Ana Merino Norverto (born June 1971) is a Spanish poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and comics scholar. She won the Premio Nadal in 2020 for her novel El mapa de los afectos.
Ana Miranda is a Brazilian poet and novelist born in Fortaleza, Ceará in 1951. She grew up in Brasilia and has lived in Rio de Janeiro since 1969. Her main work of note has been historical, including her award-winning 1989 novel A Boca do Inferno, which was published in English in 1991. Many of her other works have concerned the conflicts of women wanting to have careers and families.
Ana Plácido (1831—1895) was a Portuguese novelist and author. Her best known work is the 1871 novel Herança de Lágrimas, and she is also noted for an autobiographical book Luz Coada por Ferros. She was married to the author Camilo Castelo Branco, with whom she earlier had an extra-marital affair while she was married.
Ana Teresa Pereira is a Portuguese novelist. She was born in Funchal. She published her debut novel, Matar a Imagem, in 1989. She has written more than 20 books.
Ana Teresa Torres is a Venezuelan novelist, essayist and short story writer. Her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, is often concerned with Venezuelan history and politics, memory, gender, and psychoanalysis.
Anacreon was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and erotic poems. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon wrote all of his poetry in the ancient Ionic dialect. Like all early lyric poetry, it was composed to be sung or recited to the accompaniment of music, usually the lyre. Anacreon's poetry touched on universal themes of love, infatuation, disappointment, revelry, parties, festivals and the observations of everyday people and life.
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell was a French-born American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin was the daughter of the composer Joaquín Nin and the classically trained singer Rosa Culmell. Nin spent her early years in Spain and Cuba, about sixteen years in Paris (1924–1940), and the remaining half of her life in the United States, where she became an established author.
Anand Kumar is an Indian Mathematics educator, best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, known for coaching underprivileged students for JEE- Main & JEE-Advanced, the entrance examination for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Kumar was named in Time magazine's list of Best of Asia 2010. In 2023, he was awarded the Padma Shri, country's fourth highest civilian award by the Government of India for his contributions in the field of literature and education.
Ananda Kentish Muthu Coomaraswamy was a Ceylonese metaphysician, historian and a philosopher of Indian art who was an early interpreter of Indian culture to the West. In particular, he is described as "the groundbreaking theorist who was largely responsible for introducing ancient Indian art to the West".
