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Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry (born 1952, Bombay, now Mumbai) is an Indian-born Canadian novelist whose Parsi-centered novels Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance, and Family Matters were all Booker-shortlisted.
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.
Rou Shi
Rou Shi, pen name of Zhao Pingfu (赵平复), was a Chinese writer, editor, and Communist Party member known for February and "A Slave Mother", secretly executed in Shanghai in 1931.
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.
Ryūtei Tanehiko
Ryūtei Tanehiko (柳亭種彦, 1783–1842) was a Japanese writer of popular illustrated fiction of the late Edo period, known for Nise Murasaki inaka Genji, an adaptation of The Tale of Genji.
S. K. Pottekkatt
S. K. Pottekkatt (1913–1982) was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature from Kerala, known for his novels and travelogues, who won the 1980 Jnanpith Award.
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.
S. Ramakrishnan
S. Ramakrishnan (எஸ். ராமகிருஷ்ணன்; born 1966), known in Tamil literary circles as S.Ra, is a Tamil writer of novels, short stories, and essays who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018.
Sabit Mukanov
Sabit Mukanov (Сәбит Мұқанұлы Мұқанов; 1900–1973) was a Kazakh writer, People's Writer of Kazakhstan, and a founder of modern Kazakh literature who wrote the novels Sulushash, Botagoz, and Syrdariya.
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.
Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam
Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam (born 1936) is an Ethiopian novelist who wrote in English, Amharic, and Chaha, and a founder of Ethiopia's literature in English.
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay (শৈলজানন্দ মুখোপাধ্যায়), 1901–1976, was a Bengali novelist, short-story writer, and film director, a friend of Kazi Nazrul Islam whose Kaila Kuthi stories pioneered fiction about Bengal's coal miners.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.