CiteAsian Literature: Biographies
- Abe, Kobo
- Abu al-Ala al-Maarri
- Abu al-Faraj Ali of Esfahan
- Abu Nuwas
- Abu Said ibn Abi al-Khair
- Abu Tammam Habib ibn Aus
- Adonis
- Adunis
- Ah Cheng
- Ai Ch'ing
- Ai Qing
- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
- Al Aswany, Alaa
- Ali, Sabahattin
- Amru al-Kais
- Attar, Farid ad-Din
- Ba Jin
- Basho
- Behbahani, Simin
- Bhattacharya, Bhabhani
- Bidpai
- Ch'ien Chung-shu
- Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra
- Chiang Hai-ch'eng
- Chikamatsu, Monzaemon
- Chokodo Shujin
- Chou Shu-jen
- Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish
- Darwish, Mahmoud
- Dazai, Osamu
- Enchi, Fumiko
- Endo, Shusaku
- Farid ad-Din Attar
- Ferdowsi
- Firdausi
- Fujiwara Teika
- Gao Xingjian
- Guo Moruo
- Hafiz
- Han Han
- Hariri
- Hayashi, Fumiko
- Hikmet, Nâzım
- Ihara Saikaku
- Imru al-Kais
- Jami
- Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
- Kalidasa
- Kawabata, Yasunari
- Kemal, Yaşar
- Khayyam, Omar
- Ki no Tsurayuki
- Kuan Han-ch'ing
- Kuo Mo-jo
- Lao She
- Li Ang
- Li Ch'ing-chao
- Li Pai
- Li Po
- Li Shang-yin
- Lu Hsün
- Lu Xun
- Mao Dun
- Mao Tun
- Masaoka Shiki
- Matsuo Basho
- Mechitar
- Mishima, Yukio
- Mo Yan
- Mori Ogai
- Murakami, Haruki
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Mutanabbi, al-
- Narayan, R. K.
- Natsume Soseki
- Nâzım Hikmet
- Nguyen Chi Thien
- Noguchi, Yone
- Oe, Kenzaburo
- Omar Khayyam
- Ono no Komachi
- Pa Chin
- Pamuk, Orhan
- Po Chü-i
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Qian Zhongshu
- Rao, Raja
- Rumi, Jalal ad-Din
- Saadi
- Sadi
- Said, Ali Ahmad
- Saigyo
- Saikaku, Ihara
- Sei Shonagon
- She Yen-ping
- Shih Shu-tuan
- Shiki, Masaoka
- Shimazaki Toson
- Shu Ch'ing-ch'un
- Shu She-yü
- Shuji, Tsushima
- Soseki, Natsume
- Su Shih
- Su Tung-p'o
- T'ao Ch'ien
- T'ao Yüan-ming
- Tagore, Sir Rabindranath
- Takamura, Kotaro
- Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Teika, Fujiwara
- Toer, Pramoedya Ananta
- Toson, Shimazaki
- Ts'ao Hsüeh-ch'in
- Tsushima, Shuji
- Tu Fu
- Wang Wei
- Yang Jiang
- Yosano, Akiko
- Zeami Motokiyo
- Zhang Xianliang
- Zhong Acheng
- Zuhair
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