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Ibn al-Sikkit
Ibn al-Sikkit (ابن السكيت), full name Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Dawraqī, was a Persian Arabic philologist of the Kufan school, known for Iṣlāḥ al-Manṭiq and killed in 858.
Ibn Durustawayh
Ibn Durustawayh (ابن درستويه) was a Persian-born Arabic grammarian, lexicographer, and hadith scholar active in Baghdad, where he studied under Mubarrad and died in 958.
Ibn Harma
Ibn Harma (إبراهيم بن هرمة), also known as Abu Ishaq, was a Medinan Arabic poet known for love poetry and panegyric who died around 792 CE.
Ibn Nubata
Ibn Nubata (ابن نباتة) was an Arabic poet and prose writer of the Mamluk era, born in Cairo in 1287 and died there in 1366.
Ibn Quzman
Ibn Quzman (ابن قزمان) was a Cordoban poet of al-Andalus who died in 1160 and is regarded as the leading composer of zajal, the strophic vernacular poetry of al-Andalus.
Ibn Sallam al-Jumahi
Ibn Sallam al-Jumahi (ابن سلام الجمحي) was a Basran literary critic who died in 846 or 847; his Tabaqat Fuhul al-Shu'ara is the oldest surviving book classifying Arabic poets.
Ibn-e-Insha
Ibn-e-Insha, pen name of Sher Muhammad Khan (1927–1978), was a Pakistani Urdu poet, humorist, columnist, and travelogue writer best known for the ghazal "Kal Chaudhvin ki Raat Thi".
Ibn-e-Safi
Ibn-e-Safi, pen name of Asrar Ahmad (ابن صفی, 1928–1980), was a Pakistani Urdu novelist who wrote about 250 detective and spy novels in the Jasoosi Duniya and Imran Series.
Ibrahim al-Koni
Ibrahim al-Koni (إبراهيم الكوني), born 1948 in Ghadames, Libya, is a Tuareg novelist whose more than 70 works on the Sahara, including The Bleeding of the Stone, are translated into over 40 languages.
Ibrahim Nagi
Ibrahim Nagi (إبراهيم ناجي) was an Egyptian physician and poet, a leading romantic figure in modern Arabic poetry whose ode "Al-Atlal" became famous through Umm Kulthum.
Ibuse Masuji
Ibuse Masuji (井伏鱒二, 1898–1993) was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer from Hiroshima Prefecture, known for an ironic, understated style and for Black Rain (Kuroi Ame), a central work of Japanese atomic-bomb literature.
Icchokas Meras
Icchokas Meras (1934–2014) was a Lithuanian novelist and screenwriter of Jewish origin whose work centers on the Holocaust; he emigrated to Israel in 1972 and wrote only in Lithuanian.
Iceberg Slim
Iceberg Slim, pen name of Robert Beck (born Robert Lee Maupin, 1918–1992), Chicago ex-pimp turned author whose 1967 Holloway House memoir Pimp founded street lit and shaped hip-hop.
Ida Faubert
Ida Faubert, born Ida Salomon Faubert, was a Haitian French poet, daughter of President Lysius Salomon, and one of the first Haitian women poets recognized internationally, writing from Paris.
Ida Gerhardt
Ida Gerhardt (1905–1997) was a Dutch poet and classicist who wrote formal, classically rooted verse apart from the experimental Vijftigers, winning the P.C. Hooft Prize for poetry.
Idea Vilariño
Idea Vilariño (1920–2009) was a Uruguayan poet, essayist, and translator, a central figure of the Generación del 45 known for spare poems on love, solitude, and death.
Ienăchiță Văcărescu
Ienăchiță Văcărescu (c. 1740 – 1797) was a Wallachian boyar poet, philologist, and historian who wrote one of the first printed Romanian grammars, published at Râmnic in 1787.
Ieva Simonaitytė
Ieva Simonaitytė (1897–1978) was a Lithuanian writer from the Klaipėda Region, the foremost portrayer of Lithuania Minor; her 1935 debut novel won the first Lithuanian State Literature Prize.
Iftikhar Arif
Iftikhar Arif (افتخار عارف) is a Pakistani Urdu poet and scholar, full name Iftikhar Hussain Arif, born in Lucknow in 1944 and famed through the television quiz show Kasauti.
Ignacio Aldecoa
Ignacio Aldecoa Isasi (1925–1969) was a Spanish writer of the postwar generación del 50, best known for his short stories and novels of social realism.
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, born in 1936, is a Brazilian novelist and journalist known for the dystopian Zero and his resistance to censorship under the military dictatorship.
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano
Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834–1893) was a Mexican writer, journalist, teacher, and liberal politician who defined the program of national literature in Mexico after the French Intervention and taught the writers who came of age after 1867.
Ignacio Rodríguez Galván
Ignacio Rodríguez Galván was a Mexican poet, playwright, and editor widely regarded as Mexico's first Romantic writer; he died of yellow fever in Havana in 1842, aged 26.
Ignas Šeinius
Ignas Šeinius, real surname Jurkūnas, was a Lithuanian and Swedish writer and diplomat, regarded as the leading impressionist in Lithuanian prose; his novel Kuprelis appeared in 1913.
Ignatius Mabasa
Ignatius Mabasa, born in 1971, is a Zimbabwean storyteller, novelist, and poet who writes in Shona; he is known for Mapenzi, an award-winning 1999 satirical novel.
Ignatius Sancho
Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 1780) was a Black British writer, composer, and shopkeeper, the first known person of African descent to vote in a British parliamentary election.
Ignazio Silone
Ignazio Silone, pen name of Secondino Tranquilli (1900-1978), Italian novelist and politician; PCI founder 1921, Swiss exile author of Fontamara and Pane e vino; subject of the informer controversy.
Igor Severyanin
Igor Severyanin (Игорь Северянин), pen name of Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev, was a Russian poet who founded egofuturism and was elected "King of Poets" in Moscow in 1918.
Ihor Kalynets
Ihor Kalynets (Ігор Калинець, 1939–2025) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, and dissident who served six years in Soviet labor camps and received the Shevchenko Prize in 1992.
Ilachandra Joshi
Ilachandra Joshi (इलाचन्द्र जोशी; 1903–1982) was a Hindi novelist, critic, and journalist, born in Almora and regarded as the initiator of the psychological novel in Hindi, with works including Sannyāsī and Muktipath.