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- Umberto EcoItalian semiotician, philosopher and writer (1932–2016)
- Underground (Murakami book)Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (アンダーグラウンド, Andāguraundo, 1997–1
- Urdu ghazalLiterary form
- Ursula K. Le GuinAmerican author (1929–2018)
- Utopian and dystopian fictionGenres of literature that explore social and political structures
- UwaisiSufi mystic order in Sunni Islam