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Friedrich Rückert
Friedrich Rückert, pseudonym Freimund Reinmar, was a German poet and professor of Oriental languages whose verse translations of the Quran and Persian poets founded German Oriental studies.
Friedrich von Spee
Friedrich von Spee (1591–1635) was a German Jesuit priest, moral theology professor, and poet whose anonymous Cautio Criminalis of 1631 attacked torture in witch trials.
Frigyes Karinthy
Frigyes Karinthy (Karinthy Frigyes, 1887–1938) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and critic, one of the creators of 20th-century humorous literature, known for the 1912 parody volume Így írtok ti.
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, born Nils Fritiof Adam Nilsson (1895–1972), was a Swedish author and lawyer whose humorous stories set in Skåne made him one of Sweden's most popular storytellers.
Fritz Leiber
Fritz Leiber (Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., 1910–1992), American fantasy, science fiction, and horror writer, creator of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, coiner of "sword-and-sorcery", winner of six Hugos, three Nebulas, and the SFWA Grand Master Award.
Fritz von Unruh
Fritz von Unruh (1885–1970) was a German expressionist playwright and pacifist writer, honored with the Kleist and Goethe prizes, who fled Nazi Germany in 1932 and died in exile.
Frode Grytten
Frode Grytten (born 1960) is a Norwegian writer and journalist from Odda who writes mostly in Nynorsk; his collective novel Bikubesong (1999) won the Brage Prize and he won it again in 2023.
Fronto
Fronto, full name Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. AD 95 – c. 166), was a Roman orator from Cirta in Numidia and Latin rhetoric tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
Fu Sheng
Fu Sheng (伏生) was a Qin dynasty scholar from Jinan who hid the Shangshu in a wall and transmitted the surviving text to the early Han court.
Fuad al-Takarli
Fuad al-Takarli (فؤاد التكرلي; 1927–2008) was an Iraqi novelist, short-story writer, and judge, counted among the founders of the modern classic Iraqi novel; his best-known work is Al-Raj' al-Ba'id (1980).
Fujiko Fujio (藤子不二雄)
Fujiko Fujio (藤子不二雄) was the joint pen name of Japanese manga artists Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko, who worked together from 1951 to 1987 and created Doraemon, Perman, and Obake no Q-taro.
Fujitani Mitsue
Fujitani Mitsue (藤貞幹, also read Tō Teikan, 1732–1797) was a Japanese textual research scholar of the Edo period in Kyoto, known as a pioneer of Japanese archaeology.
Fujiwara no Akihira
Fujiwara no Akihira (藤原明衡) was a Japanese scholar and provincial official in the mid-Heian period who compiled the Honchō Monzui, the first anthology of Sino-Japanese poetry.
Fujiwara no Akisue
Fujiwara no Akisue (藤原顕季, 1055–1123) was a late Heian court noble and waka poet who founded Japan's first hereditary school of poetry, the Rokujo school.
Fujiwara no Akisuke
Fujiwara no Akisuke (藤原顕輔, 1090–1155) was a Japanese court noble and waka poet of the late Heian period who compiled the Shika Wakashū, the sixth imperial poetry anthology.
Fujiwara no Ariie
Fujiwara no Ariie (藤原有家, 1155–1216) was a Japanese court noble and waka poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, best known as a compiler of the Shinkokin Wakashū.
Fujiwara no Asatada
Fujiwara no Asatada (藤原朝忠, 910–966), also known as Tomotada, was a mid-Heian Japanese court noble and waka poet, a Middle Counselor counted among the Thirty-Six Immortals of Poetry.
Fujiwara no Hamanari
Fujiwara no Hamanari (藤原浜成, 724–790) was a Nara-period Japanese court noble and poet, best known as compiler of the Kakyō Hyōshiki, the oldest extant work of Japanese poetry criticism.
Fujiwara no Ietaka
Fujiwara no Ietaka (藤原家隆, 1158–1237) was a Japanese court noble and waka poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods, one of the six compilers of the Shinkokin Wakashū.
Fujiwara no Kintō
Fujiwara no Kintō (藤原公任, 966–1041) was a Heian-period Japanese poet, critic, and court noble known as Shijō Dainagon, who compiled the Wakan rōeishū and listed the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.
Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Fujiwara no Kiyosuke (藤原清輔, 1104–1177) was a Japanese waka poet and scholar of poetics of the late Heian period, author of the treatises Ōgishō and Fukurozōshi.
Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Fujiwara no Mototoshi (1060–1142) was a late Heian court noble and waka poet, leader of the conservative poetic school, represented by poem 75 in the Hyakunin Isshu.
Fujiwara no Shunzei
Fujiwara no Shunzei, also read Fujiwara no Toshinari, was a Japanese waka poet and court noble who compiled the Senzaishū anthology and taught the ideal of yūgen.
Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
Fujiwara no Yoshitaka (藤原義孝, 954–974) was a Heian-period Japanese waka poet and courtier, remembered chiefly as the author of poem 50 in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554-1628), Elizabethan-Jacobean poet, courtier, Treasurer of the Navy, and friend of Sir Philip Sidney; author of Caelica, Mustapha, Alaham, and verse treatises, murdered in 1628.
Fumiko Enchi
Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986) was a Japanese novelist and playwright of the Showa era known for works on women's repressed inner lives, winning major literary prizes.
Fun'ya no Yasuhide
Fun'ya no Yasuhide (文屋康秀, also Bun'ya no Yasuhide) was an early Heian Japanese waka poet, one of the Six Poetic Immortals and author of Hyakunin Isshu poem 22.
Furqat
Furqat, pen name of Zokirjon Kholmuhammad o'g'li, was an Uzbek poet and calligrapher of the National Renaissance period, born in Kokand, who died in Yarkand in 1909.
Füruzan
Füruzan, born Feruze Çerçi, was a Turkish writer and screenwriter known for stories about poverty, women, and Turkish emigrants in Germany, and for winning the Sait Faik award in 1972.
Fuse (writer)
Fuse (ふせ) is the anonymous pen name of the Japanese light novelist who created That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, first serialized on Shōsetsuka ni Narō in 2013, printed by Micro Magazine's GC Novels from 2014, and adapted into manga, anime, and films.