency a

An Indian politician and a former[1]Two-term Member of Parliament from[2]the Vaishali constituency and is married to the[3]former Chief Minister of Bihar and prominent Congressman [4]Satyendra Narayan Sinha (affectionately called "Chhote Saheb" ), who was a seven-term MP,from the constituency of Aurangabad. [5].

Was a Georgian literary critic, journalist, and politician. Abashidze was born into a noble family i

Was a Georgian literary critic, journalist, and politician. Abashidze was born into a noble family in the province of Guria. Having graduated from Kutaisi Classic Gymnasium (1889), he attended the lectures in philosophy and art theory in Paris and studied

Was a Japanese author, intellectual and political philosopher who was active in early Showa period J

Was a Japanese author, intellectual and political philosopher who was active in early Showa period Japan.Kita Ikki’s real name was Kita Terujiro. He audited lectures at Waseda University in Tokyo, and while a student was attracted to socialist ideas, meeting with many influential figures in the early socialist movement in Japan. This movement was, however, full of 'opportunist' and other statist currents (from the ideas of Abe Iso through Yano Fumio's 'Shin shakai' [or 'New Society', a Utopian novel that is claimed to be socialist] to even the waverings of Katayama Sen, who wobbled over who he wished to win the Russo-Japanese War,

Was a Japanese court noble and writer of the 14th century who supported the Southern Court in the Na

Was a Japanese court noble and writer of the 14th century who supported the Southern Court in the Nanboku-cho period,[2] serving as advisor to five Emperors. Some of his greatest and most famous work was performed during the reign of Emperor Go-Daigo, under whom he proposed a series of reforms, amounting to a revival or restoration of political and economic systems of several centuries earlier. In addition to authoring a history of Japan and a number of works defending the right of Go-Daigo's line to the throne, Kitabatake fought in defense of the Southern Court as a member of the Murakami branch of the Minamoto clan.

Was a prominent Japanese philosopher, founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy

Was a prominent Japanese philosopher, founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. He graduated from The University of Tokyo during the Meiji Era in 1894 with a degree in philosophy. He was named professor of the Fourth High School in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1899 and later became professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. Nishida retired in 1927. Later in his retirement, in 1940, he was awarded the Order of Culture (????, bunka kunsho). Nishida Kitaro died at the age of seventy-five of a renal infection. His grave is located at Reiun'in (???, reiun in), a temple in the Myoshin-ji compound in Kyoto.

However, he has also written a The Knowledge book entitled The Gobsmacking Galaxy, a Dead Famous boo

However, he has also written a The Knowledge book entitled The Gobsmacking Galaxy, a Dead Famous book about Isaac Newton named Isaac Newton and his Apple (referring to the apple that supposedly hit Newton on the head giving him the idea about "Gravitas") and an Alternative GCSE Guide book called The Alternative GCSE Guide to Maths. He has also written The Magic of Pants, and is currently writing a book called A Brief History of Pants. He also wrote the Killer Puzzles book series.