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'Ali ibn Harb Tai
'Ali ibn Harb al-Tai was a hadith scholar, man of letters, and poet of Mosul who died in 265 AH; his narrations appear in the two Sahih collections.
1980s Generation
The 1980s Generation (جيل الثمانينيات) is a label in Arabic literary criticism for writers, chiefly novelists, whose careers took shape in the 1980s, positioned between the Seventies and Nineties Generations.
1990s Generation
The 1990s Generation (Jīl al-Tisʿīniyāt) is a label for Egyptian writers and poets who rose to prominence in the 1990s, known for experimental prose fiction and the prose poem.
A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne, 1882–1956), English playwright, Punch humorist, and author of Winnie-the-Pooh, When We Were Very Young, Now We Are Six, and The House at Pooh Corner, plus The Red House Mystery and Peace with Honour.
A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua, born Abraham Gabriel Yehoshua (Hebrew: א"ב יהושע, 1936–2022), was an Israeli novelist, playwright, and essayist known for novels like The Lover and Mr. Mani.
A. C. Benson
Arthur Christopher Benson (April 24, 1862 – June 17, 1925), usually published as A. C. Benson, was an English author, diarist, and educator. He served as master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, from.
A. C. Jordan
A. C. Jordan, full name Archibald Campbell Jordan, was a South African Xhosa novelist and linguist whose 1940 novel Ingqumbo Yeminyanya became a landmark of Xhosa literature.
A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman, also known as Alfred Edward Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. He is best known for A Shropshire Lad and his work at Cambridge.
A. F. Th. van der Heijden
A. F. Th. van der Heijden, pen name of Adri van der Heijden (born 1951), is a Dutch novelist known for the cycles De tandeloze tijd and Homo duplex.
A. J. Cronin
A. J. Cronin, born Archibald Joseph Cronin, was a Scottish physician turned novelist whose 1937 bestseller The Citadel is credited with contributing to the founding of Britain's National Health Service.
A. K. Ramanujan
A. K. Ramanujan (Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan, 1929–1993), Indian poet, translator, linguist, and folklorist born in Mysore; wrote in English and Kannada, translated classical Tamil and Kannada works, taught 32 years at the University of Chicago, won the 1983 MacArthur Fellowship.
A. L. Snijders
A. L. Snijders, pen name of Peter Cornelis Müller, was a Dutch writer who invented the zkv, a very short story, and won the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2010.
A. N. Murthy Rao
A. N. Murthy Rao (1900–2005), born Akkihebbalu Narasimha Murthy Rao, was an Indian Kannada essayist and critic known for his humorous literary essays and the rationalist work Devaru.
A. R. Ammons
A. R. Ammons (Archie Randolph Ammons, 1926–2001) was an American poet who wrote nearly thirty books of poetry, won the National Book Award twice, and taught at Cornell University.
A. R. Venkatachalapathy
A. R. Venkatachalapathy (ஆ.இரா. வேங்கடாசலபதி) is an Indian historian and Tamil writer, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Chennai known for research on Tamil print culture.
A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt (Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, née Drabble, 1936–2023), British novelist and critic; sister of Margaret Drabble; won the 1990 Booker Prize for Possession and wrote the Frederica Quartet.
A. Samad Said
A. Samad Said is the pen name of Abdul Samad bin Mohamed Said (born 1935), a Malaysian novelist and poet named the country's fourth National Laureate in 1985.
A.A. Navis
A.A. Navis, pen name of Ali Akbar Navis (1924–2003), was an Indonesian writer and cultural critic from West Sumatra, best known for the satirical 1955 story "Robohnya Surau Kami".
A.J. West
A.J. West (born 1982, Milton Keynes) is a British novelist and former BBC newsreader, the first openly gay BBC TV newsreader in Northern Ireland; author of The Spirit Engineer (HWA Debut Crown 2022) and The Betrayal of Thomas True (CWA Historical Dagger 2025).
Aaro Hellaakoski
Aaro Hellaakoski, originally Helaakoski, was a Finnish poet and geographer, a pioneer of modern Finnish poetry best known for his experimental 1928 collection Jääpeili ('Ice mirror').
Aaron Chiundura Moyo
Aaron Chiundura Moyo is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, born in Gweru in 1950, who has written over 20 novels and plays almost exclusively in Shona.
Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder, also known as Aaron Vincent McGruder, is an American cartoonist born in Chicago in 1974, best known for The Boondocks, a satirical comic strip syndicated from 1999 and later an Adult Swim animated series.
Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin, American playwright, screenwriter and director born 1961, creator of The West Wing and Oscar winner for The Social Network, known for rapid-fire dialogue and The Social Reckoning (2026).
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje
Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (1818–1870) was a Norwegian author, journalist, and lawyer who founded the weekly Dølen, the first newspaper written in Landsmål, the new written Norwegian.
Aatish Taseer
Aatish Taseer (born 1980), British American writer and journalist, son of Tavleen Singh and Salmaan Taseer; author of Stranger to History, The Temple-Goers, Noon, The Way Things Were, The Twice-Born; lost Indian OCI status in 2019.
Abbas Beydoun
Abbas Beydoun (عباس بيضون), born 1945 in Tyre, Lebanon, is a poet, novelist, and journalist, a pioneer of the Arabic prose poem who won the 2017 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Abbas Zaryab
Abbas Zaryab, full name Abbas Zaryab Khoei, was an Iranian historian, translator, and manuscript scholar who taught history at the University of Tehran from 1965 to 1978.
Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi
Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi (عبد الرحمن الشرقاوي; 1920–1987) was an Egyptian novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist whose 1954 novel Al-Ard was a landmark of Arabic realism, and whose verse plays made him a leading Arab dramatist.
Abd al-Salam al-Ujayli
Abd al-Salam al-Ujayli (عبد السلام العجيلي; 1918–2006) was a Syrian novelist, short-story writer, poet, and physician from Raqqa, among the earliest writers of fiction in Syria and a 1962 government minister.
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati
Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati (عبد الوهاب البياتي, 1926–1999) was an Iraqi poet, a key figure in the Free Verse Movement who spent more than half his life in exile.