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Xiao Jun
Xiao Jun, original name Liu Honglin, was a Chinese novelist and leading member of the Northeast Writers Group, best known for The Village in August (1935).
Xiao Qian
Xiao Qian (萧干), born Xiao Bingqian, was a Chinese journalist, novelist, and translator, the only Chinese war correspondent on the Western European front during World War II.
Xiao Sa
Xiao Sa (萧飒), born in 1953, is the pen name of Taiwanese novelist Hsiao Ching-yu, a leading figure of 1980s women's literature known for realist fiction about urban women and marriage.
Xiao San
Xiao San, pen name Emi Siao, was a Chinese revolutionary poet and translator who translated The Internationale and wrote the first biography of Mao Zedong.
Xu Can
Xu Can (徐灿, courtesy name Xiangpin, ca. 1610–1678) was a Chinese woman ci poet and painter of the late Ming and early Qing often compared with Li Qingzhao.
Xu Dishan
Xu Dishan (许地山), pen name Luohuasheng, was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and religious scholar who co-founded the Literary Research Association and became the first Chinese professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Xu Gan
Xu Gan (徐幹), courtesy name Weichang, was a Chinese writer and thinker of the late Eastern Han dynasty, one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an named by Cao Pi.
Xu Huaizhong
Xu Huaizhong (徐怀中, 1929–2023) was a Chinese military writer and major general whose novel Qianfeng Ji won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2019, when he was about ninety.
Xu Hun
Xu Hun (courtesy name Yonghui) was a late Tang dynasty poet and official from Danyang, Jiangsu, best known for his seven-character regulated verse and its water imagery.
Xu Wei
Xu Wei (徐渭), courtesy name Wenchang, was a Chinese writer, painter, calligrapher, and dramatist of the Ming dynasty, known for pioneering the ink large-freehand style of painting.
Xu Xiaobin
Xu Xiaobin (徐小斌) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter best known for her 1998 novel Yushe, Feathered Serpent, which follows five generations of women from the late Qing onward.
Xuân Diệu
Xuân Diệu (1916–1985), real name Ngô Xuân Diệu, was a Vietnamese poet and literary critic known as the "king of love poetry" and a leading figure of the Thơ Mới movement.
Xun Yue
Xun Yue (荀悦, 148–209) was an Eastern Han historian and politician who wrote the Hanji, a chronicle of the Western Han, and the treatise Shenjian.
Y Phương
Y Phương, real name Hứa Vĩnh Sước, was a Vietnamese poet of the Tày ethnic group from Cao Bằng province, best known for the poem "Nói với con".
Y. B. Mangunwijaya
Y. B. Mangunwijaya (1929–1999), widely known as Romo Mangun, was an Indonesian Catholic priest, architect, and writer, author of the novel Burung-Burung Manyar and winner of the 1992 Aga Khan Award.
Y. L. Cahan
Y. L. Cahan (Yehuda Leyb Cahan, 1881–1937) was a Yiddish folklorist from Vilna who compiled classic collections of Yiddish folksongs and folktales and headed YIVO's folklore committee.
Ya Xian
Ya Xian (痖弦), born Wang Qing-lin, was a Taiwanese modern poet and editor who co-founded the Epoch Poetry Society in 1954 and died in Vancouver in 2024.
Yaadgar-e-Ghalib
Yaadgar-e-Ghalib (یادگارِ غالب) is an 1897 Urdu biography of the poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, written by his friend Khwaja Altaf Hussain Hali and the first about him.
Yaghma Jandaghi
Yaghma Jandaghi (یغمای جندقی), born Mirza Rahim, was a Persian satirist and calligrapher of the Qajar era, known for obscene invective against the powerful and for Ashura elegies.
Yahya Haqqi
Yahya Haqqi (يحيى حقي; 1905–1992) was an Egyptian writer and diplomat, a pioneer of the modern Arabic short story best known for the novella Qandil Umm Hashim.
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, born Ahmed Âgâh (1884–1958), was a Turkish poet, prose writer, diplomat, and politician, regarded with Ahmet Haşim as a founder of pure poetry in Turkish literature.
Yakov Polonsky
Yakov Polonsky (Яков Петрович Полонский) was a Russian poet and prose writer who lived from 1819 to 1898, known for the lyric "My campfire shines in the mist."
Yakub Kolas
Yakub Kolas (Якуб Колас), born Kanstantsin Mitskevich (1882–1956), was a Belarusian poet and prose writer, a founder of modern Belarusian literature and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889–1974) was a Turkish novelist, journalist, and diplomat, a leading figure of early Republican Turkish literature whose novels trace Turkish society from the late Ottoman era to the 1950s.
Yamagata Bantō
Yamagata Bantō (山片蟠桃, 1748–1821) was a Japanese merchant and Confucian scholar of Osaka who wrote Yume no shiro, defending heliocentrism and denying gods and ghosts.
Yamazaki Sōkan
Yamazaki Sōkan (山崎宗鑑) was a Japanese renga master and haikai poet of the late Muromachi period, regarded with Arakida Moritake as a founder of haikai; his anthology Inu Tsukuba Shū made haikai an independent genre.
Yambo Ouologuem
Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017) was a Malian writer whose first novel, Le Devoir de violence, won the 1968 Prix Renaudot, the first awarded to an African writer.
Yan Geling
Yan Geling (严歌苓), born 1958, is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter whose fiction about Chinese women in historical upheaval was adapted into films including The Flowers of War and Youth.
Yan Jidao
Yan Jidao (晏几道, ca. 1038–1110) was a Northern Song dynasty ci poet, son of the chancellor Yan Shu, known for the short lyrics of his Xiaoshan ci.
Yan Yu
Yan Yu (严羽) was a Southern Song dynasty poet and poetry critic from Shaowu, Fujian, best known for Canglang Shihua, a landmark work of Chinese literary criticism.