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Galaktion Tabidze
Galaktion Tabidze, known as Galaktioni, was a Georgian poet whose work is regarded as a defining achievement of twentieth-century Georgian lyric poetry; he died in 1959.
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) was an American poet whose free-verse work connects daily life to spiritual and natural forces, winning the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1983.
Gamal al-Ghitani
Gamal al-Ghitani (جمال الغيطاني), 1945 to 2015, was an Egyptian novelist and journalist who founded the weekly Akhbar al-Adab and wrote the acclaimed novel Zayni Barakat.
Gamaliel Churata
Gamaliel Churata, pen name of Arturo Pablo Peralta Miranda (1897–1969), was a Peruvian avant-garde writer who edited the Boletín Titikaka and wrote El pez de oro.
Ganesh Gogoi
Ganesh Gogoi (গণেশচন্দ্ৰ গগৈ, 1907–1938) was an Assamese poet, playwright, composer, and footballer known as Papori kobi, whose 1934 verse collection Papori began romanticism in Assamese poetry.
Gangadhar Gadgil
Gangadhar Gadgil was a Marathi writer from Mumbai regarded as the leading exponent of the Marathi navakatha, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996 for his autobiography.
Gangadhar Meher
Gangadhar Meher (ଗଙ୍ଗାଧର ମେହେର) was an Odia poet of Western Odisha, called Swabhaba Kabi, the Poet of Nature, whose epic Tapaswini retells Sita's life after her exile.
Gao Lian
Gao Lian (高濂, born 1527) was a Chinese playwright, book collector, and health-cultivation writer of the late Ming, author of The Jade Hairpin and the 1591 encyclopedia Eight Discourses on Nurturing Life.
Gao You
Gao You (高诱) was an Eastern Han scholar whose commentaries on the Huainanzi, Lüshi Chunqiu, and Zhanguoce are among the most extensive Han annotations to survive.
GAPENA
GAPENA (Gabungan Persatuan Penulis Nasional Malaysia), the Federation of National Writers Associations of Malaysia, is a Malay-language federation of writers' associations founded in Kuala Lumpur in 1970.
Garcilaso de la Vega
Garcilaso de la Vega (c. 1501–1536) was a Castilian poet, soldier, and diplomat from Toledo who, with Juan Boscán, introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into Spanish poetry.
Gardizi
Gardizi (Abu Sa'id Abd-al-Hayy b. Zahhak b. Mahmud Gardizi) was an 11th-century Persian historian in the Ghaznavid court whose Zayn al-Akhbar is the earliest surviving original Persian historiography.
Garth Ennis
Garth Ennis (born 1970, Holywood, Northern Ireland) is a comics writer, creator of Preacher, The Boys, Hitman, and Crossed, known for Hellblazer, Punisher, and war comics such as War Stories and Battlefields.
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen (1939-2021), American young-adult author of over 200 books including Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room; three Newbery Honors, 1997 Margaret A. Edwards Award, Iditarod racer, 35 million copies sold.
Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930, San Francisco) is an American Beat-era poet, Zen Buddhist, and environmentalist; Turtle Island won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize, and his work fuses deep ecology, bioregionalism, and Chinese and Japanese poetic traditions.
Gaspar Núñez de Arce
Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1832–1903) was a Spanish poet, playwright, journalist, and public official, acclaimed in his lifetime for Gritos del combate (1875) and the verse drama El haz de leña.
Gaspar Pedro González
Gaspar Pedro González, born 1945, is a Guatemalan Q'anjob'al Maya writer best known for La otra cara (1992), often called the first novel written in a Mayan language.
Gaspara Stampa
Gaspara Stampa (1523 or 1525 – 1554) was an Italian Renaissance poet of Padua and Venice whose posthumous 1554 collection Rime made her a leading woman poet.
Gaston Paris
Gaston Paris (Bruno Paulin Gaston Paris, 1839–1903) was a French philologist and medievalist who made medieval French literature a scientific discipline, held the Collège de France chair, and founded the journal Romania.
Gaur Kishore Ghosh
Gaur Kishore Ghosh (গৌরকিশোর ঘোষ) was a Bengali writer and journalist from West Bengal, India, known for satirical columns under the pen name Rupadarshi and for resisting press censorship during the 1975–1977 Emergency.
Gauri Deshpande
Gauri Deshpande was an Indian writer and University of Pune professor, born in Pune into a family of reformers, who wrote poetry, fiction, essays, and translations in Marathi and English.
Gavin Douglas
Gavin Douglas (c. 1474–1522) was a Scottish poet and bishop of Dunkeld whose Eneados of 1513 was the first complete translation of Virgil's Aeneid into English or Scots.
Gavin Maxwell
Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969), Scottish naturalist and author of Ring of Bright Water (1960), the otter memoir that sold over two million copies; also SOE instructor and Soay basking shark fishery operator.
Gawain Poet
The Gawain Poet, also called the Pearl Poet, is the anonymous author of four Middle English poems, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, written in the late 1300s.
Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree (गीतांजलि श्री), born 1957, is an Indian novelist and short-story writer in Hindi, author of five novels and five collections, whose Ret Samadhi won the 2022 International Booker Prize.
Gege Akutami (芥見下々)
Gege Akutami (芥見下々) is the pseudonymous Japanese manga artist, born 1992, who wrote Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦), the 150-million-copy dark fantasy serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2018, later spinoff Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo with Yuji Iwasaki.
Gendün Chöphel
Gendün Chöphel (1903–1951) was a Tibetan philosopher, historian, painter, and traveler, regarded as the pioneering figure of Tibetan modern art and a campaigner for Tibet's modernization.
Gene Wolfe
Gene Wolfe, full name Gene Rodman Wolfe, was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for the four-volume The Book of the New Sun.
Generación de los Sesenta
Generación de los Sesenta, or Generation of the Sixties, labels the Cuban writers formed intellectually within the Revolution of 1959, including Reinaldo Arenas and Senel Paz.
Generación del 50
Generación del 50 is the label for the Peruvian writers, mainly poets and narrators, whose work in the 1950s replaced rural indigenismo with urban, realist, and experimental fiction.