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Ioan Slavici
Ioan Slavici (1848–1925) was a Transylvanian Romanian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist, regarded as the first great prose writer from Transylvania and a founder of modern Romanian prose.
Ion Creangă
Ion Creangă (1837/1839–1889), Romanian classical writer, deacon, and schoolteacher from Humulești, author of Amintiri din copilărie and tales such as Povestea lui Harap-Alb, published in Convorbiri literare through Junimea and friend of Eminescu.
Ion Heliade Rădulescu
Ion Heliade Rădulescu, also known as Ion Eliade, was a Romanian writer and philologist who founded Wallachia's first Romanian-language newspaper and wrote the first methodical Romanian grammar.
Ion Luca Caragiale
Ion Luca Caragiale (1852–1912), Romania's national playwright, author of O noapte furtunoasă, O scrisoare pierdută, and Năpasta; satirist of Romanian society, later exile in Berlin, Academy member 1948.
Ira Levin
Ira Levin (Ira Marvin Levin, 1929-2007), American novelist and playwright, author of Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, and The Boys from Brazil; seven novels, Deathtrap on Broadway, Edgar and Stoker awards, nearly all works filmed.
Iraj Mirza
Iraj Mirza (ایرجمیرزا), titled Jalal-al-Mamalek, was a Persian poet and satirist of the Qajar and Constitutional era, a pioneer of colloquial language in Persian verse.
Iraj Pezeshkzad
Iraj Pezeshkzad (ایرج پزشکزاد, 1928–2022) was an Iranian novelist, satirist, and diplomat, best known for the comic novel My Uncle Napoleon, published in 1970.
Iraqi Writers' Union
The Iraqi Writers' Union, formally the General Union of Writers and Authors in Iraq, is the national professional organization of Iraqi writers, founded in Baghdad in 1959.
Ireneo Paz
Ireneo Paz, full name José Ireneo Paz Flores (1836–1924), was a Mexican lawyer, journalist, and politician who wrote historical novels and was the grandfather of Octavio Paz.
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch (1919–1999), Irish-born British novelist and philosopher, author of 26 novels including Booker winner The Sea, The Sea, and of The Sovereignty of Good; known for Platonic moral realism, attention, and unselfing.
Irmgard Keun
Irmgard Keun (1905–1982) was a German novelist of the Weimar era, best known for Gilgi and The Artificial Silk Girl and her exile novels against Nazi Germany.
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh (born 1958, Leith, Edinburgh) is a Scottish novelist, author of Trainspotting (1993), Filth, Glue, and Skagboys; known for Edinburgh-dialect prose, the 1996 Danny Boyle film adaptation, and over 6 million books sold.
Irving Layton
Irving Layton (1912–2006), born Israel Pincu Lazarovitch, was a Romanian-born Canadian poet and teacher who published more than fifty collections and won the Governor General's Award.
Irving Stone
Irving Stone (1903-1989), born Irving Tennenbaum, American author of best-selling biographical novels such as Lust for Life (1934) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), which he called biohistory.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American science fiction writer and popular science author, creator of the Foundation series, the Robot stories, and the Three Laws of Robotics; one of the Big Three of SF's golden age with Heinlein and Clarke.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער), also Yitskhok Bashevis, Polish-born American Yiddish novelist and 1978 Nobel laureate; author of Satan in Goray, The Family Moskat, and "Gimpel the Fool," known for demon narrators and supervised English "second originals."
Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) was an English poet and painter, son of Jewish immigrants, known for the trench poems "Break of Day in the Trenches" and "Dead Man's Dump".
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende (Isabel Allende Llona), Chilean American novelist born 1942 in Lima, exiled to Venezuela after the 1973 coup; author of The House of the Spirits (1982) and Paula, winner of Chile's Premio Nacional de Literatura (2010), the US Presidential Medal of Freedom (2014), and the Premio Planeta (2026); over 80 million copies sold in 42 languages.
Isabel J. Kim
Isabel J. Kim (김지영) is a Korean-American speculative fiction author and attorney near New York City; Nebula, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and BSFA Award winner, debut novel Sublimation (Tor, 2026), YA debut The Apprentice Liar and the Death of the World (2027), co-host of Wow If True.
Isabella Whitney
Isabella Whitney was an English poet, active in the 1560s and 1570s, the first woman to publish original secular poetry in English under her own name.
Ishikawa Jōzan
Ishikawa Jōzan (石川丈山, 1583–1672) was a Japanese warrior from Mikawa Province who served Tokugawa Ieyasu, fought at Sekigahara, then became the leading kanshi poet of the early Edo period.
Ishikawa Takuboku
Ishikawa Takuboku (石川啄木), born Ishikawa Ichi, was a Japanese tanka poet and critic of the Meiji era, best known for the anthology Ichiaku no Suna.
Ishikawa Tatsuzō
Ishikawa Tatsuzō (石川達三, 1905–1985) was a Japanese novelist who won the first Akutagawa Prize in 1935 with Sōbō and became a central figure of postwar social school fiction.
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed, born 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is an American novelist, poet, essayist, and cultural critic known for his satirical Neo-HooDoo aesthetic and the novel Mumbo Jumbo.
Ishtiaq Ahmad (اشتیاق احمد) (fiction writer)
Ishtiaq Ahmad (اشتیاق احمد), c. 1941 to 2015, was a Pakistani Urdu novelist best known for the Inspector Jamshed detective series for children and teenagers.
Ishwar Chandra Gupta
Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–1859) was a Bengali poet and journalist who edited the Sambad Prabhakar, the newspaper that became the first Bengali daily, and is regarded as a bridge between medieval and modern Bengali poetry.
Ishwor Ballav
Ishwor Ballav (ईश्वरवल्लभ; 1937–2008) was a Nepali-language poet who co-founded the Tesro Aayam ("Third Dimension") literary movement in Darjeeling and received the Madan Puraskar in 2029 BS.
Isidora Sekulić
Isidora Sekulić (Исидора Секулић), a Serbian writer, essayist, and translator, was the first woman member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and wrote Saputnici and Pisma iz Norveške.
Ismail Hossain Siraji
Syed Ismail Hossain Siraji (সৈয়দ ইসমাইল হোসেন সিরাজী; 1880–1931) was a Bengali writer, poet, orator, and peasant leader who pioneered the Bengali Muslim reawakening in British India.
Ismail Kadare
Ismail Kadare (1936-2024), Albania's most celebrated novelist, wrote The General of the Dead Army and The Palace of Dreams under Hoxha's dictatorship, fled to Paris in 1990, and won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize.