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Salvador Novo
Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a Mexican poet, essayist, playwright, and chronicler of the Contemporáneos generation, remembered as a pioneer in making homosexuality visible in Mexican letters.
Salvador Rueda
Salvador Rueda (Salvador Rueda Santos, 1857–1933) was a Spanish poet from a peasant family in Málaga who renewed Spanish verse meters and joined the Real Academia Española in 1926.
Salvatore Farina
Salvatore Farina (1846–1918) was an Italian novelist and journalist from Sardinia, based in Milan, hailed abroad as "the Italian Dickens" for his warm, humorous domestic fiction.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901–1968) was an Italian poet and translator who led the Hermetic school, turned after World War II to civic poetry, and won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Sam Selvon
Sam Selvon, born Samuel Dickson Selvon, was a Trinidadian novelist and short-story writer, a leading figure of the 1950s Caribbean literary renaissance, best known for The Lonely Londoners (1956).
Samad Behrangi
Samad Behrangi (صمد بهرنگی, 1939–1968) was an Iranian teacher and short story writer of Azerbaijani background, best known for the children's folktale The Little Black Fish.
Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin (born 1978, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer of stories and novels blending realism and the uncanny, best known for Fever Dream and Seven Empty Houses.
Samaresh Majumdar
Samaresh Majumdar (সমরেশ মজুমদার; 1942–2023) was an Indian Bengali novelist from West Bengal, best known for the Naxalite-era trilogy Uttaradhikar, Kalbela, and Kalpurush and for Satkahon, featuring Dipabali.
Sami (poet)
Sami (Sindhi: سامي) was a Sindhi Hindu Sufi poet of Shikarpur who wrote Vedantic verse and ranks with Shah and Sachal among Sindh's three classical poets.
Samih al-Qasim
Samih al-Qasim (سميح القاسم, 1939–2014) was a Palestinian Druze poet, journalist, and playwright who spent his life in Israel, publishing more than 60 books of resistance poetry.
Samim Kocagöz
Samim Kocagöz (1916–1993) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and teacher of the 1940 generation, best known for the War of Independence novels Kalpaklılar (1962) and Doludizgin (1963).
Samipaşazade Sezai
Samipaşazade Sezai (1859–1936) was an Ottoman and Turkish story writer, novelist, playwright, and diplomat of the Tanzimat era, remembered chiefly for the novel Sergüzeşt and the short-story collection Küçük Şeyler.
Samira Khashoggi (سميرة خاشقجي)
Samira Khashoggi (سميرة خاشقجي; 1935–1986) was a Saudi novelist, publisher, and film producer who wrote under the name Samira bint Al-Jazira and pioneered the Saudi women's novel.
Samson Occom
Samson Occom (1723–1792), Mohegan Presbyterian minister and fund-raiser for Dartmouth College, author of A Short Narrative of My Life and the Moses Paul execution sermon, and founder of the Brothertown Indian community.
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish novelist, playwright, and poet of the Paris avant-garde; author of Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and the Molloy trilogy; wrote in French after 1946; Nobel Prize in Literature 1969.
Samuel Bogumił Linde
Samuel Bogumił Linde (1771–1847) was a Polish lexicographer, pedagogue, and librarian, best known for the six-volume Dictionary of the Polish Language published in Warsaw from 1807 to 1814.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902), English novelist and satirist, author of Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), New Zealand sheep farmer, critic of Darwin, and posthumous Victorian iconoclast.
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet and historian of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, known for the sonnet sequence Delia and the unfinished epic The Civil Wars.
Samuel ibn Naghrillah
Samuel ibn Naghrillah, known in Hebrew as Samuel ha-Nagid (שמואל הנגיד), was a Jewish scholar, poet, and statesman who served as vizier and army commander of Granada in eleventh-century Spain.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), English lexicographer, poet, critic, and essayist, wrote A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), The Rambler, Rasselas, and Lives of the Poets; immortalized by Boswell's 1791 Life.
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English naval administrator, wrote the famous diary 1660–1669 in Shelton shorthand, recording the Restoration, plague, and Great Fire of London; first published 1825, complete 1970–83.
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany (Chip Delany, born 1942), African American gay science fiction writer, critic, and Temple University professor; author of Babel-17, Nova, Dhalgren, and Return to Nevèrÿon; four Nebulas, two Hugos, SFWA Grand Master.
Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), English printer and novelist, pioneer of the epistolary novel; wrote Pamela (1740), Clarissa (1747–48), and Sir Charles Grandison (1753–54), and rivaled Henry Fielding as a founder of the modern English novel.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher; author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan', and 'Christabel', co-author of Lyrical Ballads, and writer of Biographia Literaria.
Samuil Marshak
Samuil Marshak (Самуил Маршак, 1887–1964) was a Russian poet, playwright, and translator who founded modern Soviet children's literature and gave Russian readers Shakespeare's sonnets and Burns.
San Mao
San Mao (三毛) was the pen name of Chen Ping, a Taiwanese writer whose semi-autobiographical essays about life in the Sahara Desert sold over fifteen million copies.
Sanchuniathon
Sanchuniathon (Sakun-yaton, Punic sknytn), legendary pre-Homeric Phoenician author of a cosmogony and religious history, known only through Philo of Byblos's Phoenician History preserved in Eusebius; authenticity long disputed, partly confirmed by Ugaritic texts.
Sándor Kisfaludy
Sándor Kisfaludy (Kisfaludy Sándor, 1772 to 1844) was a Hungarian poet and playwright whose Himfy poems made him the most renowned Hungarian poet of the early 19th century.
Sándor Márai
Sándor Márai (1900–1989), born in Kassa, was a leading Hungarian novelist and journalist who left communist Hungary in 1948; his novel Embers brought him posthumous international fame.
Sándor Weöres
Sándor Weöres (Weöres Sándor) was a Hungarian poet, translator, and playwright, born in 1913 and counted among the most significant Hungarian poets of the twentieth century.