Writers and literary biographies

Aquilino Ribeiro

Aquilino Ribeiro (1885–1963) was a Portuguese novelist whose fiction rooted in the Beira Alta highlands made him a leading prose writer of the 20th century.

Araripe Júnior

Araripe Júnior, born Tristão de Alencar Araripe Júnior (1848–1911), was a Brazilian literary critic, novelist, and jurist who, with Sílvio Romero and José Veríssimo, dominated Brazilian criticism.

Aratus

Aratus (Ἄρατος, ca. 315–240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet from Soli in Cilicia, known for the Phaenomena, a poem on constellations and weather signs.

Aravind Adiga (ಅರವಿಂದ್ ಅಡಿಗ), Indian English novelist born 1974 in Madras, former TIME Mumbai correspondent, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut The White Tiger; also wrote Between the Assassinations, Last Man in Tower, Selection Day, and Amnesty.

Arechi-ha

Arechi-ha (荒地派, "the Waste Land school") was a group of Japanese poets formed around the magazine Arechi, named after T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Aref Qazvini

Aref Qazvini, full name Abu'l-Qāsem ʿĀref Qazvīnī (عارف قزوینی, ca. 1882–1934), was an Iranian poet and singer, the leading composer of political songs of the Persian Constitutional Revolution era.

Argula von Grumbach

Argula von Grumbach (1492–1554) was a Bavarian noblewoman who became the first published female Protestant author in Germany with her 1523 open letter defending a Lutheran student.

Ari Behn

Ari Behn (Ari Mikael Bjørshol, 1972–2019), Norwegian author and visual artist best known for the 1999 story collection Trist som faen; married Princess Märtha Louise 2002–2017 and published seven books.

Ari Þorgilsson

Ari Þorgilsson, known as Ari the Wise (1067–1148), was an Icelandic priest and historian whose Íslendingabók, the oldest Icelandic vernacular history, made him the founder of Icelandic historiography.

Arianna Turturro

Arianna Turturro, who acted as a child as Amedeo Turturro, is an American comics editor at DC Comics, known for editing Poison Ivy and for her debut graphic novel Children of the Night.

Arishima Takeo

Arishima Takeo (有島武郎) was a Japanese novelist and essayist of the Shirakaba school, best known for Aru onna; in 1922 he gave his Hokkaido farm to its tenants.

Ariwara no Narihira

Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) was a Japanese waka poet of the early Heian period, one of the Six Poetic Immortals and the presumed hero of the Tales of Ise.

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Arkady (1925–1991) and Boris (1933–2012) Strugatsky, Russian brothers and co-authors of over 40 Soviet science fiction classics including Roadside Picnic, Hard to Be a God, and Monday Begins on Saturday; Tarkovsky's Stalker adapts their Roadside Picnic.

Arkady Martine

Arkady Martine, pen name of Dr. AnnaLinden Weller (born 1985), American SF author, Byzantinist, and energy policy analyst; wrote the Hugo-winning Teixcalaan novels A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace.

Arkadz Kuleshou

Arkadz Kuleshou (Аркадзь Куляшоў, 1914–1978) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR, best known for the wartime poem Stsyah bryhady.

Arlindo Barbeitos

Arlindo Barbeitos was an Angolan poet, anthropologist, and professor, a central voice of Angolan poetry's 1970s generation, blending Angolan oral tradition with East Asian influences.

Armand Godoy

Armand Godoy (1880–1964) was a Cuban-born French-language Symbolist poet who settled in Paris in 1919, wrote Catholic verse, and assembled a major Baudelaire manuscript collection.

Armando Artur

Armando Artur, full name Armando Artur João, is a Mozambican poet born in 1962 in Zambézia, known for the Charrua generation and his 2021 José Craveirinha prize.

Armando Palacio Valdés

Armando Palacio Valdés (1853–1938) was a Spanish realist novelist and critic, a member of the Real Academia Española best known for La hermana San Sulpicio.

Armenian Writers' Union

The Armenian Writers' Union is the professional organization of writers of Armenia, founded in Yerevan in August 1934 as part of the Union of Writers of the USSR.

Arménio Vieira

Arménio Vieira, also known as Conde de Silvenius, was a Cape Verdean poet, novelist, and journalist from Praia, and the first Cape Verdean winner of the 2009 Prémio Camões.

Armijn Pane

Armijn Pane (1908–1970) was an Indonesian writer and journalist who co-founded the magazine Pujangga Baru in 1933 and wrote Belenggu (1940), a landmark of pre-war Indonesian fiction.

Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin, born 1944, is an American novelist best known for the Tales of the City series, which began as a San Francisco newspaper serial in the 1970s.

Armonía Somers

Armonía Somers was the pen name of Armonía Liropeya Etchepare Locino (1914–1994), a Uruguayan writer whose erotic 1950 novel La mujer desnuda caused an unprecedented scandal.

Arna Bontemps

Arna Bontemps (Arnaud Wendell Bontemps, 1902-1973), American Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist, and librarian; author of God Sends Sunday and Black Thunder, and head librarian at Fisk University who preserved African American literary archives.

Arnaldur Indriðason

Arnaldur Indriðason, born 1961 in Reykjavík, is an Icelandic crime writer whose Detective Erlendur novels made him the best-known Icelandic author internationally, with over 20 million books sold.

Arnaut Daniel

Arnaut Daniel was an Occitan troubadour of Ribérac, active about 1180 to 1210, inventor of the sestina and praised by Dante as the better craftsman of the mother tongue.

Arne Garborg

Arne Garborg, born Aadne Garborg, was a Norwegian writer, journalist, and translator, a farmer's son from Jæren who became a leading Nynorsk advocate and author of Bondestudentar and Haugtussa.

Arno Holz

Arno Holz (1863–1929) was a German lyric poet and dramatist, the leading theorist of literary Naturalism, known for the formula "Kunst = Natur − x" and the rhymeless Phantasus.