Asian 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
- Amru Al-kais
- Attar, Farid Ad-din
- Ba Jin
- Basho
- Bhattacharya, Bhabhani
- Bidpai
- 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
- Hariri
- Hayashi Fumiko
- Hikmet, Nâzım
- Ihara Saikaku
- Imru Al-kais
- Jami
- Kakinomoto No Hitomaro
- Kalidasa
- Kawabata, Yasunari
- Kemal, Yaşar
- Khayyam, Omar
- Ki No Tsurayuki
- 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
- Mori Ogai
- Murakami, Haruki
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Mutanabbi, Al-
- Nâzım Hikmet
- Narayan, R. K.
- Natsume Soseki
- Oe, Kenzaburo
- Omar Khayyam
- Ono No Komachi
- Pa Chin
- Po Chü-i
- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- 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
- Yosano, Akiko
- Zeami Motokiyo
- Zhang Xianliang
- Zhong Acheng
- Zuhair
