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Fernando de Herrera
Fernando de Herrera (1534–1597), nicknamed "el Divino", was a Spanish poet and literary critic of the Siglo de Oro and the leading figure of the Sevillian poetic school.
Fernando de Rojas
Fernando de Rojas (c. 1470 – 1541) was a Spanish writer and jurist from a converso family, credited with the greater part of the tragicomedy La Celestina.
Fernando Namora
Fernando Namora, full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora (1919–1989), was a Portuguese physician and writer, a leading neo-realist novelist and one of Portugal's most translated authors.
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) was a Portuguese poet and prose writer who became central to modernism by inventing literary identities, most famously Alberto Caeiro, and co-found the 1915 magazine Orpheu.
Fernando Sabino
Fernando Sabino (Fernando Tavares Sabino, 1923–2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist from Belo Horizonte, best known for the crônica and the novel O Encontro Marcado.
Fernando Vallejo
Fernando Vallejo, full name Fernando Vallejo Rendón, is a Colombian novelist, essayist, and filmmaker who left Colombia in 1971, known for Our Lady of the Assassins and his critique of Colombian society.
Fernão Mendes Pinto
Fernão Mendes Pinto (c. 1509–1583) was a Portuguese adventurer and travel writer whose memoir Peregrinação recounts twenty-one years of travel, trade, and slavery in Asia.
Ferreira de Castro
Ferreira de Castro (José Maria Ferreira de Castro) was a Portuguese novelist whose Amazon novels Emigrantes and A Selva opened Portuguese fiction to social realism.
Ferreira Gullar
Ferreira Gullar, pen name of José de Ribamar Ferreira (1930–2016), was a Brazilian poet, playwright, and essayist who founded Neoconcretism in Rio de Janeiro and wrote Poema sujo (1976).
Filip Višnjić
Filip Višnjić (Филип Вишњић) was a blind Serbian guslar and epic poet, born c. 1767 in Bosnia, remembered as the singer of the First Serbian Uprising.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Italian poet born in Alexandria, Egypt, founded Futurism with his 1909 Manifesto published in Le Figaro; created parole in liberta, led the Futurist Party, and allied with Mussolini's fascism.
Fily Dabo Sissoko
Fily Dabo Sissoko (1900-1964) was a Malian writer in French and politician who served as deputy for the Soudan from 1945 to 1959 and founded the Parti Progressiste Soudanais.
Firaq Gorakhpuri
Firaq Gorakhpuri (فراق گورکھپوری), born Raghupati Sahay, was an Indian Urdu poet and critic who gave the twentieth-century ghazal a new philosophical tone and won the Jnanpith Award.
Fireside Poets
The Fireside Poets, also called the Schoolroom or Household Poets, were five 19th-century New England poets, including Longfellow, Whittier, and Bryant, read aloud in homes.
Fitnat Hanım
Fitnat Hanım (Fıtnat Hanım) was the pen name of Zübeyde, an 18th-century Ottoman divan poet of Istanbul, generally regarded as the Ottoman era's most successful woman poet.
Fitrat
Abdurauf Fitrat (1886–1938) was a Central Asian Jadid writer and statesman from Bukhara who wrote in Persian and Uzbek and was executed in the Stalin-era purges.
Flann O'Brien
Flann O'Brien was the best-known pen name of Irish novelist Brian O'Nolan (1911 to 1966), now ranked with Joyce and Beckett as a leading figure of Irish modernism.
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), American Southern Gothic writer from Georgia; author of Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away and A Good Man Is Hard to Find; devout Catholic, died of lupus at 39; 32 short stories; posthumous 1972 National Book Award.
Flavio Herrera
Flavio Herrera (1895–1968) was a Guatemalan novelist, short-story writer, poet, and lawyer of the Generation of 1920, credited with introducing the haikú into Guatemalan literature.
Flora Nwapa
Flora Nwapa, born Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa, was a Nigerian novelist, teacher, and publisher whose debut Efuru (1966) made her the first Nigerian woman novelist to publish in English.
Florbela Espanca
Florbela Espanca (1894–1930) was a Portuguese poet, born in Vila Viçosa, who made the sonnet the vehicle for confessional poems of love, sensuality, solitude, and death.
Florence Knapp (author)
Florence Knapp is a British author whose 2025 debut novel The Names (Viking) traces three parallel life paths of a boy named Bear, Julian, or Gordon, and who previously wrote the 2018 quilting guide Flossie Teacakes' Guide to English Paper Piecing.
Florent Couao-Zotti
Florent Couao-Zotti, born in 1964 in Pobé, Benin, is a Beninese novelist, short-story writer, and playwright whose fiction centers on the streets and margins of Cotonou.
Fodéba Keïta
Fodéba Keïta (1921–1969) was a Guinean poet, playwright, composer, and politician who founded Les Ballets Africains in Paris and later served as minister of defense under President Sékou Touré before being executed in 1969.
Fogwill
Fogwill was the pen name of Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill (1941–2010), an Argentine writer of novels, stories, poetry, and essays, best known for the Malvinas War novel Los pichiciegos.
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (born Ford Hermann Hueffer, 1873–1939), British modernist novelist, poet, critic, and editor, author of The Good Soldier and Parade's End, collaborator of Joseph Conrad, founder of the English Review and the transatlantic review.
Former and Latter Seven Masters
The Former and Latter Seven Masters (前七子, 后七子) were two Ming dynasty literary groups, led by Li Mengyang and Li Panlong, who championed the archaist revival.
Forrest J Ackerman
Forrest J Ackerman (Forry, 4e, 1916–2008), American fan, editor, literary agent, and collector known as Mr Science Fiction; edited Famous Monsters of Filmland 1958–1983, coined "sci-fi" in 1954, and built the Ackermansion collection.
Forugh Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad was a leading Iranian modernist poet and filmmaker who published five collections and directed The House is Black in 1962. Her work explored love and gender.
Forughi Bastami
Forughi Bastami (فروغی بسطامی) was a Persian poet of the Qajar era, a leading ghazal writer born in Karbala in 1798 who died in Tehran in 1857.