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Teju Cole
Teju Cole, pen name of Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa, is a Nigerian American writer and photographer best known for his award-winning 2011 novel Open City.
Tenali Rama (తెనాలి రామకృష్ణుడు)
Tenali Rama, also known as Tenali Ramakrishna, was a Telugu poet and advisor at the Vijayanagara court of Krishnadevaraya, famed in folk tales as a witty jester.
Teodor Trayanov
Teodor Trayanov (Теодор Траянов) was a Bulgarian symbolist poet, translator, and chess administrator who, with Peyo Yavorov, is regarded as a founder of Bulgarian symbolism.
Tere Liye (writer)
Tere Liye, pen name of Darwis (born Lahat, South Sumatra), is a prolific Indonesian novelist active since 2005 with about seventy books, best sellers like Hujan and the Bumi series, film adaptations, and a 2018 publishing withdrawal over royalty taxes.
Teresa de la Parra
Teresa de la Parra, pen name of Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo, was a Venezuelan novelist best known for Ifigenia (1924) and Las memorias de Mamá Blanca.
Tergdaleulebi
Tergdaleulebi (თერგდალეულები, "those who drank the water of the Terek") were Georgian intellectuals and writers of the 1860s, educated in Russia, who led a major social and literary movement.
Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks (born 1944 in Sterling, Illinois) is an American fantasy writer whose The Sword of Shannara (1977) launched the Shannara series of more than 40 novels.
Terry Deary
Terry Deary (William Terence Deary), English author born 1946 in Sunderland, creator of the Horrible Histories children's history series; over 350 books, 38 million copies in 45 languages, BAFTA-winning TV adaptation, and 2024 adult bestseller A History of Britain in Ten Enemies.
Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton (Terence Eagleton, born 1943, Salford) is a British Marxist literary critic and theorist, author of Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), Warton Professor at Oxford, later Manchester and Lancaster.
Terry Goodkind
Terry Goodkind (1948–2020), American fantasy author of The Sword of Truth, beginning with Wizard's First Rule (1994); 17 volumes, 26 million copies, adapted as Legend of the Seeker (2008–2010).
Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan (born 1951, Port Huron, Michigan) is the American novelist of Mama, Waiting to Exhale, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, whose 1990s bestsellers and film hits opened publishing to Black women's contemporary fiction.
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett (1948-2015), British comic fantasy author and creator of the 41-volume Discworld series including The Colour of Magic and Death; also co-wrote Good Omens with Neil Gaiman; knighted, Carnegie Medal winner, sold over 85 million books.
Tess Gallagher
Tess Gallagher, born Tess Bond, is an American poet and short story writer from Port Angeles, Washington, known for eleven poetry books and her marriage to Raymond Carver.
Tess Gerritsen
Tess Gerritsen (Terry Gerritsen, born 1953) is a Chinese-American retired physician and thriller novelist, creator of the Rizzoli & Isles series and medical thrillers such as Harvest, with over 40 million books sold.
Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Tété-Michel Kpomassie, born in Togo in 1941, is a Togolese writer and explorer known for L'Africain du Groenland, the prize-winning account of his sixteen months living among Greenland's Inuit.
Tetsuo Miura
Tetsuo Miura (三浦哲郎, 1931–2010) was a Japanese novelist from Aomori who won the 1961 Akutagawa Prize for Shinobu Kawa, known as Shame in the Blood.
Tezer Özlü
Tezer Özlü (1942–1986) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, and translator known for Cold Nights of Childhood (1980) and for Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk, which won the Marburg Literature Prize.
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞)
The Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (手塚治虫文化賞) is an annual manga award sponsored by Asahi Shimbun, established in 1997 to honor Osamu Tezuka, revered as Japan's "God of Manga."
Thạch Lam
Thạch Lam (1909 or 1910 – 1942) was the pen name of Nguyễn Tường Lân, a Vietnamese short-story writer and member of the Tự Lực văn đoàn.
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (തകഴി ശിവശങ്കരപിള്ള), known as Thakazhi after his birthplace, was a Malayalam novelist who portrayed peasants and fisherfolk in Kerala and won the 1984 Jnanpith award.
Thakin Kodaw Hmaing
Thakin Kodaw Hmaing (သခင်ကိုယ်တော်မှိုင်း), born Maung Lun (1876–1964), was Burma's leading nationalist poet, playwright, and journalist, patron of the Dobama Asiayone, Stalin Peace Prize laureate, and mentor of the independence movement.
Thanh Thảo
Thanh Thảo, real name Hồ Thành Công, is a Vietnamese poet born in 1946 in Quảng Ngãi, known for 15 epic trường ca poems rooted in the resistance war.
Thanh Tịnh
Thanh Tịnh, born Trần Văn Ninh (1911–1988), was a Vietnamese poet and short-story writer best known for Tôi đi học and credited with founding the tấu form.
The Beacon group
The Beacon group was a circle of young Trinidadian writers of the early 1930s, named for their magazine The Beacon, remembered for founding a Trinidad-centered literature.
The Gay Genius
The Gay Genius, by Lin Yutang, is a 1947 English biography of the Song dynasty poet and statesman Su Tungpo, the earliest extensive study of him in English.
The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great
The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great is a satirical novel by Henry Fielding, published in 1743, ironic about greatness and political corruption.
The Man Died: Prison Notes
The Man Died: Prison Notes is a 1972 memoir by Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka recounting his solitary confinement as an uncharged political prisoner during the Nigerian Civil War.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is the first volume of Edmund Morris's trilogy, published in 1979, covering Roosevelt's rise until McKinley's death made him president in 1901.
Thein Pe Myint
Thein Pe Myint (1914–1978) was a Burmese writer, journalist, and politician who wrote the bestselling 1936 novel Modern Monk and founded the Botahtaung newspaper in 1958.
Theocritus
Theocritus (Θεόκριτος) was a Hellenistic Greek poet from Syracuse, active in the early 3rd century BCE, whose pastoral Idylls, reworked by Virgil, founded the European pastoral tradition.