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Zoë Wicomb
Zoë Wicomb (1948–2025) was a South African writer and academic whose fiction and essays explored colored identity, shame, and apartheid's repressed histories; she won the 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize.
Zong Pu
Zong Pu (宗璞) is the pen name of Chinese writer Feng Zhongpu, born 1928, daughter of philosopher Feng Youlan and author of the novel cycle Wild Gourd Prelude.
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), African American folklorist, anthropologist, and Harlem Renaissance author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules and Men, and Barracoon, rediscovered by Alice Walker after 1973.
Zou Yang
Zou Yang (邹阳, c. 206 – c. 129 BC) was a Western Han writer from Linzi, Shandong, famous for his prison letter to the King of Liang.
Zoya Pirzad
Zoya Pirzad (زویا پیرزاد, born 1952) is an Iranian-Armenian novelist and translator whose debut novel I Will Turn Off the Lights became a bestseller in Iran.
Zsigmond Kemény
Zsigmond Kemény (Kemény Zsigmond, 1814–1875) was a Hungarian novelist and politician from Transylvania, the foremost Hungarian psychological novelist, whose works include Özvegy és leánya and Zord idő.
Zsigmond Móricz
Zsigmond Móricz (Móricz Zsigmond, 1879–1942) was a Hungarian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose unsentimental fiction about peasant life made him a central figure of twentieth-century Hungarian prose.
Zuenir Ventura
Zuenir Ventura, full name Zuenir Carlos Ventura (1931–2026), was a Brazilian journalist and writer whose reportage books on 1968, Rio de Janeiro, and Chico Mendes became reference works.
Zulfiya
Zulfiya, full name Zulfiya Isroilova (1915–1996), was an Uzbek poet, journalist, and editor who led the women's magazine Saodat and was named People's Poet of Uzbekistan in 1965.
Zuo Si
Zuo Si (左思), courtesy name Taichong, was a Western Jin writer from Shandong, best known for the Rhapsodies on Three Capitals and eight Poems on History.
Zygmunt Krasiński
Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859) was a Polish Romantic poet and playwright, counted with Mickiewicz and Słowacki among Poland's three national bards, known for The Undivine Comedy.
Þórarinn Eldjárn
Þórarinn Eldjárn (born 1949) is an Icelandic poet, novelist, short-story writer, and translator who has published dozens of books since his 1974 debut, best known for humorous children's poetry with his sister Sigrún Eldjárn.