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Twinkle Khanna (ट्विंकल खन्ना)
Twinkle Khanna (ट्विंकल खन्ना), also Tina Jatin Khanna, Indian former actress, columnist and author, daughter of Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, wife of Akshay Kumar; wrote Mrs Funnybones, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, Pyjamas Are Forgiving, Welcome to Paradise.
U. A. Khader
U. A. Khader (യു.എ. ഖാദർ), full name Ussangaantakathu Abdul Khader, was an Indian Malayalam writer of fiction about rural Malabar, known for Thrikkottur Peruma; he died in 2020.
U. R. Ananthamurthy
U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932–2014) was an Indian writer, critic, and professor who pioneered the Navya modernist movement in Kannada literature and won the Jnanpith Award in 1994.
Uanhenga Xitu
Uanhenga Xitu, pen name of Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho (1924–2014), was an Angolan writer and MPLA politician whose best-known work, "Mestre" Tamoda (1974), satirized colonial assimilation.
Uday Prakash
Uday Prakash (उदय प्रकाश, born 1952) is a Hindi short-story writer, novelist, poet, and essayist known for Mohandas, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010.
Udayan Vajpeyi
Udayan Vajpeyi (उदयन वाजपेयी), born 1960, is a Hindi poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator who teaches Physiology at Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
Uejima Onitsura
Uejima Onitsura (上島鬼貫, 1661–1738) was a Japanese haikai poet of the Edo period, born in Itami, known for the doctrine "no haikai apart from truth."
Ugo Foscolo
Ugo Foscolo, born Niccolò Foscolo (1778–1827), was an Italian poet and novelist, author of Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis and Dei Sepolcri, who died in exile in London.
Ukhtanes
Ukhtanes (Ուխտանես), also Ukhtanes Sebastatsi, ca. 935–1000, was an Armenian historian and bishop of Sebastia who wrote a three-part History of Armenia around 980–982.
Uku Masing
Uku Masing (born Hugo Albert Masing, 1909–1985) was an Estonian poet, theologian, and philologist who hid his Jewish student during the Nazi occupation, earning recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.
Uladzimir Arlou
Uladzimir Arlou (Belarusian: Уладзімір Арлоў), born 1953 in Polacak, is a Belarusian prose writer, poet, essayist, and historian regarded as the leading figure of Belarusian historical prose after Uladzimir Karatkevich.
Uladzimir Dubouka
Uladzimir Dubouka (Belarusian: Уладзімір Дубоўка) was a Belarusian poet, translator, and literary critic who co-founded Uzvyshsha in 1926, spent about 27 years in Soviet camps and exile, and returned to writing in 1958.
Uladzimir Karatkievich
Uladzimir Karatkievich (Уладзі́мір Сямё́навіч Каратке́віч, 1930–1984) was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and dramatist regarded as a classic of Belarusian literature, known for the Gothic novella King Stakh's Wild Hunt.
Ulas Samchuk
Ulas Samchuk (Улас Самчук; 1905–1987) was a Ukrainian prose writer and journalist whose trilogy Volyn and novel Mariia chronicle 20th-century Ukrainian peasant and émigré life; exiled in Europe, he settled in Toronto, Canada, in 1948.
Umar Kayam
Umar Kayam (1932–2002) was an Indonesian writer, sociologist, and cultural authority who wrote acclaimed fiction on Javanese society and served under the New Order government.
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco (1932–2016), Italian novelist, semiotician, and medievalist, professor of Semiotics at Bologna; author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Opera aperta, and Trattato di semiotica generale.
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa is the pen name of Mozambican writer Francisco Esaú Cossa, born in 1957, whose debut novel Ualalapi (1987) is among the most influential works of modern African fiction.
Union of Moroccan Writers
The Union of Moroccan Writers (اتحاد كتاب المغرب) is Morocco's national association of writers, launched in 1961 by Mohamed Aziz Lahbabi as an independent cultural organization.
United States Poet Laureate
The United States Poet Laureate, officially the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, is the national poet of the United States, appointed by the Librarian of Congress.
Unni R.
Unni R. (ഉണ്ണി ആർ.) is the pen name of P. Jayachandran, an Indian writer born in 1971 in Kudamaloor, Kerala, who writes Malayalam short stories and film screenplays.
Uno Kōji
Uno Kōji (宇野浩二), real name Uno Kakujiro, was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and critic of the Taishō and Shōwa periods, known for Kura no Naka and Ko o Kashiya.
Unsi al-Haj
Unsi al-Haj (أنسي الحاج; 1937–2014) was a Lebanese poet and journalist, a pioneer of the Arabic prose poem whose first collection, Lan, appeared in 1960, and a leading contributor to the modernist magazine Shi'r.
Unsuri
Unsuri (عنصری بلخی) was a Persian poet of the early Ghaznavid period who served as poet laureate, or king of poets, to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna until his death in 1039.
Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas
Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) is the largest organization of Filipino writers, founded in 1974 to promote Philippine literature and protect writers' rights.
Uoto (魚豊)
Uoto (魚豊, born 1997, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist, creator of Hyakuemu (100 Meters) and Chi. — On the Movements of the Earth (Orb), youngest Tezuka Prize Manga Taisho winner.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959) is an Indian novelist and retired civil servant of the Indian Administrative Service, best known for his debut novel English, August (1988) and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Upatapassi
Upatapassi, who calls himself Sarasigāmamūla-mahāsāmī, was a fifteenth-century Pali author of the Vuttamālāsandesa Śataka, a 102-stanza poem with laudatory verses meant to teach verse recitation.
Upendranath Ashk
Upendranath Ashk (1910–1996) was an Indian novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began in Urdu in Lahore and became a major, controversial figure of 20th-century Hindi literature, best known for Girti Divarein.
Uranians
The Uranians were a loosely knit group of British and American homosexual poets active about 1880-1930, named by Timothy d'Arch Smith in Love in Earnest (1970), drawing on Pater, Whitman, and ancient Greek homoerotic motifs.
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Uri Zvi Greenberg (Hebrew אורי צבי גרינבערג) was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet and essayist, a trailblazer of modernism in both literatures, and a Revisionist Zionist leader.