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Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023), Croatian novelist, essayist, and scholar of the Russian avant-garde; postmodern patchwork fiction, exile after 1993, Neustadt Prize 2016, died in Amsterdam.
Dudhnath Singh
Dudhnath Singh (दूधनाथ सिंह, 1936–2018) was a leading Hindi writer, critic, and editor known for the novels Aakhiri Kalam and Nishkasan and the critical study Nirala: Atmahanta Aastha.
Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady
Lucie, Lady Duff Gordon (1821–1869) was a British travel writer and translator whose Letters from Egypt made her famous; she settled in Luxor, where Egyptians called her Sitt el Kebeer.
Dugu Ji
Dugu Ji (独孤及, 725–777) was a Tang dynasty official and writer from Luoyang, regarded as a precursor of the classical prose movement later led by Han Yu.
Dung Kai-cheung
Dung Kai-cheung (董啟章, born 1967) is a Hong Kong fiction writer whose novels, including the V City series and Natural History trilogy, reconstruct Hong Kong through fictional archaeology.
Durga Bhagwat
Durga Bhagwat (दुर्गा भागवत) was an Indian Marathi writer and folklorist who won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Pais and refused state honors during the 1975 Emergency.
Durjoy Datta
Durjoy Datta, born 1987, is an Indian novelist and screenwriter who writes romance-centered commercial fiction; his twenty-one novels include the debut Of Course I Love You...! from 2008.
Durs Grünbein
Durs Grünbein, born 1962 in Dresden, is a German poet, essayist, and translator who debuted with Grauzone morgens in 1988 and won the Georg Büchner Prize in 1995.
Dwayne McDuffie
Dwayne McDuffie (1962-2011), American comic and animation writer, co-founded Milestone Media (Static, Icon, Hardware) and shaped Justice League Unlimited, Static Shock, and Ben 10.
Dwijendralal Ray
Dwijendralal Ray (দ্বিজেন্দ্রলাল রায়), also known as D. L. Ray, was a Bengali poet, playwright, and musician of British India, known for nationalist historical plays and 500 songs.
Dwijendranath Tagore
Dwijendranath Tagore (দ্বিজেন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 1840–1926) was a Bengali philosopher, poet, mathematician, and composer, eldest brother of Rabindranath Tagore, known for the first Bengali translation of Kalidasa's Meghdoot.
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914–1953), Welsh poet and prose writer, author of 18 Poems, 'Do not go gentle into that good night,' and the radio play Under Milk Wood; died in New York aged 39.
E. B. White
E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White, 1899-1985), American essayist and children's author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan; New Yorker writer and reviser of Strunk's Elements of Style; special Pulitzer 1978; died at his Maine farm.
E. du Perron
E. du Perron, pen name of Charles Edgar du Perron (1899–1940), was a Dutch writer born in the Dutch East Indies who co-founded the journal Forum.
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings, 1894–1962), American modernist poet and painter from Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for experimental typography, syntax, and punctuation; author of The Enormous Room, Tulips and Chimneys, and Eimi; Bollingen Prize and National Book Award winner.
E. E. Smith
E. E. "Doc" Smith (Edward Elmer Smith, 1890-1965), American food chemist and author called the Father of Space Opera; wrote The Skylark of Space (1928) and the Lensman series, defining pulp space opera.
E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow (1931-2015), American novelist and editor, author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March; known for blending real historical figures with invented characters; three-time NBCC and two-time PEN/Faulkner winner.
E. L. James
E. L. James (Erika Mitchell), British author of the Fifty Shades trilogy, which began as Twilight fan fiction, sold over 160 million copies in 50+ languages, and spawned three films grossing over $1 billion.
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster, full name Edward Morgan Forster, was an English novelist whose works include A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India.
E. Nesbit
E. Nesbit (Edith Nesbit Bland, 1858–1924), English author of The Railway Children, Five Children and It, and the Bastable books; Fabian socialist who modernized children's fantasy.
E. Pauline Johnson
E. Pauline Johnson, known by her Mohawk name Tekahionwake, was a Mohawk and English-Canadian poet and stage performer who toured North America and England reciting her own work from 1892.
E. Phillips Oppenheim
E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866–1946), English novelist also published as Anthony Partridge, called "the prince of storytellers"; wrote roughly 116–160 spy and crime novels including The Great Impersonation (1920), a founding figure of the British spy thriller.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, 1776–1822), German Romantic writer, composer, and Prussian judge from Königsberg; author of Der Sandmann, Der goldne Topf, and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, nicknamed Gespenster-Hoffmann.
E. V. Krishna Pillai
E. V. Krishna Pillai (ഇ. വി. കൃഷ്ണപിള്ള; 1894–1938) was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature, a humorist and satirist, and a member of Travancore's Sree Moolam Popular Assembly.
Earl Lovelace
Earl Lovelace, born 1935 in Toco, Trinidad, is a Trinidadian novelist, playwright, and essayist known for The Dragon Can't Dance and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland (1944–2020) was an Irish poet who brought women's domestic lives and their exclusion from national history into Irish poetry, becoming a major figure in Irish literature.
Ebrahim Hussein
Ebrahim Hussein, born 1943 in Lindi, Tanganyika, is a Tanzanian playwright and poet writing in Swahili, ranked among East Africa's leading playwrights; his anticolonial play Kinjeketile (1969) is considered a landmark of Tanzanian theatre.
Eça de Queirós
Eça de Queirós, born José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845–1900), was a Portuguese novelist and diplomat regarded as the leading realist in Portuguese literature.
Ece Ayhan
Ece Ayhan (full name Ece Ayhan Çağlar, 1931–2002) was a Turkish poet of the İkinci Yeni movement, regarded as its most original voice, calling his allusive verse civil poetry.
École lyonnaise
The École lyonnaise (Lyon school) is a group of humanist poets active in Lyon around 1535 to 1555, led by Maurice Scève, Pernette du Guillet, and Louise Labé.