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Yevhen Pluzhnyk
Yevhen Pluzhnyk (Євген Плужник) was a Ukrainian poet and dramatist of the Executed Renaissance, arrested in the Stalinist terror of 1934 and dying in prison on Solovki.
Yevhen Sverstiuk
Yevhen Sverstiuk (Євген Сверстюк) was a Ukrainian literary scholar, essayist, and dissident, a leading figure of the Sixtiers generation who spent 7 years in Soviet camps.
Yi Cheong-jun
Yi Cheong-jun (이청준, also romanized Lee Cheong-jun) was a South Korean novelist who wrote more than 100 short stories, known for The Wounded and Your Paradise.
Yi In-jik
Yi In-jik (이인직, 1862–1916), pen name Gukcho, was a Korean novelist and journalist known for Tears of Blood (1906), regarded as the first sinsoseol in Korean literature.
Yi Mun-yol
Yi Mun-yol (이문열, born 1948) is a South Korean novelist whose work examines political power, ideology, and human existence; his best-known works include Our Twisted Hero and The Poet, translated into over 20 countries.
Yi Mun-yong
Yi Mun-yong (이무영, 1908–1960) was a South Korean novelist regarded as a forerunner of farmer literature, known for "Slave to Soil" (1940) and the novel Farmers (1950).
Yi Ok
Yi Ok (이옥, 李鈺; 1760–1815) was a Joseon-dynasty writer of hanmun, Chinese-language prose and verse, who lived in Hanyang (Seoul) and is known for 23 tales and a style King Chŏngjo prohibited.
Yi Sang
Yi Sang (이상, 1910–1937), born Kim Hae-kyeong, was a Korean modernist writer and architect known for the poem series Crow's-Eye View and the novel Wings.
Yi Shu
Yi Shu (亦舒), pen name of Ni Yishu, born 1949, is a popular Hong Kong novelist of romance fiction, best known for Story of Rose and her independent urban heroines.
Yi Shunding
Yi Shunding (易順鼎; 1858–1920) was a Chinese poet and late Qing official from Hunan, known with Fan Zengxiang as a leading poet of the mid- and late-Tang school.
Yi Sik
Yi Sik (이식, 李植; 1584–1647), pen name Taekdang, was a mid-Joseon civil official, calligrapher, and writer ranked among the four great masters of Sino-Korean prose of his era.
Yi Won
Yi Won (이원, born 1968) is a South Korean avant-garde poet known for typographic experimentation and poems voiced by inanimate objects. She debuted in 1992 and has published six collections.
Yi Yuksa
Yi Yuksa (이육사), pen name of Yi Won-rok, was a Korean poet and independence activist whose resistance poetry under Japanese rule includes "Cheongpodo" and "Gwangya"; he died in a Beijing prison in 1944.
Yin Fu
Yin Fu, pen name Bai Mang, was a Chinese revolutionary poet and Communist, executed in Shanghai in 1931 as one of the Left-League Five Martyrs.
Ying Shao
Ying Shao (应劭, courtesy name Zhongyuan) was an Eastern Han scholar, legal specialist, and official best known for the Fengsu Tongyi, a work on customs and popular beliefs.
Ying Yang
Ying Yang (Yìng Yáng), courtesy name Delian, was a poet of the late Eastern Han dynasty and one of the Seven Masters of Jian'an; he died in 217.
Yiorgos Theotokas
Yiorgos Theotokas (Γιώργος Θεοτοκάς) was a Greek novelist, essayist, and playwright born in Constantinople, whose essay Free Spirit (1929) became the manifesto of the Generation of the 1930s and whose novels include Argo and Leonis.
Yisroel Shtern
Yisroel Shtern (1894–1942) was a Yiddish poet, essayist, and literary critic of interwar Warsaw, remembered for religiously inflected poems of poverty and existential distress, and for his death in the Treblinka death camp.
Yitzhak Lamdan
Yitzhak Lamdan (יצחק למדן; 1899–1954) was a Hebrew poet and editor born in Ukraine who settled in Palestine in 1920, best known for his epic poem Masada (1927).
Yitzhak Shenhar
Yitzhak Shenhar (born Yitzhak Shenberg, 1902–1957) was a Hebrew poet, fiction writer, and translator, a central prose writer of the Yishuv period who translated Tolstoy, Gogol, and Chekhov into Hebrew.
Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa (小川洋子) is a Japanese novelist, born in 1962 in Okayama Prefecture, best known for The Housekeeper and the Professor and The Memory Police.
Yōko Tawada
Yōko Tawada (多和田葉子) is a Japanese writer who publishes in both Japanese and German and has won the Akutagawa Prize and the National Book Award for Translated Literature.
Yokomizo Seishi
Yokomizo Seishi (横溝正史, 1902–1981) was a Japanese mystery novelist who created the detective Kindaichi Kosuke, hero of The Honjin Murders, which won the first Detective Writers' Club Award in 1948.
Yolanda Oreamuno
Yolanda Oreamuno (1916–1956) was a Costa Rican novelist, essayist, and short-story writer whose only novel, La ruta de su evasión, won a Central American prize in 1948.
Yom Sang-seop
Yom Sang-seop (염상섭, 1897–1963) was a Korean novelist and critic who helped establish the realist modern novel in colonial Korea; his masterwork is Three Generations (1931).
Yona Wallach
Yona Wallach (יונה וולך; 1944–1985) was an Israeli poet of the Tel Aviv poets circle whose openly sexual, experimental verse made her a legend of modern Hebrew poetry.
Yordan Yovkov
Yordan Yovkov (Йордан Йовков, 1880–1937) was a Bulgarian writer considered a master of the short story, known for war tales and the 1927 cycle Staroplaninski legendi.
Yoshida Kenkō
Yoshida Kenkō (吉田兼好), more correctly Urabe Kenkō, was a Japanese poet and Buddhist priest, c. 1283–1350, author of the 243-section essay collection Tsurezuregusa, Essays in Idleness, one of classical Japanese literature's three great essay collections.
Yoshie Hotta
Yoshie Hotta (堀田善衞, 1918–1998) was a Japanese novelist and critic who won the 1952 Akutagawa Prize for Hiroba no Kodoku, drawing on his wartime experience in Shanghai.
Yoshihiro Togashi (冨樫義博)
Yoshihiro Togashi (冨樫義博), Japanese manga artist born 1966 in Yamagata Prefecture; creator of YuYu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter in Weekly Shōnen Jump; Tezuka Award winner, husband of Naoko Takeuchi, known for hiatuses.