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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.
Raffi
Raffi (Րաֆֆի) was the pen name of Hakob Melik-Hakobian, 1835 to 1888, an Armenian novelist best known for The Fool and Samvel and for creating the Armenian historical novel.
Rafī'
Rafī' (رفیع) is an 18th-century Urdu poet of Delhi about whom little is known; any notice of him would sit in the tazkira biographical anthologies of mid-century Urdu poetry.
Raghuveer Chaudhari
Raghuveer Chaudhari (રઘુવીર ચૌધરી), born 1938 in North Gujarat, is an Indian novelist, poet, critic, and playwright writing chiefly in Gujarati; he received the 51st Jnanpith Award in 2015.
Raghuvir Sahay
Raghuvir Sahay (रघुवीर सहाय) was an Indian Hindi poet, journalist, and editor associated with the Nayi Kavita movement, who won the 1984 Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection Log Bhool Gaye Hain.
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.
Ragnhild Jølsen
Ragnhild Jølsen (1875–1908) was a Norwegian novelist who published one book a year from 1903 to 1907, best known for the Gothic novel Rikka Gan (1904), and regarded as an original renewer of Norwegian literature.
Rahat Indori
Rahat Indori (راحت اندوری), born Rahatullah Qureshi (1950–2020), was an Indian Urdu poet, mushaira performer, professor, painter, and Bollywood lyricist known for defiant couplets like "Sabhi ka khoon hai shaamil" and film songs for Ghatak and Munnabhai MBBS.
Rahi Masoom Raza
Rahi Masoom Raza (1927–1992), born Syed Masoom Reza Abedi, was an Indian Urdu and Hindi novelist and screenwriter best known for Aadha Gaon and Mahabharat.
Rahman Rahi
Rahman Rahi, also spelled Rehman Rahi and born Abdul Rehman Mir (1925–2023), was a Kashmiri poet, translator, and critic who became the first Kashmiri writer to receive the Jnanpith Award.
Raimundo Correia
Raimundo Correia (1859–1911) was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, judge, and diplomat, a founder of the Academia Brasileira de Letras and of the Trindade Parnasiana with Olavo Bilac.
Raina Telgemeier
Raina Telgemeier, American cartoonist and #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning creator of the graphic memoirs Smile, Sisters, and Guts, plus Drama, Ghosts, and the first four Baby-sitters Club graphic novels; over 18 million copies sold.
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.
Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell, American novelist of Omaha, Nebraska, author of Attachments, Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, the Simon Snow trilogy (Carry On, Wayward Son, Any Way the Wind Blows), Pumpkinheads, Slow Dance, and Cherry Baby.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), Bohemian-Austrian poet born René in Prague, died in Montreux; author of the Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Malte Laurids Brigge, mentored by Lou Andreas-Salomé and Rodin.
Rainis
Rainis, born Jānis Pliekšāns (1865–1929), was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician, regarded as a central creator of Latvian national identity who later served as Minister of Education.
Raja Alem
Raja Alem (رجاء عالم) is a Saudi novelist and playwright from Mecca whose symbolic fiction centers on Mecca itself. In 2011 she was the first woman to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Raja Rao
Raja Rao (1908–2006), Indian novelist of Kanthapura and The Serpent and the Rope, pioneer of Indian writing in English; Vedanta-inflected fiction, Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Bhushan, 1988 Neustadt Prize.
Rajam Krishnan
Rajam Krishnan (ராஜம் கிருஷ்ணன், 1925–2014) was an Indian Tamil writer who wrote more than forty novels and won the 1973 Sahitya Akademi Award for Verukku Neer.
Rajani Kanta Bordoloi
Rajani Kanta Bordoloi (ৰজনীকান্ত বৰদলৈ, 1867–1939) was an Assamese novelist and journalist, honored as Upanyas Samrat and the Scott of Assam, whose nine novels include Miri Jiyori and Manomati.
Rajendra Shah
Rajendra Shah (રાજેન્દ્ર શાહ, full name Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, 1913–2010) was a leading Gujarati poet of the post-Gandhian era who published about 28 poetry collections and won the 2001 Jnanpith Award.
Rajendra Yadav
Rajendra Yadav (राजेन्द्र यादव, 1929–2013) was a Hindi novelist, critic, and editor of Hans, best known for the novel Sara Akash and the Nayi Kahani movement.
Rajinder Singh Bedi
Rajinder Singh Bedi (راجندر سنگھ بیدی; 1915–1984) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer ranked second only to Manto, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award for Ek Chadar Maili Si.
Rajshekhar Basu
Rajshekhar Basu (রাজশেখর বসু, 1880–1960), who wrote under the pen name Parashuram, was a Bengali chemist, humorist, lexicographer, and translator of Sanskrit classics including the Mahabharata.
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914–1994), American novelist and essayist from Oklahoma City, author of Invisible Man (1952), the first African American winner of the National Book Award (1953); also wrote Shadow and Act and the posthumous Juneteenth.
Ram Prasad Bismil (राम प्रसाद बिस्मिल)
Ram Prasad Bismil (राम प्रसाद बिस्मिल), 1897–1927, Indian revolutionary, Hindi-Urdu poet, HRA founder, and Kakori train action leader, hanged at Gorakhpur Jail on 19 December 1927.
Ram Sarup Ankhi
Ram Sarup Ankhi (ਰਾਮ ਸਰੂਪ ਅਣਖੀ; 1932–2010) was a Punjabi writer, poet, and novelist who won the 1987 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Kothe Kharak Singh.
Ram Vilas Sharma
Ram Vilas Sharma (रामविलास शर्मा, 1912–2000) was an Indian Hindi literary critic, essayist, and linguist, regarded as the leading figure of Marxist criticism in Hindi after Ramchandra Shukla.
Rāma Prasāda
Rāma Prasāda (রামপ্রসাদ সেন, Ramprasad Sen; c. 1718 or 1720 – 1775 or 1781) was a Bengali Shakta poet whose several hundred songs to Kali, sung as Shyama Sangeet, influenced Ramakrishna and Tagore.
Ramakanta Rath
Ramakanta Rath, ରମାକାନ୍ତ ରଥ (1934–2025), was an Indian Odia-language poet and leading modernist who won the Saraswati Samman for Sri Radha, and a civil servant who retired as Chief Secretary of Odisha.