Kurt Tucholsky was a German journalist, satirist, and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger and Ignaz Wrobel.
Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works; further collections have been published after his death.
Kurtis Scaletta is an American writer of fiction for children and young adults. He is known for his contemporary writing intermingled with light fantasy and humor. His first novel, Mudville (2009), is based on the poem "Casey at the Bat". He is also the author of Mamba Point (2010) and The Tanglewood Terror (2011). All three are published by Knopf.
Kustaa Gideon Vilkuna was a Finnish ethnologist, linguist and historian. Vilkuna was a member of the Academic Karelia Society (AKS) until resigning in 1932 and again from 1942–1944. He was appointed a professor of ethnology at the University of Helsinki in 1950. In politics, he was a member of the Agrarian League and the Minister of Education in Reino Kuuskoski's cabinet. He was also closely associated with then-president Urho Kekkonen, being even described as the éminence grise of Kekkonen.
Kuzma Pavlovich Chaynikov, better known as Kuzebay Gerd was an Udmurt poet, a prose writer, a playwright, a public figure, and a nationalist. He was executed in Sandarmokh during the Great Purge and was posthumously rehabilitated (exonerated) in 1958.
Mikałaj Karłavič Ramanoŭski, also known by the pseudonym Kuźma Čorny was a Belarusian poet, writer, dramatist, and opinion journalist. He studied at the pedagogue school in Niaśviž from 1916 until 1919. During the 1920s, he worked as a teacher in Słuck. In 1923, he was working in the faculty of literature and linguistics in the Belarusian State University in Minsk. From 1924 to 1928, he worked as a journalist in a magazine Biełaruskaja vioska. In 1923, he was a member of a literary organisation Maładniak, and editor of Uzvyšša for five years from 1926 until 1931. During the Second World War, he lived in Moscow, working in a journal Razdavim fashistkuyu gadinu and Biełaruś. Then he moved back to Minsk. He died on 22 November 1944, aged 44 of a stroke in the apartment-room provided by Sovnarkom. He was an author of children's literature.
