Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter S

These were syndicated to several newspapers, including The Deccan Chronicle from Bangalore, India an

These were syndicated to several newspapers, including The Deccan Chronicle from Bangalore, India and The Dawn newspaper of Pakistan. With the sacking of Asian Age editor M.J. Akbar over the defence of an anti-Congress, anti-Indo-US Nuclear Deal op-ed written by Seema, Seema resigned from the Asian Age as well.

Was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi/Empress Sadako around the year

Was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi/Empress Sadako around the year 1000 during the middle Heian Period, and is best known as the author of The Pillow Book (??? makura no soshi).Sei Shonagon's actual given name is not known. It was the custom among aristocrats in those days to call a court lady (??nyobo) by a combined appellative taken from a) her clan name and b) some court office belonging either to her or some close relative. Sei (?) thus derives from the Kiyohara (??) clan, while Shonagon was a government post. It is unknown which of her relatives held the post of shonagon. Her actual name has been a topic of debate among scholars, who generally favor Kiyohara Nagiko (?? ??) as a likely possibility.

Was a prolific Japanese writer and journalist,He was born in the city of Kokura, now Kokura Kita war

Was a prolific Japanese writer and journalist,He was born in the city of Kokura, now Kokura Kita ward, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka prefecture. His real name was Kiyoharu Matsumoto; "Seicho" is the Sino-Japanese reading of his given name characters. Matsumoto wrote not only mystery/detective fiction but historical novels and nonfiction. He also has collaborated with film director Yoshitaro Nomura on adapting eight of his novels to film, including the Castle of Sand, which is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Japanese cinema.

Is a Japanese novelist and author. He is best known for the controversial The Devil's Gluttony (????

Is a Japanese novelist and author. He is best known for the controversial The Devil's Gluttony (?????) (1981), which revealed the atrocities committed by Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).

Was an African-American poet and performer, as well as a teacher at New York City's New School. Famo

Was an African-American poet and performer, as well as a teacher at New York City's New School. Famous students include musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty.

Was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren studied with Ferruccio Busoni, and in 1921

Was a Finnish composer, pianist, and conductor. Palmgren studied with Ferruccio Busoni, and in 1921 came to the United States, where he taught composition at the Eastman School of Music, later returning to Finland. Most of his works were for piano, and his smaller lyric pieces are his most noteworthy for the use of Scandinavian folk elements. His hometown Pori has a Palmgren conservatory named by him.

A female author of Bengali Literature, living in Bangladesh, is a famous novelist.

A female author of Bengali Literature, living in Bangladesh, is a famous novelist.

A Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationa

A Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for children, in the most common translation The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, but the literal translation would be "Nils Holgersson's Wonderful Journey Through Sweden"

Was an Ukrainian opera composer, singer (baritone), actor, and dramatist who lived and worked in Imp

Was an Ukrainian opera composer, singer (baritone), actor, and dramatist who lived and worked in Imperial Russia. He is known mainly for his comic opera Zaporozhets za Dunayem (A Zaporozhian (Kozak) Beyond the Danube), as well as for his dramatic talent a

Was a Russian poet. Nadson's father was a Jew who converted to the Greek Orthodox religion. His moth

Was a Russian poet. Nadson's father was a Jew who converted to the Greek Orthodox religion. His mother, Alexandra, was a Russian Orthodox. Despite publishing only one book of poems (he died of tuberculosis at age 24), he enjoyed a significant success, alt

Who was a Russian poet, of the World War II generation. He is often compared with Pavel Kogan and Se

Who was a Russian poet, of the World War II generation. He is often compared with Pavel Kogan and Semen Kirsanov.

Was an early member of the American Communist Party and co-founder, in 1922, of the Japan Communist

Was an early member of the American Communist Party and co-founder, in 1922, of the Japan Communist Party.Sugataro Yabuki was the second son born to Kunizo and Kichi Yabuki in 1859 in the Hadeki district of what would later become Japan's Okayama prefecture. He was adopted by the Katayama family at nineteen and adopted the name Sen Katayama, becoming the Katayama's "first son," after his birth mother was deserted by her husband. The adoption avoided Katayama's conscription and allowed him to continue his education. In his autobiography, Jiden (??), Katayama admitted that he was fortunate not to have been the first born in his birth family, as it saved him from some of the responsibilities that burdened some of his acquaintances.

Is an Iranian award-winner writer. She has written several novels in Persian.

Is an Iranian award-winner writer. She has written several novels in Persian.

Was a Russian and Soviet composer who was born in the Imperial Russia, and died in Russia. He was of

Was a Russian and Soviet composer who was born in the Imperial Russia, and died in Russia. He was often credited as S. Tulikov, in his musical works and his cameo appearance in Russian television series.

Was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied style and individualit

Was a French poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's varied style and individuality made him difficult to categorize. Although famous in France for many years and even though he made several hits there, he did not achieve his first No. 1 album until 1979, when he released Aux Armes et caetera more than twenty years after his music career had begun. Since the 1980s, his legacy has been firmly established.

Was a French composer. After initial studies with Ginette Martenot, Nigg entered the Paris Conservat

Was a French composer. After initial studies with Ginette Martenot, Nigg entered the Paris Conservatory in 1941 and studied harmony with Olivier Messiaen and counterpoint with Simone Plé-Caussade. In 1945, he met René Leibowitz, who introduced him to the twelve-tone technique of composition. After completing a Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and a Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (both 1943), and the symphonic poem Timour (1944), he became the first French composer to write a dodecaphonic work when his Variations for Piano and 10 Instruments appeared in 1946. This piece was premiered at the International Festival of Dodecaphonic Music, organized by Leibowitz in 1947.

Is a Russian filmmaker, writer, producer and director.

Is a Russian filmmaker, writer, producer and director.

Was a Ukrainian-born Polish Romantic composer and pianist. Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born i

Was a Ukrainian-born Polish Romantic composer and pianist. Sergei Eduardovich Bortkiewicz was born in Kharkov, Ukraine on February 28, 1877

Was a Russian short-story writer and novelist.

Was a Russian short-story writer and novelist.

Was a Russian lexicographer who in 1926 graduated from the Leningrad University where his teachers i

Was a Russian lexicographer who in 1926 graduated from the Leningrad University where his teachers included Lev Shcherba and Viktor Vinogradov.In 1935-40, Ozhegov contributed to Dmitry Ushakov's 4-volume explanatory dictionary of the Russian language. His main piece of work, the "Dictionary and Culture of Russian Speech" ("??????? ? ???????? ??????? ????"), as updated and corrected by Natalia Shvedova, is the most widely used reference for the Russian language today.

Was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author. (Taneyev's first

Was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author. (Taneyev's first name appears both as Sergei and Sergey.)

Was a Russian composer and pianist. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, in Yaroslavl wh

Was a Russian composer and pianist. After the death of his father, Mikhail Lyapunov, in Yaroslavl when he was about eight, Sergei, his mother, and his two brothers went to live in the larger town of Nizhny Novgorod.

Was a Russian poet, one of the founders (together with Nikolay Gumilyov) of Guild of Poets ("??? ???

Was a Russian poet, one of the founders (together with Nikolay Gumilyov) of Guild of Poets ("??? ??????").

He was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the

He was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. (Alternative transliterations of his name include Sergey or Serge, and Prokofief, Prokofieff, or Prokofyev.)

Was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as

Was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great representative of Russian late Romanticism in classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and other Russi