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Haakon Chevalier
Haakon Chevalier (1901–1985), American writer and Berkeley professor of French literature, translator of Malraux, Aragon, and Dalí, and close friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose 1943 approach about passing secrets to the Soviets became the Chevalier incident at the 1954 security hearing.
Halim Barakat
Halim Barakat (حليم بركات) was a Syrian-born Arab sociologist and novelist who taught for 27 years at Georgetown University and wrote The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State (1993).
Hans Egon Holthusen
Hans Egon Holthusen (1913–1997) was a German lyric poet, essayist, and literary scholar who became one of the most influential critics of the early Federal Republic.
Hans Sahl
Hans Sahl, born Hans Salomon (1902–1993), was a German journalist, poet, and translator who fled the Nazis in 1933 and spent over 50 years in exile.
Haraprasad Shastri
Haraprasad Shastri (হরপ্রসাদ শাস্ত্রী), born Hara Prasad Bhattacharya, was an Indian Sanskrit scholar and historian of Bengali literature who discovered the Charyapada in Nepal in 1907.
Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (1930–2019), American literary critic and Yale Sterling Professor of the Humanities, author of The Anxiety of Influence (1973) and The Western Canon (1994); theorist of poetic influence, not the Harvard or other Blooms.
Haviva Pedaya
Haviva Pedaya, born in Jerusalem in 1957, is an Israeli professor of Jewish history, poet, and scholar of Kabbalah who won the Bernstein and Gershom Scholem prizes.
Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) was a British-born Australian biographer whose acclaimed books include Tête-à-Tête, on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and a study of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Héctor Libertella
Héctor Libertella (1945–2006) was an Argentine writer, critic, editor, and anthologist born in Bahía Blanca, regarded by critics as the pioneer of the critical fiction genre that blurred fiction, essay, and theory.
Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda
Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda, known after 2023 as Heloisa Teixeira, was a Brazilian literary critic and professor who shaped the study of marginal poetry and feminism in Brazil.
Hemchandra Barua
Hemchandra Barua (হেমচন্দ্ৰ বৰুৱা; 1835–1896) was an Assamese grammarian, lexicographer, satirist, and social reformer, best known for compiling Hemkosh, the first etymological dictionary of Assamese.
Henri Troyat (Лев Асланович Тарасов)
Henri Troyat (Lev Aslanovich Tarasov), French novelist and biographer born in Moscow in 1911 to an Armenian family; Goncourt 1938, Académie française 1959, author of Tolstoy, Pushkin, and tsar biographies.
Henrik Schück
Henrik Schück (1855–1947) was a Swedish literary and cultural historian, professor at Lund and Uppsala and rector there from 1905 to 1918, best known for Illustrerad svensk litteraturhistoria.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Hutchins Center director, is a literary scholar and Emmy- and Peabody-winning filmmaker, host of PBS's Finding Your Roots, and author of The Black Box (2024).
Hermann Bahr
Hermann Bahr (1863–1934) was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and theater and literary critic who served as one of the chief spokesmen and organizers of Viennese modernism around 1900.
Hermogenes of Tarsus
Hermogenes of Tarsus, a Greek rhetorician born around 160 CE in Cilicia, wrote On Staseis and On Ideas of Style, treatises that shaped Byzantine and Renaissance rhetoric.
Hernando de Alvarado Tezozómoc
Hernando de Alvarado Tezozómoc, also written Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, was a Nahua nobleman of Mexico-Tenochtitlan who wrote two chronicles of the Mexica past around 1600.
Heşt Behişt
Heşt Behişt (Tezkire-i Sehî) is the first biographical dictionary of poets in Ottoman Turkish, completed by Sehî Bey in 1538 and presented to Sultan Süleyman.
Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), Franco-English writer, historian, and Catholic polemicist; Liberal MP for Salford 1906-1910, author of about 150 books including The Servile State, and half of the 'Chesterbelloc' with G. K. Chesterton.
Hipólito José da Costa
Hipólito José da Costa, also known as Hipólito da Costa, was a journalist and diplomat who founded the Correio Braziliense in London, recognized as the patron of Brazilian journalism.
Hiren Gohain
Hiren Gohain (হীৰেন গোহাঁই; born 1939 in Golaghat, Assam) is an Assamese literary critic, professor of English, and public intellectual who won the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Hoài Thanh
Hoài Thanh (1909–1982), born Nguyễn Đức Nguyên, was a Vietnamese literary critic whose Thi nhân Việt Nam (1942), written with his brother Hoài Chân, defined the Thơ mới movement.
Hope Against Hope
Hope Against Hope (Russian: Vospominaniya, "memoirs") is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, and his persecution under Stalin, first published in English in 1970.
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), youngest son of Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, wrote The Castle of Otranto, the first Gothic novel, built Strawberry Hill, founded the Strawberry Hill Press, and coined 'serendipity'.
Horacio Carochi
Horacio Carochi, in Italian Orazio Carocci, was a Florentine Jesuit in New Spain whose 1645 grammar of Classical Nahuatl is considered the colonial era's most accurate.
Hu Yinglin
Hu Yinglin (胡应麟, 1551–1602), courtesy name Yuanrui, was a Ming dynasty Chinese poet, scholar, and literary critic best known for the Shisou, a large work of poetic criticism.
Huan Kuan
Huan Kuan (桓宽) was a Western Han scholar from Runan who compiled the Yantielun, the record of the 81 BCE court debate on the salt and iron monopolies.
Huang Jin
Huang Jin (黄溍, 1277–1357), courtesy name Jinjin, was a Yuan dynasty Confucian scholar, prose writer, and official from Yiwu, Zhejiang, ranked among the four masters of Yuan prose.
Hugh Alexander Pollock
Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888-1971), British editor at George Newnes and Royal Scots Fusiliers lieutenant-colonel awarded the DSO in 1919; first husband of Enid Blyton, married 1924, divorced 1943, later married Ida Pollock; buried in Malta.
Hugo Alfaro
Hugo Alfaro (Hugo Renán Alfaro Pérez, 1917–1996) was a Uruguayan journalist and writer of the Generación del 45 who worked at the weekly Marcha and founded Brecha.