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Pushpa Bharati (पुष्प भारती)
Pushpa Bharati (पुष्पा भारती), born 11 June 1935 in Moradabad, is a Hindi memoir writer, wife of Dharamvir Bharati, and winner of the 33rd Vyas Samman (2023) for Yaadein, Yaadein! Aur Yaadein.
Pushpadanta
Pushpadanta (पुष्पदन्त) was a 10th-century Jain poet who wrote in Apabhramsha, best known for the Mahapurana, a verse narrative of the lives of the 63 great men of Jainism, composed between 959 and 965 CE.
Pyotr Vyazemsky
Pyotr Vyazemsky (Пётр Вяземский), 1792–1878, was a Russian poet, literary critic, and statesman who co-founded the Arzamas society, befriended Pushkin, and chaired the Russian Historical Society.
Pyotr Yershov
Pyotr Yershov (Пётр Ершов, 1815–1869) was a Russian writer best known for the verse fairy tale Konyok-Gorbunok, which he wrote as a student in 1834.
Qaani
Qaani (قاآنی) was the pen name of Mirzā Ḥabib-Allāh Širāzi, a Persian poet of the Qajar era, born in Shiraz, who died in Rayy in 1854 and led the Literary Return style.
Qadir Yar
Qadir Yar, also spelled Qadaryar, was a Punjabi-language poet of the nineteenth century best known for his Qissa Puran Bhagat, the most popular verse telling of the Puran Bhagat legend.
Qani Tabrizi
Qani Tabrizi (1808–1854) was a Persian poet of the Qajar era, famed for his odes and his prose work Parišān, and poet laureate under Naser-al-Din Shah.
Qasim Haddad
Qasim Haddad (قاسم حداد), born 1948, is a Bahraini poet who moved from metered verse to the prose poem and is considered its foremost pioneer in the Gulf.
Qatran Tabrizi
Qatran Tabrizi (قطران تبریزی) was an 11th-century Persian-language poet who served the courts of Azerbaijan, Arran, and Armenia and praised their rulers in his qasidas.
Qazi Qadan
Qazi Qadan (قاضي قادن, 1463–1551) was a Sindhi scholar, qazi, and Sufi poet of Bakhar in Sindh who served the Samma and Arghun rulers and is regarded as Sindh's first classical poet.
Qi Dengsheng
Qi Dengsheng (七等生; born Liu Wuxiong, 1939–2020) was a Taiwanese modernist novelist, essayist, and painter known for "I Love Black Eyes" (1967) and winner of the National Award for Arts.
Qi Jun
Qi Jun (琦君), pen name of Pan Xizhen, was a Chinese essayist from Zhejiang who settled in Taiwan in 1949 and wrote nostalgic essays about her childhood.
Qiao Ji
Qiao Ji (乔吉, c. 1280 – 1345) was a Yuan dynasty playwright and sanqu writer from Taiyuan who lived in Hangzhou, known for the maxim "phoenix head, pig belly, leopard tail."
Qiji
Qiji (齐己, 864–937) was a Chan Buddhist monk and one of the great Tang poet-monks, born Hu Desheng in Hunan, who left over 800 poems including the Bailian ji.
Qin Mu
Qin Mu (1919–1993), born Lin Juefu in Chenghai, Guangdong, was a Chinese essayist, novelist, and editor, ranked with Yang Shuo and Liu Baiyu as one of the era's three great essayists.
Qiong Yao
Qiong Yao (瓊瑤) was the pen name of Chen Che, a Taiwanese romance novelist whose novels inspired some 50 films and hit dramas like My Fair Princess.
Qiu Fengjia
Qiu Fengjia (丘逢甲, 1864–1912) was a Taiwanese poet, educator, and Qing dynasty official who resisted the 1895 cession of Taiwan and later founded new-style schools in Guangdong.
Qiu Miaojin
Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津, 1969–1995) was a Taiwanese novelist, a foundational figure of queer Sinophone literature, best known for Notes of a Crocodile and Last Words from Montmartre.
Qu Bo
Qu Bo (曲波, 1923–2002) was a Chinese novelist and former guerrilla commander whose debut novel Tracks in the Snowy Forest became a widely read "red classic".
Qu Dajun
Qu Dajun (屈大均, 1630–1696) was a Chinese poet, scholar, and Ming loyalist from Panyu, Guangdong, the leading poet of the Three Great Masters of Lingnan.
Quang Dũng
Quang Dũng (1921–1988), born Bùi Đình Dậu (also recorded Diệm/Diệm), Vietnamese poet of Phượng Trì, Đan Phượng, now Hanoi; author of the 1948 poem Tây Tiến from Regiment 52 Tây Tiến service; also a prose writer, painter, musician; State Prize first round (2001); died Hanoi 1988.
Qudratullah Shahab
Qudratullah Shahab (قدرت اللہ شہاب) was a Pakistani civil servant, diplomat, and Urdu writer, best known for his autobiography Shahab Nama, one of Urdu's best-selling memoirs.
Qurratulain Hyder
Qurratulain Hyder, known as Annie Aapa, was an Urdu novelist whose 1959 novel Aag ka Darya (River of Fire) is revered in India and Pakistan alike.
Qutban
Qutban (कुतुबन), also Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, was a Sufi poet of the late fifteenth century who wrote the Awadhi romance Mirigavati, completed in 1503 for Sultan Husain Shah of Jaunpur.
R. A. Salvatore
R. A. Salvatore, born Robert Anthony Salvatore in 1959, is an American fantasy author whose Legend of Drizzt novels have sold more than 15 million copies in the United States.
R. D. Blackmore
R. D. Blackmore (Richard Doddridge Blackmore, 1825–1900) was an English novelist, poet, and fruit farmer at Teddington, best remembered for Lorna Doone, his 1869 historical romance set on Exmoor.
R. F. Kuang
R. F. Kuang, pen name of Rebecca F. Kuang (匡靈秀, born 1996, Guangzhou), Chinese American novelist of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel (Nebula winner), Yellowface, Katabasis, and Taipei Story; Yale PhD student and Holy Cross writer in residence.
R. K. Narayan
R. K. Narayan (1906–2001), born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanswami, was an Indian novelist and short-story writer in English whose 14 novels set in the fictional town of Malgudi include Swami and Friends and The Guide.
R. L. Stine
R.L. Stine (Robert Lawrence Stine, born 1943, Columbus, Ohio) is the American author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street children's horror series, with over 400 million books sold in 35 languages.
R. M. Ballantyne
R. M. Ballantyne (Robert Michael Ballantyne, 1825–1894) was a Scottish writer of juvenile adventure fiction whose The Coral Island (1858) influenced Treasure Island and Lord of the Flies.