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Asai Ryōi
Asai Ryōi (浅井了意, ca. 1612–1691) was a Japanese writer and Jōdo Shinshū priest of the early Edo period, best known for the ghost-story collection Otogi-bōko (1666).
ASAS 50
ASAS 50, or Angkatan Sasterawan '50 (Generation of Writers '50), is a Malay literary society founded in Singapore in 1950, the oldest in postwar Malaya, with the motto Art for the People.
Asclepiades of Samos
Asclepiades of Samos (Ἀσκληπιάδης, also called Sicelidas) was a Greek poet active around 300–270 BCE, credited as the inventor of the Alexandrian erotic epigram and an influence on Callimachus.
Asdreni
Asdreni, pen name of Aleksandër Stavre Drenova (1872–1947), was an Albanian poet who wrote the lyrics of the Albanian national anthem and spent most of his life in exile in Romania.
Ashani Lewis
Ashani Lewis is a British writer whose debut novel, Winter Animals (2024), won the 2025 Betty Trask Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award; her story collection Everest followed in 2024.
Ashapurna Devi
Ashapurna Devi (আশাপূর্ণা দেবী; 1909–1995) was an Indian Bengali novelist who received the Jnanpith Award in 1976 and is best known for the Satyabati trilogy of feminist novels.
Ashok Vajpeyi
Ashok Vajpeyi (अशोक वाजपेयी), born 1941 in Durg, is an Indian Hindi poet, critic, essayist, and cultural administrator who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1994 for Kahin Nahin Vahin.
Ashokamitran
Ashokamitran (அசோகமித்திரன்), born Tyagarajan in 1931 in Secunderabad, was a Tamil novelist and short story writer who won the 1996 Sahitya Akademi award; he died in 2017.
Ashtachhap
Ashtachhap (अष्टछाप, "eight seals"), also called Ashtasakha, is the group of eight Krishna-devotee poets of the Pushtimarg, chosen by Vitthalnath around 1565; its foremost poet is Surdas.
Ashvaghosha
Ashvaghosha (Aśvaghoṣa, 馬鳴; c. 1st–2nd century CE) was a Buddhist monk and Sanskrit poet at Ayodhya, India, the earliest known author of Sanskrit kāvya and best known for the epic Buddhacarita.
Aspazija
Aspazija was the pen name of Johanna Rozenberga (1865–1943), a Latvian poet, playwright, and publicist who founded modern Latvian poetry and drama, and the wife of Rainis.
Assia Djebar
Assia Djebar (1936–2015), pen name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayène, was an Algerian novelist and filmmaker who wrote on Algerian women and in 2005 became the first North African member of the Académie française.
Assia Wevill
Assia Esther Wevill (1927–1969), German-born copywriter, poet, and translator of Yehuda Amichai; Ted Hughes's partner after Sylvia Plath; died with their daughter Shura by gas in London in 1969.
Association des Écrivains du Sénégal
The Association des Écrivains du Sénégal (AES) is Senegal's national association for published authors, founded in 1973 at the initiative of President Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Association of Nigerian Authors
The Association of Nigerian Authors is a Nigerian nonprofit literary association founded by Chinua Achebe on 27 June 1981 at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, awarding annual literary prizes.
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002), Swedish children's author, creator of Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump), Emil i Lönneberga, and Ronia the Robber's Daughter; 34 chapter books and 41 picture books, translated into over 100 languages, head of children's fiction at Rabén & Sjögren 1946–1970.
Astrid Roemer
Astrid Roemer (1947–2026) was a Surinamese-Dutch writer of novels, poetry, and drama, best known for her decolonization trilogy Onmogelijk moederland and as the first Surinamese winner of Dutch literature's highest awards.
Atanas Dalchev
Atanas Dalchev (Атанас Далчев, 1904–1978) was a Bulgarian poet, translator, and critic known as "the poet-philosopher" and one of the central figures of Bulgarian post-symbolist modernism.
Athenaeus
Athenaeus (Ἀθήναιος) was a Greek grammarian from Naucratis, Egypt, active in Rome around 200 AD, whose fifteen-book Deipnosophistae preserves quotations from lost Greek literature.
Atibadi Jagannath Das
Atibadi Jagannath Das (ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ ଦାସ, c. 1491–1550) was an Odia saint-poet of the Bhakti movement whose Odia Srimad Bhagabata is read in almost every Odisha household.
Atin Bandyopadhyay
Atin Bandyopadhyay (অতীন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian writer of Bengali literature, born in 1934 in what is now Bangladesh, best known for his Partition novel Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje.
Attar of Nishapur
Attar of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری), also called Farid al-Din, was a Persian Sufi poet of Nishapur, killed in the Mongol massacre of 1221, best known for The Conference of the Birds.
Attilâ İlhan
Attilâ İlhan (1925–2005) was a Turkish poet, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose career spanned six decades; he led the Mavi movement and won the TDK Poetry Award.
Attila József
Attila József (József Attila, 1905–1937), major Hungarian poet of the interwar years; author of Tiszta szívvel, Döntsd a tőkét, and Eszmélet; expelled from Szeged, briefly communist, died by train at Balatonszárszó.
Attilio Bertolucci
Attilio Bertolucci (1911–2000) was an Italian poet born near Parma whose colloquial, autobiographical poetry, moving away from hermeticism, culminated in the verse novel La camera da letto.
Attoor Ravi Varma
Attoor Ravi Varma (ആറ്റൂർ രവിവർമ്മ, 1930–2019) was an Indian poet and translator who pioneered modernist free verse in Malayalam and won major literary awards including the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award.
Atul Chandra Baruah
Atul Chandra Baruah (অতুল চন্দ্ৰ বৰুৱা, 1916–2001) was an Assamese writer and literary critic who served as president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha, Assam's leading literary organization, in 1979.
Atul Chandra Hazarika
Atul Chandra Hazarika (অতুলচন্দ্ৰ হাজৰিকা) was an Assamese poet, dramatist, and children's writer who won the 1969 Sahitya Akademi Award for Manchalekha and the 1971 Padma Shri.
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was a Black lesbian feminist poet, essayist, and activist from Harlem, author of Coal, The Black Unicorn, Zami, and Sister Outsider, co-founder of Kitchen Table press, and mentor of Afro-German women in Berlin.
August Cesarec
August Cesarec (1893–1941) was a Croatian writer, publicist, and communist revolutionary, prominent in the Croatian leftist literary avant-garde; he was executed by Ustaša authorities in 1941.