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Sheridan Le Fanu
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), Irish Gothic novelist, short story writer, and Dublin journalist and editor of the Dublin University Magazine; author of Uncle Silas, The House by the Church-Yard, and In a Glass Darkly with the vampire novella Carmilla, precursor to Dracula.
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie (born 1966) is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene poet, novelist, and filmmaker from the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. Known for The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, and the 2007 National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; his screenplay Smoke Signals won awards at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Publicly alleged sexual misconduct surfaced in 2018.
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (1876–1941), American writer of Winesburg, Ohio (1919), also businessman, advertiser, and Virginia newspaper editor who influenced Faulkner and Hemingway.
Shi Runzhang
Shi Runzhang (施闰章) was a Qing dynasty poet and official from Xuancheng, Anhui, paired with Song Wan as 'Nan Shi Bei Song' and one of the six dynasty poets.
Shi Shuqing
Shi Shuqing (施叔青, born 1945) is a Taiwanese novelist whose Hong Kong Trilogy and Taiwan Trilogy recount a century of Hong Kong and Taiwanese history, ranked among Asia Weekly's best Chinese novels.
Shi Tiesheng
Shi Tiesheng (史铁生, 1951–2010) was a Chinese writer from Beijing, paralyzed at 21, whose 1991 essay The Temple of Earth and I became a classic.
Shi Zhecun
Shi Zhecun (施蛰存, 1905–2003) was a Chinese novelist, translator, and editor whose psychologically oriented fiction made him a leading figure of the Shanghai New Sensationist school.
Shi'r group
The Shi'r group (جماعة شعر) was a circle of Arab modernist poets formed around Shi'r, the Beirut magazine founded in 1957 by Yusuf al-Khal with Adonis.
Shibram Chakraborty
Shibram Chakraborty (শিবরাম চক্রবর্তী; 1903–1980) was an Indian Bengali humorist, essayist, and playwright best known for humorous stories and children's literature and for the comic characters Harshabardhan and Gobardhan.
Shigeo Watanabe
Shigeo Watanabe (渡辺茂男, 1928–2006) was a Japanese children's author, translator, and library science professor at Keio University who published about 300 children's books, including the fire-engine story Shōbō jidōsha Jiputa.
Shikitei Sanba
Shikitei Sanba (式亭三馬, 1776–1822) was a Japanese gesaku author of the late Edo period, best known for the comic works Ukiyoburo and Ukiyodoko, which portray Edo commoners through their conversation.
Shimako Iwai
Shimako Iwai (岩井志麻子), born Takeuchi Shimako in 1964, is a Japanese novelist, essayist, and television personality from Okayama Prefecture, best known for the horror story Bokke, Kyote.
Shin Kyung-sook
Shin Kyung-sook (신경숙, born 1963) is a South Korean novelist known for Please Look After Mom and as the first Korean winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Shin Maha Thilawuntha
Shin Maha Thilawuntha (ရှင်မဟာသီလဝံသ; 1453–1520) was a Burmese Buddhist monk and poet of the Ava period, one of four celebrated monk poets of the era.
Shin Shalom
Shin Shalom, born Shalom Joseph Shapira (ש. שלום; 1904–1990), was an Israeli Hebrew poet and playwright of the Third Aliyah who won the 1973 Israel Prize for poetry.
Shinkankaku-ha
Shinkankaku-ha (新感覚派, "New Sensation School") was a Japanese literary group of the mid-1920s, centered on the magazine Bungei Jidai, whose writers included Yokomitsu Riichi and Kawabata Yasunari.
Shinkei
Shinkei (心敬, 1406–1475) was a Japanese renga master and Tendai Buddhist monk of the mid-Muromachi period, one of the seven renga sages and author of the poetic treatise Sasamegoto.
Shirakaba-ha
Shirakaba-ha (白樺派, "White Birch school") was a Japanese literary coterie formed around the magazine Shirakaba, founded in 1910 by Mushanokōji Saneatsu, Shiga Naoya, and Arishima Takeo.
Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016) was an Australian-born novelist and essayist who lived mainly in New York and Italy; The Transit of Venus won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson (1916-1965), American writer of psychological and domestic horror, author of "The Lottery" (1948) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959); six novels, hundreds of short stories, and a posthumous literary revival.
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়), born in 1935 in present-day Bangladesh, is an Indian Bengali writer of novels, short stories, and children's fiction who received the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Shiv Kumar Batalvi (ਸ਼ਿਵ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਬਟਾਲਵੀ)
Shiv Kumar Batalvi (ਸ਼ਿਵ ਕੁਮਾਰ ਬਟਾਲਵੀ), 1936-1973, Punjabi romantic poet from Bara Pind Lohtian; youngest Sahitya Akademi Award winner (1967) for the verse play Loona; known as Birha da Sultan.
Shiv Prasad Singh
Shiv Prasad Singh was a renowned Hindi author and professor from Banaras, Uttar Pradesh, who excelled in nearly every prose genre, notably the historical novel Neela Chand.
Shivaji Sawant
Shivaji Sawant (शिवाजी सावंत, 1940–2002) was a Marathi novelist, called Mrityunjaykar for his debut Mrityunjaya (1967) on Karna; he also wrote Chhava on Sambhaji and Yugandhar on Krishna.
Shivaram Karanth
Shivaram Karanth (ಕೋಟ ಶಿವರಾಮ ಕಾರಂತ, 1902–1997) was a Kannada novelist, playwright, and reformer from coastal Karnataka who won the Jnanpith Award in 1977 for Mookajjiya Kanasugalu.
Shivmangal Singh Suman
Shivmangal Singh Suman (शिवमंगल सिंह 'सुमन'; 1915–2002) was a Hindi poet of the post-Chhayavad period who won the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award for Mitti ki Baraat.
Shmuel Niger
Shmuel Niger (שמואל ניגער), pen name of Shmuel Charney, was a Yiddish literary critic and historian from Dukora, Belorussia, who became the most influential Yiddish critic of his decade.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (שמואל יוסף עגנון)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (S.Y. Agnon, born Czaczkes) was an Israeli Hebrew novelist from Buczacz, Galicia; first Israeli Nobel laureate (Literature 1966, shared with Nelly Sachs), only Hebrew writer on the list, two-time Israel Prize winner.
Shobhaa De (शोभा राजाध्यक्ष)
Shobhaa De (शोभा राजाध्यक्ष; born Shobha Rajadhyaksha, 1948) is an Indian novelist, columnist, and former editor of Stardust, Society, and Celebrity, known for pioneering Hinglish in English fiction and for Socialite Evenings (1989) through The Sensual Self (2025).
Shohei Ooka
Shohei Ooka (大岡昇平, 1909–1988) was a Japanese novelist who began writing after being taken prisoner in the Philippines in 1945; his war works include Fires on the Plain.