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Akaki Tsereteli
Akaki Tsereteli (აკაკი წერეთელი, 1840–1915) was a Georgian poet, writer, and publicist, one of the founders of modern Georgian literature, known for "Suliko" and "Bashi-Achuki".
Akazome Emon
Akazome Emon (赤染衛門, ca. 960–after 1041) was a Japanese waka poet and court lady of the mid-Heian period, traditionally credited with the first part of Eiga monogatari.
Aké Loba
Aké Loba (Gérard Ake-Loba) was an Ivorian novelist and diplomat whose 1960 debut novel Kocoumbo, l'étudiant noir made him the first winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique noire.
Akhmet Baitursynov
Akhmet Baitursynov (Akhmet Baitursynuly, Kazakh: Ахмет Байтұрсынұлы) was a Kazakh scholar, poet, and reformer of the Kazakh script who co-founded the Alash Party and was executed in 1937.
Akilan
Akilan (அகிலன்) was the pen name of P. V. Akilandam (1922–1988), a Tamil novelist and freedom fighter who won the Jnanpith Award in 1975 for Chithirapavai.
Akka Mahadevi (ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ)
Akka Mahadevi (ಅಕ್ಕ ಮಹಾದೇವಿ) was a twelfth-century Kannada poet and Shaiva religious figure associated with the Lingayat or Virashaiva tradition. She is known for devotional vachanas addressed to Shiva as Chennamallikarjuna and.
Ako ang Daigdig
"Ako ang Daigdig" ("I am the world") is a Tagalog poem by Alejandro G. Abadilla, first published in Liwayway in 1940, that introduced free verse into Tagalog poetry.
Aksel Sandemose
Aksel Sandemose, born Axel Nielsen (1899–1965), was a Danish-Norwegian novelist who moved to Norway in 1930 and formulated the Jante Law in his 1933 breakthrough novel.
Akshat Gupta (अक्षत गुप्ता)
Akshat Gupta (अक्षत गुप्ता), Indian author, screenwriter and former restaurateur; wrote The Hidden Hindu trilogy, a mythology-science fiction bestseller published by Penguin Random House India, with visual rights acquired by Dhoni Entertainment.
Akyn
An akyn (ақын) is an improvising poet-singer of the Kazakh and Kyrgyz peoples who performs verse orally to dombra or komuz accompaniment, best known for the aitys contest of improvised poetic dialogue.
Al Mahmud
Al Mahmud, full name Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud, was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, and short-story writer (1936–2019) known for the sonnet cycle Sonali Kabin.
Al Purdy
Al Purdy, born Alfred Wellington Purdy, was a Canadian poet known for rangy, colloquial free verse about Canada, its people, and its history; he published more than 30 books and won two Governor General's Awards.
Al-Husri
Al-Husri (الحصري) was an Arabic poet and man of letters of Qayrawān in Ifrīqiyya, famed for the anthology Zahr al-ādāb wa-thamar al-albāb, a foundational work of Arabic literature.
Al-Mutanabbi (المتنبي)
Al-Mutanabbi (المتنبي), Abu al-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn, 915–965, Kufa-born Abbasid poet, greatest of the fourth century AH; court poet of Sayf al-Dawla in Aleppo for nine years, later praised and satirized Kafur; killed near Dayr al-Aqul.
Al-Utbi
Al-Utbi (Abu Nasr Mohammad al-Utbi) was a Persian historian and secretary at the Ghaznavid court who wrote the Arabic Kitab al-Yamini on Mahmud of Ghazna.
Alagiyavanna Mukaveti
Alagiyavanna Mukaveti (අලගියවන්න මුකවෙටි; also Alagiyavanna Mohottala, c. 1552 – c. 1625) was a Sinhala court poet, the last of the classical poets, who converted to Catholicism and wrote the first Christian poem in Sinhala.
Alai
Alai (阿来) is a Tibetan-born Chinese-language novelist, born in 1959 in Sichuan, whose debut novel The Dust Settles won China's Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000.
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou, born in 1966 and raised in Pointe-Noire, Congo, is a French novelist who won the Prix Renaudot for Mémoires de porc-épic and twice reached the International Booker shortlist.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008), French novelist and filmmaker, leader and theoretician of the nouveau roman at Éditions de Minuit; author of Les Gommes, La Jalousie, and Pour un nouveau roman, and screenwriter of Last Year at Marienbad.
Alain-Fournier
Alain-Fournier, pen name of Henri Alban Fournier (1886–1914), French author of the single novel Le Grand Meaulnes (1913); friend of Jacques Rivière, model for Yvonne de Galais was Yvonne de Quiévrecourt; killed in 1914 near Saint-Rémy-la-Calonne.
Alan Coren
Alan Coren (1938-2007), English humorist, editor of Punch 1978-87, Radio 4 News Quiz panellist 1975-2007, Call My Bluff captain, Times columnist, author of Golfing for Cats and the Idi Amin bulletins.
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster (born 1946, New York City) is an American science fiction and fantasy author of over 100 books, creator of the Humanx Commonwealth and Pip & Flinx series, ghost-writer of the first Star Wars novelization, and author of Alien, The Thing, and Transformers movie novelizations.
Alan Duff
Alan Duff (born 1950) is a New Zealand novelist and columnist of Māori descent, best known for the 1990 novel Once Were Warriors and its acclaimed 1994 film adaptation.
Alan Furst
Alan Furst (born 1941) is an American novelist, master of historical espionage fiction set in Europe 1933–1945, from Night Soldiers (1988) onward; also known as a writer of 'historical espionage' novels.
Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman (born 1948) is an American physicist, essayist, and novelist who spent thirteen years in astrophysics research at Harvard before becoming a writer, best known for Einstein's Dreams (1993).
Alan Moore
Alan Moore, also known as Curt Vile, is a British comics writer born in 1953 in Northampton, England, best known for Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Alan Paton
Alan Paton was a South African novelist and prison reformer best known for Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), a novel about racial injustice that sold millions of copies worldwide.
Alan Pauls
Alan Pauls, born 1959 in Buenos Aires, is an Argentine novelist, essayist, and literary critic, author of El pasado (2003) and the Historia del llanto trilogy.
Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) was a British writer from Nottingham whose first two books, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, defined the postwar working-class novel.
Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray (1934–2019), Scottish writer and artist from Glasgow, author of Lanark, 1982 Janine, and Poor Things (Whitbread winner), muralist of the Òran Mór ceiling and author of the motto 'Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation'.