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Tamiki Hara
Tamiki Hara (原民喜, 1905–1951) was a Japanese poet and novelist who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and wrote Summer Flowers, a masterpiece of atomic bomb literature.
Tamura Toshiko
Tamura Toshiko (田村俊子, 1884–1945), real name Satō Toshiko, was a Japanese novelist, a leading professional woman writer of the Taishō period who later edited the women's magazine Nüsheng in occupied Shanghai.
Tản Đà
Tản Đà was the pen name of Nguyễn Khắc Hiếu, a Vietnamese poet, novelist, and journalist who pioneered modern Vietnamese literature before his death in 1939.
Tana French
Tana French, Irish-American crime novelist, author of the Dublin Murder Squad series (In the Woods, The Likeness) and the Cal Hooper trilogy (The Searcher, The Hunter, The Keeper); Edgar winner, over eight million copies sold.
Tang Tao
Tang Tao (唐弢, 1913–1992), born Tang Duanyi in Zhenhai, Zhejiang, was a Chinese essayist and literary historian known for his zawen essays and his authority on Lu Xun.
Tannhäuser
Tannhäuser (Der Tannhäuser), a 13th-century German Minnesänger (c. 1228-c. 1268) and subject of the Venusberg legend; Heinrich Heine retold it and Richard Wagner's 1845 opera fused it with the 1207 Wartburg song contest.
Tantular
Mpu Tantular was a 14th-century Javanese Buddhist poet at the Majapahit court whose Sutasoma, written under King Hayam Wuruk, contains the line bhinneka tunggal ika, adopted as Indonesia's national motto in 1945.
Tao Yuanming (陶渊明)
Tao Yuanming (陶渊明, Tao Qian, 365–427), Eastern Jin–Liu Song poet and founder of Chinese pastoral poetry, called the ancestor of reclusive poets; author of Gui Yuan Tian Ju and Tao Hua Yuan Ji, neglected in his era, canonical by the Tang, translated into English since Giles.
Taqi Raf'at
Taqi Raf'at (تقی رفعت) was a Persian poet, critic, and journalist from Tabriz who first argued for breaking with classical Persian poetry and died by suicide in 1920.
Tara Westover
Tara Westover (born 1986) is an American historian and memoirist, author of the 2018 memoir Educated about her survivalist Mormon Idaho childhood and Cambridge PhD; her second memoir, Brothers and Sisters, is due April 2027.
Taranath Sharma
Taranath Sharma, pen name Tanasarma, was a Nepali literary critic, historian, and travel writer who wrote more than one hundred books and died in 2022.
Taras Prokhasko
Taras Prokhasko (Тарас Прохасько), born 1968 in Ivano-Frankivsk, is a contemporary Ukrainian novelist, essayist, and journalist, best known for the novel NeprOsti (2002) and winner of the 2020 Shevchenko National Prize.
Taras Shevchenko (Тарас Григорович Шевченко)
Taras Shevchenko (Тарас Григорович Шевченко, 1814–1861), Ukraine's national bard, painter, and founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language; author of Kobzar (1840), exiled 1847–57 for anti-tsarist verse, buried at Kaniv.
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; 1898–1971) was a leading Bengali novelist and short-story writer, known as the artist of rural Bengal, who won the 1966 Jnanpith Award for his novel Ganadevata.
Tarık Buğra
Tarık Buğra (Süleyman Tarık Buğra, 1918–1994) was a Turkish novelist, playwright, and journalist, best known for Küçük Ağa, a 1963 novel of the Turkish War of Independence.
Tarjei Vesaas
Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and poet from Vinje in Telemark who wrote in Nynorsk and won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1964 for The Ice Palace.
Tash Aw
Tash Aw is a Malaysian novelist and essayist, born in 1971 and raised in Kuala Lumpur, whose five novels examine class, migration, and the Chinese diaspora.
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin (তসলিমা নাসরিন), born 1962 in Mymensingh, is a Bangladeshi Bengali writer, physician and feminist, author of Lajja, exiled since 1994 and a Sakharov Prize laureate.
Tatsuki Fujimoto
Tatsuki Fujimoto (藤本タツキ) is a Japanese manga artist known for Fire Punch, the hit series Chainsaw Man, and acclaimed one-shots like Look Back and Goodbye, Eri, adapted into anime and live-action films.
Tatyana Tolstaya (Татьяна Никитична Толстая)
Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya (Татьяна Никитична Толстая), born 1951, Russian writer and TV presenter, granddaughter of Alexei Tolstoy; author of the postmodernist dystopian novel Kys (2000), Triumph prize winner, and co-host of Shkola zlosloviya.
Taufiq Ismail
Taufiq Ismail is an Indonesian poet, columnist, and editor born in Bukittinggi in 1935, known as a leading figure of the Angkatan '66 literary generation and co-founder of Horison.
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad
Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad (توفيق يوسف عواد, 1911–1989) was a Lebanese novelist, journalist, and diplomat counted among the leading Lebanese novelists of the twentieth century, known for al-Raghif and Tawahin Bayrut.
Tawfiq Zayyad
Tawfiq Zayyad (توفيق زيّاد, 1929–1994) was a Palestinian poet and communist politician, mayor of Nazareth from 1975 until his death and a Knesset member for six terms.
Tayeb Salih
Tayeb Salih (الطيب صالح, 1929–2009) was a Sudanese novelist whose Season of Migration to the North was declared the most important Arabic novel of the 20th century.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid, American #1 New York Times bestselling novelist of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & the Six, Malibu Rising, Carrie Soto Is Back, and the 2025 NASA love story Atmosphere; debut Forever, Interrupted (2013); next novel The Last Days of Vic & Coco due March 2027.
Tchicaya U Tam'si
Tchicaya U Tam'si, born Gérald-Félix Tchicaya, was a Congolese French-language poet, novelist, and playwright, a leading figure of Francophone African poetry who won the 1966 Dakar festival poetry prize.
Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang (born 1967) is an American science fiction writer of about 15 short stories and novellas, author of Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation; "Story of Your Life" became the film Arrival, and he has won four Hugos, four Nebulas, and the 2024 PEN/Malamud Award.
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (Edward James Hughes, 1930–1998), English Poet Laureate from 1984 to 1998, author of The Hawk in the Rain, Crow, Tales from Ovid, and Birthday Letters, husband of Sylvia Plath.
Tehmina Durrani
Tehmina Durrani (تہمینہ درانی), born 1953, Pakistani author, artist, and women's rights activist; wrote the bestselling banned autobiography My Feudal Lord (1991) about her marriage to Ghulam Mustafa Khar, later married Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and served as First Lady.
Teixeira de Pascoaes
Teixeira de Pascoaes, pen name of Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Vasconcelos (1877–1952), was a Portuguese poet from Amarante who led Saudosismo, the first literary school of twentieth-century Portuguese poetry, built on his doctrine of saudade.