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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介)
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介, 1892–1927), also known as Chōkōdō Shujin, was a Tokyo-born Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, author of Rashōmon, Hell Screen, In a Grove, and Kappa, praised by Natsume Sōseki and commemorated by the Akutagawa Prize.
Ryūtei Tanehiko
Ryūtei Tanehiko (柳亭種彦, 1783–1842) was a Japanese writer of popular illustrated fiction of the late Edo period, known for Nise Murasaki inaka Genji, an adaptation of The Tale of Genji.
S. Alice Callahan
S. Alice Callahan (1868–1894), born Sophia Alice Callahan, was a Muscogee writer and teacher credited as the first Native American woman to write a novel, Wynema (1891).
S. E. Hinton
S. E. Hinton (Susan Eloise Hinton, born 1948, Tulsa) is the American author of The Outsiders (1967), written in high school and credited with launching modern young adult fiction; her other novels include Rumble Fish and Tex.
S. E. K. Mqhayi
S. E. K. Mqhayi, full name Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (1875–1945), was a Xhosa poet, historian, and journalist called "the Shakespeare of the Xhosa language" who added stanzas to "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika".
S. Guptan Nair
S. Guptan Nair (ഗുപ്തൻ നായർ) was an Indian scholar and critic of Malayalam literature who published more than 35 books and won the Ezhuthachan Puraskaram.
S. K. Pottekkatt
S. K. Pottekkatt (1913–1982) was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature from Kerala, known for his novels and travelogues, who won the 1980 Jnanpith Award.
S. L. Bhyrappa
S. L. Bhyrappa (1931–2025) was an Indian Kannada novelist and screenwriter whose 24 novels, including Parva and Aavarana, made him one of Kannada literature's most widely read and debated writers.
S. Ramakrishnan
S. Ramakrishnan (எஸ். ராமகிருஷ்ணன்; born 1966), known in Tamil literary circles as S.Ra, is a Tamil writer of novels, short stories, and essays who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2018.
S. Ramesan Nair
S. Ramesan Nair (Malayalam: എസ്. രമേശന് നായര്; 1948 – 2021) was an Indian Malayalam-language poet and film lyricist who won the 2018 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gurupournami, and wrote some 650 film songs.
S. S. Van Dine
S. S. Van Dine, pen name of Willard Huntington Wright (1888–1939), American art critic turned detective novelist, creator of Philo Vance and author of the 1928 Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories.
Saadat Hasan Manto (سعادت حسن منٹو)
Saadat Hasan Manto (سعادت حسن منٹو), 1912–1955, Urdu short story writer and playwright of Samrala and Lahore, author of Toba Tek Singh, Khol Do, and Thanda Gosht, tried six times for obscenity, awarded Nishan-e-Imtiaz posthumously.
Saadi Shirazi (سعدی شیرازی)
Saadi Shirazi (سعدی شیرازی), also known as Sadi of Shiraz, was a Persian poet born in Shiraz around 1210 whose Būstān and Golestān became core texts of Persian education.
Saadi Youssef
Saadi Youssef (سعدي يوسف, 1934 – June 2021) was an Iraqi poet, translator, and journalist, born near Basra and a leading figure of modern Arabic poetry.
Saara El-Arifi
Saara El-Arifi, British fantasy and historical fiction author of Sudanese and Ghanaian heritage, wrote The Ending Fire trilogy (The Final Strife, 2022), the Faebound trilogy, and Cleopatra (2026); Faebound hit No. 1 Sunday Times and won the 2025 British Book Award Pageturner of the Year.
Sabahattin Ali
Sabahattin Ali (1907–1948) was a Turkish novelist, poet, and educator, a major figure of Republican-era literature, best known for Kürk Mantolu Madonna and stories of Anatolian villagers and laborers.
Sabit Mukanov
Sabit Mukanov (Сәбит Мұқанұлы Мұқанов; 1900–1973) was a Kazakh writer, People's Writer of Kazakhstan, and a founder of modern Kazakh literature who wrote the novels Sulushash, Botagoz, and Syrdariya.
Sacheverell Sitwell
Sacheverell Sitwell (1897–1988) was an English poet, art and architectural historian, and music critic, the youngest of the Sitwell siblings, known for Southern Baroque Art (1924).
Sachidananda Routray
Sachidananda Routray (1916–2004), known as Sachi Routray, was an Indian poet, novelist, and editor who wrote in Odia, pioneered modernist and progressive poetry, and won the Jnanpith Award in 1986.
Sadala Misra
Sadala Misra (सदल मिश्र) was an early Hindi prose writer from Bihar, born around 1767, who translated Sanskrit works into Khari Boli at Fort William College, Calcutta.
Sadanand Rege
Sadanand Rege (सदानंद रेगे, 1923–1982) was a Marathi poet, short-story writer, and translator who won the Maharashtra state award and the Soviet Land Nehru Award.
Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت)
Sadegh Hedayat (صادق هدایت, 1903–1951), Iranian writer, founder of modernism in Persian fiction; his novel The Blind Owl (Buf-e kur, Bombay 1936) is the most famous Persian novel, translated into some thirty languages.
Sadeq Chubak
Sadeq Chubak (صادق چوبک, 1916–1998) was an Iranian short story writer and novelist, a founder of modern Persian fiction best known for Tangsir and The Patient Stone.
Sadr al-Din Aini
Sadr al-Din Aini (صدرالدین عینی; full name Sadriddin Saidmurodzoda Ayni, 1878–1954) was a Tajik poet, novelist, and philologist, generally credited as the founder of modern Tajik literature.
Sadriddin Ayni
Sadriddin Ayni (Tajik: Садриддин Айнӣ), born Sadriddin Saidmurodzoda in Bukhara in 1878, was a Tajik poet, novelist, and historian who founded modern Tajik literature and became the first president of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.
Sadula
Sadula (萨都剌, c. 1272–1355) was a Yuan dynasty poet, painter, and calligrapher of Semu descent, best known for his graceful verse and the collection Yanmen Ji.
Safavid tazkira tradition
The Safavid tazkira tradition is the body of Persian biographical anthologies, called tazkiras (تذکره), recording poets' lives and verses in the Safavid era (906–1135 AH).
Safdar Mir
Safdar Mir, full name Mohammad Safdar Mir (1922–1998), was a Pakistani journalist, poet, playwright, and critic in Lahore, best known for his weekly 'Zeno' column in The Pakistan Times and later Dawn.
Sagara Palansuriya
Sagara Palansuriya (සාගර පලන්සූරිය) was a Sri Lankan poet who wrote in Sinhala under the pen name Kayes, best known for the narrative poem Sudo Sudu (1948).
Sagymbay Orozbakov
Sagymbay Orozbakov (Kyrgyz: Сагымбай Орозбаков, 1867–1930) was a Kyrgyz manaschi, a reciter of the epic Manas, whose version of 180,378 poetic lines was recorded from 1922 to 1926.