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Aharon Shabtai
Aharon Shabtai (אהרן שבתאי; born 1939 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli poet and translator who rendered Greek drama and Homer into Hebrew and wrote politically charged poetry, including J'Accuse (2003).
Ahmad Abd al-Mu'ti Hijazi
Ahmad Abd al-Mu'ti Hijazi (أحمد عبد المعطي حجازي, born 1935) is an Egyptian modernist poet and journalist who led the renewal of Egyptian verse from the late 1950s.
Ahmad Donish
Ahmad Donish (احمد دانش, 1827–1897), known as Ahmad Kalla and Mohandes, was a Tajik historian, poet, astronomer, and reformer who served the amirs of Bukhara and shaped Central Asian reform thought.
Ahmad Mahmoud
Ahmad Mahmoud (احمد محمود) was an Iranian novelist and short-story writer, born in Ahvaz in 1931, best known for Hamsayeha (The Neighbors) and a trilogy following one protagonist from the Mosaddeq era to the Iran-Iraq War.
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (احمد ندیم قاسمی) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, short story writer, and editor, born Ahmad Shah Awan, a leading figure of the Progressive Writers Movement.
Ahmad Rahi
Ahmad Rahi (احمد راہی), born Ghulam Ahmad in 1923, was a Pakistani poet and film lyricist whose Punjabi collection Trinjhan and songs for films like Heer Ranjha became classics.
Ahmad Tohari
Ahmad Tohari (born 1948) is an Indonesian novelist from Banyumas, Central Java, best known for the Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk trilogy, widely translated into five languages.
Ahmad Yasawi
Ahmad Yasawi (Қожа Ахмет Ясауи, 1093–1166) was a Turkic Sufi poet of Central Asia, founder of Turkic-language Sufi poetry and author of the Diwani Hikmat.
Ahmadou Kourouma
Ahmadou Kourouma (1927–2003) was an Ivorian novelist who wrote in French reshaped by his mother tongue, Malinké; his 1968 debut was Les soleils des indépendances.
Ahmadreza Ahmadi
Ahmadreza Ahmadi (احمدرضا احمدی; 1940–2023) was an Iranian poet, playwright, and children's author, founder of the New Wave movement in Persian poetry who published more than 23 poetry collections.
Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Ali (علی احمد) was an Indian and Pakistani novelist, poet, and diplomat, born in Delhi in 1910, who co-founded the Progressive Writers' Association and wrote Twilight in Delhi.
Ahmed Arif
Ahmed Arif, born Ahmet Hamdi Önal (1927–1991), was a Turkish poet of Kurdish origin whose single collection, Hasretinden Prangalar Eskittim (1968), remains among Turkey's best-selling poetry books.
Ahmed Essop
Ahmed Essop (1931–2019) was an Indian-born South African short-story writer and novelist whose fiction portrays the Indian community of Fordsburg, Johannesburg, under apartheid.
Ahmed Fagih
Ahmed Fagih (أحمد إبراهيم الفقيه; 1942–2019) was a Libyan novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote about one hundred books, including the acclaimed trilogy Gardens of the Night.
Ahmed Faraz
Ahmed Faraz (احمد فراز), pen name of Syed Ahmad Shah (1931–2008), was a widely sung Pakistani Urdu ghazal poet, arrested and exiled for opposing military dictatorship in Pakistan.
Ahmed Fouad Negm
Ahmed Fouad Negm (أحمد فؤاد نجم, 1929–2013), nicknamed El-Fagomi, was an Egyptian poet of the poor who wrote satirical political verse in colloquial Egyptian Arabic.
Ahmed Paşa
Ahmed Paşa (Veliyyüddîn-zâde Ahmed Paşa, c. 1426–1497) was an Ottoman divan poet and statesman, regarded as a founding poet of classical Ottoman poetry under Mehmed II.
Ahmed Rasim
Ahmed Rasim (1865–1932) was an Ottoman and Turkish journalist, writer, and composer who wrote over a hundred books, best known for his Istanbul chronicles Şehir Mektupları.
Ahmed Toufiq
Ahmed Toufiq (أحمد التوفيق), born 1943, is a Moroccan historian, novelist, and manuscript scholar who has been Morocco's Minister of Habous and Islamic Affairs since 2002.
Ahmet Erhan
Ahmet Erhan, pen name of Erhan Bozkurt, was a Turkish poet, story writer, and essayist born in Ankara in 1958, a leading name of the socially realist 1980-generation poetry.
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (1901–1962) was a Turkish novelist, poet, essayist, and literary historian at Istanbul University, known for the novels A Mind at Peace and The Time Regulation Institute.
Ahmet Haşim
Ahmet Haşim, also known as Ahmed Hâşim, was a Turkish poet and essayist, the leading poet of the Fecr-i Ati movement and a founder of modern Turkish poetry.
Ahmet Muhip Dıranas
Ahmet Muhip Dıranas, who died in 1980 in Ankara, was a Turkish poet and playwright best known for the poem "Fahriye Abla" and his small, carefully polished body of syllabic verse.
Ahmet Ümit
Ahmet Ümit (born 1960) is a Turkish novelist, poet, and short-story writer, one of the most widely read authors of crime fiction in Turkish literature, known for Sis ve Gece and the Chief Inspector Nevzat series.
Ai Yazawa (矢沢あい)
Ai Yazawa (矢沢あい), Japanese manga artist born 1967 in Hyogo; Ribon debut 1985 with "Ano Natsu"; creator of Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, Gokinjo Monogatari, Paradise Kiss, and the 50-million-copy NANA, on hiatus since 2009 illness.
Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), Martinican poet and politician, co-founder of Négritude with Senghor and Damas, author of Cahier d'un retour au pays natal and Discourse on Colonialism, mayor of Fort-de-France 1945–2001.
Aisha Chaudhary
Aisha Chaudhary (1996-2015), Indian writer and motivational speaker from New Delhi, born with SCID, wrote the memoir My Little Epiphanies; her life inspired the 2019 film The Sky Is Pink.
Aivars Eipurs
Aivars Eipurs, who publishes his poetry under the pen name Eduards Aivars, is a Latvian poet and publicist born in 1956, known for a poetry of paradox and irony.
Ajip Rosidi
Ajip Rosidi (1938–2020) was an Indonesian writer, poet, and publisher who wrote in Sundanese and Indonesian, chaired the Jakarta Arts Council, and founded the annual Rancagé Literary Award.
Aka Akasaka (赤坂 アカ)
Aka Akasaka (赤坂アカ) is the pen name of a Japanese manga writer and illustrator, born 1988 in Niigata, known for Kaguya-sama: Love Is War (65th Shogakukan Manga Award) and as story author of Oshi no Ko with artist Mengo Yokoyari; since 2022 he works only as an original creator.