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Abdallah Laroui
Abdallah Laroui (عبد الله العروي; born 1933) is a Moroccan historian, novelist, and political theorist, author of over 30 books on Arab modernity and historicism.
Abdel Rahman El-Abnudi
Abdel Rahman El-Abnudi (عبد الرحمن الأبنودي, 1938–2015) was an Egyptian colloquial poet and folklorist from Upper Egypt, known for freeing vernacular poetry into free verse and collecting the Sira Hilaliyya epic.
Abdelhamid Ben Hadouga
Abdelhamid Ben Hadouga (عبد الحميد بن هدوقة; also Benhadouga or Benhaddouga; 1925 to 1996) was an Algerian novelist and broadcaster regarded as the founder of the modern Arabic-language Algerian novel.
Abdelkader Benali
Abdelkader Benali, born in Morocco in 1975, is a Moroccan-Dutch writer whose debut novel Bruiloft aan zee (1996) made him a leading Dutch-language author of migrant literature.
Abdelkrim Ghallab
Abdelkrim Ghallab (عبد الكريم غلّاب, 1919–2017) was a Moroccan novelist, journalist, and Istiqlal politician, best known for We Bury the Past (1966) and his decades editing the newspaper Al-Alam.
Abdellatif Laabi
Abdellatif Laâbi, born 1942 in Fès, is a Moroccan poet who founded the journal Souffles, served eight years in prison, and won the 2009 Prix Goncourt de la poésie.
Abdelmajid Benjelloun
Abdelmajid Benjelloun (عبد المجيد بن جلون; 1919–1981) was a Moroccan writer, poet, journalist, and diplomat born in Casablanca, best known for Fi al-Tufula (1957), widely treated as the first Moroccan novel.
Abdilatif Abdalla
Abdilatif Abdalla is a Kenyan Swahili poet and political activist, born in Mombasa in 1946, best known for Sauti ya Dhiki (Voice of Agony, 1973), written on toilet paper during three years in prison.
Abdillahi Sultan Timacade
Abdillahi Sultan Timacade (Somali: Cabdillaahi Suldaan Maxamed, nicknamed Timacadde, 1920–1973) was a Somali gabay poet from Gabiley, best known for reciting a poem at Somaliland's 1960 independence ceremony.
Abdo Wazen
Abdo Wazen (عبده وازن) is a Lebanese poet, literary critic, and cultural journalist born in Beirut in 1957. He headed Al-Hayat's cultural section, wrote nine poetry collections, and published interviews with Mahmoud Darwish.
Abdoulaye Sadji
Abdoulaye Sadji (1910–1961) was a Senegalese novelist, essayist, and teacher who wrote in French, counted among the founders of Senegal's modern literature, best known for the novels Maïmouna and Nini.
Abdourahman Waberi
Abdourahman Waberi, born 1965 in Djibouti, is a Djiboutian novelist writing in French, known for the trilogy Le Pays sans ombre, Cahier nomade, and Balbala.
Abdul Hadi W.M.
Abdul Hadi W.M. (1946–2024) was an Indonesian poet and Muslim scholar known as the leading exponent of sufistic literature, and also a professor of the philosophy of religion.
Abdul Majid Salik
Abdul Majid Salik (عبدالمجید سالک, 1894–1959) was an Urdu poet, journalist, and humorist based in Lahore, editor of Zamindar and co-founder of the daily Inqilab in 1927.
Abdul Wahid Aresar
Abdul Wahid Aresar (عبدالواحد آريسر; 1949–2015) was a Sindhi nationalist politician, historian, and writer who led the Jeay Sindh Mahaz and chaired one Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz faction.
Abdulaziz al-Babtain
Abdulaziz Saud al-Babtain (عبدالعزيز سعود البابطين) was a Kuwaiti poet, businessman, and cultural philanthropist who founded an award for Arabic poetry in 1989 and died in December 2023.
Abdulla Qodiriy
Abdulla Qodiriy, pen name Julqunboy, was an Uzbek writer and journalist who founded the modern Uzbek novel with Oʻtkan kunlar (Bygone Days) before being executed in 1938.
Abdullah Hussain
Abdullah Hussain (عبداللہ حسین; born Muhammad Khan, 1931–2015) was a Pakistani Urdu novelist and short story writer, best known for his debut novel Udas Naslain (1963).
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 1948, Zanzibar) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and 2021 Nobel Literature laureate, author of ten novels including Paradise, By the Sea, Desertion and Afterlives, on colonialism and refugees.
Abelardo Bonilla
Abelardo Bonilla Baldares (1898–1969) was a Costa Rican educator, literary historian, and politician, a founding professor of the Universidad de Costa Rica and Vice President from 1958 to 1962.
Abelardo Castillo
Abelardo Castillo (1935–2017) was an Argentine writer of short stories, novels, and plays who founded the literary magazines El escarabajo de oro and El ornitorrinco.
Abhas
Abhas is the pen name of Abhas Kumar Baral, a contemporary Odia writer known for short stories, with ten story collections and one poetry book.
Abhyudaya Rachayitala Sangham
Abhyudaya Rachayitala Sangham (ARASAM) is the Telugu-language wing of the Progressive Writers' Association, formally established at a 1943 conference in Tenali under Tapi Dharma Rao.
Abigail Shrier
Abigail Shrier is an American journalist and author of Irreversible Damage (2020) and Bad Therapy (2024), a columnist at The Free Press and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Abolhassan Najafi
Abolhassan Najafi (ابوالحسن نجفی, 1929–2016) was an Iranian linguist and lexicographer, author of Ghalt nanevisim, whose colloquial Persian dictionary won Iran's Book of the Year award in 2003.
Abolqasem Lahouti
Abolqasem Lahouti (ابوالقاسم لاهوتی, 1887–1957) was an Iranian Marxist poet and political activist who became a founder of modern Tajik poetry and wrote the Tajik national anthem.
Abraham ibn Ezra
Abraham ibn Ezra was a twelfth-century Jewish poet, biblical commentator, grammarian, and astronomer from Tudela, Spain, best known for his Hebrew Bible commentaries and influential works on astronomy and astrology.
Abraham Mapu
Abraham Mapu (אברהם מאפו, 1808–1867) was a Lithuanian Hebrew writer of the Jewish Enlightenment whose Ahavat Ziyyon, published in 1853, became the first Hebrew novel.
Abraham Nahum Stencl
Abraham Nahum Stencl (Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl, 1897–1983) was a Yiddish poet and editor who settled in London's Whitechapel after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1936, founding the Yiddish monthly Loshn un lebn.
Abraham Sutzkever
Abraham Sutzkever (1913–2010), also Avrom Sutskever, was a Yiddish poet and Holocaust witness, a member of the Vilna Ghetto's Paper Brigade, and editor of Di goldene keyt.