Lidija Dimkovska, born 1971, is a Macedonian poet, novelist and translator. She was born in Skopje and studied comparative literature at the University of Skopje. She proceeded to obtain a PhD in Romanian literature at the University of Bucharest. She has taught Macedonian language and literature at the University of Bucharest and world literature at the University of Nova Gorica in Slovenia.
Lidiya Yakovlevna Ginzburg was a major Soviet literary critic and historian and a survivor of the siege of Leningrad. She was an inspiration to a new generation of poets.
Lidiya Mikhailovna Ivanova was a Russian print and television journalist, television announcer and writer. She died of complications from diabetes on 7 November 2007.
Lidiya Yulianovna Serebrova was a Russian poet and author. Khaindrova's family left the Russian Empire in the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution and she lived in China from 1916 to 1947. In China, Khaindrova was involved in literary circles and published poems in magazines, journals and her own collections. Central themes in her work are the longing for home, the revolution, peace and war. In 1947 she moved to Russia, and she later worked as a proofreader and English teacher.
Lidiya Nikolaevna Seifullina was a Soviet journalist, playwright, novelist, and short story writer. Her short story "Virineia" serves as the basis for an opera by Sergei Slonimsky.
Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of USSR (1974). The winner of the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951). Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1952.
Lidiya Petrovna Sukharevskaya was a Soviet stage actress and playwright renowned for her work with Nikolay Akimov and Andrey Goncharov. Her frequent stage partner was Boris Tenin, her husband. She also appeared in 14 films between 1939 and 1981. Sukharevskaya was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
Lie Kim Hok was a peranakan Chinese teacher, writer, and social worker active in the Dutch East Indies and styled the "father of Chinese Malay literature". Born in Buitenzorg, West Java, Lie received his formal education in missionary schools and by the 1870s was fluent in Sundanese, vernacular Malay, and Dutch, though he was unable to understand Chinese. In the mid-1870s he married and began working as the editor of two periodicals published by his teacher and mentor D. J. van der Linden. Lie left the position in 1880. His wife died the following year. Lie published his first books, including the critically acclaimed syair (poem) Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari and grammar book Malajoe Batawi, in 1884. When van der Linden died the following year, Lie purchased the printing press and opened his own company.
