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António Correia de Oliveira
António Correia de Oliveira (1879–1960) was a Portuguese poet of the saudosismo movement and later official poet of the Estado Novo, first nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933.
Antonio de la Calancha
Antonio de la Calancha (1584–1654) was a criollo Augustinian friar and chronicler of the Viceroyalty of Peru, best known for his Corónica moralizada, a principal source on indigenous religion and customs in Peru and Bolivia.
Antonio de Solís
Antonio de Solís y Rivadeneyra (1610–1686) was a Spanish dramatist and historian, Cronista Mayor de Indias, best known for his Historia de la conquista de México, printed in Madrid in 1684.
Antonio Fogazzaro
Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) was an Italian novelist, poet, and senator from Vicenza, ranked after Verga as the greatest late-19th-century Italian novelist; his Il Santo was placed on the Index.
Antônio Houaiss
Antônio Houaiss (1915–1999) was a Brazilian professor, diplomat, and philologist best known for the Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa and for presiding over the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 1996.
António Jacinto
António Jacinto, pen name of António Jacinto do Amaral Martins (1924–1991), was an Angolan poet and nationalist who was imprisoned at Tarrafal and later served as Minister of Education and Culture.
Antônio José da Silva
Antônio José da Silva, known as O Judeu, was a Brazilian-born playwright who wrote comic operas for Lisbon's marionette theater before the Inquisition executed him in 1739.
António Lobo Antunes
António Lobo Antunes (1942–2026), Portuguese novelist and psychiatrist, debuted in 1979 with Memória de Elefante and Os Cus de Judas; served 27 months as an army doctor in Angola, which shaped his fiction; won the Prémio Camões in 2007 and wrote more than 30 novels translated into over fifteen languages.
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado (Antonio Machado y Ruiz) was a Spanish poet of the Generation of '98, born in Seville in 1875 and died in exile in France in 1939.
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 1956) is a Spanish writer, a member of the Real Academia Española and winner of the 2013 Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.
Antônio Olinto
Antônio Olinto, full name Antônio Olinto Marques da Rocha, was a Brazilian poet, novelist, essayist, and critic known for work on Afro-Brazilian culture and ties between Brazil and Africa.
Antônio Risério
Antônio Risério, born 1953 in Salvador, Bahia, is a Brazilian poet, essayist, anthropologist, and historian who began in the Tropicália movement and writes on Afro-Brazilian culture.
Antônio Sales
Antônio Sales (1868–1940) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, journalist, and politician from Ceará, best known for founding the Padaria Espiritual in 1892 and for the novel Aves de arribação.
Antonio Skármeta
Antonio Skármeta (1940–2024) was a Chilean novelist and diplomat whose novel Ardiente paciencia inspired the 1994 film Il Postino; he won Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi (1943–2012) was an Italian novelist, essayist, and translator who taught Portuguese literature and became the leading Italian editor and translator of Fernando Pessoa.
Antonio Valeriano
Antonio Valeriano (c. 1526–1605) was a Nahua noble, Latinist, and colonial administrator who collaborated on the Florentine Codex and governed Mexico-Tenochtitlan for over two decades.
Antun Gustav Matoš
Antun Gustav Matoš (1873–1914) was a Croatian writer, poet, and critic, the central figure of Croatian Moderna, whose 1892 story Moć savjesti began the period.
Anuradha Sharma Pujari
Anuradha Sharma Pujari (অনুৰাধা শৰ্মা পূজাৰী; born 1964 in Jorhat, Assam) is an Assamese novelist, essayist, and journalist who edits the weekly Sadin and won the 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Anvari
Anvari (انوري) was the pen name of Owhad al-Din Mohammad, a 12th-century Persian poet of Abivard in Khurasan, ranked among the greatest panegyrists of Persian literature.
Anwar Masood
Anwar Masood (انور مسعود), born 8 November 1935, is a Pakistani poet and educationist who writes in Punjabi, Urdu, and Persian, best known for humorous, satirical Punjabi poetry.
Anwar Ridhwan
Anwar Ridhwan, pen name of Mohd Anuar bin Haji Rethwan, is a Malaysian writer named the tenth Sasterawan Negara, or National Laureate, in 2009. His novel Naratif Ogonshoto won the 2002 SEA Write Award.
Anwar Sajjad
Anwar Sajjad (انور سجاد; 1934–2019) was a Pakistani Urdu fiction writer, playwright, and physician, a leading modernist known for symbolic short stories like Gaae and for PTV plays.
Ánxel Fole
Ánxel Fole (1903–1986) was a Galician writer and journalist, a master of the short story in Galician who blended oral tradition with influences like Poe, co-founding Editorial Galaxia.
Aoki Konyō
Aoki Konyō (1698–1769) was a Japanese Confucian scholar known as Kansho Sensei, the Sweet Potato Teacher, for promoting the sweet potato as a famine-relief crop.
Apirana Taylor
Apirana Taylor (born 1955) is a New Zealand Māori poet, playwright, and novelist who won the 2024 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry.
Apollo School
The Apollo School (مدرسة أبولو) was a literary society founded in Cairo in 1932 by Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi, a leading force in romantic Arabic poetry.
Apollodorus of Athens
Apollodorus of Athens (Ἀπολλόδωρος) was a Greek grammarian and chronographer of the second century BC whose verse Chronica became the standard work of Greek chronology.
Apollon Grigoryev
Apollon Grigoryev, also known as Apollon Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (Аполлон Александрович Григорьев), was a Russian poet and literary and theater critic, 1822–1864, who created "organic criticism" and worked with Dostoevsky on the journals Vremia and Epokha.
Apollon Maykov
Apollon Maykov (1821–1897) was a Russian poet of the art-for-art's-sake school, elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1853 and awarded the Pushkin Prize in 1882 for Two Worlds.
Apuleius
Apuleius (Lucius Apuleius, c. 123 to c. 170) was a Roman writer and Platonist philosopher from Madauros in North Africa, author of The Golden Ass.