Writers and literary biographies

Ramanlal Desai

Ramanlal Vasantlal Desai (રમણલાલ દેસાઈ; 1892–1954) was a Gujarati novelist, playwright, and poet of the Gandhian era who wrote about 68 books, including the popular novel Divyachakshu.

Ramanlal Soni

Ramanlal Soni (રમણલાલ સોની; pen name Sudamo; 1908–2006) was a Gujarati children's writer and translator who produced roughly 400 books and led translations of Bengali literature.

Ramapada Chowdhury

Ramapada Chowdhury (রমাপদ চৌধুরী; 1922–2018) was an Indian Bengali novelist and editor known for novels such as Kharij and Banpalashir Padabali, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988.

Ramchandra Shukla

Ramchandra Shukla (1884–1941), known as Acharya Shukla, was a Hindi critic and literary historian whose Hindi Sahitya ka Itihas (1929) was the first systematic history of Hindi literature.

Ramdarash Mishra

Ramdarash Mishra (रामदरश मिश्र) was an Indian Hindi poet, novelist, and critic who published more than 80 books and won the Saraswati Samman and Padma Shri.

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (रामधारी सिंह 'दिनकर', 1908–1974), Hindi poet called Rashtrakavi, author of Rashmirathi, Kurukshetra, and Urvashi; Jnanpith 1972, Sahitya Akademi 1959, Padma Bhushan 1959, Rajya Sabha member 1952–1964.

Ramesh Bikal

Ramesh Bikal (रमेश विकल), born Rameshwar Prasad Chalise (1928–2008), was a Nepali short story writer, novelist, and playwright known for social realism; he won the Madan Puraskar in 1962.

Ramón del Valle-Inclán

Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866–1936) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and dramatist of the Generation of '98, best known for creating the esperpento, a grotesque mode of deforming reality.

Ramón J. Sender

Ramón J. Sender, in full Ramón José Sender Garcés, was an Aragonese Spanish novelist exiled after the Spanish Civil War, known for Réquiem por un campesino español.

Ramón López Velarde

Ramón López Velarde (1888–1921) was a Mexican poet from Jerez, Zacatecas, known as "El Poeta Nacional" for La sangre devota, Zozobra, and "La suave Patria."

Ramón Pérez de Ayala

Ramón Pérez de Ayala (1880–1962) was a Spanish novelist, essayist, and diplomat, a leading figure of the Generation of 1914 known for Belarmino y Apolonio.

Ramsey Nasr

Ramsey Nasr (born 1974 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch poet, writer, and actor who served as the Netherlands' Dichter des Vaderlands, or poet laureate, from 2009 to 2013.

Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell (1914–1965), American poet, critic, novelist, and children's author; National Book Award winner for The Woman at the Washington Zoo; famed for "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" and midcentury poetry criticism.

Rangalal Bandyopadhyay

Rangalal Bandyopadhyay (রঙ্গলাল বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was a Bengali poet, journalist, and colonial administrator, born in 1827, whose 1858 verse romance Padmini Upakhyan pioneered Bengali historical poetry.

Ranjit Desai

Ranjit Desai (रणजित देसाई, 1928–1992) was a Marathi novelist, short-story writer, and playwright from Maharashtra, India, whose historical novels Swami and Shriman Yogi won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri.

Ranjit Hoskote

Ranjit Hoskote (born 1969) is an Indian poet, translator, and independent curator based in Mumbai who has published eight poetry books and curated India's first national pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011.

Ransom Riggs

Ransom Riggs is an American writer and filmmaker whose Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011) became a bestselling series of six novels, adapted by Tim Burton in 2016.

Raoul Follereau

Raoul Follereau (1903–1977) was a French writer and journalist, nicknamed the Vagabond of Charity, who created World Leprosy Day in 1954 and founded the Fondation Raoul-Follereau.

Raphaël Confiant

Raphaël Confiant, born 1951 in Le Lorrain, Martinique, is a Martinican writer and academic who co-founded the Créolité movement, signing the 1989 manifesto Éloge de la créolité.

Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui

Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqui (رشید احمد صدیقی, 1892–1977) was an Urdu essayist, satirist, and critic known for his humor and his lifelong association with Aligarh Muslim University.

Rashid Jahan

Rashid Jahan (رشید جہاں) was an Indian Urdu short-story writer, playwright, and one of India's earliest Muslim women doctors, known for the banned 1932 anthology Angarey.

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.

Rasool Bux Palijo

Rasool Bux Palijo (رسول بخش پليجو; 1930–2018) was a Pakistani leftist politician, lawyer, and writer who founded the Awami Tehreek party and wrote over twenty books in Sindhi.

Ratthasāra

Ratthasāra (ရတနသာရ), also styled Shin Mahāratthasāra, was a Burmese monk-poet of the Ava period known for turning Jātaka stories into Burmese pyo verse, above all the Kogan pyo.

Raúl Gómez Jattin

Raúl Gómez Jattin (1945–1997) was a Colombian poet from Cartagena who grew up in the Sinú valley, wrote the erotic Tríptico cereteano, and became a celebrated "poeta maldito" figure.

Raúl González Tuñón

Raúl González Tuñón was an Argentine poet and journalist born in Buenos Aires in 1905, a founder of urban poetry in Spanish and precursor of social poetry in Argentina.

Raul Pompeia

Raul Pompeia (Raul Pompéia), full name Raul de Ávila Pompeia, was a Brazilian Realist and Naturalist novelist and caricaturist, best known for the school novel O Ateneu, published in 1888.

Raúl Zurita

Raúl Zurita Canessa, born 1950 in Santiago, Chile, is a celebrated Chilean poet and CADA co-founder whose work registers the violence of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Ravinder Singh (author)

Ravinder Singh, Indian romance novelist, author of I Too Had a Love Story (2008), Can Love Happen Twice?, and Will You Still Love Me?; former Infosys and Microsoft IT professional, MBA, founder of Black Ink and Let's Socialise.