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Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers, pen name of Philippe Joyaux (1936-2023), French novelist, critic, and founder-leader of the avant-garde review Tel Quel (1960-1982) and L'Infini (1983); experimental novels like Paradis, then the 1983 bestseller Femmes; husband of Julia Kristeva.
Pierre-Henri Simon
Pierre-Henri Simon (1903–1972) was a French novelist, poet, and literary critic who held Le Monde's literary column from 1961 and was elected to the Académie française in 1966.
Pınar Kür
Pınar Kür (1943–2025) was a Turkish novelist, playwright, and translator, best known for Yarın Yarın (1976) and as a pioneer of feminist literature in Türkiye.
Rafael Chirbes
Rafael Chirbes (1949–2015) was a Spanish novelist and literary critic whose nine novels trace Spain's private history from the Civil War through the Transition to the 2008 crisis.
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and journalist of the Generation of the 50, best known for El Jarama (1955), a landmark of postwar Spanish narrative.
Raffaele La Capria
Raffaele La Capria (1922–2022) was an Italian novelist, essayist, and screenwriter born in Naples whose best-known novel, Ferito a morte, won the Strega Prize in 1961.
Ragnar Hovland
Ragnar Hovland is a Norwegian author, translator, and publishing consultant, born in Bergen in 1952, whose prolific Nynorsk works span most genres and earned the 2012 Aschehoug Prize.
Rainald Goetz
Rainald Goetz, born 1954 in Munich, is a German writer of novels, plays, and online diaries, a central figure of German Popliteratur who received the Georg Büchner Prize in 2015.
Rasim Özdenören
Rasim Özdenören (1940–2022) was a Turkish short-story writer, novelist, and essayist, a leading figure of post-1970 Turkish storytelling whose more than thirty books explore spiritual dissolution between tradition and modernization.
Regīna Ezera
Regīna Ezera, real name Regīna Kindzule, born Regīna Šamreto, was a Latvian prose writer known for psychological novels and short stories such as Aka (1972) and Zemdegas (1977).
Ričardas Gavelis
Ričardas Gavelis (1950–2002) was a Lithuanian prose writer, playwright, and publicist whose 1989 novel Vilnius Poker is considered a landmark of Lithuanian postmodern fiction.
Roger Peyrefitte
Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000), French diplomat-turned-novelist, Prix Renaudot winner for Les Amitiés particulières (1944), a boarding-school love story; also wrote satirical keys to the Vatican, diplomacy, and Freemasonry.
Romain Gary
Romain Gary (Roman Kacew, 1914–1980), French novelist, diplomat, and Free French pilot, only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice, in 1956 as Gary and in 1975 under the pseudonym Émile Ajar.
Samim Kocagöz
Samim Kocagöz (1916–1993) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and teacher of the 1940 generation, best known for the War of Independence novels Kalpaklılar (1962) and Doludizgin (1963).
Sara Lidman
Sara Lidman (1923–2004) was a Swedish novelist from Västerbotten, known for the seven-novel Jernbanan suite and as the first woman to win the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg, born 1972 in Solna, Sweden, is a Swedish novelist, playwright, and translator whose 2006 breakthrough novel Drömfakulteten (The Faculty of Dreams) won the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Sasha Sokolov
Sasha Sokolov, pen name of Alexander Vsevolodovich Sokolov (Саша Соколов), is a Russian writer born 1943 in Ottawa, known for A School for Fools and two later novels.
Sema Kaygusuz
Sema Kaygusuz is a Turkish writer of stories, novels, essays, and plays, born in 1972 in Samsun, whose novel Yere Düşen Dualar won international prizes.
Sergei Dovlatov
Sergei Dovlatov (Сергей Довлатов) was a Russian writer and journalist who emigrated to New York in 1978 and wrote twelve books, including The Compromise and The Zone.
Sigrid Combüchen
Sigrid Combüchen is a Swedish novelist and literary critic, born in 1942 in Solingen, Germany, who debuted at eighteen in 1960 and won the August Prize for Spill in 2010.
Sjón
Sjón is the pen name of Icelandic author and poet Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, born 1962, whose novel The Blue Fox won the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Solvej Balle
Solvej Balle (born 1962 in Bovrup, Denmark) is a Danish author known for experimental, minimalist fiction and the seven-volume novel On the Calculation of Volume, which won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2022.
Stefan Heym
Stefan Heym, born Helmut Flieg (1913–2001), was a German writer and journalist who fled the Nazis, became a bestselling novelist in America, and settled in East Berlin in 1952 as the GDR's leading literary dissident.
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir (born 1950 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic novelist and poet who debuted at 19 with the poetry collection Sífellur and has won the Icelandic Literary Prize twice.
Sten Nadolny
Sten Nadolny is a German novelist and historian whose 1983 novel The Discovery of Slowness became one of the most successful German-language novels of its decade.
Stig Dagerman
Stig Dagerman was a Swedish writer and journalist, a leading figure of the 1940s literary generation. He wrote four novels and over 1,350 daily satirical verses.
Svava Jakobsdóttir
Svava Jakobsdóttir (1930–2004) was an Icelandic author and politician, a pioneer of modernist fiction who wrote Leigjandinn and served in the Althingi from 1971 to 1979.
Sven Holm
Sven Holm (1940–2019) was a Danish author and dramatist who wrote for over fifty years, best known internationally for the 1967 post-apocalyptic novel Termush, Atlanterhavskysten.
Svend Åge Madsen
Svend Åge Madsen is a Danish author, born in 1939 in Aarhus, whose novels and drama blend realism and fantasy and have earned major Danish literary awards.
Taras Prokhasko
Taras Prokhasko (Тарас Прохасько), born 1968 in Ivano-Frankivsk, is a contemporary Ukrainian novelist, essayist, and journalist, best known for the novel NeprOsti (2002) and winner of the 2020 Shevchenko National Prize.