Writers and literary biographies

Ilango Adigal

Ilango Adigal (இளங்கோ அடிகள்) is the name traditionally given to the author of the Tamil epic Silappatikaram, identified as a Jain monk of the Chera royal family.

Ilf and Petrov

Ilf and Petrov (Ильф и Петров), Soviet satirical duo Ilya Ilf (Fainzilberg, 1897–1937) and Evgeny Petrov (Kataev, 1903–1942), authors of The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf featuring Ostap Bender.

İlhan Berk

İlhan Berk (1918–2008), born Emrullah İlhan Birsen in Manisa, was a leading Turkish poet of the İkinci Yeni (Second New) movement, known for experimental, prose, and object-centered poetry.

Ilia Chavchavadze

Ilia Chavchavadze (ილია ჭავჭავაძე, 1837–1907) was a Georgian writer, journalist, and public figure who led Georgia's national movement and is venerated as Saint Ilia the Righteous.

Ilyas Zhansugurov

Ilyas Zhansugurov (Ілияс Жансүгіров) was a Kazakh poet, playwright, and translator who wrote the poem Kulager and translated Pushkin's Eugene Onegin into Kazakh; he was executed in 1938.

Ilyasah Shabazz (born 1962), American author, educator, and activist; third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz; author of Growing Up X and X: A Novel (NAACP Image Award); adjunct professor at John Jay College and Shabazz Center board chair.

Im Je

Im Je (임제; 1549–1587), pen name Baekho, was a mid-Joseon poet and official who left about 1,000 Chinese-style poems and the novel Suseongji, and was compared to Du Mu.

Imants Ziedonis

Imants Ziedonis (1933–2013) was a Latvian poet and prose writer, one of the most widely read Latvian poets of the late 20th century, creator of the short prose form he called epiphanies.

Imdad Hussaini

Imdad Hussaini, real name Syed Imdad Ali Shah, was a Sindhi-language poet, translator, and editor from Sindh, Pakistan, counted among the leading modern Sindhi poets.

Imran ibn Hattan

Imran ibn Hattan (عمران بن حطان السدوسي; died 703) was a Basran poet, orator, and hadith transmitter who led the Qa'ada of the Sufriyya Kharijites and was hunted by al-Hajjaj.

Imre Kertész

Imre Kertész is a Hungarian novelist who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a teen, becoming the first Hungarian writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002.

Imre Madách

Imre Madách (Madách Imre, 1823–1864) was a Hungarian poet and country gentleman, member of Parliament, and author of the 1861 dramatic poem The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája), his major work.

Ina Seidel

Ina Seidel (1885–1974) was a German writer and poet whose bestselling family novel Das Wunschkind (1930) made her one of Germany's most widely read authors.

Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto

Inácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto, pseudonym Eureste Fenício, was a Brazilian colonial poet, magistrate, and farmer, and a leader of the 1789 Inconfidência Mineira independence conspiracy.

Indian English literature

Indian English literature, also called Indian Writing in English or Indo-Anglian, is literature written in English by Indian authors, in India and abroad, spanning novels, poetry, and drama.

Indian literature

Indian literature: the multilingual literary tradition of the subcontinent, from Vedic, Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and Prakrit works through Bhakti poetry to modern Hindi, Bengali and English writing, sustained by translation and the Sahitya Akademi.

Indira Goswami

Indira Goswami, known as Mamoni Raisom Goswami, was an Assamese novelist and Delhi University professor whose fiction about widows won the 2000 Jnanpith Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award.

Indira Parthasarathy

Indira Parthasarathy is the pen name of Ranganathan Parthasarathy, born 1930, a Tamil writer and playwright known for the plays Aurangzeb and Ramanujar and for winning both the Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.

Indira Sant

Indira Sant (इंदिरा संत, born Indira Dixit; 1914–2000) was a Marathi lyric poet, short-story writer, and essayist whose introspective poetry made her a leading woman poet of modern Marathi literature.

Inés Arredondo

Inés Amelia Camelo Arredondo, known as Inés Arredondo (1928–1989), was a Mexican short-story writer of the Generación del Medio Siglo who won the 1979 Premio Xavier Villaurrutia for Río subterráneo.

Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) was an Austrian poet and author, among the most influential European writers of the twentieth century, known for Die gestundete Zeit and Malina.

Inger Christensen

Inger Christensen (1935–2009) was a Danish poet, novelist, and essayist regarded as Denmark's leading poetic experimentalist, known for det (1969), the Fibonacci-structured alfabet (1981), and the sonnet crown Sommerfugledalen (1991).

Inger Hagerup

Inger Hagerup (1905–1985) was a Norwegian poet, author, and translator best known for the resistance poem "Aust-Vågøy", circulated illegally during the occupation, and children's classics like Så rart.

Ingersoll Lockwood

Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918), American lawyer and author of the Baron Trump children's novels and the 1896 satire 1900: or, The Last President; also consul to Hanover under Lincoln, pseudonym Irwin Longman, later subject of Trump prophecy theories.

Inglês de Sousa

Inglês de Sousa (1853–1918) was a Brazilian novelist and lawyer who introduced Naturalism into Brazilian literature with O coronel sangrado and helped found the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

Ingrid de Kok

Ingrid de Kok, also published as Ingrid Fiske, is a South African poet born in 1951 in Johannesburg, known for poems on apartheid, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and HIV/AIDS.

Ingrid Jonker

Ingrid Jonker (1933–1965), Afrikaans poet of Rook en Oker and Die kind; Die Sestigers member whose poem Mandela read in 1994; Order of Ikhamanga recipient.

Inklings

The Inklings were an informal Oxford literary circle of British, male, Christian writers including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams, who met from the 1930s to read and critique drafts such as The Lord of the Rings.

Innokenty Annensky

Innokenty Annensky (Иннокентий Анненский) was a Russian Symbolist poet, critic, and educator at Tsarskoye Selo whose fame came almost entirely after his sudden death in 1909.