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Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros, Chicago-born (1954) Chicana writer, author of The House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek, and Caramelo; MacArthur Fellow and 2016 National Medal of Arts recipient.
Sane Guruji
Sane Guruji (साने गुरुजी), born Pandurang Sadashiv Sane (1899–1950), was a Marathi teacher, freedom fighter, and prolific writer best known for Shyamchi Aai, an autobiographical novel about his mother.
Sangu Mandanna
Sangu Mandanna (born 1987/1988, Bengaluru, India) is a British-Indian novelist in Norwich, England. Known for The Lost Girl (2012), the Mahabharata space-opera Celestial Trilogy, and the cozy fantasy bestseller The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (2022).
Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (সঞ্জীবচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়; 1834–1889) was a Bengali writer, poet, and journalist, best known as the elder brother of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and author of Palamau, a pioneering Bengali travelogue.
Sanjib Chattopadhyay
Sanjib Chattopadhyay (সঞ্জীব চট্টোপাধ্যায়), born 1934 in Kolkata, is an Indian Bengali novelist known for humorous prose, the novel Lotakambal, and the children's Boro Mama series.
Sant Singh Sekhon
Sant Singh Sekhon (ਸੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੇਖੋਂ, 1908–1997) was a Punjabi playwright, novelist, and critic, widely called the father of modern Punjabi literary criticism; his play Mittarpiara won the 1972 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Santa Montefiore
Santa Montefiore (born 1970), born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson, British romantic novelist, wife of historian Simon Sebag Montefiore; author of over thirty novels including the Deverill Chronicles and Timeslider series, with 8 million copies sold.
Santō Kyōden
Santō Kyōden (山東京伝, 1761–1816) was a Japanese popular-fiction writer and ukiyo-e artist of the late Edo period, a leading gesaku author of kibyōshi and sharebon.
Santokh Singh Dhir
Santokh Singh Dhir (ਸੰਤੋਖ ਸਿੰਘ ਧੀਰ; 1920–2010) was an Indian Punjabi writer of short stories, poetry, and novels who won the 1996 Sahitya Akademi Award for Pakhi.
Sapardi Djoko Damono
Sapardi Djoko Damono (1940–2020) was an Indonesian poet, literary scholar, and University of Indonesia professor, best known for the poem "Hujan Bulan Juni" and simple, lyrical diction.
Sapphire (author)
Sapphire, pen name of Ramona Lofton (born 1950), American poet and novelist; her 1996 debut Push, about Harlem teenager Precious Jones, won the Stephen Crane Award and became the film Precious (2009).
Sappho
Sappho (Σαπφώ, Aeolic Ψάπφα), archaic Greek lyric poet of Lesbos, late 7th to early 6th century BCE; author of the Ode to Aphrodite and the Sapphic stanza; only about 650 of over 10,000 ancient lines survive, expanded by the 2004 and 2014 papyrus finds.
Sara Lidman
Sara Lidman (1923–2004) was a Swedish novelist from Västerbotten, known for the seven-novel Jernbanan suite and as the first woman to win the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky (born 1947) is the American crime writer who created Chicago private investigator V.I. Warshawski in Indemnity Only (1982) and founded Sisters in Crime; winner of the Cartier Diamond Dagger and Gold Dagger.
Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard, American #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, The Lying Game, The Perfectionists, and Reputation; Pittsburgh-based, NYU and Brooklyn College MFA, also writes the Penny Draws middle grade series.
Sara Stridsberg
Sara Stridsberg, born 1972 in Solna, Sweden, is a Swedish novelist, playwright, and translator whose 2006 breakthrough novel Drömfakulteten (The Faculty of Dreams) won the Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay
Saradindu Bandyopadhyay (শরদিন্দু বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, 1899–1970) was a Bengali writer best known as the creator of detective Byomkesh Bakshi, and also a novelist of historical fiction and ghost stories.
Sarah Gertrude Millin
Sarah Gertrude Millin, born Sarah Gertrude Liebson in Lithuania in 1889, was a South African novelist and biographer long described as her country's leading literary figure.
Sarah J. Maas
Sarah J. Maas, American romantasy author of Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR), and Crescent City; over 75 million copies sold in 40 languages; debut Throne of Glass 2012; ACOTAR 6 due October 2026.
Sarah Joseph
Sarah Joseph (Malayalam: സാറാ ജോസഫ്; born 1946) is a Malayalam novelist and feminist activist from Kerala, best known for her award-winning 1999 novel Aalahayude Penmakkal.
Sarah Kirsch
Sarah Kirsch, born Ingrid Bernstein (1935–2013), was a German poet known for dense nature imagery, who protested Biermann's 1976 expatriation and left East Germany in 1977.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) was an American writer of fiction about coastal and rural New England, best known for "A White Heron" and The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters (born 1966, Wales) is a Welsh novelist, author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, The Night Watch, The Little Stranger, and The Paying Guests; three-time Booker shortlistee, OBE 2019, known for lesbian neo-Victorian historical fiction.
Sarah Winnemucca
Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute name Thocmetony, was a Northern Paiute author and interpreter whose 1883 book Life Among the Piutes was the first autobiography by a Native American woman.
Sarala Das
Sarala Das (ସରଳ ଦାସ), also written Sarala Dasa, was a 15th-century Odia poet, born under King Kapilendra Deva, who composed the Odia Mahabharata, the first regional-language Mahabharata.
Sarala Dasa
Sarala Dasa (ସାରଳା ଦାସ) was a fifteenth-century Odia poet and soldier who wrote the Sarala Mahabharata. He was a peasant by birth and self-described as a Shudra sage.
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়)
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়), also spelled Sharatchandra, 1876–1938, Bengali novelist of Devdas, Srikanta, Parineeta, and the sedition-banned Pather Dabi; wrote of rural Bengal, women, caste, and debt.
Sargon Boulus
Sargon Boulus (سركون بولص, 1944–2007) was an Iraqi Assyrian poet, a leading figure of the Arabic prose poem, and a prolific translator of world poetry.
Sariamin Ismail
Sariamin Ismail (1909–1995) was an Indonesian writer, teacher, and women's organization activist from West Sumatra, recorded as the first woman in Indonesia to publish a novel.
Sarubhakta
Sarubhakta (सरुभक्त) is the pen name of Bhakta Raj Shrestha, a Nepali playwright, novelist, and poet from Pokhara who won the Madan Puraskar for Pagal Basti.