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Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan, born in Tasmania in 1961, is an Australian novelist who won the 2014 Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
Roberto Arlt
Roberto Arlt (1900–1942) was an Argentine novelist, playwright, and journalist whose raw, colloquial prose portrayed alienated characters in Buenos Aires in novels like Los siete locos and El juguete rabioso.
Roberto Burgos Cantor
Roberto Burgos Cantor (1948–2018) was a Colombian novelist from Cartagena, known for La ceiba de la memoria and winner of the 2018 Premio Nacional de Novela.
Rosario Castellanos
Rosario Castellanos (1925–1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat whose novels and essays addressed women and indigenous communities in Chiapas; she died while serving as ambassador to Israel.
Rosario Ferré
Rosario Ferré (1938–2016) was a Puerto Rican poet, narrator, and essayist, born in Ponce, best known for Papeles de Pandora (1976) and The House on the Lagoon.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介)
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介, 1892–1927), also known as Chōkōdō Shujin, was a Tokyo-born Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, author of Rashōmon, Hell Screen, In a Grove, and Kappa, praised by Natsume Sōseki and commemorated by the Akutagawa Prize.
S. L. Bhyrappa
S. L. Bhyrappa (1931–2025) was an Indian Kannada novelist and screenwriter whose 24 novels, including Parva and Aavarana, made him one of Kannada literature's most widely read and debated writers.
Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت)
Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت, 1903–1951), Iranian writer, founder of modernism in Persian fiction; his novel The Blind Owl (Buf-e kur, Bombay 1936) is the most famous Persian novel, translated into some thirty languages.
Sadeq Chubak
Sadeq Chubak (صادق چوبک, 1916–1998) was an Iranian short story writer and novelist, a founder of modern Persian fiction best known for Tangsir and The Patient Stone.
Salim Hatubou
Salim Hatubou (1972–2015) was a Franco-Comorian writer and storyteller, a pioneer of Comorian literature in French whose work drew on oral tradition and the ties between the Comoros and Marseille.
Salvador Garmendia
Salvador Garmendia (1928, Barquisimeto – 2001, Caracas) was a Venezuelan novelist and short-story writer known for urban narratives like Los pequeños seres and for winning the National Literature Prize.
Samira Khashoggi (سميرة خاشقجي)
Samira Khashoggi (سميرة خاشقجي; 1935–1986) was a Saudi novelist, publisher, and film producer who wrote under the name Samira bint Al-Jazira and pioneered the Saudi women's novel.
Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (সঞ্জীবচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়; 1834–1889) was a Bengali writer, poet, and journalist, best known as the elder brother of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and author of Palamau, a pioneering Bengali travelogue.
Sanjib Chattopadhyay
Sanjib Chattopadhyay (সঞ্জীব চট্টোপাধ্যায়), born 1934 in Kolkata, is an Indian Bengali novelist known for humorous prose, the novel Lotakambal, and the children's Boro Mama series.
Santō Kyōden
Santō Kyōden (山東京伝, 1761–1816) was a Japanese popular-fiction writer and ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period, a leading gesaku author of kibyōshi and sharebon.
Santokh Singh Dhir
Santokh Singh Dhir (ਸੰਤੋਖ ਸਿੰਘ ਧੀਰ; 1920–2010) was an Indian Punjabi writer of short stories, poetry, and novels who won the 1996 Sahitya Akademi Award for Pakhi.
Sarah Joseph
Sarah Joseph (Malayalam: സാറാ ജോസഫ്; born 1946) is a Malayalam novelist and feminist activist from Kerala, best known for her award-winning 1999 novel Aalahayude Penmakkal.
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়)
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়), also spelled Sharatchandra, 1876–1938, Bengali novelist of Devdas, Srikanta, Parineeta, and the sedition-banned Pather Dabi; wrote of rural Bengal, women, caste, and debt.
Sata Ineko
Sata Ineko (佐多稲子), born in Nagasaki in 1904, was a Japanese novelist and essayist who debuted from the caramel factory in 1928 and won the Noma Prize for Juei.
Saurabh Kumar Chaliha
Saurabh Kumar Chaliha, pen name of Surendra Nath Medhi, was an Assamese short story writer and physicist credited with bringing modernism into Assamese fiction with his story "Ashanta Electron", written around 1950.
Sawako Ariyoshi
Sawako Ariyoshi (有吉佐和子, 1931–1984) was a Japanese novelist and playwright whose bestsellers on aging, pollution, and women made her one of Shōwa Japan's most widely read writers.
Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher
Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher (ስብሐት ገብረ እግዚአብሔር; 1936–2012) was an Ethiopian journalist and author from Tigray, remembered for introducing a naturalistic, sexually frank style into Amharic literature; his first novel was published only in 2004.
Sefi Atta
Sefi Atta, born 1964, is a Nigerian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose debut novel Everything Good Will Come won the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize in 2006.
Selina Hossain
Selina Hossain (সেলিনা হোসেন), born 1947, is a Bangladeshi novelist and short-story writer in Bengali, known for fiction on the 1971 Liberation War and the Language Movement.
Sergio Chejfec
Sergio Chejfec (1956–April 2022) was an Argentine writer of novels, essays, and poetry, known for Los planetas and Mis dos mundos, who taught at New York University.
Seydou Badian Kouyaté
Seydou Badian Kouyaté, pen name Seydou Badian, was a Malian novelist and politician best known for his 1957 novel Sous l'orage and the Malian national anthem lyrics.
Shahidullah Kaiser
Shahidullah Kaiser (শহীদুল্লা কায়সার), born Abu Naim Muhammad Shahidullah, was a Bangladeshi novelist and journalist known for Sareng Bou and Sangshaptak, killed in December 1971.
Shahnon Ahmad
Shahnon Ahmad (1933–2017) was a Malaysian novelist and academic named the country's second Sasterawan Negara in 1982; his novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan became a classic of modern Malay literature.
Shashi Deshpande
Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist and short-story writer who writes in English, best known for That Long Silence (1988), winner of the 1990 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Sheng Keyi
Sheng Keyi (盛可以) is a Chinese novelist, born in 1973 in Yiyang, Hunan, whose fierce fiction centers on rural and migrant women; her debut novel is Bei Mei.