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Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere (عز الدين شكري فشير), born in 1966, is an Egyptian novelist, diplomat, and academic. Three of his ten Arabic novels were nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
F. D. Reeve
F. D. Reeve (Franklin D'Olier Reeve, 1928-2013), American poet, novelist, and Russian translator, father of Christopher Reeve; Frost's 1962 USSR interpreter, author of Robert Frost in Russia and 31 books.
F. R. Leavis
F. R. Leavis (Frank Raymond Leavis, 1895–1978) was an English literary critic and Cambridge academic who edited the journal Scrutiny and, in The Great Tradition (1948), named the great English novelists.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, 1896–1940), American novelist of the Jazz Age, author of This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night; married to Zelda Sayre; died obscure, canonized posthumously.
F. Sionil José
F. Sionil José (Francisco Sionil José, 1924–2022) was a Filipino novelist and journalist named National Artist for Literature in 2001, best known for the five-novel Rosales Saga.
Faddei Bulgarin
Faddei Bulgarin (Фаддей Венедиктович Булгарин; born Jan Krzysztof Tadeusz Bulharyn, 1789–1859) was a Russian journalist and publisher of Polish origin who ran the newspaper Severnaya Pchela and wrote the bestselling adventure novel Ivan Vyzhigin.
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Fadhil al-Azzawi (فاضل العزاوي, born 1940 in Kirkuk) is an Iraqi poet, novelist, and translator, a central figure of Iraq's avant-garde Sixties Generation who has lived in Berlin since 1977.
Fadwa Tuqan
Fadwa Tuqan (فدوى طوقان), 1917–2003, was a Palestinian poet from Nablus, known as the "poetess of Palestine", who wrote eight collections of love and resistance poetry.
Fagundes Varela
Fagundes Varela, full name Luís Nicolau Fagundes Varela, was a Brazilian Romantic poet (1841–1875) of the second, ultraromantic generation, best known for "Cântico do Calvário".
Fahmida Riaz
Fahmida Riaz (فہمیدہ ریاض) was a Pakistani Urdu poet and writer whose frank treatment of female desire broke taboos; her dissent brought exile in India until 1988.
Faith Bandler
Faith Bandler, born Ida Lessing Faith Mussing, was an Australian civil rights activist and writer who led the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal rights.
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (فیض احمد فیض)
Faiz Ahmad Faiz (فیض احمد فیض), 1911–1984, Sialkot-born Pakistani Urdu poet of the Progressive movement, author of Naqsh-e-Faryadi and Dast-e-Saba, imprisoned in the Rawalpindi case, Lenin Peace Prize 1962, widely translated into English.
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi
Fakhr al-Din Iraqi (فخرالدین عراقی) was a Persian Sufi poet and prose writer, 1213 to 1289, best known for the Lama'at, a treatise on Sufism, and his passionate mystical ghazals.
Fakir Baykurt
Fakir Baykurt, born Tahir (1929–1999), was a Turkish teacher, novelist, and poet, a leading village literature writer whose first novel, Yılanların Öcü, won the 1958 Yunus Nadi Novel Prize.
Falaki Shirvani
Falaki Shirvani (فلكي شرواني), full name Abu'l-Nezam Mohammad, was a Persian-language poet of Shirvan in the 12th century, a court panegyrist under the Shirvanshah Manuchehr II and a fellow student of Abul-Ala Ganjavi alongside Khagani.
Fanny Buitrago
Fanny Buitrago is a Colombian novelist, playwright, and storyteller born in Barranquilla in 1946, known for El hostigante verano de los dioses (1963) and Caribbean coast settings.
Fanny Knight
Fanny Knight (Frances Catherine Austen Knight, Lady Knatchbull, 1793–1882) was Jane Austen's favourite niece, whose diaries and letters are a key biographical source and who likely annotated the family Baronetage used for Persuasion.
Fariza Ongarsynova
Fariza Ongarsynova (Фариза Оңғарсынова; 1939–2014) was a Kazakh poet, journalist, and public figure, named People's Writer of Kazakhstan, known for poems on the steppe and the fate of Kazakh women.
Farley Mowat
Farley McGill Mowat (1921–2014), Canadian author and naturalist, author of People of the Deer, Never Cry Wolf, and Lost in the Barrens; famed for Arctic wildlife and Inuit advocacy, the 1996 fabrication controversy, and the Order of Canada.
Farouk Gouida
Farouk Gouida (فاروق جويدة) is an Egyptian poet and journalist at Al-Ahram, born in 1945 or 1946, known for love and patriotic poems set to music.
Farrukhi Sistani
Farrukhi Sistani (فرخی سیستانی) was a Persian court poet of the late 10th and early 11th centuries who served Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna and wrote celebrated qasidas.
Fathi Ghanim
Fathi Ghanim, also romanized Fathy Ghanem, was an Egyptian novelist and journalist (1924–1999), best known for his four-voice 1961 novel The Man Who Lost His Shadow.
Fatima Bhutto (فاطمہ بھٹو)
Fatima Bhutto (فاطمہ بھٹو), born 1982 in Kabul, is a Pakistani writer, journalist, and activist, daughter of assassinated Murtaza Bhutto; author of Songs of Blood and Sword (2010), The Shadow of the Crescent Moon, The Runaways, and The Hour of the Wolf (2026).
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Fatima Farheen Mirza (born 1991) is an American novelist, Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, and author of A Place for Us (2018), the New York Times bestselling debut and first SJP for Hogarth book about a Shia Muslim Indian-American family.
Fatou Diome
Fatou Diome, born in Senegal in 1968, is a Senegalese writer living in France whose debut novel Le Ventre de l'Atlantique (2003), about migration between Senegal and France, became a bestseller.
Fatou Keïta
Fatou Keïta is an Ivorian academic and writer who teaches English literature in Abidjan and is best known for her children's books and the novel Rebelle (1998), on female genital cutting.
Fauna Hodel
Fauna Hodel was an American author and motivational speaker known for her 2008 memoir, One Day She'll Darken. It details her connection to Dr. George Hodel.
Faustas Kirša
Faustas Kirša (1891–1964) was a Lithuanian poet, publicist, and translator, the leading intellectual symbolist in interwar Lithuanian poetry and author of the satirical masterpiece Pelenai (Ashes).
Faustus of Byzantium
Faustus of Byzantium, known in Armenian as Pʿawstos Buzand, is the conventional name of a fifth-century author whose Buzandaran chronicles fourth-century Armenia, surviving as Books III to VI.
Fay Weldon
Fay Weldon (Franklin Birkinshaw, 1931–2023), British novelist and screenwriter, author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Booker-shortlisted Praxis; wrote Upstairs Downstairs pilot, BBC Pride and Prejudice, and The Bulgari Connection; CBE 2001.