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Mark Harman

Dublin-born translator and Kafka scholar, professor emeritus of German and English at Elizabethtown College. His English version of The Castle won the first MLA Lois Roth Award. He also translated Kafka's Amerika and Selected Stories.

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Mark Hutchinson

Mark Hutchinson is a literary translator who renders French-language fiction and poetry into English. His translations of Anne Serre's novels and René Char's verse are published by New Directions.

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Mark Twain

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Mary Beard

British classicist Mary Beard writes accessible, questioning histories of ancient Rome, examining its politics, social life, religion and enduring modern uses.

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Matt Haig

British author of speculative novels, memoirs and children’s books, known for writing about regret, time, mental health and the strange possibilities hidden inside ordinary lives.

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Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond is an American sociologist and nonfiction writer whose books examine poverty, housing insecurity and inequality through ethnographic research and public-policy analysis.

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Mattias Ripa

Mattias Ripa is a Swedish translator credited with putting the first part of Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir Persepolis into English from French. He did not write the book; his name sits on the English edition.

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Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and writer whose nature and science writing explores fungi, symbiosis, and the connectedness of living systems.

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Michael Chabon

American novelist Michael Chabon writes literary fiction shaped by Jewish history, popular culture and genre storytelling. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

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Michael Deagler

Michael Deagler is a fiction writer whose debut novel, Early Sobrieties (2024), follows a young man staying sober in and around Philadelphia. It won the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.

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Michael Ende

German fantasy writer (1929–1995) behind The Neverending Story, Momo and Jim Button. He wrote for children and adults, and his books keep returning to imagination, time and the act of reading.

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Michael J. Sandel

American political philosopher Michael J. Sandel writes about justice, democracy, markets and the moral questions beneath public life.

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