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Sahajō Bāī
Sahajō Bāī (सहजो बाई) was a Hindi sant-poetess of the Charandasi sect, a disciple of the Delhi teacher Charandas, who wrote the devotional verse work Sahaj Prakash and died in 1805.
Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam
Sahle Sellassie Berhane Mariam (born 1936) is an Ethiopian novelist who wrote in English, Amharic, and Chaha, and a founder of Ethiopia's literature in English.
Said Ahmed Mohamed
Said Ahmed Mohamed, also published as Said A. Mohamed, is a Tanzanian Kiswahili novelist, poet, and playwright born in 1947 in Zanzibar, with 67 published titles.
Saigyō (西行)
Saigyō (西行), 1118-1190, born Satō Norikiyo, Japanese late-Heian poet-monk and tanka master. Left Toba's hokumen guard at 23 to wander; famed for the Sankashū anthology and cherry-blossom poems; influenced Bashō and the Shinkokinshū tradition.
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay
Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay (শৈলজানন্দ মুখোপাধ্যায়), 1901–1976, was a Bengali novelist, short-story writer, and film director, a friend of Kazi Nazrul Islam whose Kaila Kuthi stories pioneered fiction about Bengal's coal miners.
Saint Lucian literature
Saint Lucian literature is the poetry, drama, and fiction of Saint Lucia, written chiefly in English and Kwéyòl and anchored by Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Prize.
Saint-John Perse
Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, was a French poet and diplomat, secretary-general of the Quai d'Orsay, who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sajjad Zaheer
Sajjad Zaheer (سجاد ظہیر) was an Urdu writer and Marxist who founded the Progressive Writers' Association, co-authored Angare in 1932, and led the Communist Party of Pakistan.
Saken Seifullin
Saken Seifullin (Сәкен Сейфуллин) was a Kazakh poet and writer, regarded as a founder of modern Kazakh literature, who led the Kazakh ASSR government from 1922 to 1925.
Saki
Saki, pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), Burma-born British satirical short-story writer of Reginald, The Chronicles of Clovis, and Beasts and Super-Beasts, killed by a sniper in France in 1916.
Salah Abdel Sabour
Salah Abdel Sabour (صلاح عبد الصبور) was an Egyptian poet, playwright, and critic, a pioneer of Arabic free verse and a leading figure in Arabic poetic drama.
Salah Birsel
Salah Birsel (1919–1999), real name Ahmet Selâhaddin, was a Turkish poet, essayist, and diarist of the 1940 Generation, credited with establishing the diary as a Turkish literary genre.
Salah Jahin
Salah Jahin (صلاح جاهين), born Mohamed Salah El-Din Bahgat Ahmed Helmy, was an Egyptian colloquial poet, cartoonist, and playwright (1930–1986) who wrote the Rubaiyat and helped found modern Egyptian caricature.
Salah Niazi
Salah Niazi (صلاح نيازي, born July 1935) is an Iraqi poet, critic, and translator who has lived in London since the 1960s and translated Ulysses into Arabic.
Salarrué
Salarrué was the pen name of Luis Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué (1899–1975), a Salvadoran writer and painter regarded as a founder of the modern Central American short story.
Saleem Ahmed
Saleem Ahmed (سلیم احمد; 1927 – 1983) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, critic, playwright, and columnist, known for promoting the anti-ghazal trend in Urdu poetry.
Salgado Maranhão
Salgado Maranhão, pen name of José Salgado Santos Costa, is a Brazilian poet born in 1953 in Caxias, Maranhão, known for formally demanding verse rooted in the Brazilian Northeast, and a two-time Jabuti Prize winner.
Salim Hatubou
Salim Hatubou (1972–2015) was a Franco-Comorian writer and storyteller, a pioneer of Comorian literature in French whose work drew on oral tradition and the ties between the Comoros and Marseille.
Sallust
Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus, 86–35 BCE) was a Roman historian and politician who retired under Julius Caesar's patronage to write histories of Catiline's conspiracy and the Jugurthine War.
Sally Burton
Sally Burton, born Sally Hay, is the British widow of actor Richard Burton; married him in Las Vegas in July 1983, inherited his $4.58 million estate, and donated his diaries to Swansea University. Distinct from the New Zealand painter of the same name.
Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney (born 1991, Castlebar, Ireland) is the Irish novelist of Conversations with Friends, Normal People, Beautiful World Where Are You, and Intermezzo. Known for unmarked dialogue and TV adaptations, and for Faber withdrawing her books from UK sale in 2026 over her Palestine Action support.
Sally Salminen
Sally Salminen (1906–1976) was a Finland-Swedish writer from Vårdö in the Åland Islands whose debut novel Katrina (1936), written while she worked as a maid in New York, sold 53,000 copies.
Salma Khadra Jayyusi
Salma Khadra Jayyusi (سلمى الخضراء الجيوسي), born Salma Subhi Said al-Khadra, was a Palestinian poet, critic, and anthologist who founded PROTA in 1980 to translate Arabic literature into English.
Salman Mumtaz
Salman Mumtaz (Salman Mümtaz; born Salman Məmmədəmin oğlu Əsgərov, 1884–1941) was an Azerbaijani literary scholar, folklorist, and manuscript collector who published first editions of classical poets including Nasimi, Fuzuli, and Vagif.
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie (born 1947, Bombay) is a British Indian American novelist, author of Midnight's Children (1981 Booker Prize, Booker of Bookers) and The Satanic Verses, target of the 1989 Iranian fatwa and a 2022 stabbing at Chautauqua; author of Knife and The Eleventh Hour.
Salman Savaji
Salman Savaji (سلمان ساوجی) was a 14th-century Persian court poet, born in Saveh and serving the Jalayirids in Baghdad, regarded as one of the last great qasida masters.
Salomėja Nėris
Salomėja Nėris, real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė-Bučienė, was a Lithuanian neo-Romantic poet (1904–1945) whose melodic, folk-song-inflected lyrics made her one of the most popular Lithuanian writers.
Salvador Díaz Mirón
Salvador Díaz Mirón (1853–1928) was a Mexican poet and journalist from Veracruz, a precursor of Modernismo whose only authorized book of verse, Lascas, appeared in 1901.
Salvador Espriu
Salvador Espriu, full name Salvador Espriu i Castelló (1913–1985), was a Catalan poet, playwright, and novelist, a central figure of twentieth-century Catalan literature known for Cementiri de Sinera and La pell de brau.
Salvador Garmendia
Salvador Garmendia (1928, Barquisimeto – 2001, Caracas) was a Venezuelan novelist and short-story writer known for urban narratives like Los pequeños seres and for winning the National Literature Prize.