Author origins
Afghanistan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Armenia
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Azerbaijan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Bahrain
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Bangladesh
Native / diaspora
A. Ahad | Rumaan Alam | Anjum N. Choudhury | Saad Z. Hossain | Hasan Azizul Huq | Misba |
Non-native
Bhutan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Borneo
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Brunei
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Burma / Myanmar
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Karen L. Abrahamson | John Brunner
Cambodia
Native / diaspora
Non-native
China
Native / diaspora
Kylie Lee Baker | Baoshu | Can Xue | Chan Koonchung | Chang Shi-Kuo | A. Y. Chao | Da Chen | Mike Chen |
Chen Qiufan | Yangsze Choo | Vinson Compestine | Ying Chang Compestine | Ge Fei | Sally Feng | Grace P. Fong |
Tess Gerritsen | Chloe Gong | Xiaolu Guo | Han Song | Hao Jingfang | Joan He | S. L. Huang | Gish Jen | Ai Jiang |
Jing Jiang | Meng Jin | Karen An-hwei | Vanessa Len | Ann Liang | Tom Lin | Cixin Liu | Em X. Liu | Ken Liu |
Marjorie M. Liu | Emily X. R. Pan | Mingwei Song | Frank Wu | Jin Yong | An Yu | Catherine Yu | C. Pam Zhang |
Zhang Yueran | Amélie Wen Zhao | Katie Zhao
Non-native
Brian Aldiss | Peter S. Beagle | Iver P. Cooper | Ctein | Eric Flint | Rob J. Hayes | Lafcadio Hearn |
Nathaniel Isaacson | Emmi Itäranta | Guy Gavriel Kay | John Sandford
Cyprus
Native / diaspora
Non-native
East Timor
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Georgia
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Hong Kong
Native / diaspora
Non-native
India
Native / diaspora
Akashsiddarth | Deepa Anappara | Avakkai & Chukka | Arpit Bakshi | Suparno Banerjee | Ashok K. Banker |
Abhisek Basu | Samit Basu | Ven Begamudré | Tanvi Berwah | J. Furcifer Bhairav | Tanaz Bhathena | Gautam Bhatia |
Lokenath Bhattacharya | Ratnakar D. Bhelkar | Jasbinder Bilan | Priya Sarukkai Chabria | Olivia Chadha |
Vikram Chandra | Indira Chandrasekhar | Rimi B. Chatterjee | Seema Chatterjee | Minakshi Chaudhury |
Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte | Venita Coehlo | Roshani Chokshi | Indrapramit Das | Rana Dasgupta |
Sayantani DasGupta | Iona Datt Sharma | Siddhartha Deb Vishwesh Desai | Sachin Dev | Rashmi Ruth Devadasan |
Samuel Dharmendar | S. B. Divya | Neil D’Silva | Anshul Dupare | Naveen Durgaraju | Tutu Dutta | Jessica Faleiro |
Amitav Ganguly | Jamila Gavin | Abhijit Ghosh | Amitav Ghosh | Himanshu Goel | Vidyut Gore | Nanda Guruswamy |
Laxmi Hariharan | Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain | Saiswaroopa Iyer | J. V. Jayakumar | Jemimah Jonah | Kanchan Joshi |
Ruchir Joshi | Kuber Kaushik | Tabish Khair | Easterine Kire | Lavanya Lakshminarayan | Manjula Padmanabhan |
Karan Mahajan | J. Pal | Vaishnavi Patel | Kritika H. Rao | Salman Rushdie | Amal Singh | Aditya Sudarshan |
Non-native
Ruskin Bond | Eric Brown | John Brunner | Monica Byrne | Alan Dean Foster | Paul R. Hardy | Rudyard Kipling |
Indonesia (including Western New Guinea)
Native / diaspora
Nukila Amal | Nadia Bulkin | Sarina Dahlan
Non-native
Brian Aldiss | Daniel M. Bensen | Gwyneth Jones |
Iran / Persia
Native / diaspora
Shokoofeh Azar | Sadegh Hedayat | Kiyash Monsef
Non-native
Iraq
Native / diaspora
Jim Al-Khalili | Hassan Blasim
Non-native
Saad Z. Hossain | Paul McAuley
Israel
Native / diaspora
Asaf Ashery | Ibitsam Azem | Uri Dan | Shawn Edrei | Ofir Touché Gafla | Rivka Galchen | Uri Geller | Elana Gomel |
Non-native
Richard Z. Chesnoff | Peter Mann
Japan
Native / diaspora
Kōbō Abe | Akira | Asahi Akisaka | Ryunosuke Akutagawa | Ryka Aoki | Yoshio Aramaki | Hiro Arikawa |
Ken Asamatsu | Kylie Lee Baker | Masako Bandō | Emma Mieko Candon | Traci Chee | Osamu Dazai | Toh Enjoe |
Eugie Foster | Taiyo Fujii | Jyouji Hayashi | Tobi Hirotaka | Shinichi Hoshi | Tomoyuki Hoshino | Takuji Ichikawa |
Natsuki Ikezawa | Kazuo Ishiguro | Naomi Ishiguro | Tatsuaki Ishiguro | Yuba Isukari | Project Itoh | Yukako Kabei |
Julie Kagawa | Chōhei Kambayashi | Arata Kanoh | Alma Katsu | Yasunari Kawabata | Toshikazu Kawaguchi |
Hiromi Kawakami | Genki Kawamura | Soshi Kawasaki | Yume Kitasei | Taku Mayumura | Yukio Mishima |
Haruki Murakami | Sequoia Nagamatsu | Naruki Nagakawa | Hitoshi Ône | Hideaki Sena | Makoto Shinkai |
Izumi Suzuki | Darcy Tamayose | Takayuki Tatsumi | Nagaru Tanigawa | Yoko Tawada | Mizuki Tsujimura
Non-native
Isidor Baumgartl | Pat Cadigan | Peter Carey | Jennifer Hayashi Danns | Philip K. Dick | William Gibson |
Paul R. Hardy | Lafcadio Hearn | Lian Hearn | Ian McDonald | Eli K. P. William
Jordan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Kazakhstan
Native / diaspora
Sergei Lukyanenko
Non-native
Kuwait
Native / diaspora
Chelsea Abdullah | Bothayna Al-Essa
Non-native
Kyrgyzstan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Laos
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Lebanon
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Macau
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Malaysia
Native / diaspora
Hanna Alkaf | Zen Cho | Yangsze Choo | Chua Gaut Eng | Joshua Kam | Vanessa Len | Celeste Lim | Golda Mowe |
Non-native
Maldives
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Mongolia
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Nepal
Native / diaspora
Non-native
North Korea
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Oman
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Pakistan
Native / diaspora
Mohsin Hamid | Mohammed Hanif | Aroosa Kanwal | Usman T. Malik | Shazia Sadaf | Bina Shah |
Non-native
Palestine
Native / diaspora
Nadia Afifi | Emile Habiby | Sonia Nimr
Non-native
Pashtunistan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Philippines
Native / diaspora
Dean Francis Alfar | Nikki Alfar | Sage Alfar | Janella Angeles | Louis Bulaong | Ian Rosales Casocot |
Roshani Chokshi | Rin Chupeco | Vida Cruz-Borja | Joel Donato Ching Jacob | Victor Manibo | Kristine Ong Muslim |
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo | Eliza Victoria
Non-native
Qatar
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Russia
Native / diaspora
Vassily Aksyonov | Isaac Asimov | Michael Atamanov | Vadim Babenko | Yaroslav Barsukov | Alexander Beliaev |
Dmitri Bilenkin | Alexander Bogdanov | Yuri Buida | Kir Bulychev | Dmitry Bykov | Paddy Chayefsky |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Maria Galina | Olesya Salnikova Gilmore | Nikolai Gogol | Igor Goriatchev | Alexander Grin |
Henry Iliowizi | Vsevolod Ivanov | Yuri Kapralov | Oleg Kashin | Leo Kassil | Alexander Kazantsev | Sergey Mavrodi |
Dem Mikhailov | Vladimir Mikhanovsky | Vladimir Obruchev | Mikhail Shishkin | Vladimir Sorokin | Arkady Strugatsky |
Non-native
K. L. Abrahamson | Anindita Banerjee | Ken MacLeod | Adam Roberts | Norman Spinrad
Saudi Arabia
Native / diaspora
Zamil Akhtar | Yasser Bahjatt | Zain Khalid
Non-native
Siberia
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Singapore
Native / diaspora
Meihan Boey | Elaine Chan | Audrey Chin | Joyce Chng | Terence Chua | Suffian Hakim | Rachel Heng |
Judith Huang | Isa Kamari | Yihan Sim | Teo Xue Shen | Tham Cheng-E | Kevin Martens Wong | Daryl Qilin Yam |
Non-native
Shelly Bryant | Jon Gresham | Garry Kilworth | Jason Erik Lundberg
South Korea
Native / diaspora
Renée Ahdieh | Ahn Do-hyun | Bae Myung-hoon | Kat Cho | Cho Nam-Joo | Jin-young Choi | Seo-Young Chu |
Bora Chung | Han Kang | Angela Mi Young Hur | Hwang Jungeun | Hwang Sok-yong | Hwang Sun-Mi | Dolki Min |
Lee Jeong-Ho | Minsoo Kang | Kim Un-su | Hana Lee | James Han Mattson | Sarah Suk
Non-native
Sri Lanka / Ceylon
Native / diaspora
Shehan Karunatilaka | Yudhanjaya Wijeratne | Subodhana Wijeyeratne
Non-native
Syria
Native / diaspora
Zeyn Joukhadar | Lucian
Non-native
Taiwan
Native / diaspora
K-Ming Chang | Chang Shi-kuo | Chang Yu-Ko | Curtis C. Chen | Linda Cheng | Chi Ta-wei | Ted Chiang | John Chu |
Wesley Chu | Huang Fan | Judy I. Lin | Emily X. R. Pan | Sheung-King | Wu Ming-yi
Non-native
Tajikistan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Tibet
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Thailand
Native / diaspora
Paul Adirex | Tew Bunnag | Doungjai Gam | Salinee Goldenberg | Uthis Haemamool | Siriworn Kaewkan |
Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa | Win Lyovarin | Ploi Pirapokin | Wimon Sainimnuan | Peng Shepherd | S. P. Somtow |
Non-native
Jim Algie | Paolo Bacigalupi | Dean Barrett | Lawrence Block | David B. Bond | Sean Bunzick | Richard Calder |
Stephen J. Carter | John Gartland | Thomas Olde Heuvelt | Gwyneth Jones | Garry Kilworth | Alasdair D. McLeod |
Christopher G. Moore | James A. Newman | Jim Newport | Collin Piprell | Peter J. White | Robert Charles Wilson |
Turkey
Native / diaspora
Gregory Casparian | Moris Farhi | M. Hüsnü Özkurt | Elif Shafak
Non-native
Paul R. Hardy | Ian McDonald | Robert Silverberg
Turkmenistan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Ukraine
Native / diaspora
Achmed Abdullah | Mikhail Bulgakov | Anatoly Dnieprov | Marina Dyachenko | Sergey Dyachenko | Mikhail Emtsev |
Sever Gansovsky | Elana Gomel | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky | Eremei Parnov | Carl Sagan | Alex Shvartsman |
Ilya Varshavsky | Yuliia Vereta
Non-native
UAE
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Uzbekistan
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Vietnam
Native / diaspora
Julie C. Dao | Aliette de Bodard | Lena Nguyen | Linh S. Nguyễn | Hoa Pham | Dustin Thao | Trang Thanh Tran |
Non-native
Yemen
Native / diaspora
Non-native
Below are listed all known author origins for writing from Asian countries, including their particular diaspora. Non-native writers are also included where known, when their writing concerns individual nations.