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Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch (שלום אש, 1880–1957), Yiddish novelist and playwright from Kutno, Poland; author of A shtetl, God of Vengeance, and the controversial Christian trilogy The Nazarene, The Apostle, and Mary.
Shotaro Ishinomori (石ノ森章太郎)
Shotaro Ishinomori (石ノ森章太郎), born Shotaro Onodera (1938–1998), a Japanese manga artist and Tokiwa-so resident who created Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider; Guinness record holder with 770 published comic titles in 500 collected volumes.
Shōtetsu
Shōtetsu (正徹, 1381–1459) was a Japanese waka poet and Zen monk of the early Muromachi period, regarded by many scholars as the last great poet of the courtly waka tradition.
Shoukat Hussain Shoro
Shoukat Hussain Shoro (شوڪت حسين شورو, 1947–2021) was a Pakistani short story writer, playwright, and essayist regarded as a pioneer of the modern Sindhi short story.
Shriharsha
Shriharsha (श्रीहर्ष, Śrīharṣa) was a 12th-century Sanskrit poet and Advaita philosopher honored at the Gahadavala court of Kanauj, known for the epic Naishadhiyacarita and the philosophical Khandanakhandakhadya.
Shrikant Verma
Shrikant Verma (श्रीकांत वर्मा, 1931–1986) was a Hindi poet, journalist, and Congress politician, a central figure of the Nayi Kavita movement, best known for Magadh (1984), a book of 56 poems.
Shrilal Shukla
Shrilal Shukla (श्रीलाल शुक्ल; 1925–2011) was a Hindi novelist, satirist, and civil servant in Uttar Pradesh whose satirical novel Raag Darbari (1968) won the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Jnanpith Award.
Shu Ting
Shu Ting (舒婷), original name Gong Peiyu, is a Chinese poet born in 1952, a leading Misty Poet famous for her 1977 poem To the Oak.
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa (谷川俊太郎), 1931–2024, was a Japanese poet and lyricist who debuted in 1952 with Two Billion Light-Years of Solitude and became one of Japan's most widely read modern poets.
Shusaku Endo
Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作, 1923–1996) was a Japanese novelist and one of Japan's first Catholic writers, best known for Silence (1966), which examines why Christianity took root poorly in Japan.
Shyam Sundar Das
Shyam Sundar Das (श्यामसुंदर दास, 1875–1945) was a Hindi literary critic and linguist who co-founded the Nagari Pracharini Sabha and edited Hindi Shabdsagar, the first standard dictionary of Hindi.
Shyamaldas
Shyamaldas (श्यामलदास), known as Kaviraj Shyamaldas, was a 19th-century court poet and historian of Mewar who served Maharana Sajjan Singh and wrote the Vir Vinod.
Sia Figiel
Sia Figiel (born 1967) was a Samoan novelist, poet, and performance artist whose debut novel where we once belonged (1996) won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Siavash Kasraei
Siavash Kasraei (سیاوش کسرایی) was an Iranian poet and Tudeh Party Marxist, best known for the 1959 narrative poem Arash the Archer, a landmark of modern Persian poetry.
Sibiu Literary Circle
The Sibiu Literary Circle (Cercul literar din Sibiu) was a Romanian literary group formed in Sibiu during World War II, known for its 1943 Europeanizing manifesto.
Siburapha
Siburapha (ศรีบูรพา) was the pen name of Kulap Saipradit (1905–1974), a Thai novelist, journalist, and peace activist best known for the classic Behind the Painting.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee, born 1970 in New Delhi, is an Indian-American oncologist, Columbia University associate professor, and author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, plus The Gene and The Song of the Cell.
Siddhicharan Shrestha
Siddhicharan Shrestha (सिद्धिचरण श्रेष्ठ; 1912–1992), honored as Yugkavi, was a Nepali poet who wrote in Nepali and Nepal Bhasa and was imprisoned by the Rana government for his verse.
Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon was an American writer and novelist who became one of the world's bestsellers after publishing his first book at age 53 and winning multiple major awards.
Sigbjørn Obstfelder
Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866–1900) was a Norwegian writer, the foremost representative of early modernist lyric poetry in Norway, often called the creator of modernism in the Nordic countries.
Sigfrid Siwertz
Sigfrid Siwertz (1882–1970) was a Swedish novelist, poet, and playwright best known for Selambs (1920) and Mälarpirater (1911), serving in the Swedish Academy from 1932.
Sigitas Geda
Sigitas Geda (1943–2008) was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, and translator who published over 50 poetry collections, translated Dante and the Quran into Lithuanian, and helped lead the Sąjūdis reform movement that restored Lithuania's independence.
Sigitas Parulskis
Sigitas Parulskis, born 1965 in Obeliai, Lithuania, is a poet, novelist, playwright, and critic, best known for Darkness and Partners, the first Lithuanian novel on Lithuanian complicity in the Holocaust.
Sigrid Combüchen
Sigrid Combüchen is a Swedish novelist and literary critic, born in 1942 in Solingen, Germany, who debuted at eighteen in 1960 and won the August Prize for Spill in 2010.
Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949), Norwegian novelist and 1928 Nobel laureate in Literature, famous for the medieval trilogy Kristin Lavransdatter; Catholic convert, Nazi-banned author, wartime exile in the USA.
Silius Italicus
Silius Italicus, full name Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c. 26–102 CE), was a Roman politician and poet who wrote the Punica, the longest poem surviving in Latin.
Silva Kaputikyan
Silva Kaputikyan (Սիլվա Կապուտիկյան), real name Sirvard, was an Armenian poet and public figure, born and died in Yerevan, best known for the poem "A Word to My Son."
Silvina Bullrich
Silvina Bullrich (1915–1990) was an Argentine novelist, translator, journalist, and screenwriter; her bestseller Los burgueses (1964) sold over 60,000 copies, and she also translated Simone de Beauvoir.
Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo (1903–1993) was an Argentine writer of fantastic short stories and poetry, co-editor with Borges and Bioy Casares of the 1940 Antología de la literatura fantástica.
Sílvio Romero
Sílvio Romero (1851–1914) was a Brazilian literary critic, folklorist, and historian of literature, a founder of Brazilian literary criticism and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.