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Sofía Casanova
Sofía Casanova was a Galician-born Spanish journalist, novelist, and poet, the first Spanish woman contracted as a war correspondent, reporting from Poland and Russia for ABC.
Stefan Andres
Stefan Andres (1906–1970) was a German novelist and playwright, a left-Catholic author who spent the Nazi years in exile in Positano and wrote Wir sind Utopia there in 1941.
Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925) was a Polish novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist hailed at his death as the "conscience of Polish literature", known for Syzyfowe prace, Popioły, and Przedwiośnie.
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), Austrian-Jewish writer of psychological novellas and popular biographies, author of Sternstunden der Menschheit, The Royal Game, and The World of Yesterday; exiled from Nazi Europe, died by suicide in Petrópolis, Brazil.
Stijn Streuvels
Stijn Streuvels, pseudonym of Frank Lateur (1871–1969), was a Belgian naturalistic novelist of Flemish farming life, whose masterpiece De vlaschaard (1907) is his best-known book.
Stratis Myrivilis
Stratis Myrivilis was the pseudonym of Evstratios Stamatopoulos, a Greek novelist born on Lesbos in 1892, best known for the anti-war novel Life in the Tomb.
Sven Delblanc
Sven Delblanc (1931–1992) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and literary historian, known for the Hedeby and Samuel cycles and winner of the 1982 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish poet and prose writer, Auschwitz and Dachau prisoner, author of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, We Were in Auschwitz, Farewell to Maria, and The World of Stone.
Tarık Buğra
Tarık Buğra (Süleyman Tarık Buğra, 1918–1994) was a Turkish novelist, playwright, and journalist, best known for Küçük Ağa, a 1963 novel of the Turkish War of Independence.
Thit Jensen
Thit Jensen, full name Maria Kirstine Dorothea Jensen (1876–1957), was a Danish novelist and lecturer, sister of Johannes V. Jensen, known for novels about women's lives and campaigns for contraception.
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German novelist and 1929 Nobel laureate, author of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, and Doctor Faustus; anti-fascist exile in the United States 1938–1952.
Tom Kristensen
Tom Kristensen (1893–1974) was a Danish author and literary critic, a leading interwar figure best known for the novel Hærværk (1930) and decades as Politiken's chief reviewer.
Ulas Samchuk
Ulas Samchuk (Улас Самчук; 1905–1987) was a Ukrainian prose writer and journalist whose trilogy Volyn and novel Mariia chronicle 20th-century Ukrainian peasant and émigré life; exiled in Europe, he settled in Toronto, Canada, in 1948.
Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson (1934–1984) was a German novelist, translator, and editor who made the division of Germany his central subject; his four-volume Jahrestage (1970–1983) is a major twentieth-century German novel.
Valerian Pidmohylny
Valerian Pidmohylny (Валер'ян Підмогильний, 1901 to 1937) was a Ukrainian prose writer and translator of French classics, best known for the novel Misto (The City).
Valery Larbaud
Valery Larbaud was a French writer, critic, and translator, born and died in Vichy, who made Joyce known in France and wrote under the pseudonym A. O. Barnabooth.
Veniamin Kaverin
Veniamin Kaverin (Вениамин Каверин; born Veniamin Zilber, 1902–1989) was a Soviet Russian prose writer best known for the adventure novel Two Captains, winner of the 1946 Stalin Prize.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) was a Spanish novelist and republican politician from Valencia whose war novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse became an international bestseller.
Vilis Lācis
Vilis Lācis, real name Jānis Vilhelms Lācis (1904–1966), was a Latvian novelist, best known for The Fisherman's Son, and head of government of the Latvian SSR from 1940 to 1959.
Wanda Wasilewska
Wanda Wasilewska (1905–1964) was a Polish and Soviet communist activist and writer who chaired the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR during World War II.
Werner Bergengruen
Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964) was a Baltic German novelist and poet best known for the anti-Nazi historical novel Der Großtyrann und das Gericht (1935); he was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Willem Elsschot
Willem Elsschot, pen name of Antwerp writer Alfons Jozef de Ridder (1882–1960), was a Flemish novelist and poet whose Kaas (Cheese, 1933) is the most translated book from Flanders.
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), Polish novelist and playwright, author of Ferdydurke, Trans-Atlantyk, Pornografia, Cosmos and the Diary; themes of form, immaturity and identity; 24-year exile in Argentina; critic of Sartre's committed literature.
Władysław Reymont
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (born Rejment, 1867–1925), Polish novelist of the Young Poland period and 1924 Nobel laureate in Literature for the four-volume peasant epic Chłopi (The Peasants); also wrote Ziemia obiecana and Komediantka.
Yehoshua Perle
Yehoshua Perle, also spelled Yehoshue Perle (1888–1943), was a Polish Yiddish novelist and essayist based in Warsaw whose 1935 novel Ordinary Jews is regarded as a Yiddish masterpiece.
Yiorgos Theotokas
Yiorgos Theotokas (Γιώργος Θεοτοκάς) was a Greek novelist, essayist, and playwright born in Constantinople, whose essay Free Spirit (1929) became the manifesto of the Generation of the 1930s and whose novels include Argo and Leonis.
Yordan Yovkov
Yordan Yovkov (Йордан Йовков, 1880–1937) was a Bulgarian writer considered a master of the short story, known for war tales and the 1927 cycle Staroplaninski legendi.
Yuri Dombrovsky
Yuri Osipovich Dombrovsky (1909–1978) was a Russian writer, poet, and literary critic whose novels about Stalin-era terror include The Keeper of Antiquities and The Faculty of Useless Things.
Yuri Olesha
Yuri Olesha, born Yury Karlovich Olesha (Юрий Карлович Олеша), was a Soviet writer famous for his metaphor-rich novel Envy (1927) and the fairy tale The Three Fat Men.
Yurii Yanovsky
Yurii Yanovsky (Юрій Яновський), born Hryhorii Ivanovych Yanovsky, was a Ukrainian writer, 1902 to 1954, whose civil war novel Horsemen earned him the nickname the Ukrainian Homer.