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Devaki Nandan Khatri
Devaki Nandan Khatri (देवकीनंदन खत्री, 1861–1913) was an Indian Hindi novelist who pioneered the tilismi-ayyari genre of magical adventure fiction and wrote Chandrakanta (1888), one of Hindi's most popular early novels.
Devibharathi
Devibharathi (தேவிபாரதி) is the pen name of Rajasekaran, a Tamil writer from western Tamil Nadu who won the 2023 Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Neervazhi Padooum.
Dezső Kosztolányi
Dezső Kosztolányi (Kosztolányi Dezső, 1885–1936) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, and translator of the Nyugat generation, known for the novels Skylark and Édes Anna.
Dezső Szabó (writer)
Dezső Szabó (1879–January 1945) was a Hungarian novelist, political satirist, and polemicist whose expressionist prose renewed Hungarian literary language; his 1919 novel Az elsodort falu sold some 200,000 copies.
Dhanapala
Dhanapala (धनपाल) was a Jain Sanskrit and Prakrit poet who served the Paramara kings Siyaka, Munja, Sindhuraja, and Bhoja of Malwa, and wrote the prose romance Tilakamañjarī.
Dharamvir Bharati
Dharamvir Bharati (धर्मवीर भारती, 1926–1997) was a Hindi poet, novelist, playwright, and journalist, best known for Gunahon Ka Devta and the poetic play Andha Yug.
Dhirubhai Thaker
Dhirubhai Thaker, who wrote as Savyasachi, was a Gujarati writer and critic best known as chief editor of the Gujarati Vishwakosh, a 25-volume encyclopedia in Gujarati.
Dhrubajyoti Bora
Dhrubajyoti Bora (ধ্ৰুৱজ্যোতি বৰা), born 1955, is an Assamese writer and medical doctor who won the 2009 Sahitya Akademi Award for Katha Ratnakar and served as president of the Asam Sahitya Sabha.
Dhruvadāsa
Dhruvadāsa (ध्रुवदास), also written Dhruvdas or Hit Dhruv Das, was a Radhavallabhi devotional poet of Vrindavan, active roughly 1593 to 1641, best known for the Bhaktanamavali, a verse catalog of 123 devotees.
Dhumaketu
Dhumaketu (ધૂમકેતુ, "comet") was the pen name of Gujarati writer Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892–1965), a pioneer of the Gujarati short story who published 24 short-story collections.
Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon, American author of the Outlander (Cross Stitch in UK) historical time-travel series begun in 1991; science Ph.D., RITA winner, tens of millions of copies sold, adapted by Starz in 2014.
Diana Wynne Jones
Diana Wynne Jones (1934–2011) was an English fantasy writer for children and young adults whose Howl's Moving Castle became a 2004 Hayao Miyazaki animated film.
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) was an American poet associated with the Beat Generation, author of Revolutionary Letters and more than 40 books, and Poet Laureate of San Francisco from 2009.
Diane Duane
Diane Duane, also known for Young Wizards and the Middle Kingdoms (Tale of the Five), is an American science fiction and fantasy author born 1952 in Manhattan, a Star Trek novelist (Spock's World, Rihannsu series) living in Ireland with Peter Morwood.
Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy, born Helen Diane Hall in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American poet and novelist of Cherokee descent known for experimental language and Native American themes.
Diaries of Leo Tolstoy
The diaries of Leo Tolstoy are private notebooks he kept from 1847 until days before his death in 1910, filling 13 volumes of his complete works.
Diego de Valadés
Diego de Valadés (1533–1582) was a Franciscan friar, writer, and polyglot of New Spain, known for the Rhetorica christiana, a 1579 Latin treatise on preaching illustrated with etchings.
Digambara poets
The Digambara poets (Telugu: దిగంబర కవులు, Digambara Kavulu, literally "naked poets") were six Telugu poets who launched a radical protest poetry movement in 1965, writing raw free verse against social injustice.
Dilip Chitre
Dilip Chitre (दिलीप चित्रे) was an Indian bilingual poet and translator who wrote in Marathi and English, best known for his English translation of Tukaram, Says Tuka.
Dimcho Debelyanov
Dimcho Debelyanov (Димчо Дебелянов), born in Koprivshtitsa in 1887, was a Bulgarian symbolist poet known for tender elegies, killed in battle in 1916 at 29.
Dimitar Miladinov
Dimitar Miladinov (Димитър Миладинов, 1810–1862) was a Bulgarian National Revival educator and folklorist from Struga who collected folk songs published by his brother Konstantin in 1861.
Dimitrie Anghel
Dimitrie Anghel (1872–1914) was a Romanian symbolist poet, prose writer, and translator known as the "poet of flowers" for his garden imagery and for writing with Șt. O. Iosif under the shared pseudonym A. Mirea.
Dimitrie Bolintineanu
Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819–1872) was a Romanian poet and politician, a participant in the 1848 Wallachian Revolution and one of the founders of the Romanian novel.
Dimitrije Demeter
Dimitrije Demeter, also written Dimitrija Demeter (1811–1872), was a Croatian writer and theater organizer of Greek descent, widely regarded as the founder of modern Croatian drama.
Dina Nath Nadim
Dina Nath Nadim (1916–1988) was a Kashmiri poet, born Dina Nath Kaul in Srinagar, who introduced blank verse, sonnet, and opera into Kashmiri literature and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1986.
Dina Salústio
Dina Salústio, pseudonym of Bernardina de Oliveira Salústio, is a Cape Verdean writer born in 1941, the first Cape Verdean woman to publish a novel.
Dinah Craik
Dinah Maria Craik, née Mulock (1826–1887), was an English novelist and poet whose bestselling novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1856) made her one of the era's most popular writers.
Dinakrushna Dasa
Dinakrushna Dasa (ଦୀନକୃଷ୍ଣ ଦାସ; c. 1650–1710) was an Odia devotional poet of the Riti era, best known for Rasakallola, a poem on Krishna and Radha central to Odissi music.
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu is an Ethiopian-American novelist and journalist, born in Addis Ababa in 1978, who won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2012 and wrote four novels about African exiles and refugees.
Dinesh Chandra Sen
Dinesh Chandra Sen (দীনেশচন্দ্র সেন; 1866–1939) was a Bengali educator and historian of Bengali literature at the University of Calcutta who pioneered collecting Bengali folk ballads, including Maimansingha Gitika.