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Sudhindranath Datta
Sudhindranath Datta (সুধীন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত; 1901–1960) was a Bengali poet, essayist, and journalist who founded the modernist quarterly Parichay and led Bengali poetry beyond Tagore's influence in the 1930s.
Sue Grafton
Sue Grafton (1940-2017), American crime novelist, wrote the 25-book Alphabet Series starring PI Kinsey Millhone, from A Is for Alibi (1982) to Y Is for Yesterday (2017); Z Is for Zero was never written.
Sue Nyathi
Sue Nyathi (Sukoluhle Nyathi, born 1978) is a Zimbabwean novelist and screenwriter in Johannesburg. Wrote The Polygamist (2012), The Gold Diggers, A Family Affair, An Angel's Demise; her debut became a 2026 Netflix series.
Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (صوفی غلام مصطفیٰ تبسم; 1899–1978) was a Pakistani poet, teacher, and translator in Punjabi, Urdu, and Persian who created the children's character Tot Batot.
Sufia Kamal
Sufia Kamal (সুফিয়া কামাল, 1911–1999) was a Bangladeshi poet and feminist who led the women's rights movement and was the first Bangladeshi woman buried with state honors.
Sugathakumari (സുഗതകുമാരി)
Sugathakumari (സുഗതകുമാരി), 1934–2020, Malayalam poet, environmentalist, and first chairperson of the Kerala State Women's Commission; led the Save Silent Valley movement, founded Abhaya, and won the Saraswati Samman, Ezhuthachan Award, and Padma Shri.
Suhayl Idris
Suhayl Idris (سهيل إدريس, 1925–2008) was a Lebanese novelist, translator, critic, and publisher who founded the monthly magazine Al-Adab in 1953 and the publishing house Dar al-Adab, and wrote the novel Al-Hayy al-Latini.
Sujan Singh
Sujan Singh (1909–1993) was an Indian Punjabi short story writer and educator, who wrote under the pen name 'Principal' and won the 1987 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Sukanta Bhattacharya
Sukanta Bhattacharya (সুকান্ত ভট্টাচার্য) was a Bengali Marxist poet of colonial Bengal who wrote against British rule as a teenager and died of tuberculosis in 1947, aged 20.
Suketu Mehta
Suketu Mehta, born 1963 in Calcutta, is an Indian-born writer and journalist in New York, author of Maximum City (2004) and This Land Is Our Land (2019), and teaches at New York University.
Sukumar Azhikode
Sukumar Azhikode (സുകുമാർ അഴീക്കോട്), born Sukumaran in 1926, was an Indian academic, writer, and orator in Malayalam, best known for Tatvamasi (1984), a study of Indian philosophy.
Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়)
Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়, 1887–1923), Bengali nonsense poet, editor of Sandesh, author of Abol Tabol, HaJaBaRaLa and Pagla Dashu; father of filmmaker Satyajit Ray, son of printing pioneer Upendrakishore.
Sukumar Sen
Sukumar Sen (সুকুমার সেন; 1900–1992) was an Indian linguist and historian of Bengali literature at the University of Calcutta, known for his History of Bengali Literature and a two-volume etymological dictionary of Bengali.
Sulayman al-Issa
Sulayman al-Issa (سليمان العيسى) was a Syrian poet, born in 1921 and best known for the large body of children's poetry and songs he wrote after 1967.
Suleika Jaouad
Suleika Jaouad, American Emmy-winning journalist and author of Between Two Kingdoms and The Book of Alchemy; wrote the NYT column Life, Interrupted during leukemia treatment diagnosed at 22, with 2022 recurrence, Isolation Journals newsletter, and the Oscar-nominated documentary American Symphony with husband Jon Batiste.
Suleiman Cassamo
Suleiman Cassamo, born 1962, is a Mozambican writer whose story collection O Regresso do Morto was named by UNESCO a representative work of universal literary heritage in 1994.
Süleyman Nazif
Süleyman Nazif (1869 or 1870, Diyarbakır – 1927) was an Ottoman poet, journalist, and governor in the Servet-i Fünûn circle, remembered for polemical prose and resisting the Allied occupation of Istanbul.
Suleyman Sani Akhundov
Suleyman Sani Akhundov (Azerbaijani: Süleyman Sani Axundov, 1875–1939) was an Azerbaijani playwright, journalist, teacher, and children's author, a founder of Azerbaijani children's literature best known for his Scary Tales cycle.
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani was a Georgian writer, lexicographer, monk, and diplomat who wrote The Book of Wisdom and Lies and led a Georgian embassy to France and Italy in 1713–1715.
Sully Prudhomme
Sully Prudhomme, pen name of René François Armand Prudhomme (1839–1907), was a French poet trained in science who won the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
Sultan Walad
Sultan Walad (سلطان ولد), born Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad, was a Persian Sufi poet, son of Rumi and founder of the Mevlevi order, dying in 1312.
Sultanmakhmut Toraighyrov
Sultanmakhmut Toraighyrov (Сұлтанмахмұт Торайғыров, 1893–1920) was a Kazakh poet, novelist, and enlightenment democrat who died of tuberculosis at 26, leaving two novels, including Qamar sulu, and influential socially themed poetry.
Sumitranandan Pant (सुमित्रानंदन पंत)
Sumitranandan Pant (सुमित्रानंदन पंत, 1900–1977), Hindi poet from Kausani, Uttarakhand; one of the four pillars of Chhayavad, wrote Veena, Pallav, Chidambara; Jnanpith 1968, Sahitya Akademi 1960.
Sun Chuo
Sun Chuo (孫綽, courtesy name Xinggong, 314–371) was an Eastern Jin dynasty scholar-official, writer, and calligrapher, the leading representative of the xuanyan school of metaphysical poetry.
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay (সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়) was a Bengali poet and novelist who co-founded the magazine Krittibas in 1953, wrote the historical novel Sei Samay, and created the adventurer Kakababu.
Sūr Dās
Sūr Dās (सूरदास) was a sixteenth-century North Indian devotional poet who composed Braj Bhasha lyrics addressed especially to Krishna, lyrics usually considered the finest expressions of that language.
Sūradāsa
Sūradāsa (Surdas) was a sixteenth-century Brajbhāṣā poet devoted to Krishna, remembered as the foremost of the Vallabha tradition's eight poets and known for the Sūrsāgar.
Surendra Mohanty
Surendra Mohanty (1922–1990) was an Indian writer in the Odia language who wrote about fifty books, including the celebrated novel Neelashaila, while also working as a journalist and parliamentarian.
Suresh Dalal
Suresh Dalal (Gujarati: સુરેશ દલાલ) was a Gujarati poet, essayist, and editor who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005 for his collection Akhand Zalar Vage.
Surjit Patar
Surjit Patar (ਸੁਰਜੀਤ ਪਾਤਰ) was an Indian poet who wrote in Punjabi, known for his poetry collections and translations, and winner of the 1993 Sahitya Akademi Award.