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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shi Zhecun
Shi Zhecun (施蛰存, 1905–2003) was a Chinese novelist, translator, and editor whose psychologically oriented fiction made him a leading figure of the Shanghai New Sensationist school.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.