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Daya Pawar
Daya Pawar (दया पवार), born Dagdu Maruti Pawar, was a Marathi writer, poet, and critic, a leading figure of Dalit literature in Maharashtra known for the autobiography Baluta.
Dayaram
Dayaram (દયારામ), also known as Kavi Dayarambhai, was a Gujarati devotional poet of the Pushtimarg tradition, the last great medieval Gujarati poet, best known for his garbi lyrics.
De Hollandsche Spectator
De Hollandsche Spectator was a Dutch moral weekly, written almost entirely by Justus van Effen, published in Amsterdam from 1731 to 1735 in 360 issues.
Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz (born 1945, Everett, Pennsylvania) is an American suspense and horror novelist, author of Star Quest (1968), Whispers, Strangers, and the Odd Thomas series, with over 500 million copies sold in 38 languages.
Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Death of Edgar Allan Poe: the writer's unsolved October 7, 1849 death in Baltimore at age 40, after being found delirious in another man's clothes at Gunner's Hall; no autopsy, no surviving death certificate, and competing alcohol, cooping, tuberculosis, and rabies theories.
Debora Vaarandi
Debora Vaarandi, born Debora Trull (1916 to 2007), was an Estonian poet of the postwar era whose poem Talgud Lööne soos supplied the lyrics of the beloved Saaremaa valss.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (Deborah Mitford, Debo, 1920–2014), youngest Mitford sister, memoirist and restorer of Chatsworth House; created its farm shop and farmyard and wrote Wait for Me!.
Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg (born 1945), American short story writer from Winnetka, Illinois, author of five collections including Twilight of the Superheroes and Your Duck Is My Duck; MacArthur Fellow (2009), PEN/Faulkner (2011), taught at Virginia and Columbia.
Deborah Feldman
Deborah Feldman (born 1986) is a German-American memoirist raised in the Satmar Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her 2012 memoir Unorthodox was a New York Times bestseller and inspired the 2020 Netflix miniseries; she lives in Berlin.
Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American historian of science and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the All Souls fantasy series, beginning with A Discovery of Witches (2011), also known for The Jewel House and the TV adaptation.
Décio Pignatari
Décio Pignatari (1927–2012) was a Brazilian poet who co-founded the concrete poetry movement with Haroldo and Augusto de Campos through the magazine Noigandres in 1952.
Delia Owens
Delia Owens (born 1949) is an American wildlife scientist and author of Where the Crawdads Sing (2018). She researched lions, hyenas, and elephants in Botswana and Zambia for 23 years, co-authored Cry of the Kalahari, and remains wanted for questioning in a 1995 Zambia killing.
Delmira Agustini
Delmira Agustini (1886–1914) was an Uruguayan poet of the Generación del 900, regarded as the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America, known for erotic verse written from a female perspective.
Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) was an American poet, short story writer, and critic whose first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1938), made him one of the most celebrated young writers of his generation.
Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Demetrio Aguilera Malta (1909–1981) was an Ecuadorian novelist, playwright, and diplomat, a member of the Grupo de Guayaquil and one of the early practitioners of magical realism in Latin American fiction.
Demetrios Bernardakis
Demetrios Bernardakis (Δημήτριος Βερναρδάκης, 1833–1907) was a Greek verse dramatist and professor of history at the University of Athens, known for seven tragedies including Fausta.
Demetrios Vikelas
Demetrios Vikelas (Δημήτριος Βικέλας, 1835–1908) was a Greek merchant and man of letters who was the first president of the International Olympic Committee and brought the 1896 Games to Athens.
Demir Özlü
Demir Özlü (1935–2021) was a Turkish short story writer, novelist, and lawyer of the 1950 generation, whose work was shaped by exile in Sweden after the 1980 coup.
Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson (1949–2017), American poet, novelist, and short story writer, author of Jesus' Son, Tree of Smoke (2007 National Book Award), and Train Dreams; born in Munich, raised abroad, died May 2017.
Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) was a British-born American poet of the Black Mountain school whose more than three dozen books spanned nature lyrics, Vietnam-era protest poetry, and religious verse.
Deniz Camp
Deniz Camp is an American comic book writer, born in the Philippines to Turkish and Filipina immigrants, known for 20th Century Men, The Ultimates, and Absolute Martian Manhunter, and an Eisner Award winner.
Dennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus (1924–2009) was a South African poet and anti-apartheid activist who led the sports boycott of apartheid South Africa and wrote Letters to Martha.
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane, born 1965, is an American crime novelist from Dorchester, Boston, author of Mystic River, Shutter Island, Gone Baby Gone, and Small Mercies, and a TV writer on The Wire, Black Bird, and Smoke.
Dennis O'Neil
Dennis "Denny" O'Neil (1939–2020), American comic book writer and editor, also spelled Denny O'Neil; defined the socially conscious Green Lantern/Green Arrow run with Neal Adams, reinvented Batman, co-created Ra's al Ghul, and edited DC's Batman line 1986–2000.
Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon (1941–2020) was an Irish poet from Belfast, regarded as one of the most innovative Irish poets of the late 20th century, known for "A Disused Shed in Co Wexford".
Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott (1930–2017) was a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, and essayist who won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, best known for the Homeric long poem Omeros (1990).
Dertigers
The Dertigers were an innovative group of Afrikaans poets of the 1930s, known for confessional poetry; leading figures included N.P. van Wyk Louw, Uys Krige, and Elisabeth Eybers.
Detlev von Liliencron
Detlev von Liliencron, born Friedrich Freiherr von Liliencron, was a German lyric poet whose impressionist verse made him one of Germany's most celebrated voices in the 1890s.
Deutsche Schillerstiftung
The Deutsche Schillerstiftung is a German literary foundation seated in Weimar, founded in Dresden in 1859 to support distinguished German-language writers with annual honoraria and promotion prizes.
Dev Virahsawmy
Dev Virahsawmy, full name Narendraj Virahsawmy, was a Mauritian linguist, playwright, and politician who wrote nearly all his work in Mauritian Creole and campaigned for its recognition.