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Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones, 1934–2014) was an American poet, playwright, and activist, founder of the Black Arts Movement and Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School, author of Dutchman and Blues People.
Amish Tripathi
Amish Tripathi (born 1974, Bombay), Indian novelist of the Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series, former banker and diplomat; over 8 million copies sold across 21 languages.
Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri is an Indian novelist, essayist, critic, and Hindustani classical vocalist, born in Calcutta in 1962, known for eight novels and his critique of Indian writing in English.
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh, born in Calcutta in 1956, is an Indian writer whose novels and nonfiction explore history, migration, and climate change from a postcolonial perspective.
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar
Amiya Bhushan Majumdar (অমিয়ভূষণ মজুমদার) was an Indian Bengali novelist and short-story writer whose fiction is closely identified with North Bengal, where he lived most of his life.
Amjad Islam Amjad
Amjad Islam Amjad (امجد اسلام امجد, 1944–2023) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, playwright, and screenwriter whose television serials, including Waris, Dehleez, and Samandar, defined Pakistan Television drama from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330–395) was a Greek-speaking soldier and historian from Antioch whose Latin Res Gestae is the principal surviving source for the mid-fourth-century Roman Empire.
Amor Towles
Amor Towles is an American novelist, born in Boston in 1964, known for Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway, bestsellers in over forty languages.
Amos Oz (עמוס עוז)
Amos Oz (עמוס עוז), born Amos Klausner, was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and professor of literature whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Amos Tutuola
Amos Tutuola (1920–1997) was a Nigerian novelist who drew his books from Yoruba folklore; The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) made him his country's first internationally recognized writer.
Amrit Rai
Amrit Rai (अमृत राय; 1921–1996) was a Hindi novelist and translator, best known as the son of Premchand and author of the biography Kalam ka Sipahi.
Amrita Pritam (ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ)
Amrita Pritam (ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, 1919–2005), born Amrit Kaur in Gujranwala, was a Punjabi and Hindi poet and novelist, author of "Ajj Aakhan Waris Shah Nu" and Pinjar, first woman Sahitya Akademi Award winner and first Punjabi Jnanpith laureate.
Amy Griffin (author)
Amy Griffin, American author and G9 Ventures founder, wrote the 2025 memoir The Tell, an Oprah's Book Club pick about MDMA-recovered memories of abuse; later disputed in lawsuits.
Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel (born 1951) is an American short story writer known for compressed, emotionally charged fiction; her five collections include Reasons to Live (1985) and Sing to It (2019).
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1965-2017) was a Chicago author of 30+ children's books (Duck! Rabbit!, Uni the Unicorn), the memoirs Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and the viral Modern Love essay "You May Want to Marry My Husband."
Amy Tan
Amy Tan (谭恩美; born 1952, Oakland, California) is an American novelist whose 1989 debut The Joy Luck Club, about Chinese immigrant mothers and American-born daughters, became an international best seller and National Book Award finalist; her 2024 book The Backyard Bird Chronicles is nature journaling.
Ana Cristina Cesar
Ana Cristina Cesar, who signed her work Ana C., was a Brazilian poet and leading figure of the 1970s mimeograph generation, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1952.
Ana Lydia Vega
Ana Lydia Vega, who also writes as Talía Cuervo, is a Puerto Rican writer born in 1946, known for irony, humor, and stories on Caribbean identity and language.
Ana Maria Machado
Ana Maria Machado, born 1941 in Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian writer of children's books, novels, and essays who won the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Ana María Matute
Ana María Matute (1925–2014) was a Spanish novelist and children's author of the postwar era, elected to the Real Academia Española in 1996 and awarded the Premio Cervantes in 2010.
Ana Paula Tavares
Ana Paula Tavares, full name Ana Paula Ribeiro Tavares, is an Angolan poet, historian, and novelist born in 1952 in Lubango who received the 2025 Camões Prize.
Anacreon
Anacreon (Ἀνακρέων), Ionian lyric poet of Teos, 6th–early 5th century BCE, court poet of Polycrates of Samos and Hipparchus of Athens; known for love and wine songs, surviving only in fragments, plus the spurious 1554 Anacreontea.
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), French-born American diarist and novelist. Began her diary at 11 in 1914, producing 35,000 pages; published in seven edited volumes, four Early Diary volumes, and eight posthumous unexpurgated volumes; also wrote erotic fiction.
Anamika
Anamika (अनामिका) is an Indian poet, novelist, and critic, born in 1961 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, who won the 2020 Sahitya Akademi Award for her poetry collection Tokari Mein Digant.
Ananda Chandra Agarwala
Ananda Chandra Agarwala (আনন্দ চন্দ্ৰ আগৰৱালা, 1874–1940) was an Assamese poet known as Bhangoni Kunwor, the "Prince of Translation", and a leading Jonaki Era writer.
Ananda Devi
Ananda Devi is a Mauritian novelist and poet who writes in French and won the 2024 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, awarded in October 2023.
Anatole France
Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault, 1844–1924), French novelist, poet, and critic; Académie française 1896, Nobel Prize in Literature 1921, Dreyfusard, first president of the French PEN Club.
Anatoly Kuznetsov
Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979), a Soviet Russian-language writer, wrote Babi Yar, testimony of the Nazi massacre at the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, and defected to Britain in 1969.
Anatoly Mariengof
Anatoly Mariengof (Анатолий Борисович Мариенгоф, 1897–1962) was a Russian imaginist poet, prose writer, and memoirist who co-founded Imaginism with Sergei Yesenin; his novel The Cynics was praised by Joseph Brodsky.
Anatoly Rybakov
Anatoly Rybakov (Анатолий Рыбаков, 1911–1998) was a Russian writer whose adventure novels sold over 20 million copies and whose Children of the Arbat became the symbol of glasnost.