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You Tong
You Tong (尤侗, 1618–1704) was a Chinese poet, playwright, and official of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, whose plays are collected as the Xitang Yuefu.
Youssef Rakha
Youssef Rakha (يوسف رخا; born 1976) is an Egyptian novelist, poet, and essayist who writes in Arabic and English and authored The Book of the Sultan's Seal.
Yu Chi-hwan
Yu Chi-hwan (유치환, 1908–1967) was a South Korean poet who wrote under the pen name Cheongma, publishing more than 160 poems and twelve collections, best known for "Flag".
Yu Guangzhong
Yu Guangzhong (余光中; 1928–2017) was a Chinese-language poet, essayist, critic, and translator, born in Nanjing and based in Taiwan, best known for his 1971 nostalgia poem.
Yu Hua
Yu Hua (余华, born 1960) is a Chinese novelist from Haiyan, Zhejiang, known for the novels To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and Brothers, translated into more than 40 languages.
Yuan Kai
Yuan Kai (袁凯) was a Chinese poet and official of the late Yuan and early Ming periods, nicknamed Yuan Baiyan for his poem on the white swallow.
Yudel Mark
Yudel Mark (יודל מארק; 1897–1975) was a Lithuanian-born Yiddish linguist and educator who edited YIVO's journal Yidishe shprakh and led the unfinished Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language.
Yukie Chiri
Yukie Chiri (知里幸恵, 1903–1922) was an Ainu woman from Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, whose posthumous Ainu Shin'yōshū (1923) was the first published collection of Ainu kamui yukar by an Ainu author.
Yukinobu Tatsu (龍幸伸)
Yukinobu Tatsu (龍幸伸) is a Japanese manga artist, creator of Dandadan on Shonen Jump+ since 2021. Former Chainsaw Man assistant; earlier works Seigi no Rokugō and Fire Ball! at Kodansha; 71st Shogakukan Manga Award winner.
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫), born Kimitake Hiraoka, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and essayist known for Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
Yumiko Kurahashi
Yumiko Kurahashi (倉橋由美子) was a Japanese novelist of anti-realist, allegorical fiction whose debut story "Partai" (1960) launched a career of fables and satires mocking postwar ideology.
Yun Dong-ju
Yun Dong-ju (윤동주) was a Korean poet of the Japanese colonial period who died in Fukuoka Prison in 1945 and wrote Sky, Wind, Stars, and Poetry, one of South Korea's best-selling poetry collections.
Yung Vilne
Yung Vilne (יונג־ווילנע, "Young Vilna") was a Yiddish literary group of writers, poets, and artists active in Vilna from 1929 until the Nazi occupation in 1941.
Yuri Dombrovsky
Yuri Osipovich Dombrovsky (1909–1978) was a Russian writer, poet, and literary critic whose novels about Stalin-era terror include The Keeper of Antiquities and The Faculty of Useless Things.
Yuri Herrera
Yuri Herrera, or Yuri Herrera-Gutiérrez, is a Mexican novelist born in 1970 in Actopan, Hidalgo, known for his borderlands trilogy and for teaching at Tulane University since 2013.
Yuri Olesha
Yuri Olesha, born Yury Karlovich Olesha (Юрий Карлович Олеша), was a Soviet writer famous for his metaphor-rich novel Envy (1927) and the fairy tale The Three Fat Men.
Yuri Trifonov
Yuri Trifonov (Юрий Трифонов; full name Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov, 1925–1981) was a Soviet Russian writer, the best-known author of "urban prose," whose Moscow novellas include The House on the Embankment.
Yurii Lytvyn
Yurii Lytvyn (Юрій Литвин) was a Ukrainian poet and human rights activist who spent about 20 years as a Soviet political prisoner and died in custody in 1984.
Yurii Vynnychuk
Yurii Vynnychuk (Юрій Винничук; born 1952) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, and editor known as the "father of black humor" in Ukrainian literature, whose fiction centers on Lviv.
Yurii Yanovsky
Yurii Yanovsky (Юрій Яновський), born Hryhorii Ivanovych Yanovsky, was a Ukrainian writer, 1902 to 1954, whose civil war novel Horsemen earned him the nickname the Ukrainian Homer.
Yuriy Andrukhovych
Yuriy Andrukhovych (Юрій Андрухович), born 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, a founder of Ukrainian postmodernism known for the novels Recreations, Moskoviada, and Twelve Rings.
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa, born 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, is an American poet whose Vietnam War poems and jazz rhythms won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli
Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli (Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli), born Yusif Vazirov, was an Azerbaijani writer and the first ambassador of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic to Ottoman Turkey.
Yusuf al-Khal
Yusuf al-Khal (يوسف الخال, 1917–1987) was a Syrian-born Lebanese poet, critic, and publisher who founded the Beirut poetry magazine Shi'r in 1957 and pioneered Arabic free verse.
Yusuf al-Qa'id
Yusuf al-Qa'id (يوسف القعيد), born 1944, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose novel War in the Land of Egypt ranked fourth among the best Arabic novels.
Yusuf Atılgan
Yusuf Atılgan (1921–1989) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of the modernist Turkish novel known for Aylak Adam (1959) and Anayurt Oteli (1973).
Yusuf Idris
Yusuf Idris (يوسف إدريس, 1927–1991) was an Egyptian writer and physician whose stories of ordinary Egyptians made him a founder of the modern Arabic short story.
Yusuf Khass Hajib
Yusuf Khass Hajib (c. 1019–1085) was a Karakhanid poet, philosopher, and statesman from Balasagun, author of the Kutadgu Bilig, the oldest surviving monument of Islamic Turkic literature.
Yuu Kamiya
Yuu Kamiya (榎宮祐), real name Thiago Furukawa Lucas, is a Brazilian-born manga artist and novelist who moved to Japan at age seven; creator of the No Game No Life light novels and co-creator of Clockwork Planet, married to artist Mashiro Hiiragi.
Yuu Watase (渡瀬悠宇)
Yuu Watase (渡瀬悠宇), born 1970 in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a Japanese x-gender manga artist who debuted in 1989; known for Fushigi Yûgi (25 million copies), Ayashi no Ceres, Absolute Boyfriend, and Arata Kangatari.