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Suryakant Tripathi
Suryakant Tripathi (सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी), known as Nirala, was a Hindi poet, novelist, and essayist counted among the four pillars of the Chhayavad movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
Susan Cooper
Susan Mary Cooper (born 1935) is a British-born American author of The Dark Is Rising, the five-book fantasy sequence that won the 1976 Newbery Medal for The Grey King and a 1974 Newbery Honor, plus the World Fantasy Award (2013) and SFWA Grand Master honor (2024).
Susan Hill
Dame Susan Hill (born 1942) is an English novelist, author of I'm the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting, and the ghost story The Woman in Black, staged in the West End for decades; she won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys prizes and a 2020 damehood.
Susan Howe
Susan Howe, born in Boston in 1937, is an American poet and scholar associated with Language writing whose work draws on early American history and archives.
Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson
Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson (1830–1913), Emily Dickinson's sister-in-law and closest reader, received nearly 500 writings from the poet, wrote her obituary, began editing her first volume, and was marginalized by Mabel Loomis Todd's rival edition.
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American essayist, novelist, and filmmaker; author of Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and In America (2000 National Book Award).
Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke (born 1959, Nottingham) is the British author of the Hugo-winning Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2004), the story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu (2006), and Piranesi (2020), winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore, American novelist and memoirist born 1945/1946 in Hawaii, author of My Old Sweetheart, the 1995 erotic thriller In the Cut (filmed by Jane Campion), and the 2020 memoir Miss Aluminum.
Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan, American journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire (2012), about her anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis; also The Great Pretender (2019) and The Acid Queen (2025).
Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana
Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (1908–1994) was an Indonesian novelist, poet, and language planner who co-founded Poedjangga Baroe in 1933 and shaped Indonesia's policy of promoting Bahasa Indonesia for nation-building.
Suzani Samarqandi
Suzani Samarqandi (سوزنی سمرقندی), full name Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ali Samarqandi, was a twelfth-century Persian poet born in Nasaf, known for sharp invective and qasidas praising Qarakhanid and Seljuk rulers.
Suzanne Césaire
Suzanne Roussi Césaire was a Martinican writer and theorist, wife of Aimé Césaire, who co-founded the surrealist journal Tropiques in 1941 and wrote seven essays for it.
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins (born 1962, Hartford, Connecticut) is the American author of The Hunger Games five-book dystopian series and The Underland Chronicles; over 100 million copies sold, $3.4 billion film franchise.
Suzuki Bokushi
Suzuki Bokushi (鈴木牧之, 1770–1842) was a Japanese merchant and man of letters from Shiozawa, Echigo, known for Hokuetsu Seppu, an illustrated account of snow-country life.
Svava Jakobsdóttir
Svava Jakobsdóttir (1930–2004) was an Icelandic author and politician, a pioneer of modernist fiction who wrote Leigjandinn and served in the Althingi from 1971 to 1979.
Sven Delblanc
Sven Delblanc (1931–1992) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and literary historian, known for the Hedeby and Samuel cycles and winner of the 1982 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Sven Holm
Sven Holm (1940–2019) was a Danish author and dramatist who wrote for over fifty years, best known internationally for the 1967 post-apocalyptic novel Termush, Atlanterhavskysten.
Sven Lindqvist
Sven Lindqvist (1932–2019) was a Swedish author, reporter, and debater who published 35 books and was best known internationally for Exterminate All the Brutes (1992).
Sven Lönborg
Sven Lönborg (1871–1959) was a Swedish geographer, educator, and prolific non-fiction writer who spent his career in Gothenburg and Uppsala, publishing about thirty titles between 1894 and 1939.
Svend Åge Madsen
Svend Åge Madsen is a Danish author, born in 1939 in Aarhus, whose novels and drama blend realism and fantasy and have earned major Danish literary awards.
Svetozár Hurban Vajanský
Svetozár Hurban Vajanský, born Svetozár Miloslav Hurban (1847–1916), was a Slovak writer, poet, critic, and politician, the leading figure of Slovak public life at the turn of the 20th century.
Swedish Academy
The Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) is an independent Swedish institution of eighteen life members, founded in 1786 by King Gustav III and awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1901.
Sydney Clouts
Sydney Clouts (1926–1982) was a South African poet writing in English, praised for his brilliant imagery; his only volume, One Life (1966), won the Ingrid Jonker Prize.
Syed Abdul Malik
Syed Abdul Malik (1919–2000) was an Assamese novelist and short story writer who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1972 and the Padma Bhushan in 1992.
Syed Mujtaba Ali
Syed Mujtaba Ali (সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী; 1904–1974) was a Bengali writer, linguist, and travel writer, best known for his humorous travelogue Deshe Bideshe, published in 1948.
Syed Shamsul Haq
Syed Shamsul Haq (সৈয়দ শামসুল হক; 1935–2016) was a Bangladeshi poet, playwright, and novelist who won the Independence Award and wrote the acclaimed Liberation War drama Payer Awaj Paoa Jay.
Syed Waliullah
Syed Waliullah (সৈয়দ ওয়ালীউল্লাহ; 1922–1971) was a Bengali novelist, playwright, and diplomat whose first novel Lalsalu (1948), about a fraudulent holy man, became a classic of modern Bengali literature.
Sylvain Bemba
Sylvain Bemba (1934, Sibiti–1995, Paris) was a Congolese journalist, novelist, playwright, and musicologist, a dominant figure of intellectual life in Congo-Brazzaville for roughly forty years who wrote a pioneering study of Congolese popular music.
Sylvain Tesson
Sylvain Tesson (born 1972, Paris) is a French travel writer and adventurer, son of journalist Philippe Tesson; Prix Médicis 2011 for Dans les forêts de Sibérie, Prix Renaudot 2019 for La Panthère des neiges, known for his 2015 walk across France after a near-fatal fall.
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963), American confessional poet and novelist, author of The Colossus, The Bell Jar, and posthumous Ariel; married Ted Hughes, died by suicide at 30, won a posthumous Pulitzer.