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Elżbieta Drużbacka
Elżbieta Drużbacka, née Kowalska, was a Polish late Baroque poet called the Sarmatian Muse and one of the first Polish women to see print, publishing her only book in 1752.
Emanuil Popdimitrov
Emanuil Popdimitrov (Емануил Попдимитров) was a Bulgarian symbolist poet, critic, and playwright who taught comparative literature at Sofia University and was condemned as decadent after 1944.
Emil Aarestrup
Emil Aarestrup, full name Carl Ludvig Emil Aarestrup (1800–1856), was a Danish physician and poet whose single collection, Digte (1838), sold about 40 copies before his posthumous recognition.
Emil Strauß
Emil Strauß (1866–1960) was a German novelist and dramatist, best known for the school novel Freund Hein (1902) and later controversial for his Nazi ties.
Émile Faguet
Émile Faguet (1847–1916) was a French literary critic and political polemicist who held the Sorbonne chair of French poetry, joined the Académie française in 1900, and wrote about 200 volumes.
Emile Habibi
Emile Habibi (إميل حبيبي, 1922–1996) was a Palestinian writer and politician who stayed in Haifa after 1948, served in the Knesset, and wrote al-Mutasha'il, ranked sixth among the best hundred Arabic novels.
Émile Verhaeren
Émile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet writing in French, the foremost figure among the Belgian Symbolists, who published more than 30 poetry collections before dying at Rouen station in 1916.
Émile Zola
Émile Zola was a French novelist and journalist, the leading figure of literary naturalism, author of Les Rougon-Macquart and of "J'accuse…!" (1898), his defining intervention in the Dreyfus Affair.
Emilee Hackney
Emilee Hackney, American writer from Tazewell, Virginia, eighth-generation Appalachian, Harvard '20 English graduate; author of the 2026 Penguin Press New York Times bestselling debut memoir All That's Unseen about Pentecostalism and leaving Appalachia.
Emilia Hart
Emilia Hart is a British-Australian novelist, born in Sydney and formerly a lawyer, author of the NYT bestselling debut Weyward (2023) and The Sirens (2025), living in London.
Emilia Lanier
Emilia Lanier, also Aemilia Lanyer, née Bassano (1569–1645), English poet; her only book, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611), was the first substantial printed volume of poetry by a woman in English, with all-female dedications and the first English country-house poem.
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and critic who introduced literary naturalism to Spain; her masterpiece, Los pazos de Ulloa (1886), portrays rural Galicia.
Emilian Stanev
Emilian Stanev (Емилиян Станев), pen name of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev, was a Bulgarian writer born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907, known for The Peach Thief and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Emiliano Perneta
Emiliano David Perneta (1866–1921) was a Brazilian symbolist poet, journalist, lawyer, and professor from Curitiba, crowned Prince of the Paraná Poets in 1911 and ranked alongside Cruz e Sousa.
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen
Emilio Adolfo Westphalen (1911–2001) was a Peruvian poet and editor whose surrealist-influenced early books, Las ínsulas extrañas (1933) and Abolición de la muerte (1935), renewed Peruvian poetry.
Emilio Rabasa
Emilio Rabasa (1856–1930) was a Mexican novelist, jurist, and politician who wrote under the pen name Sancho Polo and helped introduce realism into the Mexican novel.
Emilio Salgari
Emilio Salgari (1862-1911), Italian adventure novelist, creator of Sandokan and the Black Corsair; author of over 80 novels, hugely translated, poor and ignored by critics, died by suicide in Turin.
Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet of Haworth, Yorkshire; published Wuthering Heights (1847) and poems as Ellis Bell, revealed in the 1850 second edition; died of tuberculosis at 30.
Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), American poet of Amherst, Massachusetts, wrote nearly 1,800 poems, eleven published in her lifetime; the 1890 Higginson-Todd edition and 1955 Johnson edition made her a major American poet.
Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel (born 1979, British Columbia) is a Canadian-born novelist, author of seven novels including Station Eleven (2014 Arthur C. Clarke Award, National Book Award finalist), The Glass Hotel, Sea of Tranquility, and Exit Party (2026), known for the interconnected "Mandelverse" of crime and speculative fiction.
Emir Rodríguez Monegal
Emir Rodríguez Monegal was a Uruguayan literary critic and editor who shaped the Latin American boom and taught Latin American literature at Yale from 1969 until his death in 1985.
Emirates Writers Union
The Emirates Writers Union (اتحاد كتّاب وأدباء الإمارات) is a public-benefit cultural association for writers in the United Arab Emirates, founded in Sharjah on 26 May 1984.
Emma Donoghue
Emma Donoghue (born Dublin, 1969) is an Irish-Canadian novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and literary historian living in London, Ontario; author of Room (2010), a Man Booker-shortlisted bestseller adapted into an Oscar-winning film, plus The Wonder, The Pull of the Stars, and The Paris Express.
Emma Gad
Emma Gad (1852–1921) was a Danish playwright, editor, and author from Copenhagen who wrote 19 plays, edited the encyclopedia Vort Hjem, and is remembered chiefly for her 1918 etiquette handbook Takt og Tone.
Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), American Jewish poet and activist, author of "The New Colossus" engraved on the Statue of Liberty pedestal in 1903, champion of Russian Jewish refugees, and author of Songs of a Semite (1882).
Emma Walton Hamilton
Emma Walton Hamilton, full name Emma Katherine Walton Hamilton, is a British-born American author and educator, daughter of Julie Andrews, with whom she has co-authored over thirty-five books.
Emmanuel Dongala
Emmanuel Boundzeki Dongala, born 1941, is a Congolese chemist and novelist who taught at the University of Brazzaville, fled the 1997 civil war to the United States, and wrote Johnny Mad Dog.
Emperor Fushimi
Emperor Fushimi (伏見院, Fushimi-in) was emperor of Japan from 1287 to 1298 who, in retirement, led the Kyōgoku school of waka and commissioned the Gyokuyōshū anthology.
Emperor Juntoku
Emperor Juntoku, the 84th emperor of Japan, reigned from 1210 to 1221, joined his father Go-Toba's failed 1221 rising, and was exiled to Sado Island for life.
Endre Ady
Endre Ady (Ady Endre, 1877–1919) was a Hungarian poet and journalist whose symbolist verse and political journalism opened the modern period of Hungarian poetry in the early 20th century.