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Rudaki (رودکی)
Rudaki (رودکی), Abu ʿAbd-Allāh Jaʿfar ibn Moḥammad, ca. 858-941, Samanid court poet at Bukhara called the father of Persian poetry; only about a thousand verses survive from a claimed 1.3 million lines.
Rudolf Alexander Schröder
Rudolf Alexander Schröder (1878–1962) was a German poet, translator, hymn writer, and interior architect known as the "last humanist," who co-founded Die Insel and translated Homer and Shakespeare.
Rudolf Hans Bartsch
Rudolf Hans Bartsch (1873–1952) was an Austrian novelist and former military officer, one of the most commercially successful popular novelists of pre-war and interwar Austria, best known for the Schubert novel Schwammerl (1912).
Rudolf Kassner
Rudolf Kassner (1873–1959) was an Austrian cultural philosopher, essayist, and translator who developed physiognomics as a theory of culture and was a close friend of Rilke.
Rudolf Pfeiffer
Rudolf Pfeiffer (1889–1979) was a German classical philologist who edited Callimachus and wrote the two-volume History of Classical Scholarship, teaching at Oxford after his 1937 removal from Munich.
Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya, sometimes called the godfather of Chicano literature, was an American novelist from New Mexico whose first novel, Bless Me, Ultima (1972), became a foundational text of Chicano literature.
Rūdolfs Blaumanis
Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863–1908) was a Latvian prose writer, playwright, and poet known for fine psychological analysis; his novellas and the play Indrāni are in the Latvian Culture Canon.
Rudy Wurlitzer
Rudy Wurlitzer (Rudolph Wurlitzer, born 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter of the Wurlitzer jukebox family, known for Nog, Flats, Quake, and the screenplays Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973).
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English writer born in Bombay, Nobel laureate 1907 and first English-language winner; author of The Jungle Book, Kim, Just So Stories, and the poem If, famed for imperial themes and contested reputation.
Rufi Thorpe
Rufi Thorpe, American novelist (MFA University of Virginia, 2009), author of four literary fiction novels: The Girls from Corona del Mar (2014), The Knockout Queen (PEN/Faulkner finalist), and the Kirkus Prize-finalist Margo's Got Money Troubles (2024), adapted for Apple TV+.
Rufino Blanco Fombona
Rufino Blanco Fombona (1874–1944) was a Venezuelan modernist writer, diarist, and editor who spent decades in exile opposing the Gómez dictatorship and founded Editorial América in Madrid.
Rufinus (epigrammatist)
Rufinus (Ῥουφῖνος) was a Greek poet of the Roman imperial period, otherwise unknown, whose about 35 erotic epigrams survive in Book V of the Greek Anthology.
Rui de Noronha
Rui de Noronha, full name António Rui de Noronha, was a Mozambican poet and journalist considered the precursor of modern Mozambican poetry; his sonnets appeared posthumously in Sonetos (1946).
Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子)
Rumiko Takahashi (高橋 留美子), born 1957 in Niigata, is a Japanese manga artist who debuted in 1978 with Katte na Yatsura in Weekly Shōnen Sunday and created Urusei Yatsura, Maison Ikkoku, Ranma ½, Inuyasha, RIN-NE, and MAO; twice Shogakukan Manga Award winner, 2019 Angoulême Grand Prix, 2020 Purple Ribbon.
Rupi Kaur (ਰੂਪੀ ਕੌਰ)
Rupi Kaur (ਰੂਪੀ ਕੌਰ), born 1992, is a Canadian poet and illustrator whose self-published 2014 debut, milk and honey, made her the face of Instapoetry.
Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond (born May 19, 1934, Kasauli) is an Indian author of British descent in English, known for Himalayan short stories and children's books; first novel The Room on the Roof won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan recipient.
Russell Banks
Russell Banks (1940–2023) was an American novelist and short story writer whose fiction portrayed working-class lives in the rural Northeast; Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter were both Pulitzer Prize finalists.
Russian Symbolism
Russian Symbolism (Русский символизм) was the first and largest current of Russian modernism, a literary movement of the 1890s to 1910s that dominated the Silver Age.
Rutger Kopland
Rutger Kopland, pen name of Rutger Hendrik van den Hoofdakker, was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist at the University of Groningen who won the P.C. Hooft Prize in 1988.
Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young
Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young (1882–1954) was an American novelist, poet, and playwright of Los Gatos, California, best known for Of Human Kindness (1940), her answer to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927–2013) was a German-born novelist and screenwriter who won the 1975 Booker Prize for Heat and Dust and two Oscars for her Merchant Ivory screenplays.
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh (1930–2015), English crime novelist also published as Barbara Vine, creator of Inspector Wexford; author of over sixty books, winner of three Edgars and the Cartier Diamond Dagger, and a Labour peer.
Ruthenian Triad
The Ruthenian Triad (Руська трійця) was a Galician literary group of three students at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv who launched modern Ukrainian literature in the 1830s.
Ruy Cinatti
Ruy Cinatti (1915–1986) was a Portuguese poet, agronomist, and ethnographer who spent much of his career in Portuguese Timor and won major Portuguese poetry prizes including the Prémio Camilo Pessanha.
Ruy Díaz de Guzmán
Ruy Díaz de Guzmán was a mestizo soldier and official of the Río de la Plata who wrote La Argentina manuscrita, the region's first history by a native-born author.
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941–2010) was a Portuguese-born Angolan poet, anthropologist, and filmmaker known for joining ethnography and literature in works about southern Angola's pastoral peoples.
Ruyyaka
Ruyyaka (रुय्यक), also called Rucaka, was a Sanskrit rhetorician of Kashmir who flourished in the twelfth century and wrote the Alaṃkārasarvasva, a handbook defining 67 figures of speech.
Ryhor Baradulin
Ryhor Baradulin (Рыгор Барадулін; 1935–2014) was a Belarusian lyric poet, essayist, and translator who published more than 70 collections and was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ryka Aoki
Ryka Aoki, American poet, composer, and novelist; author of He Mele a Hilo (2014) and Light From Uncommon Stars (2021), which won the Otherwise, Alex, and Stonewall Awards and was a Hugo finalist.
Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007) was a Polish reporter and writer whose literary reportage from Africa, Latin America, and the Soviet Union made him one of Poland's most translated authors.