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Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman (1925–2008), American journalist and author of 18 Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels beginning with The Blessing Way (1970); basis for Dark Winds; continued by daughter Anne Hillerman.
Tony Tcheka
Tony Tcheka is the pen name of António Soares Lopes Júnior, a Guinea-Bissauan poet and journalist born in Bissau in 1951, a major name in Guinean literature.
Tor Obrestad
Tor Obrestad (1938–2020) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, biographer, and translator who wrote mainly in Nynorsk, led the Profil modernist circle in the 1960s, and wrote the strike novel Sauda! Streik!
Torgny Lindgren
Torgny Lindgren, full name Gustav Torgny Lindgren (1938–2017), was a Swedish writer and member of the Swedish Academy from 1991 whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages.
Torquato Neto
Torquato Neto (1944–1972) was a Brazilian poet, lyricist, and journalist from Teresina, one of the principal figures of the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s.
Torquato Tasso
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) was an Italian poet of the sixteenth century, best known for the pastoral play Aminta (1573) and the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata on the First Crusade.
Toru Dutt
Toru Dutt (1856–1877), Bengali poet, translator, and novelist of Calcutta; wrote in English and French; works include A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876), Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882), and Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers.
Toshikazu Kawaguchi (川口俊和)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi (川口俊和), born 1971 in Osaka, is a Japanese playwright-director-novelist whose stage play Before the Coffee Gets Cold became a 10-million-copy, 56-language global series, nominated for the 2017 Honya Taisho and filmed in 2018.
Toshio Shimao
Toshio Shimao (島尾敏雄; 1917–1986) was a Japanese novelist who drew on his wartime kamikaze service and his wife's mental illness, writing the acclaimed The Sting of Death.
Toshiyuki Horie
Toshiyuki Horie (堀江敏幸, born 1964) is a Japanese writer and scholar of French literature who won the Akutagawa Prize for The Bear and the Paving Stone.
Tove Ditlevsen
Tove Ditlevsen (1917–1976) was a Danish poet, novelist, and memoirist from working-class Copenhagen, one of the most widely read Danish authors of the twentieth century, known for The Copenhagen Trilogy.
Tove Jansson
Tove Jansson (1914–2001), full name Tove Marika Jansson, was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, and comic strip author best known as the creator of the Moomins.
Trần Đăng Khoa
Trần Đăng Khoa (born 1958) is a Vietnamese poet known as a child prodigy whose collection Góc sân và khoảng trời is a fixture of primary-school textbooks.
Trần Tế Xương
Trần Tế Xương, commonly known as Tú Xương (1870–1907), was a Vietnamese poet and satirist of Nam Định, best known for "Thương vợ" and his self-mocking verse.
Trần Trọng Kim
Trần Trọng Kim, pen name Lệ Thần, was a Vietnamese historian and educator who served as prime minister of the Empire of Vietnam from March to August 1945.
Trilochan
Trilochan (त्रिलोचन) was a thirteenth-century Hindu bhakti poet of the Vaishya caste, traditionally born in 1267, whose four hymns are preserved in the Guru Granth Sahib.
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy (త్రిపురనేని రామస్వామి), honored as Kaviraju, was an Indian Telugu poet, playwright, and lawyer (1887–1943) whose play Sambuka Vadha questioned caste hierarchy and religious orthodoxy in Telugu literature.
Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara (Samuel Rosenstock, 1896-1963), Romanian-born French poet and founder of Dada at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire in 1916; author of Sept manifestes Dada, later a surrealist, Resistance activist, and naturalized French citizen.
Truman Capote
Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons, 1924-1984), American author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, pioneer of the nonfiction novel, socially ruined by his Answered Prayers excerpts.
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (ጸጋዬ ገብረመድህን; 1936–2006) was an Ethiopian poet and playwright regarded as Ethiopia's poet laureate who wrote nearly 45 plays, directed the Ethiopian National Theatre, and saw his work censored under three governments.
Tsiotka
Tsiotka (Auntie) was the pen name of Aloiza Pashkevich, a Belarusian poet and revolutionary who published the poetry collections Khrest na svabodu and Skrypka belaruskaja in 1906.
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga, born in 1959 in what was then Southern Rhodesia, is a Zimbabwean writer and film-maker whose 1988 novel Nervous Conditions was the first in English by a Zimbabwean woman.
Tsugumi Ohba (大場つぐみ)
Tsugumi Ohba (大場つぐみ, also romanized Ōba Tsugumi) is the anonymous pen name of the Japanese manga writer behind Death Note, Bakuman., and Platinum End, all drawn by Takeshi Obata; born in Tokyo, real identity and birth year unknown.
Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶勉)
Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶勉), born 1971 in Koriyama, Fukushima, is a Japanese manga artist, creator of BLAME!, Biomega, and Knights of Sidonia, which won the 2015 Kodansha Manga Award and 2016 Seiun Award; currently serializing Tower Dungeon.
Tucker Max
Tucker Max, American author of I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, originator of fratire, four-time NYT bestselling author, and co-founder of Scribe Media.
Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi, born Ion N. Theodorescu, was a Romanian poet and prose writer whose 1927 collection Cuvinte potrivite carried out the deepest reform of Romanian poetic language.
Tulenkantajat
Tulenkantajat, Finnish for "Torch Bearers," was a Finnish literary and artistic group of the 1920s known for renewing Finnish poetry and advocating cosmopolitanism; members included Katri Vala and Mika Waltari.
Tulsi Diwasa
Tulsi Diwasa (तुलसी दिवस), born Tulasi Prasad Joshi in 1941 in Dhankuta, Nepal, is a Nepali poet, folklorist, and cultural expert whose work is translated into over 25 languages.
Turgut Uyar
Turgut Uyar, full name Ahmet Turgut Uyar, was a Turkish poet and civil servant, a leading figure of the İkinci Yeni movement that reshaped Turkish poetry from the mid-1950s.
Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası
Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası (TYS), the Writers' Union of Turkey, is a Turkish trade union of writers founded in Istanbul in 1974, with Yaşar Kemal as its first president.