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Sasha Cherny
Sasha Cherny (Саша Чёрный), pen name of Alexander Glikberg (1880–1932), was a Russian satirical poet, star of the journal Satirikon, and later a children's writer in emigration.
Sasha Sokolov
Sasha Sokolov, pen name of Alexander Vsevolodovich Sokolov (Саша Соколов), is a Russian writer born 1943 in Ottawa, known for A School for Fools and two later novels.
Sata Ineko
Sata Ineko (佐多稲子), born in Nagasaki in 1904, was a Japanese novelist and essayist who debuted from the caramel factory in 1928 and won the Noma Prize for Juei.
Satoshi Yagisawa (八木沢 里志) (writer)
Satoshi Yagisawa (八木沢里志), born 1977 in Chiba, is a Japanese novelist whose debut Days at the Morisaki Bookshop won the Chiyoda Literature Prize and later sold over a million copies abroad in 50 languages.
Šatrijos Ragana
Šatrijos Ragana was the pen name of Marija Pečkauskaitė (1877–1930), a Lithuanian writer and educator, founder of lyrical psychological prose, best known for the novella Sename dvare (1922).
Satu Rämö
Satu Rämö (born 1980) is a Finnish-born, Iceland-based author of the bestselling "Nordic blue" Hildur crime series about detective Hildur Rúnarsdóttir; over 1.5 million copies sold, adapted to TV and stage.
Satyendranath Tagore
Satyendranath Tagore (সত্যেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 1842–1923) was a Bengali scholar, writer, and composer who became the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service, serving over thirty years in the Bombay Presidency.
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (Solomon Bellows, 1915-2005), Canadian-born American novelist raised in Chicago; Nobel Prize in Literature 1976, three National Book Awards, Pulitzer for Humboldt's Gift; author of Augie March and Herzog.
Saunders Lewis
Saunders Lewis (John Saunders Lewis, 1893–1985) was a Welsh poet, dramatist, critic, and political activist who founded Plaid Cymru and is regarded as the central figure of twentieth-century Welsh-language literature.
Saurabh Kumar Chaliha
Saurabh Kumar Chaliha, pen name of Surendra Nath Medhi, was an Assamese short story writer and physicist credited with bringing modernism into Assamese fiction with his story "Ashanta Electron", written around 1950.
Sawako Ariyoshi
Sawako Ariyoshi (有吉佐和子, 1931–1984) was a Japanese novelist and playwright whose bestsellers on aging, pollution, and women made her one of Shōwa Japan's most widely read writers.
Saxo Grammaticus
Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish historian active around 1200 whose Gesta Danorum, a sixteen-book Latin history of Denmark, is the most important literary monument of medieval Denmark.
Sayakbay Karalaev
Sayakbay Karalaev (Саякбай Каралаев, 1894–1971) was a Kyrgyz manaschi, a traditional reciter of the Epic of Manas, whose recorded version spans more than 500,000 verse lines.
Sayat-Nova (Սայաթ-Նովա)
Sayat-Nova (Սայաթ-Նովա), born Harutyun Sayadyan (1722 or c. 1712, Tiflis; died 1795), was an Armenian ashugh and court poet of Georgian king Erekle II, writing songs in Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani and Persian, later a priest as Ter Stepanos.
Scarlett Curtis
Scarlett Curtis (born 1995), English writer, activist, and journalist; curator of Feminists Don't Wear Pink and co-founder of The Pink Protest, known for FGM and period poverty campaigns and TV writing.
Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch (born 1978, St. Paul, Minnesota), American fantasy author of the Gentleman Bastard sequence: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Red Seas Under Red Skies (2007), The Republic of Thieves (2013); World Fantasy nominee, awaiting The Thorn of Emberlain.
Scott O'Dell
Scott O'Dell (1898–1989), American children's historical fiction author of Island of the Blue Dolphins, 1961 Newbery Medalist, 1972 Hans Christian Andersen Award winner, and founder of the Scott O'Dell Award.
Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder, American comics writer of American Vampire, DC's Batman with Greg Capullo, and Absolute Batman with Nick Dragotta; also author of Voodoo Heart and teacher at Sarah Lawrence and Columbia.
Scott Turow
Scott Turow is an American writer and lawyer from Chicago whose 1987 debut novel Presumed Innocent helped establish the legal thriller as a bestselling genre.
Scriblerus Club
The Scriblerus Club was a London literary group of the early 1710s whose members, including Swift, Pope, Gay, and Arbuthnot, satirized false learning through the fictional pedant Martinus Scriblerus.
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (1939–2013), Irish poet, playwright, and translator from Mossbawn, County Derry; 1995 Nobel laureate in Literature; author of Death of a Naturalist, North, and the bestselling Beowulf translation; Oxford Professor of Poetry 1989–94.
Seán O'Casey
Seán O'Casey, born John Casey (1880–1964), was an Irish playwright whose Dublin Trilogy, including Juno and the Paycock, made him one of Ireland's most controversial writers.
Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry is an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet, born in Dublin in 1955, who has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times and twice won the Costa Book of the Year.
Sebastián Salazar Bondy
Sebastián Salazar Bondy (1924–1965) was a Peruvian writer from Lima of the Generación del 50, best known for the essay Lima la horrible (1964) and for plays including Rodil.
Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher
Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher (ስብሐት ገብረ እግዚአብሔር; 1936–2012) was an Ethiopian journalist and author from Tigray, remembered for introducing a naturalistic, sexually frank style into Amharic literature; his first novel was published only in 2004.
Sefi Atta
Sefi Atta, born 1964, is a Nigerian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose debut novel Everything Good Will Come won the inaugural Wole Soyinka Prize in 2006.
Sei Shōnagon
Sei Shōnagon (清少納言) was a Japanese waka poet and court gentlewoman who served Empress Teishi in the mid-Heian period and wrote The Pillow Book, which established the zuihitsu essay genre.
Seicho Matsumoto
Seicho Matsumoto (松本清張) was a Japanese novelist, real name Kiyoharu, whose mystery fiction centered on criminal motive and society, founding the social school of detective fiction.
Selina Hossain
Selina Hossain (সেলিনা হোসেন), born 1947, is a Bangladeshi novelist and short-story writer in Bengali, known for fiction on the 1971 Liberation War and the Language Movement.
Selina Tusitala Marsh
Selina Tusitala Marsh, born 1971, is a New Zealand poet of Samoan descent, New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019 and author of Fast Talking PI and the Mophead graphic memoirs.