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Sobho Gianchandani
Sobho Gianchandani (سوڀو گيانچنداڻي, 1920–2014) was a Sindhi progressive writer, playwright, and communist politician from Sindh, Pakistan, who spent years in prison for his politics.
Sōchō
Sōchō (宗長), also known as Saiokuken, was a Japanese renga master and diarist of the late Muromachi period who co-wrote the celebrated Minase sangin hyakuin of 1488.
Sofía Casanova
Sofía Casanova was a Galician-born Spanish journalist, novelist, and poet, the first Spanish woman contracted as a war correspondent, reporting from Poland and Russia for ABC.
Sohan Singh Seetal
Sohan Singh Seetal (ਸੋਹਣ ਸਿੰਘ ਸੀਤਲ, 1909–1998) was a Punjabi dhadi singer, poet, and novelist who wrote about 70 books and won the Sahitya Akademi award for Jug Badal Gya in 1974.
Sohrab Sepehri
Sohrab Sepehri (سهراب سپهری, 1928–1980) was an Iranian modernist poet and painter whose collected poems, Hašt ketāb (Eight Books), are among the most popular in Persian new poetry.
Soichi Oya
Soichi Oya (大宅壮一, 1900–1970) was a Japanese critic and journalist famed for coining catchphrases about the mass-media age, above all his jab at early television, "turning the 100 million into idiots."
Sōjō Henjō
Sōjō Henjō (僧正遍昭, 816–890) was an early Heian-period Japanese Buddhist monk and waka poet, counted among the Six Poetic Immortals and known for Hyakunin Isshu poem 12.
Soledad Acosta de Samper
Soledad Acosta de Samper, born Soledad Acosta Kemble, was a Colombian novelist and journalist who was the first woman in Colombia to live by her pen.
Solomon Mutswairo
Solomon Mutswairo (1924–2005) was a Zimbabwean novelist, poet, and academic who wrote Feso (1956), the first published Shona novel, and wrote the lyrics of the Zimbabwean national anthem.
Solvej Balle
Solvej Balle (born 1962 in Bovrup, Denmark) is a Danish author known for experimental, minimalist fiction and the seven-volume novel On the Calculation of Volume, which won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2022.
Soman Chainani
Soman Chainani (born 1979, Key Biscayne, Florida) is the American author of The School for Good and Evil fairy-tale series, over 4.5 million copies sold, a 2022 Netflix film, Beasts & Beauty, and the 2026 political thriller Young World.
Somerville and Ross
Somerville and Ross was the joint pen name of Irish cousins Edith Somerville and Violet Martin, who wrote The Real Charlotte and the Irish R.M. stories.
Sonallah Ibrahim
Sonallah Ibrahim (صنع الله إبراهيم; 1937–2025) was an Egyptian leftist novelist whose spare fiction chronicled Egyptian political life, most famously in That Smell and The Committee.
Song Luo
Song Luo (宋荦), courtesy name Mu Zhong, was a Qing dynasty official, poet, and art collector who served as governor of Jiangsu and Minister of Personnel.
Song Wan
Song Wan (宋琬, 1614–1673) was a Chinese poet and official from Laiyang, Shandong, in the early Qing dynasty, paired with Shi Runzhang as "Southern Shi, Northern Song".
Song Xiang
Song Xiang (宋湘), 1756 or 1757 to 1826, was a Qing dynasty Hakka poet, calligrapher, and official from Jiaying, Guangdong, honored as the "First Scholar of Lingnan."
Sonja Åkesson
Sonja Åkesson (1926–1977) was a Swedish poet and playwright of the "new simplicity" movement, whose poem "Äktenskapsfrågan" became a defining text of the women's movement.
Sonja Yelich
Sonja Yelich (born 1965) is an Auckland-based New Zealand poet of Dalmatian descent, author of Clung (2004) and Get Some (2008), winner of the 2005 Jessie Mackay Award and mother of Lorde.
Sony Labou Tansi
Sony Labou Tansi (1947–1995) was a Congolese novelist, poet, playwright, and theater director in Brazzaville whose satirical novels, starting with La Vie et demie (1979), made him one of francophone Africa's most recognized authors.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1919–2004) was a leading Portuguese poet of the second half of the twentieth century, author of fifteen poetry books and winner of the 1999 Camões Prize.
Sophie Elmhirst
Sophie Elmhirst is a British journalist and author writing for the Guardian Long Read and The Economist. Winner of the 2020 Feature Writer of the Year award, her first book Maurice and Maralyn, also titled A Marriage at Sea, won the 2024 Nero Gold Prize.
Sophie Kinsella
Sophie Kinsella, pen name of Madeleine Wickham (1969-2025), British novelist of the Shopaholic series starring Becky Bloomwood; over 50 million copies sold, also wrote seven darker Madeleine Wickham novels.
Sophie von La Roche
Sophie von La Roche, born Marie Sophie Gutermann (1730–1807), was a German novelist whose 1771 Sternheim made her the first German woman to publish a novel.
Sophus Claussen
Sophus Claussen (1865–1931) was a Danish poet and a leading figure of Danish symbolism, attacked for frivolity in his lifetime and later hailed as a bridge between romanticism and modernism.
Søren Ulrik Thomsen
Søren Ulrik Thomsen, born 1956 in Kalundborg, is a Danish poet who debuted with City Slang in 1981 and is a major figure in Danish literature.
Sorley MacLean
Sorley MacLean (Somhairle MacGill-Eain, 1911–1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet from Raasay, best known for 'An Cuillithionn' and 'Dàin do Eimhir', considered the greatest Gaelic poet of the twentieth century.
Sosei
Sosei (素性法師, Sosei Hōshi, "Priest Sosei") was a Japanese waka poet and Buddhist monk of the mid-Heian period, counted among the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals and represented in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Sotíris Skípis
Sotíris Skípis (Σωτήρης Σκίπης) was a Greek demoticist poet, dramatist, and translator who divided his life between Greece and Provence and joined the Academy of Athens in 1946.
Sousândrade
Sousândrade, pen name of Joaquim de Sousa Andrade (1832–1902), was a Brazilian Romantic poet whose epic O Guesa is seen as a precursor of modern poetry.
Southern Agrarians
The Southern Agrarians, also called the Nashville Agrarians, were twelve writers centered at Vanderbilt University in Nashville who in 1930 published I'll Take My Stand, defending agrarian society against industrialism.