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Almeida Garrett
Almeida Garrett, full name João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett (1799–1854), was a Portuguese writer and politician regarded as the founder of Portuguese Romanticism.
Alois Jirásek
Alois Jirásek (1851–1930) was a Czech writer and gymnasium teacher called the "chronicler of the nation" for historical novels like Temno and F. L. Věk.
Alojzy Feliński
Alojzy Feliński (1771–1820) was a Polish poet, dramatist, translator, and educator, known for the tragedy Barbara Radziwiłłówna and the hymn "Boże, coś Polskę", which became a national religious song.
Alokeranjan Dasgupta
Alokeranjan Dasgupta (অলোকরঞ্জন দাশগুপ্ত, 1933–2020) was an Indian Bengali poet and translator who taught in Heidelberg and won the 1992 Sahitya Akademi Award for Marami Karat.
Alonso de Molina
Alonso de Molina (c. 1514 – c. 1585) was a Franciscan friar in New Spain whose 1555 and 1571 dictionaries of Nahuatl were the first printed in the Americas.
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) was a French novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist known for the comic Tartarin de Tarascon novels and the Provençal tales of Lettres de mon moulin.
Alphonsus de Guimaraens
Alphonsus de Guimaraens, pen name of Afonso Henriques da Costa Guimaraens (1870–1921), was a Brazilian Symbolist poet and judge who made the death of his fiancée his muse.
Altaf Hussain Hali (الطاف حسین حالی)
Altaf Hussain Hali (الطاف حسین حالی), 1837–1914, Panipat-born Urdu poet, critic, and biographer of the Aligarh movement; wrote Musaddas-e Madd-o Jazr-e Islam (1879), Muqaddama-i Sher-o Shairi (1893), and Yadgar-e-Ghalib, the first biography of Ghalib.
Aluísio Azevedo
Aluísio Azevedo, full name Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo, was a Brazilian novelist and diplomat who introduced literary naturalism to Brazil with O mulato (1881) and O cortiço (1890).
Álvares de Azevedo
Álvares de Azevedo, full name Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo (1831–1852), was a Brazilian poet and dramatist of the ultraromantic generation, best known for Lira dos vinte anos.
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio
Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, known as "El Nene", was a Colombian writer and journalist of the Barranquilla Group whose 1962 novel La casa grande portrays the 1928 banana massacre.
Álvaro Mutis
Álvaro Mutis was a Colombian poet and novelist who lived in Mexico City and won the 2001 Cervantes Prize for his work centered on the sailor Maqroll el Gaviero.
Alykul Osmonov
Alykul Osmonov (Алыкул Осмонов, 1915 to 1950) was a Kyrgyz Soviet poet, playwright, and translator who founded modern Kyrgyz lyric verse and appears on the 200 som banknote.
Amadeu Amaral
Amadeu Amaral, born 1875 in Capivari, São Paulo, was a Brazilian poet, folklorist, and philologist who wrote O Dialeto Caipira, the first scientific study of a Brazilian regional dialect.
Amado Nervo
Amado Nervo (1870-1919), born Amado Ruiz de Nervo Ordaz in Tepic, was a Mexican modernista poet, chronicler, and diplomat, author of Perlas negras, Místicas, and La amada inmóvil, who died as minister in Montevideo.
Amado V. Hernandez
Amado V. Hernandez, known as Ka Amado, was a Filipino poet, novelist, and labor leader who wrote in Tagalog about workers' struggles and was named National Artist for Literature in 1973.
Amal Dunqul
Amal Dunqul (أمل دنقل) was an Egyptian poet from Upper Egypt and a leading modernist voice in Arabic free verse, famous for his 1976 poem "La Tusalih".
Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman (born 1998) is an American poet, first National Youth Poet Laureate, and youngest inaugural poet, who read "The Hill We Climb" at Biden's 2021 inauguration and wrote Call Us What We Carry.
Amar Jaleel
Amar Jaleel (امر جلیل), born Qazi Abdul Jaleel in 1936, is a Sindhi short story writer and columnist, a leading figure of modern Sindhi fiction.
Amarjit Chandan
Amarjit Chandan (ਅਮਰਜੀਤ ਚੰਦਨ), born 1946 in Nairobi, is a Punjabi poet, essayist, and translator who has lived in London since 1980 and bridges East and West Punjab.
Amarkant
Amarkant (अमरकांत, 1925–2014) was an Indian writer of Hindi fiction, a leading post-independence realist whose novel Inhin Hathiyaron Se won the 2007 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842–1914?), American short story writer, journalist, and satirist, author of The Devil's Dictionary, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, and 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge'; Union Civil War veteran who disappeared in Mexico in 1913.
Ambrosius Lobwasser
Ambrosius Lobwasser (1515–1585) was a Saxon jurist and professor of law at Königsberg whose German verse translation of the Genevan Psalter served German Reformed churches for over 200 years.
Amelia Edwards
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831-1892), English novelist, travel writer, and Egyptologist; author of A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877), co-founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund (1882), and benefactor of UCL's first Egyptology chair.
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Academy of Arts and Letters: New York honor society founded 1898 as the National Institute of Arts and Letters; 300 life members in Architecture, Art, Literature, Music; awards over 70 prizes annually.
Amin Kamil
Amin Kamil (1924–2014) was a Kashmiri poet, novelist, critic, and editor, a chief exponent of the modern Kashmiri ghazal who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967.
Aminata Sow Fall
Aminata Sow Fall, born 1941 in Saint-Louis, Senegal, is a Senegalese novelist writing in French, best known for her 1979 novel La Grève des bàttu.
Amir Gilboa
Amir Gilboa (אמיר גלבוע, born Berl Feldman, 1917–1984) was an Israeli Hebrew poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1937 and won the 1982 Israel Prize.
Amir Hamzah
Amir Hamzah, full name Tengku Amir Hamzah, was an Indonesian poet who co-founded the journal Poedjangga Baroe and wrote the collections Nyanyi Sunyi and Buah Rindu.
Amir Hassan Cheheltan
Amir Hassan Cheheltan (امیرحسن چهلتن), born 1956 in Tehran, is an Iranian novelist and essayist known for the Tehran trilogy and The Calligrapher of Isfahan.