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- Kaga no ChiyoJapanese writer
- Kaga ProvinceKaga Province (加賀国, Kaga-no-kuni) was a province of Japan in the area that is today the so
- Kakinomoto no HitomaroJapanese poet
- Kamel DaoudAlgerian writer and journalist
- Karl Adolph GjellerupKarl Adolph Gjellerup (Danish: ; 2 June 1857 – 11 October 1919) was a Danish poet and nove
- Karl Kraus (writer)Austrian writer and journalist (1874–1936)
- Karl MayGerman author (1842–1912)
- Kate AdieBritish journalist (born 1945)
- Kate ChopinAmerican author (1850–1904)
- Kateb YacineAlgerian writer (1929–1989)
- Katharine GrahamAmerican newspaper publisher (1917–2001)
- Katherine MansfieldNew Zealand author (1888–1923)
- Katherine PatersonAmerican author (born 1932)
- Katherine PhilipsAnglo-Welsh poet and translator (1631/32 – 1664)
- Kathleen WinsorAmerican novelist (1915–2003)
- Kathy ReichsAmerican writer and forensic anthropologist
- Katie CouricAmerican journalist (born 1957)
- Katsu!Katsu! (stylized as KATSU!) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsuru
- Kazi Nazrul IslamBengali poet, writer and musician (1899–1976)
- Ken FollettBritish bestseller novelist (born 1949)
- Ken KeseyAmerican writer and countercultural figure (1935–2001)
- Kenneth GrahameScottish writer (1859–1932)
- Kenneth SlessorAustralian poet and journalist
- Keorapetse KgositsileSouth African poet and political activist (1938–2018)
- Keri HulmeNew Zealand writer (1947–2021)
- Khachatur AbovianArmenian polymath and writer (1809–1848?)
- Khadija IsmayilovaAzerbaijani investigative journalist and radio host
- Khaled HosseiniAfghan-American novelist (born 1965)
- Ki no TsurayukiJapanese writer
- Kibworth52°32′N 1°00′W / 52.54°N 1°W
- Kim Dong-inKorean writer (1900–1951)
- Kim Young-haSouth Korean writer (born 1968)
- Kingsley AmisEnglish author, critic and teacher (1922–1995)
- Kir IanuleaKir Ianulea or Kyr Ianulea (Romanian pronunciation: ) is a fantasy and historical fiction
- Kiran DesaiIndian author (born 1971)
- Kitab al-HamasahḤamāsah (from Arabic حماسة valour) is a well-known ten-book anthology of pre-Islamic Arabi
- Ko UnSouth Korean poet (born 1933)
- Kobayashi IssaJapanese poet
- Kōbō AbeJapanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
- Kofi AwoonorGhanaian poet and author (1935–2013)
- Konstantin BalmontRussian poet (1867–1942)
- Korney ChukovskyRussian children's poet (1882–1969)
- Kosta KhetagurovOssetian poet (1859–1906)
- KreislerianaKreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo pian
- KreuzauKreuzau is a municipality in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia,
- Ksenia SobchakRussian journalist and media manager (born 1981)
- Kukrit PramojPrime Minister of Thailand from 1975 to 1976
- Kulap SaipraditThai writer
- Kyoki RobertsRev. Kyōki Roberts (OPW) (died December 19, 2023) is a retired American Sōtō Zen priest. T