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Shahid Balkhi
Shahid Balkhi (شهید بلخی) was a 10th-century Persian poet, theologian, and philosopher from Balkh, remembered as a pioneer of New Persian poetry and a friend of Rudaki.
Shahidullah Kaiser
Shahidullah Kaiser (শহীদুল্লা কায়সার), born Abu Naim Muhammad Shahidullah, was a Bangladeshi novelist and journalist known for Sareng Bou and Sangshaptak, killed in December 1971.
Shahin Shirazi
Shahin Shirazi, or Mowlānā Shāhīn-i Shīrāzī, was a fourteenth-century Judeo-Persian poet born in Shiraz, regarded as the founder of Judeo-Persian poetry, who versified the Hebrew Bible.
Shahnon Ahmad
Shahnon Ahmad (1933–2017) was a Malaysian novelist and academic named the country's second Sasterawan Negara in 1982; his novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan became a classic of modern Malay literature.
Shahryar (poet)
Shahryar, pen name of Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (1936–2012), was an Indian Urdu poet and academic at Aligarh Muslim University who won both the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards.
Shahzad Ahmad
Shahzad Ahmad (شہزاد احمد) was a Pakistani Urdu poet of the modern ghazal, prose writer, and translator who wrote about 30 books and received Pakistan's Pride of Performance.
Shaikh Ayaz
Sheikh Ayaz (شيخ اياز), born Mubarak Ali Sheikh, was a Pakistani poet who wrote in Sindhi and Urdu and is regarded as a leading modern Sindhi poet.
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Shakti Chattopadhyay (শক্তি চট্টোপাধ্যায়; 1933–1995) was a major Bengali poet who helped found the Hungry Generation movement in 1961 and won the 1983 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Shalva Dadiani
Shalva Dadiani (1874–1959) was a Georgian playwright, novelist, actor, and translator, one of the organizers of modern Georgian drama; his classic comedy Gushindelni premiered in 1917.
Shams Langeroodi
Shams Langeroodi (شمس لنگرودی), born Mohammad-Taqi Javaheri Gilani, is an Iranian poet and literary researcher, a leading figure of prose poetry after the Islamic Revolution.
Shamsher Bahadur Singh
Shamsher Bahadur Singh (1911–1993) was a Hindi poet and translator, a major figure of the Nayi Kavita movement and winner of the 1977 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Shamsur Rahman
Shamsur Rahman (শামসুর রাহমান) was a Bangladeshi poet, journalist, and columnist, a key figure in Bengali literature known as the "Poet of Independence" for his 1971 war poetry.
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (شمس الرحمان فاروقی) was an Indian Urdu poet, critic, and scholar of Urdu literature who edited the journal Shabkhoon and won the Saraswati Samman.
Shankar Lamichhane
Shankar Lamichhane (शंकर लामिछाने, 1928–1976) was a Nepali essayist and short-story writer who introduced the stream-of-consciousness style and won the Madan Puraskar for Abstract Chintan: Pyaj.
Shankha Ghosh
Shankha Ghosh (শঙ্খ ঘোষ, 1932–2021) was an Indian Bengali poet, critic, and Tagore scholar who received India's highest literary honor, the Jnanpith Award, in 2016.
Shanta Gokhale
Shanta Gokhale (शांता गोखले), born 1939 in Dahanu, Maharashtra, is an Indian writer, translator, and theater critic known for carrying modern Marathi literature into English.
Shanta Shelke
Shanta Shelke (शांता शेळके; 1922–2002) was a Marathi poet, novelist, and professor who wrote over 100 books and hundreds of film and bhavgeet lyrics, receiving the Padma Shri.
Sharif Kunjahi
Sharif Kunjahi (شریف کنجاہی) was a Pakistani poet and translator remembered as a founder of modern Punjabi poetry; he translated the Quran into Punjabi in 1997.
Sharif Sabir
Sharif Sabir (شریف صابر; 1928–2015) was a Pakistani Punjabi scholar, poet, translator, and editor, best known for his critical edition of the classic Punjabi epic Heer Waris Shah.
Shashi Deshpande
Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist and short-story writer who writes in English, best known for That Long Silence (1988), winner of the 1990 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky (שאול טשרניחובסקי) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet and physician who, with Hayim Nahman Bialik, stood among modern Hebrew poetry's founders, translating Homer into Hebrew.
Shawkat Osman
Shawkat Osman (শওকত ওসমান), born Sheikh Azizur Rahman in 1917, was a Bangladeshi novelist known for Janani and Kritadasher Hashi and for novels attacking dictatorship and the 1971 Liberation War, who won the Independence Day Award.
Shaykh Sufi
Shaykh Sufi was the popular name of Abd Al-Rahman bin Abdallah al Shashi (1829–1904), a nineteenth-century Somali scholar, poet, reformist, and astrologist whose teaching circulated through Sufi poetry.
Sheila Cussons
Sheila Cussons (1922–2004) was an Afrikaans poet and fine artist whose Catholic, mystical poetry made her a major figure; her debut Plektrum (1970) is judged the finest in the language.
Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein (Sheldon Allan Silverstein, 1930-1999), American poet, cartoonist, and songwriter; author of The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and A Light in the Attic; Playboy cartoonist and writer of A Boy Named Sue.
Shelby Foote
Shelby Foote (Shelby Dade Foote, Jr., 1916–2005), Greenville, Mississippi novelist and historian, wrote the 1.5-million-word three-volume The Civil War: A Narrative (1958–1974) and became famous through Ken Burns's 1990 PBS documentary, in which he made 89 appearances.
Shelby Van Pelt
Shelby Van Pelt, American novelist, author of the 2022 debut bestseller Remarkably Bright Creatures (Marcellus the octopus, Tova Sullivan); Heartland Prize winner; Netflix film adaptation with Sally Field.
Shen Yinmo
Shen Yinmo (沈尹默), originally named Shen Junmo, was a Chinese calligrapher, poet, and educator known for classical tie-school calligraphy and paired with Yu Youren as "South Shen, North Yu".
Shen Yixiu
Shen Yixiu (沈宜修, courtesy name Wanjun, 1590–1635) was a late Ming Chinese poet and anthology editor from Wujiang, Suzhou, remembered as the Ming's Li Qingzhao.
Sheng Keyi
Sheng Keyi (盛可以) is a Chinese novelist, born in 1973 in Yiyang, Hunan, whose fierce fiction centers on rural and migrant women; her debut novel is Bei Mei.