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Fazal Shah
Fazal Shah (Sayyed Fazal Shah, Punjabi فضل شاہ; 1827–1890) was a Punjabi qissa poet of Nawan Kot near Lahore, best known for his verse romance Qissa Sohni Mahiwal.
Fazil Iskander
Fazil Iskander, also known as Fazil Abdulovich Iskander, was a Soviet and Russian writer of Abkhaz origin, best known for the satirical novel-epic Sandro of Chegem.
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (1914–2008), born Mehmet Fazıl in Istanbul, was a Turkish poet of the Republican era who wrote close to 70 poetry books and 23 epics.
Fei Ming
Fei Ming (废名) was the pen name of Feng Wenbing (1901–1967), a Chinese novelist and poet whose lyrical, pastoral fiction, including The Bridge, influenced Shen Congwen and Wang Zengqi.
Felicia Hemans
Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) was a British Romantic poet, among the best-selling poets of her day, known for Records of Woman, "Casabianca," and "The Homes of England."
Felisberto Hernández
Felisberto Hernández (1902–1964) was a Uruguayan writer and pianist whose fantastic, absurd fiction, rooted in his piano career, was championed by Julio Cortázar and Italo Calvino.
Félix Couchoro
Félix Couchoro (1900–1968) was a novelist and journalist, born in Dahomey and later a Togolese citizen, one of the first African novelists writing in French.
Felix Timmermans
Felix Timmermans (1886–1947) was a Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, and painter from Lier, Belgium, whose debut novel Pallieter (1916) sold about 1 million copies internationally.
Feng Ban
Feng Ban (冯班, 1602–1671), courtesy name Dingyuan, was a Chinese poet and poetry critic of the early Qing dynasty who championed late Tang poetry and opposed Yan Yu's poetics.
Feng Jicai
Feng Jicai (冯骥才) is a Chinese novelist, painter, and cultural scholar based in Tianjin, known for fiction about Tianjin street life and for leading the rescue of China's folk cultural heritage.
Feng Menglong
Feng Menglong (馮夢龍, 1574–1646) was a Ming dynasty writer, editor, and publisher from Suzhou best known for compiling the Sanyan, three collections of 120 vernacular short stories.
Feng Naichao
Feng Naichao (冯乃超, 1901–1983) was a Chinese symbolist poet, literary critic, and revolutionary cultural worker who published The Red Gauze Lantern in 1928 and helped found the League of Left-Wing Writers in 1930.
Feng Weimin
Feng Weimin (冯惟敏, 1511–1580) was a Ming dynasty writer of sanqu and drama from Linqu, Shandong, regarded as the leading northern-school sanqu poet of the mid-Ming.
Feng Xuefeng
Feng Xuefeng (冯雪峰, 1903–1976) was a Chinese poet and Communist Party organizer, co-founder of the Lake Poets Society and a close collaborator of Lu Xun.
Feng Zhi
Feng Zhi, born Feng Chengzhi (1905–1993), was a Chinese poet, translator, and scholar of German literature whose 1942 Sonnets naturalized the sonnet form in modern Chinese poetry.
Ferdia Lennon
Ferdia Lennon, Irish novelist from Dublin with a Libyan father, author of the 2024 debut Glorious Exploits, a Sunday Times bestseller set in 412 BC Syracuse narrated in Dublin vernacular, winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction and Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prizes.
Ferdinand Avenarius
Ferdinand Avenarius (1856–1923) was a German poet and editor who founded and edited the journal Der Kunstwart from 1887 and co-founded the Dürerbund in 1902.
Ferdinand Freiligrath
Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) was a German poet and translator who rose to fame with exotic verse, became the leading political poet of the 1848 revolution, and introduced Walt Whitman to German readers.
Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (1929–2010) was a Cameroonian novelist and diplomat whose three French-language anticolonial novels of the 1950s, notably Houseboy, are classics of African literature; he later served decades as a diplomat and government minister.
Ferdinand von Saar
Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906) was an Austrian writer, playwright, and poet, regarded with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach as a leading realist narrator of late nineteenth-century Austrian literature.
Ferenc Faludi
Ferenc Faludi (Hungarian: Faludi Ferenc, 1704–1779) was a Hungarian Jesuit priest, poet, and translator, a leading figure of Hungarian rococo literature and a creator of modern Hungarian prose.
Ferenc Herczeg
Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and editor, celebrated as the 'king of writers', who edited Új Idők for half a century and was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Ferenc Kazinczy
Ferenc Kazinczy (1759–1831) was a Hungarian writer and the leading figure of the nyelvújítás, the Hungarian language reform of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Ferenc Kölcsey
Ferenc Kölcsey (Kölcsey Ferenc, 1790–1838) was a Hungarian poet, critic, and Reform Era politician whose poem the Himnusz, set to music by Ferenc Erkel, became Hungary's national anthem.
Ferenc Verseghy
Ferenc Verseghy (1757–1822) was a Hungarian poet, linguist, and Pauline monk who translated the Marseillaise and served the longest sentence in the 1795 Jacobin conspiracy.
Fereydoun Moshiri
Fereydoun Moshiri (فریدون مشیری) was a prominent Iranian poet whose lyrical poetry blended classical Persian forms with modern verse, winning him one of the widest popular readerships in Iran.
Fereydoun Tavallali
Fereydoun Tavallali (فریدون توللی) was an Iranian poet and satirist from Shiraz best known for the lyric poem "Maryam" and the satirical prose collection Eltefāsil, living from 1919 to 1985.
Fernán Caballero
Fernán Caballero was the pen name of Spanish novelist Cecilia Böhl de Faber (1796–1877), who debuted with La Gaviota in 1849 and pioneered the realist novel in Spain.
Fernand Baldensperger
Fernand Baldensperger, who wrote poetry as Fernand Baldenne, was a French literary scholar who founded the Revue de littérature comparée in 1921 and ended his career as a Harvard emeritus professor.
Fernando Calderón
Fernando Calderón y Beltrán (1809–1845) was a Mexican poet, playwright, lawyer, and liberal politician, an initiator of romanticism in Mexico whose comedy A ninguna de las tres is still performed.