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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.