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Yves Bonnefoy
Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) was a French poet, essayist, critic, and translator, one of the poets who marked French poetry from the 1950s, and a celebrated translator of Shakespeare into French.
Yvonne Vera
Yvonne Vera (1964–2005) was a Zimbabwean novelist and short-story writer whose five novels, set across different decades of Zimbabwean history, center women's experience and taboo subjects such as rape and political violence.
Zachris Topelius
Zachris Topelius (1818–1898), known in Finnish usage as Sakari Topelius, was a Finnish-Swedish author, journalist, and historian who shaped Finnish national identity and rector of the University of Helsinki.
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith, born 1975 in Willesden, London, is a British novelist and essayist, author of White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, Swing Time, and The Fraud; Whitbread, Guardian First Book, Orange Prize, and Booker-shortlisted writer.
Żagary
Żagary was a literary group of poets active in Wilno, interwar Poland, from 1931 to 1934, known for catastrophism and counting Czesław Miłosz among its members.
Zahida Hina
Zahida Hina (زاہدہ حنا), born 1946 in Sasaram, Bihar, is a Pakistani Urdu short story writer, novelist, and columnist who received the SAARC Literary Award in 2001.
Zahir Faryabi
Zahir Faryabi (ظهیر فاریابی) was a Persian court poet of the 12th century, a leading master of the qasida and ghazal who served the Ildegozid atabegs of Azerbaijan and died in Tabriz in 1201.
Zakaria Tamer
Zakaria Tamer (زكريا تامر, born 1931 in Damascus) is a Syrian short-story writer, regarded as a leading figure of Arabic short fiction, known for Tigers on the Tenth Day.
Zakes Mda
Zakes Mda, pen name of Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (born 1948), is a South African novelist, playwright, and painter considered among the foremost post-apartheid writers.
Zalman Shneour
Zalman Shneour (זלמן שניאור), born Shneur Zalkind, was a Hebrew and Yiddish poet, novelist, and playwright from Shklov who died in New York in 1959.
Zane Grey
Zane Grey (Pearl Zane Gray, 1872-1939), American dentist-turned-novelist, author of Riders of the Purple Sage; most successful American author of the 1920s and record-holding big-game fisherman.
Zang Kejia
Zang Kejia (1905–2004) was a Chinese poet and editor called the founder of modern native-soil poetry; his first collection, Brand, appeared in 1933, and "Some People" commemorates Lu Xun.
Zareef Ahmad Zareef
Zareef Ahmad Zareef, born 1943 in Srinagar's old city, is a Kashmiri poet and satirist known for direct satirical verse in Kashmiri and public advocacy for the language.
Zawgyi
Zawgyi (ဇော်ဂျီ) was the pen name of Burmese poet and literary critic U Thein Han (1907–1990), a leader of the Khitsan movement modernizing Burmese poetry.
Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert (1924–1998) was a Polish poet, playwright, and essayist born in Lwów, now Lviv, Ukraine, best known internationally for his poetic alter ego Mr Cogito.
Zeb Wells
Zeb Wells (Michael Zeb Wells, born 1977) is an American comic book and screenwriter known for Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man (2022-2024), Hellions, Robot Chicken, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Marvel Zombies.
Zee Edgell
Zee Edgell, born Zelma Inez Tucker in 1940, is a Belizean novelist whose debut Beka Lamb (1982) was the first novel of newly independent Belize to reach an international audience.
Zelda (poet)
Zelda, pen name of Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky (1914–1984), was an Israeli Hebrew poet who drew on biblical and hasidic sources and won the Bialik and Brenner prizes.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900–1948), Montgomery-born writer, painter, and dancer, wife and muse of F. Scott Fitzgerald; author of Save Me the Waltz and Scandalabra, icon of the Jazz Age flapper.
Zélia Gattai
Zélia Gattai was a Brazilian writer, memoirist, and photographer who began publishing at 63 with Anarquistas, graças a Deus and married the novelist Jorge Amado.
Zeng Pu
Zeng Pu (曾朴, 1872–1935) was a Chinese novelist, translator, and publisher, best known for the historical novel Niehai Hua, one of four late Qing condemnation novels Lu Xun identified.
Zenta Mauriņa
Zenta Mauriņa (1897–1978) was a Latvian writer and essayist who founded the literary-philosophical essay in Latvian literature and wrote about 90 books in Latvian and German.
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghe'i
Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghe'i (زینالعابدین مراغهای, 1839–1910) was an Iranian satirist in Ottoman exile whose Travelogue of Ibrahim Beg is regarded as the first modern Persian novel and helped prepare opinion for the Constitutional Revolution.
Zhambyl Zhabayev
Zhambyl Zhabayev (Dzhambul Dzhabaev, 1846–1945) was a Kazakh folk poet and akyn whose improvised aitys contests and wartime poem "Leningraders, My Children!" made him a Soviet cultural figure.
Zhang Chao
Zhang Chao (張潮, 1650–after 1707) was a Qing dynasty writer and publisher from Shexian, Anhui, best known for the aphoristic collection Youmengying and the story anthology Yuchu Xinzhi.
Zhang Chengzhi
Zhang Chengzhi (张承志, born 1948) is a Chinese writer of Hui Muslim descent, author of Black Steed and History of the Soul and a founder of the Red Guards.
Zhang Dai
Zhang Dai (张岱, 1597–?1684), literary name Tao'an, was a Chinese essayist, historian, and biographer from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, whose reminiscences made him a late-Ming master of the short essay.
Zhang Guixing
Zhang Guixing (张贵兴, born 1956) is a Malaysian Chinese novelist based in Taiwan, known for novels set in the Borneo rainforest such as Elephant Herd.
Zhang Henshui
Zhang Henshui (张恨水; born Zhang Xinyuan, 1895 to 1967) was a Chinese novelist and newspaperman whose serialized chapter-form novels made him one of the Republican era's most widely read writers.
Zhang Huiyan
Zhang Huiyan (张惠言, 1761–1802) was a Qing dynasty classicist, prose writer, and ci poet from Changzhou, Jiangsu, who founded the Changzhou school of ci poetry.