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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978), English novelist, poet, and translator; author of Lolly Willowes, Summer Will Show, and Kingdoms of Elfin; Communist Party member, partner of Valentine Ackland, New Yorker short-story writer.
Sylvia Wynter
Sylvia Wynter, born 1928, is a Cuban-born Jamaican novelist, playwright, and cultural theorist known for her critique of Western "Man" and her concept of genres of the human.
Szymon Szymonowic
Szymon Szymonowic, also known as Simon Simonides, was a Polish Renaissance humanist and bilingual poet (1558 to 1629) whose 1614 collection Sielanki founded the Polish pastoral idyll and who helped organize the Zamość Academy.
T. Carmi
T. Carmi, pen name of Carmi Charney (ט. כרמי; 1925–1994), was an American-born Israeli Hebrew poet who fought in the War of Independence and edited The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse.
T. H. White
T. H. White (Terence Hanbury White, 1906–1964), Indian-born English author of The Once and Future King (1958), a four-part retelling of Malory's Arthurian legend; also wrote The Goshawk and Mistress Masham's Repose.
T. Janakiraman
T. Janakiraman (தி. ஜானகிராமன்; 1921–1982), known as Thi Jaa, was a Tamil novelist, short story writer, and playwright who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979.
T. Padmanabhan (writer)
T. Padmanabhan (ടി. പദ്മനാഭൻ), born 1931 in Kannur district, Kerala, is an Indian writer who has written only Malayalam short stories, about 200 across seven decades, winning major literary awards.
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888–1965), St. Louis-born poet, critic, and publisher who settled in England in 1915; author of The Waste Land and Four Quartets, Criterion editor, Faber director, 1948 Nobel laureate.
Tabitha King
Tabitha King (born 1949), also Tabby King, is an American novelist from Old Town, Maine, wife of Stephen King, author of Small World, the Nodd's Ridge novels, One on One, and Candles Burning, and co-runner of the King Foundation.
Tachibana Akemi
Tachibana Akemi (橘曙覧, 1812–1868) was a Japanese waka poet and kokugaku scholar of the late Edo period who lived in poverty in Fukui and sang everyday life.
Tachihara Michizō
Tachihara Michizō (立原道造) was a Japanese poet and architect of the early Shōwa period, known for musically structured sonnets; he died in 1939 at 24.
Tachtigers
The Tachtigers, Dutch for writers of the Eighties, were a movement of young Dutch writers who from about 1880 broke with realist and moralizing Dutch literature and founded the journal De Nieuwe Gids in 1885.
Tad Williams
Tad Williams (Robert Paul Williams, born 1957) is an American fantasy and science fiction author of Tailchaser's Song, Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, Otherland, Shadowmarch, The Last King of Osten Ard, and the 2026 prequel The Splintered Sun.
Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), Polish poet and prose writer, Auschwitz and Dachau prisoner, author of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, We Were in Auschwitz, Farewell to Maria, and The World of Stone.
Tadeusz Różewicz
Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, and screenwriter whose stripped-down postwar verse and drama reshaped modern Polish literature; often a Nobel candidate, he was translated into 49 languages.
Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński
Tadeusz Stefan Zieliński (1859–1944) was a Polish classical philologist who held chairs at St Petersburg and Warsaw universities and was long regarded as Poland's greatest Hellenic scholar.
Tadhkira
Tadhkira is a genre of Islamicate biographical anthology that gathers short lives of a defined class of people, most often poets, with selections from their works.
Tahar Djaout
Tahar Djaout (1954–1993) was an Algerian poet, novelist, and journalist who wrote in French. He edited the weekly Ruptures and was assassinated by Islamist militants in 1993.
Tahar Ouettar
Tahar Ouettar (الطاهر وطار, 1936–2010) was an Algerian novelist and dramatist who wrote in Arabic; his 1974 novels al-Laz and al-Zilzal were among the first after independence.
Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi (born 1988) is an American YA author, creator of the Shatter Me dystopian romance series and its New Republic spinoff, plus This Woven Kingdom and Furthermore; National Book Award longlisted.
Tai Jingnong
Tai Jingnong (台静农, 1902–1990) was a Chinese writer, literary scholar, and calligrapher famed for 1920s rural fiction and for chairing Chinese literature at National Taiwan University.
Taira no Kanemori
Taira no Kanemori (平兼盛) was a mid-Heian Japanese waka poet and court official who died in 990 and is counted among the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry selected by Fujiwara no Kintō.
Taizan 5
Taizan 5 (タイザン5) is a Japanese manga artist, debut serial Takopi's Original Sin on Shonen Jump+ (2021-22), later The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins in Weekly Shonen Jump, known for dark depictions of bullying and abuse.
Tajal Bewas
Tajal Bewas (تاجل بيوس), born Taj Muhammad, was a Pakistani poet and prose writer in Sindhi, Urdu, and English, known for "Sindh Munhinji Aman," sung by Abida Parveen.
Takarai Kikaku
Takarai Kikaku (宝井其角, 1661–1707) was a Japanese haikai poet of the early Edo period, the leading disciple of Matsuo Bashō and founder of the witty sharefū style that dominated Edo haikai.
Takeshi Kaiko
Takeshi Kaiko (開高健, 1930–1989) was a Japanese postwar novelist and essayist who won the Akutagawa Prize in 1958 for "The Naked King" and wrote acclaimed Vietnam War novels.
Taliesin
Taliesin, in legend born from the boy Gwion Bach, was a Welsh bard of the late sixth century who praised Urien Rheged and his son Owain, rulers of Rheged.
Talip Apaydın
Talip Apaydın (1926–2014) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer whose plain-language fiction depicted the Anatolian village, winning the Madaralı and Orhan Kemal novel awards.
Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz, born 1957 in San Francisco, is an American novelist and short-story writer whose 1986 bestseller Slaves of New York satirized downtown Manhattan's art scene.
Tamenaga Shunsui
Tamenaga Shunsui (為永春水, 1790–1843), real name Sasaki Sadataka, was a Japanese late Edo period gesaku writer who founded the ninjōbon romance genre, best known for Shunshoku umegoyomi.