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Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) was an Argentine writer and central figure of twentieth-century fantastic literature, known for La invención de Morel and his lifelong collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges.
Adolfo Caminha
Adolfo Caminha, pen name Félix Guanabarino, was a Brazilian novelist of the Naturalist movement (1867–1897) who wrote A Normalista and Bom-Crioulo, the first major Brazilian novel to center homosexuality.
Adonias Filho
Adonias Filho, pen name of Adonias de Aguiar Filho (1915–1990), was a Brazilian novelist and literary critic whose fiction draws on the cocoa region of southern Bahia.
Adriaan Roland Holst
Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976) was a Dutch poet, nicknamed the prince of poets, who lived in Bergen, wrote Een winter aan zee (1937), and won the P.C. Hooftprijs in 1955.
Adrian Păunescu
Adrian Păunescu (1943–2010) was a Romanian poet, journalist, editor, and politician, best known as founder of Cenaclul Flacăra, whose traveling shows drew over 6 million spectators before its ban in 1985.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky (pen name of Adrian Czajkowski), British science fiction and fantasy author of Shadows of the Apt and the Clarke Award-winning Children of Time; zoology-trained, Hugo-winning, author of over forty novels.
Adriano González León
Adriano González León (1931–2008) was a Venezuelan novelist, short-story writer, and critic whose novel Pais portátil (1968) won Spain's Premio Biblioteca Breve and entered the Latin American boom.
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist, and second-wave feminist born in Baltimore; won the Yale Younger Poets Award for A Change of World (1951) and the 1974 National Book Award for Diving into the Wreck; wrote "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" and The Dream of a Common Language.
Aeschines
Aeschines (Αἰσχίνης; 390 or 389–314 BC) was an Athenian orator and politician, the rival of Demosthenes, whose three surviving speeches rank beside Demosthenes' as masterpieces of Greek oratory.
Afanasy Fet
Afanasy Fet (Афанасий Фет; born Afanasy Afanasyevich Shenshin, 1820–1892) was a Russian lyric poet and translator known for impressionistic poems on nature and love, and for the late collection Evening Lights, which helped prepare Russian symbolism.
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna, born in 1937, is a Brazilian poet, critic, and chronicler, author of more than sixty books and member of the Generation of 60.
Afrânio Coutinho
Afrânio Coutinho, born Afrânio dos Santos Coutinho (1911–2000), was a Brazilian literary critic and professor who renewed Brazilian criticism on aesthetic criteria and organized A Literatura no Brasil.
African literature
African literature: oral and written literary expression in African and colonial languages. Key phases are colonial, post-colonial, contemporary; central figures include Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
African-American literature
African-American literature: writing by Americans of African descent from the 18th century to today, spanning slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and contemporary fiction.
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa
Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (افضل احسن رندھاوا), legal name Muhammad Afzal, was a Pakistani Punjabi writer of about 22 books who also served in the National Assembly from 1972.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie (1890–1976), the Queen of Crime, English creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple; 66 detective novels, two billion copies sold, The Mousetrap, Mary Westmacott pseudonym, 1926 disappearance.
Agha Salim
Agha Salim (آغا سليم; 1935–2016), born Agha Khalid Saleem, was a Pakistani writer of Sindhi fiction, drama, poetry, and journalism who also translated Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai into Urdu and English verse.
Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) was a Kashmiri-American poet, author of The Country Without a Post Office, whose Rooms Are Never Finished was a 2001 National Book Award finalist.
Agha Shorish Kashmiri
Agha Shorish Kashmiri (آغا شورش کاشمیری), born Abdul Karim, was a Pakistani Urdu poet and journalist who edited the weekly Chatan until his death in 1975.
Agi Mishol
Agi Mishol (אגי משעול, born 1946) is an Israeli poet, born in Transylvania to Holocaust-survivor parents, and one of the most widely read Hebrew poets of her generation.
Agnes Henningsen
Agnes Henningsen (1868–1962) was a Danish author whose candid novels and eight-volume memoirs defended women's erotic freedom, making her both famous and notorious in her time.
Agnes Miegel
Agnes Miegel (1879–1964) was a German poet and ballad writer celebrated for writing about East Prussia, known as the Mother of East Prussia, who supported the Nazi regime.
Agnes Ravatn
Agnes Ravatn, born 1983 in Ølen, Norway, is a novelist and essayist who writes in Nynorsk and is best known for The Bird Tribunal, published in 2013.
Agnes von Krusenstjerna
Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894–1940) was a Swedish novelist whose openly erotic depictions of women's lives triggered a national controversy, best known for the seven-volume saga Fröknarna von Pahlen.
Agneta Pleijel
Agneta Pleijel, born in 1940 in Stockholm, is a Swedish author, playwright, poet, and critic whose breakthrough novel Vindspejare appeared in 1987 and whose autobiographical series began with Spådomen in 2015.
Agostinho Neto
Agostinho Neto was an Angolan poet, physician, and nationalist leader who led the MPLA and became the first president of Angola on its independence in 1975.
Agustín Yáñez
Agustín Yáñez (1904–1980) was a Mexican novelist, essayist, and public official whose 1947 novel Al filo del agua is seen as the turning point of modern Mexican narrative.
Agustina Bessa-Luís
Agustina Bessa-Luís, born Maria Agustina Ferreira Teixeira Bessa, was a Portuguese novelist and playwright who wrote more than fifty books and received the Prémio Camões in 2004.
Agyeya
Agyeya (अज्ञेय), pen name of Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan, was an Indian Hindi poet, novelist, critic, and editor who pioneered the experimentalist Prayogvad movement in modern Hindi poetry.
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld (אהרן אפלפלד; born Erwin Appelfeld, 1932) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor from Bukovina, best known for Badenheim 1939 and the Israel Prize.