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Ding Ling (丁玲)
Ding Ling (丁玲), pen name of Jiang Wei (蒋伟, courtesy Bingzhi), 1904–1986, Chinese feminist and Marxist writer; author of Miss Sophie's Diary and the Stalin Prize-winning The Sun Shines over the Sanggan River; persecuted 1955–1979, rehabilitated 1984.
Dinko Šimunović
Dinko Šimunović (1873–1933) was a Croatian writer of the modernist Croatian Moderna, best known for psychological novellas such as Duga, Muljika, and Alkar set in rural Dalmatian Zagora.
Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati, full name Buzzati-Traverso, was an Italian novelist, journalist, and painter who spent four decades at Corriere della Sera and won the 1958 Premio Strega.
Dino Campana
Dino Campana (1885–1932) was an Italian poet, author of a single book, Canti Orfici (1914), and one of the most distinctive voices of early twentieth-century Italian poetry.
Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius was a Greek author of the early third century CE whose Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is the main ancient source on Greek philosophy.
Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand (born 1953) is a Trinidadian-Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, and filmmaker based in Toronto since 1970, whose work centers on diaspora, Black experience, and gender.
Dionysios Solomos
Dionysios Solomos (Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 1798–1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos, regarded as Greece's national poet and the founder of modern Greek poetry in the demotic language.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀλικαρνασσεύς) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric who moved to Rome after 30 BC and wrote the Roman Antiquities, a history of early Rome in 20 books.
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522–1590) was a Dutch humanist, theologian, poet, and engraver who argued for religious tolerance and wrote the first ethics published in Dutch.
Disappearance of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie's 1926 disappearance: the crime writer vanished for 11 days from December 3, 1926, sparking a 15,000-volunteer search, and was found in Harrogate as "Teresa Neele"; the cause remains unexplained.
Djamel White
Djamel White is an Irish writer and editor from Dublin whose debut novel All Them Dogs (2026, John Murray Press/Riverhead) was longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2026 Tom Wolfe Prize, and made him the youngest and only Irish author on the longlist.
Djibril Tamsir Niane
Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932–2021) was a Guinean historian, playwright, and short-story writer whose 1960 French version of the Sundiata epic, Soundjata, made oral tradition a recognized source for African history.
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American modernist journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright; author of Nightwood (1936), Ryder, Ladies Almanack, and The Antiphon; championed by T. S. Eliot; lived with Thelma Wood in Paris 1920–31.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
Dmitry Glukhovsky (Дмитрий Глуховский), born 1979 in Moscow, is a Russian novelist and journalist known for the Metro series; sentenced in absentia in 2023 to eight years for antiwar statements.
Dmitry Likhachov
Dmitry Likhachov, also known as Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov, was a Russian philologist at Leningrad's Pushkin House who became the leading twentieth-century scholar of Old Russian literature.
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Dmitry Merezhkovsky (Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский) is a Russian novelist, critic, and religious thinker whose Christ and Antichrist trilogy revived the Russian historical novel; he opposed the Bolsheviks and died in exile in 1941.
Dmitry Pisarev
Dmitry Pisarev (Дмитрий Иванович Писарев) was a Russian literary critic and materialist philosopher, leading critic of Russkoe slovo and a dominant influence on radical youth in the 1860s.
Dmytro Dontsov
Dmytro Dontsov (Дмитро Донцов, 1883–1973) was a Ukrainian publicist, journalist, and political writer who founded the doctrine of integral Ukrainian nationalism; his 1926 book Natsionalizm became the formative text of the OUN.
Dmytro Pavlychko
Dmytro Pavlychko (Дмитро Павличко; 1929–2023) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and diplomat who served as ambassador to Slovakia and Poland and wrote "Dva Kolyory", long taken for a folk song.
Đoàn Phú Tứ
Đoàn Phú Tứ (1910–1989) was a Vietnamese playwright, poet, and translator of the pre-war era, best known for the plays Ngã ba and Thằng cuội ngồi gốc cây đa.
Dobri Chintulov
Dobri Chintulov (Добри Чинтулов, 1822–1886) was a Bulgarian National Revival poet, composer, and teacher from Sliven whose revolutionary patriotic songs, still sung today, helped rouse Bulgarian national feeling in the mid-19th century.
Doeschka Meijsing
Doeschka Meijsing, full name Maria Johanna Meijsing, was a Dutch novelist and critic (1947–2012), known for the prize-winning bestseller Over de liefde (2008) and her work around De Revisor.
Dokmai Sot
Dokmai Sot (ดอกไม้สด) was the pen name of Mom Luang Buppha Kunchon, a Thai novelist of the 1920s to 1940s counted among the pioneers of the modern Thai novel.
Dom Moraes
Dom Moraes (Dominic Francis Moraes, 1938–2004) was an Indian poet, journalist, and travel writer from Bombay who won the Hawthornden Prize at 19 and is counted a founder of modern Indian poetry in English.
Domingos Olímpio
Domingos Olímpio was a Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and novelist born in Sobral, Ceará, whose naturalist novel Luzia-Homem (1903), drawn from the drought of 1877, secured his literary reputation.
Domingos Pellegrini
Domingos Pellegrini, full name Domingos Pellegrini Júnior, is a Brazilian writer born in Londrina in 1949, a six-time Jabuti winner best known for the novel Terra Vermelha.
Dominik Tatarka
Dominik Tatarka (1913–1989) was a Slovak prose writer, essayist, and publicist whose satirical novel The Demon of Consent is regarded as a central work of Slovak literature.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo (born 1936) is an American novelist, author of White Noise, Libra, Mao II, and Underworld; winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner Award, Jerusalem Prize, and PEN/Saul Bellow Award; a major postmodern American fiction writer.
Don Winslow
Don Winslow is an American crime novelist and New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one novels, including Savages, The Force, and the Cartel trilogy, which chronicles the war on drugs.
Donald A. Wollheim
Donald A. Wollheim (1914–1990), also publishing as David Grinnell, was an American science fiction editor, author, and fan: Ace Books SF editor, unauthorized 1965 Lord of the Rings paperback publisher, and founder of DAW Books.