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Stanlake Samkange
Stanlake Samkange (1922–1988) was a Zimbabwean journalist, historian, novelist, and nationalist politician whose 1966 novel On Trial for My Country was the first English novel published by a Black Zimbabwean.
Su Qing (writer)
Su Qing (苏青, born Feng Heyi, 1914 or 1917 – 1982) was a Chinese novelist and essayist ranked alongside Zhang Ailing among the best-selling women writers of 1940s occupied Shanghai.
Su Tong
Su Tong (苏童) is the pen name of Chinese writer Tong Zhonggui, born in 1963, whose novella Wives and Concubines was adapted into Raise the Red Lantern.
Sue Nyathi
Sue Nyathi (Sukoluhle Nyathi, born 1978) is a Zimbabwean novelist and screenwriter in Johannesburg. Wrote The Polygamist (2012), The Gold Diggers, A Family Affair, An Angel's Demise; her debut became a 2026 Netflix series.
Sujan Singh
Sujan Singh (1909–1993) was an Indian Punjabi short story writer and educator, who wrote under the pen name 'Principal' and won the 1987 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Surendra Mohanty
Surendra Mohanty (1922–1990) was an Indian writer in the Odia language who wrote about fifty books, including the celebrated novel Neelashaila, while also working as a journalist and parliamentarian.
Syed Abdul Malik
Syed Abdul Malik (1919–2000) was an Assamese novelist and short story writer who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1972 and the Padma Bhushan in 1992.
Syed Waliullah
Syed Waliullah (সৈয়দ ওয়ালীউল্লাহ; 1922–1971) was a Bengali novelist, playwright, and diplomat whose first novel Lalsalu (1948), about a fraudulent holy man, became a classic of modern Bengali literature.
T. Padmanabhan (writer)
T. Padmanabhan (ടി. പദ്മനാഭൻ), born 1931 in Kannur district, Kerala, is an Indian writer who has written only Malayalam short stories, about 200 across seven decades, winning major literary awards.
Tahar Ouettar
Tahar Ouettar (الطاهر وطار, 1936–2010) was an Algerian novelist and dramatist who wrote in Arabic; his 1974 novels al-Laz and al-Zilzal were among the first after independence.
Tamura Toshiko
Tamura Toshiko (田村俊子, 1884–1945), real name Satō Toshiko, was a Japanese novelist, a leading professional woman writer of the Taishō period who later edited the women's magazine Nüsheng in occupied Shanghai.
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (তসলিমা নাসরিন), born 1962 in Mymensingh, is a Bangladeshi Bengali writer, physician and feminist, author of Lajja, exiled since 1994 and a Sakharov Prize laureate.
Tayeb Salih
Tayeb Salih (الطيب صالح, 1929–2009) was a Sudanese novelist whose Season of Migration to the North was declared the most important Arabic novel of the 20th century.
Teresa de la Parra
Teresa de la Parra, pen name of Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo, was a Venezuelan novelist best known for Ifigenia (1924) and Las memorias de Mamá Blanca.
Tetsuo Miura
Tetsuo Miura (三浦哲郎, 1931–2010) was a Japanese novelist from Aomori who won the 1961 Akutagawa Prize for Shinobu Kawa, known as Shame in the Blood.
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (തകഴി ശിവശങ്കരപിള്ള), known as Thakazhi after his birthplace, was a Malayalam novelist who portrayed peasants and fisherfolk in Kerala and won the 1984 Jnanpith award.
Thein Pe Myint
Thein Pe Myint (1914–1978) was a Burmese writer, journalist, and politician who wrote the bestselling 1936 novel Modern Monk and founded the Botahtaung newspaper in 1958.
Thomas Head Raddall
Thomas Head Raddall (1903–1994) was a Canadian writer of historical fiction and popular history about Nova Scotia, winning the Governor General's Award three times, twice for non-fiction.
Thoppil Mohamed Meeran
Thoppil Mohamed Meeran (1944 – 2019) was an Indian writer in Tamil and Malayalam who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1997 for his novel Saivu Narkali.
Tie Ning
Tie Ning (铁凝, born 1957) is a Chinese novelist and short-story writer, president of the China Writers Association, known for "Oh, Xiangxue" and the novel Rose Gate.
Tierno Monénembo
Tierno Monénembo, pen name of Thierno Saïdou Diallo, is a Guinean French-language novelist known for novels of exile and dictatorship, winner of the 2008 Prix Renaudot.
Tim Winton
Tim Winton (Timothy John Winton, born 1960) is an Australian novelist and environmentalist from Perth, Western Australia; four-time Miles Franklin winner (Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music, Breath), twice Booker-shortlisted, author of Juice, and leader of the Save Ningaloo Reef campaigns.
Tokunaga Sunao
Tokunaga Sunao (徳永直, 1899–1958) was a Japanese proletarian writer best known for Taiyo no nai machi (A Street Without Sun, 1929), based on his experience of a printing-plant strike.
Tokutomi Roka
Tokutomi Roka, real name Tokutomi Kenjiro, was a Japanese novelist and essayist of the Meiji and Taisho periods known for Hototogisu and Shizen to Jinsei.
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934–2010) was an Argentine novelist, journalist, and Rutgers professor whose novels La novela de Perón (1985) and Santa Evita (1995) blend history and myth about Peronism.
Toshio Shimao
Toshio Shimao (島尾敏雄; 1917–1986) was a Japanese novelist who drew on his wartime kamikaze service and his wife's mental illness, writing the acclaimed The Sting of Death.
Uanhenga Xitu
Uanhenga Xitu, pen name of Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho (1924–2014), was an Angolan writer and MPLA politician whose best-known work, "Mestre" Tamoda (1974), satirized colonial assimilation.
Uday Prakash
Uday Prakash (उदय प्रकाश, born 1952) is a Hindi short-story writer, novelist, poet, and essayist known for Mohandas, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010.
Unni R.
Unni R. (ഉണ്ണി ആർ.) is the pen name of P. Jayachandran, an Indian writer born in 1971 in Kudamaloor, Kerala, who writes Malayalam short stories and film screenplays.
Uroob
Uroob (ഉറൂബ്) was the pen name of P. C. Kuttikrishnan (1915–1979), a Malayalam novelist and screenwriter whose novel Sundarikalum Sundaranmarum won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 1960.