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Abraham Valdelomar
Abraham Valdelomar, full name Pedro Abraham Valdelomar Pinto, was a Peruvian writer born in Ica in 1888 who led the Colónida movement and wrote "El caballero Carmelo", dying in 1919.
Abu al-Atahiya
Abu al-Atahiya (أبو العتاهية), full name Isma'il ibn al-Qasim, was an Abbasid Arabic poet born in 747 who abandoned court love poetry around 796 to write ascetic verse on death and the hereafter.
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi
Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi (أبو القاسم الشابي, 1909–1934) was a Tunisian Romantic poet who called for renewing Arabic poetry; his line "If one day the people wills to live" is in the national anthem.
Abu al-Qasim Saadallah
Abu al-Qasim Saadallah (أبو القاسم سعد الله; 1930–2013) was an Algerian historian and literary critic known as the dean of Algerian historians, best known for his multivolume Cultural History of Algeria.
Abu Mansur Jawaliqi
Abu Mansur Jawaliqi (أبو منصور ابن الجواليقى) was a 12th-century Baghdad philologist and grammarian who taught at the Nizamiyya, served Caliph al-Muqtafi as prayer imam, and wrote al-Mu'arrab on Arabic loanwords.
Abu Nuwas (أبو نواس)
Abu Nuwas (أبو نواس), al-Hasan ibn Hani al-Hakami, c. 756–c. 810–815, Abbasid Arabic poet of Ahwaz, Basra, and Baghdad, famed for khamriyyat wine poems, court companion of al-Amin, and influence from Iberia to India.
Abu'l-Faraj Runi
Abu'l-Faraj Runi (ابوالفرج رونی), fully Abū al-Faraj ibn Masʿūd al-Rūnī, was an 11th-century Persian court poet of Ghaznavid Lahore who, with Mas'ud-e Sa'd-e Salman, founded Persian poetry in India.
Abul Fazal
Abul Fazal (1903–1983) was a Bangladeshi writer, essayist, and educationist who led the Buddhir Mukti movement among Bengali Muslims and served as vice-chancellor of the University of Chittagong.
Academia Angolana de Letras
The Academia Angolana de Letras is an Angolan academy in Luanda, proclaimed in 2016, that brings together writers and social scientists to promote Angolan literature and languages.
Accius
Lucius Accius, also spelled Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar born at Pisaurum in 170 BC, the last major tragedian of the Roman Republic.
Achilles Tatius
Achilles Tatius (Ἀχιλλεὺς Τάτιος) was a Greek-language novelist of Alexandria, author of Leucippe and Clitophon, an erotic romance in eight books probably written in the early 2nd century CE.
Achim von Arnim
Achim von Arnim, full name Karl Joachim Friedrich Ludwig von Arnim, was a German poet and novelist of the Heidelberg Romantics who co-edited Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Clemens Brentano.
Achintya Kumar Sengupta
Achintya Kumar Sengupta (অচিন্ত্যকুমার সেনগুপ্ত; 1903–1976) was an Indian Bengali-language poet, novelist, and editor who wrote around 70 books and led the Kallol group of writers.
Achmat Dangor
Achmat Dangor (1948–2020) was a South African novelist, poet, and anti-apartheid activist, best known for Bitter Fruit, shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize, and chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation from 2007 to 2013.
Achyutananda Dasa
Achyutananda Dasa (ଅଚ୍ୟୁତାନନ୍ଦ ଦାସ) was a 16th-century Odia saint-poet, one of the five Panchasakha of Odia literature, best known for the Harivamsa and the prophecy book Achyutananda Malika.
Ada Jafri
Ada Jafri (ادا جعفری), born Aziz Jahan, was a Pakistani Urdu poet known as the First Lady of Urdu Poetry, who opened the ghazal to women poets.
Ada Negri
Ada Negri was an Italian poet and elementary-school teacher, born in Lodi in 1870, whose socially engaged verse made her famous as the "poetess of the fourth estate."
Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), born in Oberplan in southern Bohemia, was an Austrian writer and painter of the Biedermeier period, known for Der Nachsommer and his detailed depictions of nature.
Adalet Ağaoğlu
Adalet Ağaoğlu (1929–2020) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, one of the leading figures of Republican-era literature, best known for her Dar Zamanlar trilogy (1973–1987).
Adam Kay (writer)
Adam Kay (born 1980, Brighton) is a British author, comedian and former NHS junior doctor in obstetrics and gynaecology, known for the memoir This Is Going to Hurt, its BAFTA-winning BBC adaptation, and bestselling children's books such as Kay's Anatomy.
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz (1798 to 1855) was a Polish Romantic poet, playwright, and political activist regarded as Poland's national poet; his works include Dziady and the 1834 epic Pan Tadeusz.
Adam O'Riordan
Adam O'Riordan (born 1982, Manchester) is a British poet and novelist, author of In the Flesh (Somerset Maugham Award), A Herring Famine, The Burning Ground, and the 2021 novel The Falling Thread; Reader at the Manchester Writing School.
Adam Oehlenschläger
Adam Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) was a Danish poet and dramatist who introduced Romanticism into Danish literature and wrote the national song "Der er et yndigt land".
Adam Small
Adam Small (1936–2016) was a South African poet and playwright who wrote in Afrikaans and Kaaps, best known for the drama Kanna hy kô hystoe.
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso, born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot de Boncourt, was a French-born German-language poet and naturalist who wrote Peter Schlemihl and discovered alternation of generations in salps.
Adélia Prado
Adélia Prado, full name Adélia Luzia Prado de Freitas, is a Brazilian poet born in 1935 in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, whose debut Bagagem appeared in 1976.
Adi Keissar
Adi Keissar (עדי קיסר; born 1980) is an Israeli poet of Yemenite descent, founder of the Ars Poetica movement and a leading voice in contemporary Mizrahi poetry.
Adikavi Pampa
Adikavi Pampa (Pampa, ಪಂಪ), also called Ādi Pampa, was a 10th-century Jain poet honored as the first poet of Kannada literature, known for the epics Adipurana and Pampa Bharata.
Admiel Kosman
Admiel Kosman (אדמיאל קוסמן, born 1957) is an Israeli poet and Talmud scholar who is a professor at the University of Potsdam and has published nine books of Hebrew poetry.
Adolf Frey (writer)
Adolf Frey (1855–1920) was a Swiss poet, novelist, and literary historian, professor of German literary history at Zurich from 1898, nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.