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Fyodor Abramov
Fyodor Abramov (Фёдор Абрамов) was a Soviet Russian writer and literary scholar, a leading figure of village prose known for the novel Brothers and Sisters.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский), 1821–1881, Russian novelist and journalist; author of Poor Folk, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov, serialized in Katkov's Russian Messenger, distinguished by Siberian exile, Bakhtin's polyphony interpretation, and 1880 Pushkin speech.
Fyodor Sologub
Fyodor Sologub (Фёдор Сологуб), pen name of Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, and playwright, 1863 to 1927, best known for the influential novel The Petty Demon.
Fyodor Tyutchev (Фёдор Иванович Тютчев)
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Фёдор Иванович Тютчев), 1803-1873, Russian lyric poet, diplomat and publicist; served in Munich and Turin, published 24 poems in Pushkin's Sovremennik in 1836, rediscovered by Nekrasov in 1850, wrote the Denisyev cycle.
G. A. Kulkarni
G. A. Kulkarni, known to readers as "GA", was an Indian Marathi short story writer (1923–1987), a leading figure of the nav-katha movement who won and returned the Sahitya Akademi Award.
G. B. Senanayake
G. B. Senanayake, full name Gunathilake Bandara Senanayake (1913–1985), was a Sri Lankan writer of short stories, novels, poetry, and criticism who introduced free verse to Sinhala literature.
G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), English writer, journalist, and Catholic apologist, author of Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the Father Brown detective stories; founding president of the Detection Club and convert to Roman Catholicism in 1922.
G. P. Rajaratnam
G. P. Rajaratnam, full name G. P. Rajayyangar, was an Indian Kannada-language poet, playwright, and composer of children's verse, best known for Ratnana Padagalu and honored with the Rajyotsava award before his death in 1979.
G. S. Shivarudrappa
G. S. Shivarudrappa (1926–2013) was an Indian Kannada poet, literary critic, and teacher, honored by Karnataka as Rashtrakavi in 2006 and known for poems set to music as bhava geethe.
G. Sankara Kurup
G. Sankara Kurup (ജി. ശങ്കരക്കുറുപ്പ്), known in Malayalam letters as Mahakavi G, was an Indian Malayalam poet and the first Jnanpith Award recipient, in 1965 for Odakkuzhal.
G. T. Karber
G. T. Karber (Greg T. Karber), American mystery writer and programmer from Arkansas, creator of Murdle, the daily murder-mystery logic puzzle turned bestselling book series in 28+ languages and 2023 UK Christmas number one.
G. V. Desani
G. V. Desani (Govindas Vishnoodas Desani) is an Indian novelist born in Nairobi in 1909, best known for his 1948 comic novel All About H. Hatterr.
Ğabdulla Tuqay
Ğabdulla Tuqay (Габдулла Тукай) was a Tatar poet and publicist, 1886 to 1913, who created the modern Tatar literary language, writing over 400 poems and the fairy-tale poem 'Şüräle'.
Gabiden Mustafin
Gabiden Mustafin (Ғабиден Мұстафин, 1902–1985) was a Kazakh Soviet writer, People's Writer of Kazakhstan, best known for the novel Karaganda about the coal basin's miners.
Gabit Musirepov
Gabit Musirepov (1902–1985) was a Kazakh Soviet writer, playwright, and literary official recognized as a founder of Kazakh Soviet literature and author of enduring folklore dramas.
Gabriel Celaya
Gabriel Celaya, pen name of Rafael Múgica Celaya, was a Spanish poet and engineer who led the social poetry of 1950s Spain, declaring that poetry is a weapon.
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez ('Gabo'), Colombian novelist (1927–2014), Nobel laureate 1982, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude (45+ million copies, 30+ languages), Love in the Time of Cholera, and leading magical-realist of the Latin American Boom.
Gabriel Laub
Gabriel Laub (1928–1998) was a German-language writer born in Bochnia, Poland, known above all for his aphorisms and satires; he settled in Hamburg after emigrating in 1968.
Gabriel Mariano
Gabriel Mariano, pen name of José Gabriel Lopes da Silva (1928–2002), was a Cape Verdean poet, essayist, and judge whose poem Capitão Ambrósio became a symbol of national resistance.
Gabriel Okara
Gabriel Okara (1921–2019) was a Nigerian Ijaw poet and novelist, a foundational figure of modern African literature in English, known for The Voice and The Fisherman's Invocation.
Gabriel Sundukyan
Gabriel Sundukyan (Գաբրիել Սունդուկյան) was an Armenian playwright and civil servant of Tiflis, a pioneer of realism in Armenian drama best known for his comedy Pepo.
Gabriela Mistral
Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, 1889–1957), Chilean poet, educator, and diplomat; first Latin American Nobel literature laureate (1945); author of Desolación, Ternura, Tala, and Lagar.
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D'Annunzio, also called Il Vate, Italian poet, novelist, dramatist and nationalist politician (1863–1938), author of Il piacere and the Laudi, leader of the 1919–1920 Fiume occupation.
Gabrielle Roy
Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983) was a French Canadian novelist from Saint Boniface, Manitoba, whose first novel, Bonheur d'occasion, published in English as The Tin Flute, renewed the Canadian novel.
Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin (born 1977) is an American novelist and screenwriter, Harvard graduate, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022) and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry; her books are translated into over forty languages.
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (1695?-1755), French novelist and fairy-tale writer, wife of J.-B. de Gaillon de Villeneuve; wrote the original 1740 La Belle et la Bête in La Jeune Américaine, et les contes marins, later abridged by Beaumont.
Gafur Ghulam
Gafur Ghulam (Gʻafur Gʻulom; 1903, Tashkent – 1966) was an Uzbek poet, prose writer, and translator, best known for the novella Shum bola and wartime poems like "You Are Not an Orphan."
Gail Lumet Buckley
Gail Lumet Buckley (Gail Horne Jones, 1937–2024), American journalist and author, daughter of Lena Horne; wrote The Hornes, American Patriots, and The Black Calhouns.
Gail Simone
Gail Simone (born 1974) is an American comics writer, creator of the Women in Refrigerators website, known for Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Deadpool, Red Sonja, and Uncanny X-Men.
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh (गजानन माधव मुक्तिबोध, 1917–1964) was a Hindi poet, critic, and essayist best known for his long poems and his posthumous cult status.