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Houshang Irani
Houshang Irani (هوشنگ ایرانی, 1925–1973) was an Iranian poet, translator, critic, and painter who pioneered surrealist and Dadaist experiment in modern Persian poetry and led the Khorus jangi circle.
Houshang Moradi Kermani
Houshang Moradi Kermani (هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی), born 1944 in Sirch near Kerman, is an Iranian writer of children's and young adult literature best known for the Tales of Majid.
Hovhannes Erznkatsi
Hovhannes Erznkatsi Pluz (c. 1230–1293) was an Armenian vardapet, theologian, philosopher, grammarian, and poet of thirteenth-century Greater Armenia and Cilicia; more than 100 of his works survive.
Hovhannes Tlkurantsi
Hovhannes Tlkurantsi is a late medieval Armenian lyric poet who composed more than forty poems, among the first published authors of medieval Armenian poetry; his collected Tagher appeared in Yerevan in 1960.
Hovhannes Tumanyan
Hovhannes Tumanyan (1869–1923) was an Armenian poet, regarded as the "All-Armenian poet," who wrote narrative poems like Anush, Gikor, and David of Sassoon in Tiflis.
Howard Ashman
Howard Elliott Ashman (1950-1991), Baltimore-born lyricist, playwright, and director; with Alan Menken wrote Little Shop of Horrors and Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin; two Oscars, four Grammys; Disney Legend 2001.
Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov (1920–1991) was an American poet who served as US poet laureate and won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his Collected Poems.
Hridaya Chandra Singh Pradhan
Hridaya Chandra Singh Pradhan (हृदयचन्द्रसिंह प्रधान) was a Nepali and Nepal Bhasa writer of the progressive current, best known for the novels Swasnimanchhe and Ek Chihan.
Hristo Smirnenski
Hristo Smirnenski (Христо Смирненски) was the pen name of Bulgarian poet Hristo Dimitrov Izmirliev (1898–1923), regarded as the first representative of proletarian literature in Bulgaria.
Hroswitha
Hroswitha, also spelled Hrotsvitha or Roswitha, was a tenth-century canoness of the Saxon abbey of Gandersheim whose six plays mark the beginning of nonliturgical Christian theater in Europe.
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, also spelled Hrotsvit or Roswitha, was a tenth-century canoness of Gandersheim Abbey in Saxony who wrote Latin plays and is regarded as the first known female playwright.
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko (Григорій Квітка-Основ'яненко, 1778–1843) was a Ukrainian writer and playwright, known as the father of Ukrainian prose and a founder of Kharkiv's cultural life.
Hsia Yu
Hsia Yu (夏宇), also known as Li Kedi (李格弟), is a Taiwan-based poet and pop lyricist whose 1984 debut collection, Memorandum, influenced a generation of writers.
Hu Yepin
Hu Yepin (胡也频) was a Chinese writer, poet, and playwright, companion of Ding Ling, executed in February 1931 as one of the five martyrs of the League of Left-Wing Writers.
Hu Yinglin
Hu Yinglin (胡应麟, 1551–1602), courtesy name Yuanrui, was a Ming dynasty Chinese poet, scholar, and literary critic best known for the Shisou, a large work of poetic criticism.
Huan Kuan
Huan Kuan (桓宽) was a Western Han scholar from Runan who compiled the Yantielun, the record of the 81 BCE court debate on the salt and iron monopolies.
Huang Chun-ming
Huang Chun-ming (黃春明), born 1935 in Yilan County, Taiwan, is a short-story writer, essayist, and playwright who leads Taiwan's nativist literature movement depicting rural, working-class life.
Huang Jin
Huang Jin (黄溍, 1277–1357), courtesy name Jinjin, was a Yuan dynasty Confucian scholar, prose writer, and official from Yiwu, Zhejiang, ranked among the four masters of Yuan prose.
Huang Jingren
Huang Jingren, better known by his literary name Huang Zhongze (黄仲则), was a Qing dynasty poet from Changzhou, Jiangsu, famed for melancholy verse and ranked first among Qianlong-era poets.
Hubert Selby Jr.
Hubert Selby Jr. (1928–2004) was an American writer whose cult classic Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) sold over 750,000 copies and was tried for obscenity in England and Italy.
Hugh Alexander Pollock
Hugh Alexander Pollock (1888-1971), British editor at George Newnes and Royal Scots Fusiliers lieutenant-colonel awarded the DSO in 1919; first husband of Enid Blyton, married 1924, divorced 1943, later married Ida Pollock; buried in Malta.
Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey (born 1975), American science fiction author of the self-published Wool series and Silo trilogy (Wool, Shift, Dust), adapted as Apple TV+'s Silo; advocate of indie publishing and Author Earnings.
Hugh Lofting
Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), British-born engineer turned author, created Doctor Dolittle in 1920 from letters written to his children from World War I trenches; his Voyages of Doctor Dolittle won a Newbery Medal.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978), was a Scottish poet who founded the Scottish Literary Renaissance and wrote A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.
Hugh MacLennan
Hugh MacLennan, born John Hugh MacLennan, was a Canadian novelist and essayist whose Two Solitudes (1945) named Canada's French-English divide; he won five Governor-General's Awards.
Hugh Walpole
Hugh Walpole (1884–1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist who published a novel almost yearly for three decades and is best remembered for his Herries Chronicle.
Hugo Alfaro
Hugo Alfaro (Hugo Renán Alfaro Pérez, 1917–1996) was a Uruguayan journalist and writer of the Generación del 45 who worked at the weekly Marcha and founded Brecha.
Hugo Claus
Hugo Claus, full name Hugo Maurice Julien Claus, was a leading Belgian novelist, poet, and playwright in Dutch, whose 1983 novel The Sorrow of Belgium became a classic of Flemish literature.
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback (Hugo Gernsbacher, 1884–1967), Luxembourg-born American publisher who founded Amazing Stories in 1926, coined "scientifiction" and "science fiction," birthed sf fandom, and gave his name to the Hugo Awards.
Hugo Loetscher
Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009) was a Swiss writer, journalist, and literary critic from Zürich known for an ironic, critical examination of Swiss identity and for the novel Der Immune.