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Dai Wangshu
Dai Wangshu (戴望舒, 1905–1950) was a Chinese modernist poet born in Hangzhou, best known for the poem "Yu Xiang" ("Rainy Alley"), which earned him the nickname "Rainy Alley poet".
Daína Chaviano
Daína Chaviano is a Cuban writer of science fiction, fantasy, and Gothic fiction, born in Havana in 1957, who has lived in Miami since 1991.
Dalip Kaur Tiwana
Dalip Kaur Tiwana (ਦਲੀਪ ਕੌਰ ਟਿਵਾਣਾ; 1935–2020) was a Punjabi novelist who wrote about women's lives and won the Sahitya Akademi Award and Padma Shri.
Dalmiro Sáenz
Dalmiro Sáenz (1926–2016) was an Argentine writer, playwright, and screenwriter who published over 40 books and became famous for absurdist humor and provocations against religious and political institutions.
Dambudzo Marechera
Dambudzo Marechera (Charles William Marechera, 1952–1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet whose stream-of-consciousness debut, The House of Hunger, won the 1979 Guardian Fiction Prize.
Damodar Das Arora
Damodar Das Arora, also known as Damodar Gulati, was a Punjabi qissa poet of the Jhang district whose Heer, completed in 1605, is the earliest known Punjabi qissa.
Damodaram Pillai
Damodaram Pillai, also known as C. W. Thamotharam Pillai, was a Tamil scholar born near Jaffna in 1832 who recovered and printed ancient Tamil works from palm-leaf manuscripts.
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award
Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, formerly the SFWA Grand Master Award, is a lifetime achievement prize given by SFWA to one living science fiction or fantasy writer yearly since 1975; first recipient Robert A. Heinlein, renamed 2002 after SFWA founder Damon Knight.
Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon (born Alfred Damon Runyan, Manhattan, Kansas; died 1946) was an American sportswriter, Hearst columnist, and short-story writer of Broadway gamblers and gangsters, creator of Guys and Dolls and the Runyonese dialect.
Dan Jacobson
Dan Jacobson (1929–2014) was a South African-born novelist, essayist, and critic who lived mostly in Britain, published about 26 books, and taught English at University College London.
Dan Pagis
Dan Pagis (דן פגיס) was an Israeli poet and scholar of medieval Hebrew poetry, a Holocaust survivor best known for the poem "Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car."
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (1948-2026), American author of Hyperion and The Terror; Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, and Bram Stoker winner; wrote the Hyperion Cantos and Ilium/Olympos cycles; died in Longmont, Colorado.
Daniachew Worku
Daniachew Worku (Amharic: ዳኛቸው ወርቁ, 1936–1994) was an Ethiopian writer of novels, plays, and poetry in Amharic and English, best known for The Thirteenth Sun (1973).
Daniel Abraham (author)
Daniel Abraham (born 1969, Albuquerque) is an American SF/fantasy author of The Long Price Quartet, The Dagger and the Coin, and the Kithamar trilogy, and co-author with Ty Franck of The Expanse as James S. A. Corey; distinct from other Daniel Abrahams.
Dániel Berzsenyi
Dániel Berzsenyi (Berzsenyi Dániel, 1776–1836) was a Hungarian lyric poet and landowning nobleman, the leading classical writer of odes in Hungarian, elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1830.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731), born Daniel Foe, English novelist, journalist, pamphleteer, and political agent; author of Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year, and Roxana.
Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler, pen name Lemony Snicket, American author of the 13-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, seven adult novels including The Basic Eight, and Poison for Breakfast; 70 million copies sold, San Francisco.
Daniel James Brown
Daniel James Brown is an American narrative nonfiction author of The Boys in the Boat (2013 Carnegie Medal), Under a Flaming Sky, The Indifferent Stars Above, and Facing the Mountain; distinct from thriller writer Dan Brown.
Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes (1927-2014), American author of Flowers for Algernon, the Hugo-winning 1959 short story and 1966 Nebula-winning novel about Charlie Gordon; also wrote The Minds of Billy Milligan.
Daniel Moyano
Daniel Moyano (1930–1992) was an Argentine writer, journalist, and violinist whose fiction centers on marginalization and uprooting in Argentina's provinces; he lived in exile in Madrid after 1976.
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet (born Daniel Paul Corney, 1979) is an English autistic savant writer, known for Born on a Blue Day, reciting pi to 22,514 decimal places, synaesthesia, and books on neurodivergence.
Daniele Del Giudice
Daniele Del Giudice (1949–2021) was an Italian writer and literary critic whose fiction explores perception, memory, and flight. Discovered by Italo Calvino, he debuted in 1983.
Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel (born 1947, New York City) is an American novelist, debut Going Home (1973), author of 210+ books, 182 of them novels, with over one billion copies sold in 69 countries and 43 languages.
Daniil Kharms (Даниил Ювачёв)
Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Iuvachev, 1905-1942), Russian avant-garde poet and prose writer, founder of OBERIU, author of Elizaveta Bam and absurd adult works, known in life as a children's poet, died in confinement, republished from the 1960s.
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (Durante Alighieri, 1265–1321), Florentine poet of the Divine Comedy (Commedia), exiled in 1302; wrote in Tuscan vernacular, invented terza rima, and shaped the Italian language.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, 1828–1882) was an English poet, painter, and translator who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Millais and Hunt, painted some 100 Dante subjects, and published Poems (1870) recovered from his wife's grave.
Dany Laferrière
Dany Laferrière, born Windsor Klébert Laferrière in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian-born novelist and essayist in French who joined the Académie française in 2013.
Danzanravjaa
Danzanravjaa, formally Dulduityn Danzanravjaa (1803–1856), was a Mongolian Buddhist lama, poet, and playwright, the Fifth Noyon Khutagt of the Gobi and founder of the first Mongolian theater in 1830.
Đào Duy Anh
Đào Duy Anh (1904–1988) was a Vietnamese polymath scholar, historian, lexicographer, and geographer who compiled the first Hán-Việt dictionary in 1932 and wrote the first history of Vietnamese culture.
Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989), British gothic novelist, author of Rebecca (1938), Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, and The Birds; daughter of Gerald du Maurier and wife of Frederick Browning; adapted by Hitchcock.