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Sima Guang
Sima Guang (司马光, 1019–1086) was a Northern Song historian and statesman who led the compilation of the Zizhi Tongjian, a monumental general history of China.
Sima Tan
Sima Tan (司馬談, died 110 BC) was a Western Han Grand Historian under Emperor Wu and the father of Sima Qian, who originated the Shiji.
Simin Behbahani
Simin Behbahani (سیمین بهبهانی), born Siminbar Khalili, was an Iranian poet and activist, born in Tehran in 1927 and died there in 2014, known for renewing the ghazal.
Simin Daneshvar
Simin Daneshvar (سیمین دانشور) was an Iranian novelist, translator, and academic whose Savushun (1969) was the first novel in Persian written by an Iranian woman.
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage (born 1963, Marsden, West Yorkshire) is an English poet, translator, and broadcaster, UK Poet Laureate 2019–2029 and Professor of Poetry at Leeds; former probation officer, Forward Prize winner, translator of Gawain, Pearl, and Gilgamesh.
Simon Carmiggelt
Simon Carmiggelt (1913–1987) was a Dutch writer and journalist known for his Kronkel columns in Het Parool, which gave the newspaper column literary standing in the Netherlands.
Simon Gray
Simon Gray, full name Simon James Holliday Gray (1936–2008), was an English playwright and diarist whose comic plays include Butley and Otherwise Engaged, alongside The Smoking Diaries.
Simon Gregorčič
Simon Gregorčič (1844–1906) was a Slovenian poet and Catholic priest, nicknamed the nightingale of Gorica, whose four volumes of verse, including the ode "Soči", made him Slovenia's most musical poet.
Simon J. Ortiz
Simon J. Ortiz, born 1941 at McCarty's, New Mexico, is an Acoma Pueblo poet known for From Sand Creek and Woven Stone, major works of the Native American Renaissance.
Simon Navagattegama
Simon Navagattegama (සයිමන් නවගත්තේගම, 1940–2005) was a Sri Lankan Sinhala novelist, playwright, and actor whose "hunter stories", beginning with Sansaranyaye Dadayakkaraya in 1981, pioneered surrealist fiction.
Simon Rich
Simon Rich (born 1984), American humorist and screenwriter, son of Frank Rich; youngest-ever SNL writer, Pixar's Inside Out, creator of Man Seeking Woman and Miracle Workers, author of Ant Farm through Glory Days, and writer of An American Pickle and Wonka.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965) is a British historian and novelist of Russian and Middle Eastern history, author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Young Stalin, Jerusalem: The Biography, The Romanovs, The World, and The Cauldron.
Simon Tolkien
Simon Mario Reuel Tolkien, born in 1959, is an English novelist and former criminal barrister, grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien and a director of the Tolkien Estate.
Simon Vestdijk
Simon Vestdijk (1898–1971) was a Dutch novelist, poet, and essayist who gave up medicine in 1932 and wrote about two hundred books, including De koperen tuin.
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester, British-born journalist, geologist, and author of The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, and Land; former Guardian and Sunday Times foreign correspondent, OBE 2006, living in New York.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
Simone Schwarz-Bart, born Simone Brumant in 1938, is a Guadeloupean novelist and playwright known for Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972), a central work of Caribbean literature.
Simonides of Ceos
Simonides of Ceos (c. 556 – 468/7 BC) was a Greek poet from Iulis on Ceos, ranked with Pindar, whose epigrams commemorated Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea.
Sin Dong-yeop
Sin Dong-yeop (신동엽, 1930–1969) was a South Korean poet and central figure of 1960s Korean poetry, best known for the resistance poem "Kkeopdeigineun gara" and the epic "Geumgang".
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis (Harry Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951), American satirical novelist from Sauk Centre, Minnesota; first American Nobel Literature laureate (1930), refused the 1926 Pulitzer for Arrowsmith; wrote Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and It Can't Happen Here.
Sindhi Adabi Sangat
Sindhi Adabi Sangat (سنڌي ادبي سنگت) is a Pakistani literary organization of progressive Sindhi-language writers, founded in Karachi in 1947, with a first central body elected in 1956.
Sindiwe Magona
Sindiwe Magona, born 1943, is a South African writer and poet whose autobiographies, novels, and more than 100 children's books draw on her life under apartheid.
Sipho Sepamla
Sipho Sepamla, born Sydney Sipho Sepamla, was a South African poet, novelist, and activist based in Soweto, a leading poet of the 1970s Black Consciousness era.
Siraj Aurangabadi
Siraj Aurangabadi (سراج اورنگ آبادی), born Sayyid Siraj-ud-din Hussaini, was an 18th-century Sufi poet of Aurangabad, regarded as Wali Deccani's successor in the Urdu ghazal.
Siri Gunasinghe
Siri Gunasinghe (සිරි ගුණසිංහ, 1925–2017) was a Sri Lankan scholar, poet, and filmmaker who introduced free verse into Sinhala poetry with his 1956 collection Mas Le Nathi Ata.
Sister Souljah
Sister Souljah (Lisa Williamson, born 1964, Bronx) is an American hip-hop artist, activist, and author of The Coldest Winter Ever; her 1992 clash with Bill Clinton created the political phrase "Sister Souljah moment."
Sitakant Mahapatra
Sitakant Mahapatra (ସୀତାକାନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର; born 1937) is an Indian poet and critic who writes in Odia and English, winning the Jnanpith Award in 1993 for his Oriya literature.
Sitanshu Yashaschandra
Sitanshu Yashaschandra (born Sitanshu Yashaschandra Mehta, 1941) is an Indian Gujarati-language poet, playwright, and translator credited with establishing surrealism in Gujarati poetry, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Shri, and Saraswati Samman.
Sitor Situmorang
Sitor Situmorang (1924–2014), born Raja Usu Situmorang, was an Indonesian poet, journalist, and dramatist of Batak origin, a leading figure of the postwar Angkatan '45 literary generation.
Sjón
Sjón is the pen name of Icelandic author and poet Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, born 1962, whose novel The Blue Fox won the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Sławomir Mrożek
Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013) was a Polish dramatist, satirist, and cartoonist whose absurdist plays and satirical prose, including Tango and The Elephant, made him probably the most frequently performed Polish playwright of the postwar era.