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Shin Kyung-sook
Shin Kyung-sook (신경숙, born 1963) is a South Korean novelist known for Please Look After Mom and as the first Korean winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Shivaram Karanth
Shivaram Karanth (ಕೋಟ ಶಿವರಾಮ ಕಾರಂತ, 1902–1997) was a Kannada novelist, playwright, and reformer from coastal Karnataka who won the Jnanpith Award in 1977 for Mookajjiya Kanasugalu.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (שמואל יוסף עגנון)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (S.Y. Agnon, born Czaczkes) was an Israeli Hebrew novelist from Buczacz, Galicia; first Israeli Nobel laureate (Literature 1966, shared with Nelly Sachs), only Hebrew writer on the list, two-time Israel Prize winner.
Shobhaa De (शोभा राजाध्यक्ष)
Shobhaa De (शोभा राजाध्यक्ष; born Shobha Rajadhyaksha, 1948) is an Indian novelist, columnist, and former editor of Stardust, Society, and Celebrity, known for pioneering Hinglish in English fiction and for Socialite Evenings (1989) through The Sensual Self (2025).
Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作, 1923–1996) was a Japanese novelist and one of Japan's first Catholic writers, best known for Silence (1966), which examines why Christianity took root poorly in Japan.
Sia Figiel
Sia Figiel (born 1967) was a Samoan novelist, poet, and performance artist whose debut novel where we once belonged (1996) won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Silvina Bullrich
Silvina Bullrich (1915–1990) was an Argentine novelist, translator, journalist, and screenwriter; her bestseller Los burgueses (1964) sold over 60,000 copies, and she also translated Simone de Beauvoir.
Simin Daneshvar
Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور) was an Iranian novelist, translator, and academic whose Savushun (1969) was the first novel in Persian written by an Iranian woman.
Sonallah Ibrahim
Sonallah Ibrahim (صنع الله إبراهيم; 1937–2025) was an Egyptian leftist novelist whose spare fiction chronicled Egyptian political life, most famously in That Smell and The Committee.
Subodh Ghosh
Subodh Ghosh (সুবোধ ঘোষ; 1909–1980) was a Bengali short-story writer, novelist, and journalist at Anandabazar Patrika, best known for "Ajantrik" and the 1944 novel Tilanjali.
Suhayl Idris
Suhayl Idris (سهيل إدريس, 1925–2008) was a Lebanese novelist, translator, critic, and publisher who founded the monthly magazine Al-Adab in 1953 and the publishing house Dar al-Adab, and wrote the novel Al-Hayy al-Latini.
Suleiman Cassamo
Suleiman Cassamo, born 1962, is a Mozambican writer whose story collection O Regresso do Morto was named by UNESCO a representative work of universal literary heritage in 1994.
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay (সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়) was a Bengali poet and novelist who co-founded the magazine Krittibas in 1953, wrote the historical novel Sei Samay, and created the adventurer Kakababu.
Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana
Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (1908–1994) was an Indonesian novelist, poet, and language planner who co-founded Poedjangga Baroe in 1933 and shaped Indonesia's policy of promoting Bahasa Indonesia for nation-building.
Sylvain Bemba
Sylvain Bemba (1934, Sibiti–1995, Paris) was a Congolese journalist, novelist, playwright, and musicologist, a dominant figure of intellectual life in Congo-Brazzaville for roughly forty years who wrote a pioneering study of Congolese popular music.
T. Janakiraman
T. Janakiraman (தி. ஜானகிராமன்; 1921–1982), known as Thi Jaa, was a Tamil novelist, short story writer, and playwright who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979.
Takeshi Kaiko
Takeshi Kaiko (開高健, 1930–1989) was a Japanese postwar novelist and essayist who won the Akutagawa Prize in 1958 for "The Naked King" and wrote acclaimed Vietnam War novels.
Talip Apaydın
Talip Apaydın (1926–2014) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer whose plain-language fiction depicted the Anatolian village, winning the Madaralı and Orhan Kemal novel awards.
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; 1898–1971) was a leading Bengali novelist and short-story writer, known as the artist of rural Bengal, who won the 1966 Jnanpith Award for his novel Ganadevata.
Tash Aw
Tash Aw is a Malaysian novelist and essayist, born in 1971 and raised in Kuala Lumpur, whose five novels examine class, migration, and the Chinese diaspora.
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad (توفيق يوسف عواد, 1911–1989) was a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and diplomat counted among the leading Lebanese novelists of the twentieth century, known for al-Raghif and Tawahin Bayrut.
Thạch Lam
Thạch Lam (1909 or 1910 – 1942) was the pen name of Nguyễn Tường Lân, a Vietnamese short-story writer and member of the Tự Lực văn đoàn.
Thomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally, born in 1935, is an Australian novelist and nonfiction writer whose 1982 novel Schindler's Ark won the Booker Prize and inspired Spielberg's Oscar-winning film Schindler's List.
Thomas King
Thomas King (born 1943) is an American-born Canadian novelist, essayist, and broadcaster who has written about Indigenous life in North America; his works include Medicine River, Green Grass, Running Water, and The Inconvenient Indian.
Tô Hoài
Tô Hoài (1920–2014), born Nguyễn Sen, was a Vietnamese writer of nearly 200 works, best known for the children's classic The Adventures of a Cricket (1941).
Tologon Kasymbekov
Tologon Kasymbekov (Төлөгөн Касымбеков) was a Kyrgyz writer, People's Writer of Kyrgyzstan and Hero of the Kyrgyz Republic, best known for the historical novel The Broken Sword (1966).
Tomás Carrasquilla
Tomás Carrasquilla was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, regarded as the leading figure of Antioquia's literary tradition and best known for La Marquesa de Yolombó.
Toshiyuki Horie
Toshiyuki Horie (堀江敏幸, born 1964) is a Japanese writer and scholar of French literature who won the Akutagawa Prize for The Bear and the Paving Stone.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga, born in 1959 in what was then Southern Rhodesia, is a Zimbabwean writer and film-maker whose 1988 novel Nervous Conditions was the first in English by a Zimbabwean woman.
Twinkle Khanna (ट्विंकल खन्ना)
Twinkle Khanna (ट्विंकल खन्ना), also Tina Jatin Khanna, Indian former actress, columnist and author, daughter of Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, wife of Akshay Kumar; wrote Mrs Funnybones, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, Pyjamas Are Forgiving, Welcome to Paradise.