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Salarrué
Salarrué was the pen name of Luis Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué (1899–1975), a Salvadoran writer and painter regarded as a founder of the modern Central American short story.
Sam Selvon
Sam Selvon, born Samuel Dickson Selvon, was a Trinidadian novelist and short-story writer, a leading figure of the 1950s Caribbean literary renaissance, best known for The Lonely Londoners (1956).
Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin (born 1978, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer of stories and novels blending realism and the uncanny, best known for Fever Dream and Seven Empty Houses.
Samaresh Majumdar
Samaresh Majumdar (সমরেশ মজুমদার; 1942–2023) was an Indian Bengali novelist from West Bengal, best known for the Naxalite-era trilogy Uttaradhikar, Kalbela, and Kalpurush and for Satkahon, featuring Dipabali.
Samipaşazade Sezai
Samipaşazade Sezai (1859–1936) was an Ottoman and Turkish story writer, novelist, playwright, and diplomat of the Tanzimat era, remembered chiefly for the novel Sergüzeşt and the short-story collection Küçük Şeyler.
Sarah Gertrude Millin
Sarah Gertrude Millin, born Sarah Gertrude Liebson in Lithuania in 1889, was a South African novelist and biographer long described as her country's leading literary figure.
Satoshi Yagisawa (八木沢 里志) (writer)
Satoshi Yagisawa (八木沢里志), born 1977 in Chiba, is a Japanese novelist whose debut Days at the Morisaki Bookshop won the Chiyoda Literature Prize and later sold over a million copies abroad in 50 languages.
Seni Saowaphong
Seni Saowaphong, or Sakchai Bamrungphong, was a Thai novelist and diplomat who was a key figure in the "art for life" movement, famous for reflecting social inequality in works like Peesat.
Sergio Pitol
Sergio Pitol Deméneghi was a Mexican writer, translator, and diplomat who served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia and won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2005.
Sevgi Soysal
Sevgi Soysal, also published as Sevgi Nutku and Sevgi Sabuncu, was a Turkish novelist whose fiction examined women's lives, class, and repression after Turkey's 1971 memorandum.
Sha Ting
Sha Ting (沙汀), born Yang Zhaoxi, was a Chinese fiction writer known for realist, satirical novels and stories set in the rural market towns of northwestern Sichuan.
Shafiq-ur-Rahman
Shafiq-ur-Rahman (شفیق الرحمٰن; 1920–2000) was a Pakistani Urdu humorist and physician who became a Major General in the Army Medical Corps and chaired the Pakistan Academy of Letters.
Shawkat Osman
Shawkat Osman (শওকত ওসমান), born Sheikh Azizur Rahman in 1917, was a Bangladeshi novelist known for Janani and Kritadasher Hashi and for novels attacking dictatorship and the 1971 Liberation War, who won the Independence Day Award.
Shi Shuqing
Shi Shuqing (施叔青, born 1945) is a Taiwanese novelist whose Hong Kong Trilogy and Taiwan Trilogy recount a century of Hong Kong and Taiwanese history, ranked among Asia Weekly's best Chinese novels.
Shi Tiesheng
Shi Tiesheng (史铁生, 1951–2010) was a Chinese writer from Beijing, paralyzed at 21, whose 1991 essay The Temple of Earth and I became a classic.
Shikitei Sanba
Shikitei Sanba (式亭三馬, 1776–1822) was a Japanese gesaku author of the late Edo period, best known for the comic works Ukiyoburo and Ukiyodoko, which portray Edo commoners through their conversation.
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়), born in 1935 in present-day Bangladesh, is an Indian Bengali writer of novels, short stories, and children's fiction who received the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Shiv Prasad Singh
Shiv Prasad Singh was a renowned Hindi author and professor from Banaras, Uttar Pradesh, who excelled in nearly every prose genre, notably the historical novel Neela Chand.
Shohei Ooka
Shohei Ooka (大岡昇平, 1909–1988) was a Japanese novelist who began writing after being taken prisoner in the Philippines in 1945; his war works include Fires on the Plain.
Shoukat Hussain Shoro
Shoukat Hussain Shoro (شوڪت حسين شورو, 1947–2021) was a Pakistani short story writer, playwright, and essayist regarded as a pioneer of the modern Sindhi short story.
Shrilal Shukla
Shrilal Shukla (श्रीलाल शुक्ल; 1925–2011) was a Hindi novelist, satirist, and civil servant in Uttar Pradesh whose satirical novel Raag Darbari (1968) won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Jnanpith Award.
Siburapha
Siburapha (ศรีบูรพา) was the pen name of Kulap Saipradit (1905–1974), a Thai novelist, journalist, and peace activist best known for the classic Behind the Painting.
Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo (1903–1993) was an Argentine writer of fantastic short stories and poetry, co-editor with Borges and Bioy Casares of the 1940 Antología de la literatura fantástica.
Simon Navagattegama
Simon Navagattegama (සයිමන් නවගත්තේගම, 1940–2005) was a Sri Lankan Sinhala novelist, playwright, and actor whose "hunter stories", beginning with Sansaranyaye Dadayakkaraya in 1981, pioneered surrealist fiction.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
Simone Schwarz-Bart, born Simone Brumant in 1938, is a Guadeloupean novelist and playwright known for Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972), a central work of Caribbean literature.
Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona, born 1943, is a South African writer and poet whose autobiographies, novels, and more than 100 children's books draw on her life under apartheid.
Sipho Sepamla
Sipho Sepamla, born Sydney Sipho Sepamla, was a South African poet, novelist, and activist based in Soweto, a leading poet of the 1970s Black Consciousness era.
Soledad Acosta de Samper
Soledad Acosta de Samper, born Soledad Acosta Kemble, was a Colombian novelist and journalist who was the first woman in Colombia to live by her pen.
Solomon Mutswairo
Solomon Mutswairo (1924–2005) was a Zimbabwean novelist, poet, and academic who wrote Feso (1956), the first published Shona novel, and wrote the lyrics of the Zimbabwean national anthem.
Sony Labou Tansi
Sony Labou Tansi (1947–1995) was a Congolese novelist, poet, playwright, and theater director in Brazzaville whose satirical novels, starting with La Vie et demie (1979), made him one of francophone Africa's most recognized authors.