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Harry Turtledove
Harry Turtledove, American alternate-history author with a PhD in Byzantine history; wrote The Guns of the South, How Few Remain, and the Worldwar series; Hugo winner (1994) and two-time Sidewise Award winner; married to novelist Laura Frankos.
Hart Crane
Hart Crane (Harold Hart Crane, 1899–1932) was an American modernist poet whose collections White Buildings and The Bridge made him one of the major poets of his generation before his death by suicide at thirty-two.
Hartmann von Aue
Hartmann von Aue, also written Hartman von Ouwe, was a Middle High German poet and knight who wrote the first two German Arthurian romances, Erek and Iwein, around 1200.
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹)
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹), born 1949 in Kyoto, is a Japanese novelist of magical realist fiction, debut 'Hear the Wind Sing' (1979), famous for Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and 1Q84, translated into over fifty languages.
Harvey Pekar
Harvey Pekar (1939-2010), American comic book writer and jazz critic from Cleveland, creator of the autobiographical series American Splendor, illustrated by Robert Crumb and others; won the 1987 American Book Award and inspired the 2003 Sundance-winning film.
Hasan Ali Toptaş
Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 1958) is a Turkish novelist and short-story writer whose dreamlike, poetic narratives, blurring dream and reality, made him a leading name in contemporary Turkish literature.
Hasan Azizul Huq
Hasan Azizul Huq (1939–2021) was a Bengali writer who settled in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, known for the novel Agunpakhi and winning the Independence Award in 2019.
Hasan Dehlavi
Hasan Dehlavi (حسن دهلوی) was an Indo-Persian poet of Delhi, born around 1253, known as the "Sa'di of Hindustan" and credited with founding the Indo-Persian ghazal.
Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil
Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil (1927–1984) was a Turkish poet, writer, and journalist, a leading social realist voice after 1950 who published 26 books and won major poetry awards.
Hasrat Mohani
Hasrat Mohani, born Syed Fazl ul Hasan (1878–1951), was an Urdu poet, journalist, and independence activist from British India who coined the slogan Inquilab Zindabad.
Hatef Esfahani
Hatef Esfahani (هاتف اصفهانی) was the pen name of Sayyed Ahmad Hosseini, an influential Persian poet of the 18th century who pioneered the literary return movement.
Hatim al-Tai (حاتم الطائي)
Hatim al-Tai (حاتم الطائي), also Hatem Ta'i, Hatim Tai: pre-Islamic Arab poet and chieftain of the Tayy tribe, proverbial for boundless generosity; father of the Companion 'Adi ibn Hatim, with a diwan of about 52 poems and a Persian romance tradition.
Hattori Ransetsu
Hattori Ransetsu (服部嵐雪, 1654–1707) was a Japanese haikai poet of the early Edo period and leading disciple of Matsuo Bashō who, after Bashō's death, led Edo haikai alongside Takarai Kikaku.
Haviva Pedaya
Haviva Pedaya, born in Jerusalem in 1957, is an Israeli professor of Jewish history, poet, and scholar of Kabbalah who won the Bernstein and Gershom Scholem prizes.
Hayatullah Ansari
Hayatullah Ansari (حیات اللہ انصاری) was an Indian Urdu fiction writer, critic, and journalist who edited Qaumi Awaz and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1970.
Hayim Nahman Bialik (חיים נחמן ביאליק)
Hayim Nahman Bialik (חיים נחמן ביאליק), 1873–1934, Ukrainian-born Hebrew poet called the national poet, author of "In the City of Slaughter," Dvir publisher, and shaper of modern Hebrew poetry.
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (हजारीप्रसाद द्विवेदी, 1907–1979) was a Hindi novelist, literary historian, and critic, ranked among the leading figures of modern Hindi criticism and honored with the Padma Bhushan.
Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) was a British-born Australian biographer whose acclaimed books include Tête-à-Tête, on Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and a study of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
He Jingzhi
He Jingzhi (贺敬之), born 1924, is a Chinese poet and playwright best known as principal scriptwriter of The White-Haired Girl and a leading political lyric poet.
He Qifang
He Qifang (何其芳, born He Yongfang, 1912–1977) was a Chinese poet, essayist, and literary critic whose dreamlike early poetry made him a leading lyric voice of 1930s China.
He Zhu
He Zhu (贺铸, 1052–1125), courtesy name Fanghui, was a Northern Song ci poet blending heroic and delicate styles, whose 286 surviving lyrics rank second only to Su Shi's.
Heather Morris (author)
Heather Morris, New Zealand-born novelist in Australia, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz (2018), Cilka's Journey, Three Sisters, and Sisters Under the Rising Sun; over 19 million copies sold; 2024 TV adaptation; accuracy debated by Auschwitz Memorial.
Hebrew Writers Association
The Hebrew Writers Association is the professional association of Hebrew-language writers and poets in Israel, founded in 1921 in Tel Aviv by Haim Nahman Bialik.
Héctor Bianciotti
Héctor Bianciotti (1930–2012) was an Argentine-born, French-naturalized novelist, critic, and editor who abandoned Spanish for French in the early 1980s and was elected to the Académie française in 1996.
Héctor Libertella
Héctor Libertella (1945–2006) was an Argentine writer, critic, editor, and anthologist born in Bahía Blanca, regarded by critics as the pioneer of the critical fiction genre that blurred fiction, essay, and theory.
Héctor Rojas Herazo
Héctor Rojas Herazo (1921–2002) was a Colombian poet, novelist, journalist, and painter whose novel En noviembre llega el arzobispo won the Premio Esso de Literatura.
Héctor Tizón
Héctor Tizón (1929–2012) was an Argentine novelist, journalist, diplomat, and judge whose fiction, rooted in the Puna highlands of Jujuy, drew comparisons to Juan Rulfo.
Heimito von Doderer
Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966) was an Austrian novelist whose Vienna novels Die Strudlhofstiege (1951) and Die Dämonen (1956) made him a major postwar German-language writer.
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) was a German writer from Cologne associated with postwar rubble literature who won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first for a German writer in 43 years.
Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine (Harry Heine, 1797–1856), German lyric poet and critic, author of Buch der Lieder and Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen; baptized 1825, Paris exile from 1831, works banned in Prussia 1835.