Well-known authors of novels, listed by country: The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...

See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors Jump to: navigation, search The following are lists of authors and writers: // By name A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z By type of writing or genre List of hindi writers... This is a list of poets. ... List of notable playwrights. ... This is a partial list of short story authors: Lee K. Abbott (born 1947) Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) Charles Baxter (born 1947) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) Stefano Benni (born 1947) Ambrose Bierce (1842-c. ...

Albania

• Ismail Kadare

Ismail Kadare at a reading in Zurich Ismail Kadare is a world renowned Albanian writer. ...

Ancient Latin Authors

• Petronius

This article is about the Roman author Petronius. ...

Argentina

• Marcos Aguinis
• César Aira
• Federico Andahazi
• Roberto Arlt
• Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Abelardo Castillo
• Julio Cortázar, (1914 - 1984)
• Macedonio Fernandez
• Rodolfo Fogwill
• Ricardo Güiraldes, (1886-1927) Don Segundo Sombra
• Leopoldo Marechal
• Manuel Puig, author of Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Andrés Rivera
• Jorge Majfud "La reina de Amrica" (2001)
• Juan José Saer
• Ernésto Sábato, Sobre Héroes y Tumbas (1961)

Roberto Arlt (1900-1942) was an Argentinian short-story writer, novelist and playwright. ... Adolfo Bioy Casares (September 15, 1914 - March 18, 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer. ... Abelardo Castillo is an Argentine writer, born in the city of San Pedro. ... Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914 - February 12, 1984) was an Argentine intellectual and author of several experimental novels and many short stories. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Manuel Puig Manuel Puig (General Villegas, December 28, 1932 - Cuernavaca, July 22, 1990) was an Argentinian author. ... Kiss of the Spider Woman is a 1985 film which tells the story of two men in a Brazilian prison -- one a political prisoner, the other in prison for his homosexuality -- who learn to respect each other. ... Jorge Majfud was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay, in 1969. ... Juan José Saer (28 June 1937 - 11 June 2005) was an Argentine novelist. ... Ernesto Sabato (born 1911 ) is an Argentine writer (of Italian and ethnic Arbëresh/Albanian descent). ...

Armenia

• Alexander Shirvanzade

Alexander Shirvanzadeh real name : Alexander Movsesyan, He was born April 7, 1858 in Shamakhi, and died August 7, 1935 in Yerevan) was an Armenian playwright and novelist. ...

Australia

• Jessica Anderson
• Thea Astley
• Murray Bail
• Carmel Bird
• John Birmingham
• Rolf Boldrewood
• James Bradley
• Lily Brett, author of Just Like That (1994)
• Geraldine Brooks
• Peter Carey
• Marcus Clarke
• James Clavell, screenwriter, director (of the original The Fly among others), author of Shogun
• Bryce Courtenay
• Kathryn Deans
• Robert Dessaix
• Nick Earls
• Greg Egan, science fiction
• Richard Flanagan
• David Foster
• Miles Franklin
• Joseph Furphy
• Helen Garner
• Peter Goldsworthy
• Kate Grenville
• Kerry Greenwood
• Traci Harding
• Frank Hardy
• Xavier Herbert
• Dorothy Hewett
• George Johnston
• Elizabeth Jolley
• Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark (1985), on which the film Schindler's List was based, Confederates (1979)
• David Malouf
• John Marsden, author of the Tomorrow series
• Mardi McConnochie
• Sandy McCutcheon
• Drusilla Modjeska
• Frank Moorhouse
• Gerald Murnane
• Judy Nunn
• D.B.C. Pierre, 2003 Booker Prize
• Matthew Reilly
• Henry Handel Richardson
• Jacqui Ross
• Nevil Shute
• Christina Stead, author of The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
• Randolph Stow
• Clinton Walker
• Patrick White, Nobel Prize for Literature (1973), noted for his examinations of his native land
• Tim Winton
• Amy Witting

Thea Astley (25 August 1925 - 17 August 2004) was an Australian novelist. ... Murray Bail (born 1941) is an Australian author. ... John Birmingham (born 1964) is an Australian author. ... Rolf Boldrewood (1826-1915) was a novelist, best known for his novel Robbery Under Arms. ... Jump to: navigation, search James Bradley is an Australian author and critic. ... Lily Bretts Just Like That (1994) is a novel about Holocaust survivors in the United States. ... Geraldine Brooks is an Australian author, who grew up in the Western suburbs of Sydney. ... Peter Carey (born February 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. ... Marcus Clarke (1846 - 1881) was an Australian novelist and poet, best known for his novel For the Term of his Natural Life. ... James Clavell (Charles Edmund DuMaresq de Clavelle) (October 10, 1924 - September 7, 1994) was a novelist and screenwriter, famous for books such as Shogun and films such as The Great Escape and To Sir, with Love. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... The Fly refers to three different motion pictures: The Fly (1958) The Fly (1986) The Fly (2004) Archie Comics also published The Fly This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Shōgun is the first novel in James Clavells Asian Saga. ... Bryce Courtenay (b. ... Kathryn Deans is an Australian author working in a number of genres. ... Greg Egan (born August 20, 1961) is an Australian (Perth-based) computer programmer and science fiction author. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Richard Flanagan (1961- ) is an author, historian and film director from Tasmania, Australia. ... David Foster, OC, OBC , LL.D. born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, is a multi Grammy Award winning musician, producer, and composer. ... Miles Franklin (born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, 1879 - 1954) was an Australian writer. ... Joseph Furphy (who largely wrote under the pen name Tom Collins), September 26, 1843–September 13, 1912, is widely regarded as the Father of the Australian novel. He was extremely popular in Australia during the 19th century, and is best known for his book Such is Life. ... Helen Garner (born 1942 in Geelong, Australia) is a novelist and journalist. ... Peter Goldsworthy (born 1951) is one of Australias most prominent authors, having won awards for works from a wide variety of genres including short story, poetry, the novel, and opera. ... Kate Grenville is an Australian novelist. ... Traci Harding is an Australian novelist. ... Frank Hardy (1917–1994) was a left-wing novelist and writer from Australia. ... Xavier Herbert (1901-1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin-winning book Poor Fellow My Country (1975), and could be considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. ... Dorothy Coade Hewett, (May 21, 1923 – August 25, 2002), was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright. ... George H Johnston, Australian author. ... Elizabeth Jolley AO (born 1923) is a popular Australian author notable in Australian literature for her series of critically acclaimed novels based upon the alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment. ... Thomas Keneally (born October 7, 1935) also Tom Keneally, is an Australian novelist. ... Schindlers List is a 1993 movie based on the book Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally (the book was later renamed Schindlers List as well). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Schindlers List is a 1993 movie based on the book Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally (the book was later renamed Schindlers List as well). ... Jump to: navigation, search This page refers to the year 1979. ... David Malouf (born March 20, 1934) is an Australian writer whose themes encompass Australian history and the Australian landscape. ... John Marsden (born September 27, 1950) is an Australian writer. ... Mardi McConnochie is an Australian author and playwright, who currently resides in Sydney. ... Sandy McCutcheon (born 1947) is a prominent Australian author, playwright, actor, journalist and broadcaster. ... Frank Moorhouse (b. ... Gerald Murnane is an Australian writer who was born in Melbourne in 1939 and has lived nearly all of his life in Victoria, Australia. ... Judy Nunn (born 13 April 1945 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian actress and author. ... D.B.C. Pierre is the pen-name of the Australian-born writer Peter Warren Finlay (born 1961). ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... Matthew Reilly, born July 2nd, 1974 Sydney, is an Australian action thriller writer. ... Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), born 1870 in Melbourne, Victoria was an Australian author. ... Jacqui Ross (1965 - ), writer. ... Nevil Shute (London, January 17, 1899 – Melbourne, January 12, 1960) (full name Nevil Shute Norway) was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. ... Christina Stead (1902 - 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer noted for her satirical wit and psychological penetration. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Julian Randolph Stow (1935-) is an acclaimed Australian writer. ... Clinton Walker is a leading historian of Australian popular music. ... Patrick White (May 28, 1912 – September 30, 1990) was an Australian author. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Tim Winton (born 1960) is an Australian novelist born in Perth, Western Australia. ...

Austria

(see also German literature) German literature comprises those literary texts originating within Germany proper and written in the German language. ...

• Hugo Bettauer
• Peter Handke, (1942- )
• Josef Haslinger
• Peter Henisch
• Robert Musil, (1880 - 1942), Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities)
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942)

Peter Handke (born December 6, 1942) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. ... This article is about the year. ... Robert Musil (Klagenfurt, Austria, November 6, 1880 – April 15, 1942 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (in German, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), one of the most important modernist novels. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Arthur Schnitzler Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 - October 21, 1931) was an Austrian writer and doctor. ... Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881 - February 22, 1942) was an Austrian writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ...

Belarus

• Vasil Bykau (1924-2003)
• Uladzimir Karatkevich
• Yakub Kolas (Kanstantsin Mikhailavich Mitskevich)
• Yanka Kupala (Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich)
• Franz Grillparzer
• Ivan Shamiakin (1921-2004)

Vasil BykaÅ­ in Romania, 1944 Vasil UÅ‚adzimiravič BykaÅ­ (Belarusian: Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў; Russian: Васи́ль Влади́мирович Бы́ков) (June 19, 1924 - June 22, 2003) a prolific author of novels and novellas about World War II, is a monumental figure in Belarusian literature and civic thought. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yakub Kolas (Якуб Колас, 1882–1956), real name Kanstantsin Mikhailavich Mitskevich (Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлавіч) was a Belarussian writer, Peoples Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), and member (1928) and vice-president (from 1929) of the Belarussian Academy of Sciences. ... Yanka Kupała (Янка Купала) (July 7, 1882 - June 28, 1942)penname Ivan Dominikovich Lucevich was a famous Belarussian poet. ... Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (January 15, 1791 - January 21, 1872), Austrian dramatic poet, was born in Vienna. ... Ivan Shamiakin (Belarusian: Іван Шамякін) (January 30, 1921 - October 14, 2004) — a Soviet Belarusian writer, he was perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the Soviet BSSR, writing in a socialist realist style and praising Soviet rule. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Ivo Andrić, (1892-1975), Nobel Prize for Literature (1961)

Bosnia and Herzegovina (officially Bosna i Hercegovina, shortened to BiH, also in English variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ... Herzegovina (natively Hercegovina/Херцеговина) is a historical region in the Dinaric Alps that composes the southern part of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Ivo Andrić. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Brazil

• Paulo Coelho, (1947- )
• Holdemar Menezes, (1921-1996), writer

Paulo Coelho (born August 24, 1947) is a famous Brazilian lyricist and novelist. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Holdemar Menezes (December 13, 1921 - August 19, 1996) was a Brazilian writer. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Canada

(see also: Canadian literature, List of Canadian writers) Canadian literature may be divided in two parts, somewhat like a tree with two great roots. ... This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, childrens writers, essayists, and scholars. ...

• Margaret Atwood, (1939- ), author of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
• Pierre Berton, (1920-2004 )
• Marie-Claire Blais, (1939- )
• Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990) author of Strange Fugitive (1928)
• Deborah Joy Corey, (1958- ) winner Books in Canada First Novel Award
• Robertson Davies, (1913-1995), author of Fifth Business
• Réjean Ducharme
• Timothy Findley (1930-2002) (See also France)
• Donald Jack,
• Hugh MacLennan,
• Margaret Laurence,
• Stephen Leacock
• Yann Martel, author of "Life of Pi", 2002 Booker Prize
• Rohinton Mistry, (1952- )
• Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874-1942)
• Susanna Moodie, (1803-1885)
• Farley Mowat
• Alice Munro, (1931- )
• Michael Ondaatje, (1943- ), author of The English Patient (1993)
• Mordecai Richler, (1931-2001), author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
• Gabrielle Roy, (1909-1983)
• Margaret Marshall Saunders, (1861-1947)
• Carol Shields, (1935-2003)
• Catharine Parr Traill, (1802-1899)
• Jane Urquhart, (1949- )

Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Peggy Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic, and a pioneer of Canadian womens writing. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cover of The Handmaids Tale The Handmaids Tale is a 1985 dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pierre Berton Pierre Francis Berton, CC , O.Ont , BA , D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marie-Claire Blais is a Canadian author. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2003 Canada Post stamp Morley Edward Callaghan (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality. ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958 in Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, Canada) is a writer whose first novel, Losing Eddie won the 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Books in Canada First Novel Award has a tumultuous history. ... Robertson Davies in 1984 Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC (born August 28, 1913 at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fifth Business is perhaps Robertson Davies best-known novel, and is widely considered his finest. ... Réjean Ducharme (born August 12, 1941) is a French-Canadian novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal, Quebec. ... Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC , O. Ont. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Donald Lamont Jack (December 6, 1924 - c. ... John Hugh MacLennan (March 20, 1907 - November 7, 1990) was a Canadian author and Professor of English at McGill University. ... Jean Margaret Wemyss, better known as Margaret Laurence, (July 18, 1926 - January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist. ... Stephen Butler Leacock, Ph. ... Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author. ... The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Man Booker Prize, or simply the Man Booker, is one of the worlds most important literary prizes, and awarded each year for the best original novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in... Rohinton Mistry (born July 3, 1952) is a Parsee author. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery, also known as simply L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874–April 24, 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Susanna Moodie (born Susanna Strickland) (December 6, 1803 – April 8, 1885) was a British author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Farley Mowat O.C. (born May 12, 1921) is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author. ... Alice Munro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Michael Ondaatje OC (born September 12, 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan author. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The English Patient is a novel by Michael Ondaatje which deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned man, his Canadian nurse, a thief, and a British Army sapper as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian monastery. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 - July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, scriptwriter and essayist. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is a 1959 novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gabrielle Roy (March 22, 1909 - July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Margaret Marshall Saunders CBE (May 13, 1861 - February 15, 1947) was a Canadian author. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Carol Shields, CC , OM , D.Litt. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Catharine Parr Traill (née Strickland) (January 9, 1802 - August 29, 1899) was a British author who wrote about life as a settler in Canada. ... --69. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jane Urquhart (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian author. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

Catalonia

• Raimon Llull, (1235-1315), author of Libre de meravelles
• Ramon Muntaner, (circa 1270-1336), author of Cronica
• Joanot Martorell, (1413-1468), author of Tirant lo Blanc
• Narcís Oller, (1846-1930), author of La febre d'or
• Mercè Rodoreda, (1909-1983), author of La plaça del diamant

Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ... Ramon Llull. ... Events Anglo-Norman invasion of Connacht St. ... Events August 13 - Louis X of France marries Clemence dAnjou. ... Ramon Muntaner (born in Perelada circa 1270 - died in Eivissa 1336) was a Catalan soldier and writer who wrote the Crònica, a chronicle of his life time and his adventures as a soldier in the Companyia Catalana. ... For broader historical context, see 1270s and 13th century. ... Events End of the Kemmu restoration and beginning of the Muromachi period in Japan. ... Joanot Martorell (1413–1468) was the Valencian author of the novel Tirant lo Blanch in the Valencian or Catalan language. ... // Events March 20 - Henry V becomes King of England Project of Annals of Joseon Dynasty began. ... Events Baeda Maryam succeeds his father Zara Yaqob as Emperor of Ethiopia Births February 29 - Pope Paul III (died 1549) Juan del Encina, Spanish poet, dramatist and composer William Lilye, English scholar (approximate date; died 1522) Charles I of Savoy John, Elector of Saxony (died 1532) Juan de Zumárraga... Tirant lo Blanc, written by the Valencian knight Joanot Martorell, finished by Martí Joan De Galba and published in Valencia in 1490, is an epic romance and one of the key works in the evolution of the Western novel. ... Narcís Oller (1846-1930) is the Catalan author of the novel La febre dor. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Mercè Rodoreda i Gurgui (Barcelona, 1908- Girona, 1983) - Catalan novelist, born in Barcelona. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Chile

• Allende, Isabel
• Coloeane, Francisco
• Rojas, Manuel
• Sepúlveda, Luis

Isabel Allende Isabel Allende Llona (born August 2, 1942) is a Chilean writer whose books have been translated into many languages. ... Manuel Rojas (1820-18??), born in Caracas, Venezuela from a Puerto Rican father and a Venezuelan mother was one of the main leaders of the Grito de Lares uprisng against the Spanish colonial government in 1868. ... Luis Sepúlveda (b. ...

China

(see also: Chinese literature) // Ancient texts The Four Books (四书, Sì shū) are The Great Learning, (大学, Dà Xué). The Doctrine of the Golden Mean (中庸, Zhōng Yóng). ...

• Lao She, (1899-1966), author of Si Shi Tong Tang
• Zhang Ailing, (1920-1995), female romantic story writer
• Qian Zhongshu, (1910-1998), author of Wei Cheng
• Lu Xun, (1881-1936), author of The True Story of Ah Q
• Mao Dun, (1896-1981), author of Zi Ye

Lao She (老舍, Pinyin: LÇŽo ShÄ›), (February 3, 1899 - August 24 ?, 1966) was a noted Chinese writer of Manchurian ethnicity. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Eileen Chang (Chinese: 张爱玲; Pinyin: Zhāng Àilíng), (September 30, 1920 - found dead September 8, 1995) was a Chinese writer. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A romance novel is a novel from the genre currently known as romance. ... Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese writer and scholar. ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Lu Xun (Traditional: 魯迅; Simplified: 鲁迅; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Lu Hsün) or Lu Hsün (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), the pen name of Zhou Shuren (Traditional Chinese: 周樹人; Simplified Chinese: 周树人; pinyin: ), has been considered the most influential Chinese writer of the 20th century and is seen as the founder of... Jump to: navigation, search 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ah Q Zhengzhuan, or The True Story of Ah Q (阿Q正传), is a long short fiction by Lu Xun, first published between December 1921 and February 1922. ... -1... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Colombia

• Gabriel García Márquez, (1928- ), author of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Nobel Prize for Literature (1982), journalist, publisher, avatar of magical realism
• José Eustasio Rivera, (1888-1928), author of La Vorágine

Jump to: navigation, search Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José García Márquez (born March 6, 1928) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, publisher, and political activist. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish title: Cien años de soledad) is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Jump to: navigation, search Magic realism (or magical realism) is a literary genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting. ... José Eustasio Rivera (February 19, 1888 - December 1, 1928) was a Colombian politician and writer who worked as a lawyer in the arrangement of the limits between Colombia and Venezuela, when he could visit the flatlands and the tropical jungle, places that greatly influenced his works. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... La Vorágine (The Vortex) is a novel written in 1924 by José Eustasio Rivera. ...

Cosmopolitan

• Romain Gary, Russian-born French writer
• Franz Kafka, (1883-1924) lived in Prague during Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia; German language writer; see also German literature
• Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
• Milan Kundera, (1929- ) born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer.
• Salman Rushdie, (1947- ) born in India, but moved abroad later. English language writer, placed under fatwah (death sentence) by Muslim clerics

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Croatia

(see also: Croatian literature) Renaissance Marko Marulić Marin Držić Hanibal Lucić Dinko Zlatarić Petar Zoranić Baroque Ivan Gundulić Ivan Bunić Vučić Classicism and Sentimentalism Andrija Kačić Miošić Matija Antun Reljković Romanticism Ivan Mažuranić Stanko Vraz August Šenoa Realism Ante Kovačić Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević Ivana Brlić Mažuranić Modernism Antun Gustav Matoš Janko Polić Kamov The...

• Miroslav Krleža (1893-1981)
• Ivo Andric (1892-1975)
• Ivan Aralica (1930-)
• Tomislav Ladan (1932-)

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Czech Republic

(see also: Literature of the Czech Republic) Literature in the Czech Republic was disproportionately popular and important since early 19th century, as culture became something of a substitute for politics in stifled conditions of Austria-Hungary and then again in Nazi and Communist dictatures. ...

• Karel Čapek, (1890-1938) inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist, Czech patriot
• Jaroslav Hasek, (1883-1923), author of The Good Soldier Svejk
• Václav Havel, (born 1936, President of Czech Republic (1993-2003) and famous playwright)
• Bohumil Hrabal, (1914-1997), author of Closely Watched Trains, died trying to feed pigeons.
• Milan Kundera, (born 1929) author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
• Jaroslav Seifert (1901-1986), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (1984)

Karel Čapek. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A humanoid robot playing the trumpet In practical usage, a robot is an autonomous or semi-autonomous device which performs its tasks either according to direct human control, partial control with human supervision, or completely autonomously. ... Jaroslav Hašek (April 30, 1883 - January 3, 1923) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his hilarious, world-famous novel The Good Soldier Svejk, a unfinished collection of farsical incidents about a soldier in World War I which has been translated into sixty languages. ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Fritz Muliar as Schwejk (1972) The Good Soldier Švejk (spelled Schweik or Schwejk in many translations, and pronounced /ʃvɛjk/) is the shortened title of the world-famous unfinished novel written by Czech humorist Jaroslav Hašek in 1921-22. ... Václav Havel Václav Havel, GCB, CC (IPA: ) (born October 5, 1936) is a Czech writer and dramatist. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bohumil Hrabal (March 28, 1914, Brno - February 3, 1997, Prague) was a famous Czech writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Closely Watched Trains - is a Czech - 1966 Academy Award winning film based on the story of Bohumil Hrabal. ... Pigeon redirects here. ... Milan Kundera (born April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Franco-Czech writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Czech language: Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí) is a novel written by Milan Kundera in 1984. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jaroslav Seifert listen ( ♫) (September 23, 1901 – January 10, 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Denmark

(see also: List of Danish authors) Notable Danish authors Hans Christian Andersen Herman Bang Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) Jens Fink-Jensen Peter Høeg Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Søren Kierkegaard Peter Kjaerulff Svend Aage Madsen Martin Andersen Nexø Klaus Rifbjerg Villy Sørensen Categories: Danish writers | Lists of Danes ...

• Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875)
• Isak Dinesen, (1885-1962) (real name: Karen Blixen), author of Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Out of Africa (1937)
• Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (1873-1950), Nobel Prize for Literature (1944)
• Peter Kjaerulff (1946 - )

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Ecuador

• P. Jaramillo Alvarado
• Enrique Gil Gilbert
• Luis A. Martínez
• Juan Montalvo
• Isacovici Salomon

Juan Montalvo (April 13, 1832 - January 17, 1889) was an Ecuadorian author and essayist, generally thought to be one of Ecuadors best writers of the period. ... This article needs to be wikified. ...

Egypt

• Naguib Mahfouz, (1911- ) Nobel Prize for Literature (1988), famous for the Cairo Trilogy about life in the sprawling inner city.

Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic: نجيب محفوظ ) (born December 11, 1911) is an Egyptian novelist. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Cairo Trilogy is a trilogy of novels set in Cairo, Egypt. ...

Estonia

• Jüri Ehlvest, (Juri Ehlvest, 1967 - ), Krutsiaana (1996), Still in Baghdad (1966), An Elf is Writingl (1997), The Mask of Life (1999), The Mask of Life (1999), A Stairway to Heaven (2001), A Horse from Nowhere (2002)
• Kaur Kender, (1972 - ), author of Independence (Book), Yupppiegod, Abnormal (Book), Through Peaceful Eyes, Money (Book), The Bank Deception, How to Become a Fader
• Heiti Kender, (1974 - ), author of Elevation (Book)
• Kadri Kõusaar (Kadri Kousaar, 1980 - ), author of EGO, The Free Rise
• Jaan Kross, (1920 - ),
• Tõnu Õnnepalu (Tonu Onnepalu, aka Emil Tode, 1962 - ), author of The Border State

eGO is a company that builds electric motor scooters which are becoming popular for urban transportation and vacation use. ... Jaan Kross (born 19 February 1920) is the most eminent contemporary Estonian writer. ...

Finland

• Juhani Aho, (1861-1921)
• Tove Jansson, (1914-2001), she wrote in Swedish
• Aino Kallas, (1878-1956), female
• Aleksis Kivi, (1834-1872)
• Väinö Linna, (1920-1992)
• Arto Paasilinna
• Kalle Päätalo, (1919-2000)
• Frans Emil Sillanpää, (1888-1964), (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1939)
• Mika Waltari, (1908-1979)

Juhani Aho (September 11, 1861 - August 8, 1921) was the first professional Finnish writer. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Tove Marika Jansson (August 9, 1914 – June 27, 2001) was a Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Aino Kallas (nee Krohn in 1878) was the daughter of Julius Krohn, an outstanding Finnish national figure, scientist and writer. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aleksis Kivi (October 10, 1834 - December 31, 1872), born Alexis Stenvall, was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers (Finnish title: Seitsemän veljestä). Aleksis Kivi was born at Nurmijärvi, Finland, in a tailors family. ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Väinö Linna (December 20, 1920 - April 21, 1992) was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Arto Paasilinna (April 20, 1942 –) is a finnish author and ex-journalist. ... Kaarlo (Kalle) Alvar Päätalo (November 11, 1919 - November 20, 2000) was a Finnish novelist, the most popular Finnish writer in the 20th century. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Frans Eemil Sillanpää (September 16, 1888 – June 3, 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mika Toimi Waltari (September 19, 1908 - August 26, 1979) was a Finnish author, best known for the historical novel The Egyptian. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search This page refers to the year 1979. ...

France

See also List of novelists by country: France

(see also: French literature)

• Honoré de Balzac, (1799-1850), author of La Comedie Humaine, a series of novels presenting a full picture of France in the early 19th century
• Albert Camus, (1913-1960), author of The Stranger and The Plague
• Alexandre Dumas, (1802-1870), perhaps more movies have been made from his novels than any other; The Count of Monte Cristo has been filmed on an average of once every 18 months since films were first made.
• Gustave Flaubert, (1821-1880), author of Madame Bovary
• Anatole France
• Jean Genet, (1910-1986)
• André Gide, (1869-1951)
• Beatrice Hammer, (1963-...)
• Michel Houellebecq, Impact award winner
• Victor Hugo, (1802-1885), author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables
• Guy de Maupassant, (1850-1893)
• Abbé Prévost (1697-1763), author of Manon Lescaut
• Marcel Proust, (1871-1922), author of In Search of Lost Time
• François Rabelais, (ca. 1493-1553)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778)
• Jean-Paul Sartre, (1905-1980), existentialist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1964) (rejected)
• Stendhal, the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, (1783-1842), author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma
• Jules Verne, (1828-1905), writer of techno-thrillers, and founding father of science fiction.
• Voltaire, (1694-1778), satirist
• Emile Zola, (1840-1902), realist, author of Nana and Germinal

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The Stranger may mean: The Stranger (album), by Billy Joel The Stranger (novel), by Albert Camus The Stranger (1946 movie), directed by Orson Welles The Stranger (1967 movie), based on Camus novel and directed by Luchino Visconti The Stranger (newspaper), an alternative weekly newspaper in Seattle, Washington The Stranger (Myst... The Plague (fr. ... Alexandre Dumas redirects here. ... Le comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) is a classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880), French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists, known especially for his first published novel Madame Bovary, and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, best exemplified by his endless search for le mot juste (the... Madame Bovary book cover Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert that raised a scandal when it was first published in 1857 and is now seen to stand at the beginning of the modern realistic novel. ... Jump to: navigation, search Anatole France (April 16, 1844 – October 12, 1924) was the pen name of French author Jacques Anatole François Thibault. ... Jean Genet (1910-1986) was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ... André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and, at times, a spokesman for gay rights (disputed — see talk page). ... Beatrice Hammer is a french writer. ... Michel Houellebecq (real name Michel Thomas, born 26 February 1958, on the French island of Réunion) is a controversial, award-winning French novelist. ... Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802–May 22, 1885) was a French author, designer, and artist. ... The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French, Notre-Dame de Paris) was a novel first published in 1831 by the French literary giant Victor Hugo. ... Les Misérables is an 1862 novel by the famous French novelist Victor Hugo, set in the Parisian underworld. ... Guy de Maupassant Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (IPA: ) (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer. ... Antoine François Prévost (Antoine Francois Prevost dExiles) (April 1, 1697 - December 23, 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist. ... Manon Lescaut is a novel by the abbé Prévost. ... Marcel-Valentin-Louis-Eugène-Georges Proust (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work... In Search of Lost Time (a translation of the original À la recherche du temps perdu) is a 3,000+ page novel in seven books (recently published in six volumes), by French writer Marcel Proust, originally published between 1913 and 1927. ... François Rabelais (ca. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a Franco-Swiss philosopher, writer, political theorist, and self-taught composer of The Age of Enlightenment. ... Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was a French existentialist philosopher, dramatist, novelist and critic. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th century French writer. ... Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842), better known as Stendhal, was a 19th century French writer. ... Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) is a novel by Stendhal, published in 1831. ... The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is one of Stendhals two acknowledged masterpieces (and only complete novels), along with The Red and the Black. ... Jules Verne. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... The tone of this article is inappropriate for an encyclopedia. ... mile Zola (April 2, 1840 - September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. ... Nana is also the name of a Skytrain station in Bangkok, Thailand. ... Germinal was the seventh month in the French Republican Calendar. ...

Germany

(see also German literature) German literature comprises those literary texts originating within Germany proper and written in the German language. ...

• Heinrich Böll, (1917-1985)
• Alfred Döblin, (1878-1957), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Friedrich Duerrenmatt (1921-1990), author of The Visit
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), polymath.
• Günter Grass, (1927- ), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)
• Hermann Hesse, (1877-1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
• Siegfried Lenz, (1926- )
• Thomas Mann, (1875-1955)
• Erich Maria Remarque, (1898-1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
• Patrick Süskind (1949- ), author of Perfume

Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917–July 16, 1985) was one of Germanys foremost post-World War II writers. ... 1917 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alfred Döblin (August 10, 1878 – June 26, 1957) was a German expressionist novelist, best known for Berlin Alexanderplatz. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred Döblin, published in 1929. ... Friedrich Dürrenmatt (January 5, 1921 - December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Visit is the title of various English translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatts play Der Besuch der alten Dame (literally, The Visit of the Old Lady). It is probably the most well-known of his work, at least in the English-speaking world. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[?] (IPA: ) (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar. ... Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Leonardo da Vinci A polymath (also known as a polyhistor) is a person who excels in multiple fields, particularly in both arts and sciences. ... Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass, Nobel Prize-winning German author, was born in the Free City of Danzig (now GdaÅ„sk, Poland) on October 16, 1927. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Hermann Hesse Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German author, and the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... // Introduction The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel) is the last work of noted German author Hermann Hesse; he began it as his magnum opus in 1931, and it was published in 1943. ... Steppenwolf is a novel by Hermann Hesse, combining autobiographical and fantastic elements. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Siegfried Lenz (b. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, social critic, philanthropist and essayist, lauded principally for a series of highly symbolic and often ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and intellectual and... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Erich Remarque, about 1963. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Patrick Süßkind (born March 26, 1949) is a German writer and film script author. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

Hungary

• György Dalos, (1943- )
• Imre Kertész, (1929- ), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (2002)
• Mór Jókai, (1825-1904)
• István Örkény, (1912-1979)

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Iceland

• Snorri Sturluson, (1179-1241), author of the Younger Edda
• Halldor Laxness, (1903-1998)

Snorri Sturluson (1178 â€“ September 23, 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet and politician. ... Events Third Council of the Lateran condemned Waldensians and Cathars as heretics, institutes a reformation of clerical life, and creates the first ghettos for Jews Afonso I is recognized as the true King of Portugal by Portugal the protection of the Catholic Church against the Castillian monarchy Philip II is... Events April 5 - Mongols of Golden Horde under the command of Subotai defeat feudal Polish nobility, including Knights Templar, in the battle of Liegnitz April 27 - Mongols defeat Bela IV of Hungary in the battle of Sajo. ... For Edda great-grandmother as the ancestress of serfs see Ríg. ... Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902 - February 8, 1998) was a famous 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Icelands Bell, The Fish Can Sing and World Light. ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

India

• Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908-1994)
• R.K. Narayan, (1906-2001), English
• Munshi Premchand, (1880, 1936) - Hindi
• Salman Rushdie, (1947- ), English
• Vikram Seth, author of 'A Suitable Boy'
• A List of Indian Authors

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (b. ... 1908 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... R.K. Narayan - 1906 - 2001 Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001) was an Indian novelist. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880-October 8, 1936) (Premchand) was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi literature. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hindi (हिन्दी) is a language spoken mainly in North and Central India. ... Jump to: navigation, search Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Vikram Seth (pronounced sayt), born June 20, 1952 is an Indian novelist and poet. ...

Iran

• Abbas Marufi
• Afshin Ellian
• Ahmad Mahmoud
• Akhtar Naraghi
• Bozorg Alavi
• Dariush Shayegan
• Fereydun Esfandiari
• Fereydoun Hoveyda
• Hushang Golshiri
• Kader Abdolah
• Mahmud Doulatabadi
• Marjane Satrapi, graphic novelist
• Mohammad Hejazi
• Nassim Khaksar
• Reza Baraheni
• Sadegh Hedayat
• Shahrnush Parsipur
• Shiva Arastui
• Simin Daneshvar
• Taqi Modarresi
• Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei

Akhtar Naraghi is an Iranian-born writer who has long resided in Canada. ... Bozorg Alavi Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی in Persian) ( February 2, 1904– February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. ... Dariush Shayegan is one of Irans prominent thinkers and one of the contemporary worlds most influential cultural theorists and comparative philosophers. ... Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Frahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. ... Marjane Satrapi (born November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is a contemporary graphic novelist and illustrator. ... Sadegh (or Sadeq) Hedayat (in Persian: صادق هدایت), is Irans foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories. ... Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei (1840-1910) was the first Iranian novelist. ...

Ireland

See also Irish fiction, List of Irish novelists, List of Irish short story writers Jonathan Swift — the first Irish novelist of note Although the epics of Celtic Ireland were written in prose and not verse, most people would probably consider that Irish fiction proper begins in the 18th century. ... This is a list of novelists either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. ... This is a list of short story writers either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. ...

• Samuel Beckett, (1906-1989), Nobel Prize for Literature (1969)
• Brendan Behan, (1923-1964)
• Roddy Doyle, (1958-)
• Thomas Flanagan, (1923-2002)
• James Joyce, (1882-1941), author of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake
• Iris Murdoch, (1919-1999)
• Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
• Brian O'Nolan, (1911-1966) better known as Flann O'Brien, Myles na Gcopaleen, Cruiskeen Lawn...
• Jonathan Swift, (1667-1745) author of biting satires. Gulliver's Travels was Bowdlerised into children's literature.
• Oscar Wilde, (1854-1900), also a playwright, imprisoned for homosexual acts

Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Brendan Francis Behan (9 February 1923-20 March 1964) was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Roddy Doyle (born May 1958 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tom Flanagan is a writer and professor of political science at the University of Calgary and part of a group known as the Calgary School. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (February 2, 1882 – January 13, 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered a significant writer of the 20th century. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The first edition of Ulysses was published in 1922. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Dame Iris Murdoch Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Anglo–Irish writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Flann OBrien was the best known pseudonym of Brian ONolan (October 5, 1911 - April 1, 1966), who also published under the name Myles na gCopaleen. ... At Swim-Two-Birds is a novel by Irish novelist Flann OBrien (one pen-name of Brian ONolan) published in 1939. ... Flann OBrien was the best known pseudonym of Brian ONolan (October 5, 1911 - April 1, 1966), who also published under the name Myles na gCopaleen. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Jump to: navigation, search Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer who is famous for works like Gullivers Travels and A Tale of a Tub. ... // Events January 20 - Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power. ... // Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected... Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735) is a work of fiction by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary sub-genre. ... Jump to: navigation, search Thomas Bowdler (July 11, 1754 – February 24, 1825), an English physician, is best known as the source of the eponym bowdlerize (or bowdlerise), the process of censorship by arbitrary deletion of objectionable material from a work of literature to purify it. ... // Basic Characteristics There is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature. ... Jump to: navigation, search Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ... Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ...

Israel

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon, author of The Bridal Canopy and Yesteryear

Aharoni, Ada author, professor founder of IFLAC international Forum for Literature and Culture, for Peace Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). ...

• David Grossman, author of See Under: Love, The Smile of the Lamb
• Amos Oz, author of Black Box, My Michael
• Meir Shalev, suthor of The Blue Mountain, Four Meals
• Abraham B. Yehoshua, author of Mr. Mani

David Grossman (born 1954 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli author. ... Amos Oz, November 7, 2004 Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner, is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. ... Meir Shalev (born 1948 in Nahalal, Israel) is an Israeli writer. ... Avraham Boolie Yehoshua (born in Jerusalem in 1936) is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright, known publicly as A. B. Yehoshua, and familiarly as Boolie. Yehoshua was born in the fifth Jerusalem generation of a Sephardi Jewish family (Feld 2000). ...

Italy

(see also Italian literature, List of Italian writers) This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Italian writers In alphabetical order: Dante Alighieri Ludovico Ariosto Riccardo Bacchelli Alessandro Baricco Giorgio Bassani Cesare Beccaria Zucchero Bencivenni Stefano Benni Alberto Bevilacqua Giovanni Boccaccio Vitaliano Brancati Gesualdo Bufalino Aldo Busi Dino Buzzati Italo Calvino Andrea Camilleri Mauro Campagnoli Dino Campana Achille Campanile Luigi Capuana Carlo Cassola Carlo Collodi Gabriele...

• Riccardo Bacchelli
• Alessandro Baricco
• Giorgio Bassani
• Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, novelist, Terra (1985) is most popular work in English
• Alberto Bevilacqua
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Vitaliano Brancati
• Gesualdo Bufalino
• Aldo Busi
• Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari (1940)
• Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979)
• Luigi Capuana
• Andrea Camilleri
• Carlo Cassola
• Carlo Collodi
• Carmen Covito
• Gabriele D'Annunzio, revolutionary
• Massimo D'Azeglio
• Grazia Deledda
• Giuseppe Dessi
• Umberto Eco
• Carlo Emilio Gadda
• Natalia Ginzburg
• Primo Levi, resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
• Emilio Lussu
• Alessandro Manzoni
• Dacia Maraini
• Franco Mimmi
• Elsa Morante
• Alberto Moravia
• Cesare Pavese
• Luigi Pirandello, playwright, Six Characters in Search of an Author
• Vasco Pratolini
• Andrea di Robilant
• Salvatore Satta
• Alberto Savinio
• Leonardo Sciascia
• Ignazio Silone
• Mario Soldati
• Italo Svevo
• Antonio Tabucchi, Declares Pereira (1994)
• Susanna Tamaro
• Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
• Giovanni Verga
• Elio Vittorini

Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin, Italy, in 1958. ... Giorgio Bassani (March 4, 1916 - April 13, 2000) was a novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. ... Stefano Benni is an Italian satirical writer born in Bologna, Italy. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was a Italian author and poet, the greatest of Petrarchs disciples, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular. ... Vitaliano Brancati (July 24, 1907-September 25, 1954) was an Italian writer. ... Gesualdo Bufalino. ... Dino Buzzati Traverso ( Belluno, October 16, 1906 - Milan, January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, and poet as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. ... Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) was an Italian writer and novelist. ... If On a Winters Night a Traveler (Se una notte dinverno un viaggiatore) is a novel published in 1979 by Italo Calvino. ... Andrea Camilleri (Porto Empedocle, Agrigento, 1925) is a Italian writer. ... Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 - October 26, 1890), better known as Carlo Collodi, or simply Collodi, was an Italian writer and journalist. ... Carmen Covito (born 14 November 1948) is an Italian writer and translator, he was also slightly gay with chickens. ... Gabriele DAnnunzio (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, writer, dramatist, daredevil and war hero, who went on to have a controversial role in politics as a precursor of the fascist movement. ... Massimo Taparelli, marquis dAzeglio (1798 - January 15, 1866), was an Italian statesman and novelist. ... Jump to: navigation, search Grazia Deledda (September 27, 1871 – August 15, 1936), born in Nuoro, Sardinia, was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. ... Photo of Umberto Eco by Robert Birnbaum Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novels and essays. ... Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is an Italian writer of the 20th century. ... Natalia Ginzburg née Levi (14 July 1916, Palermo, Italy - 7 October 1991, Rome) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships. ... Primo Levi Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 - April 11, 1987) was an Italian chemist and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. ... Look up chemist on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Emilio Lussu (Armungia, Cagliari, 1890 - Rome 1975), a soldier, a politician and a writer from Sardinia, Italy. ... Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (March 7, 1785–May 22, 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. ... Franco Mimmi Franco Mimmi (born 15 August 1942 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian journalist and novelist. ... Elsa Morante (August 18, 1918 - 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La Storia (History). ... Alberto Moravia (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990; born Alberto Pincherle) was one of the leading Italian novelists in the 20th century. ... Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 - August 27, 1950) was an Italian poet and novelist. ... Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist and novelist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... Andrea di Robilant is the author of A Venetian Affair, a 2003 novel set in 18th century Venice. ... Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Agrigento 1921 - Palermo 1989) was an Italian writer. ... Ignazio Silone (May 1, 1900 - August 22, 1978) is the pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author. ... Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 - September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian businessman and author of novels, plays, and short stories. ... Antonio Tabucchi (born September 23, 1943 in Pisa, Italy) is a famous Italian writer. ... Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (born Palermo, December 23, 1896, died Rome, July 23, 1957), was Duke of Palma and Prince of Lampedusa. ... Giovanni Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist writer, best known for his depictions of life in Sicily, and especially for the short story Cavalleria Rusticana. ... Elio Vittorini (July 23, 1908 - February 12, 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. ...

Japan

(see also Japanese literature, List of Japanese authors) Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia of writing. ... This is an alphabetical list of authors who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language. ...

• Kobo Abe (1924-1993) The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa, (1892-1927), Rashomon
• Osamu Dazai, (1909-1948), No Longer Human, Melos, Run!
• Fumiko Enchi (1905-1986) A Tale of False Fortunes, The Waiting Years
• Shusaku Endo, (1923-1996) Silence, Deep River
• Ichiyo Higuchi, (1872-1896) Child's Play, The Thirteenth Night
• Masuji Ibuse, (1898-1993) Black Rain
• Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) Snow Country, The Izu Dancer (Winner of the Nobel Prize, 1968)
• Yukio Mishima, (1925-1970), The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Confessions of a Mask
• Kenji Miyazawa, (1896-1933) Night Train to the Stars, Matasaburo the Wind Imp
• Ogai Mori, (1862-1922), The Wild Goose, The Dancing Girl
• Soseki Natsume, (1867-1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
• Kenzaburo Oe (1935-) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Personal Matter (Nobel Prize, 1994)
• Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) Some Prefer Nettles, The Makioka Sisters
• Edogawa Rampo (1894 - 1965)

-1... Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... A commemoration of Akutagawa and Rashōmon Akutagawa RyÅ«nosuke (芥川 龍之介, March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927) was a Japanese poet and writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Osamu Dazai (太宰 æ²» Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 in Aomori Prefecture - June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shusaku Endō (遠藤 周作 Endō Shusaku, March 27, 1923 - September 29, 1996) was a renowned 20th Century Japanese author who wrote from a unique perspective of being a Roman Catholic Japanese. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Higuchi Ichiyō (樋口 一葉 Higuchi Ichiyō, May 2, 1872 - November 23, 1896) is the pen name of the Japanese author Higuchi Natsu (樋口奈津 Higuchi Natsu). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Masuji Ibuse (1898 - 1993) was a Japanese author. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Jump to: navigation, search Yasunari Kawabata (川端 康成 Kawabata Yasunari, June 14, 1899 – April 16, 1972) was a Japanese novelist whose spare, lyrical and subtly shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Yukio Mishima Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫 Mishima Yukio), was the public name of Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡公威 Hiraoka Kimitake), (January 14, 1925 - November 25, 1970), a Japanese author and rightist political activist, notable for both his nihilistic post-war writing and the circumstances of his suicide. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Miyazawa Kenji (宮沢 賢治 Miyazawa Kenji, August 27, 1896 - September 21, 1933) was a Japanese poet and author of childrens literature. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mori Ogais statue at his birthhouse in Tsuwano-cho Mori Ogai (森 鴎外 Mori ÅŒgai, February 17, 1862 - July 9, 1922) was a Japanese physician, novelist and poet. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Natsume Soseki on the former 1000 yen note. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Kenzaburo Oe Kenzaburo Oe (大江 健三郎 ÅŒe Kenzaburō, born January 31, 1935) is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎 Tanizaki Junichirō, July 24, 1886 - July 30, 1965) was a Japanese author. ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Edogawa Rampo (江戸川 乱歩 Edogawa Ranpo), born Hirai Tarō (平井 太郎 Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 - July 28, 1965) was a Japanese author and critic. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...

Kenya

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, (1938-), The River Between, Caitaani muthara-Ini, Matigari

Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo (born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His books include novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and childrens literature. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Lebanon

• Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf, born on (25 February 1949) in Beirut, Lebanon is a Lebanese author. ...

Netherlands

• Harry Mulisch
• Tip Marugg
• Cees Nooteboom
• Willem Frederik Hermans
• Jan Wolkers
• Gerard van het Reve
• A.F.Th. van der Heijden

Harry Mulisch Harry Mulisch (born July 29, 1927) is a Dutch author. ... Dutch-Antillian writer. ... Cees Nooteboom, born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom, July 31, 1933, in the Hague, Netherlands is a Dutch author. ... The Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans (September 1, 1921–April 27, 1995) is considered one of the three most important authors in the Netherlands in the postwar period, along with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve. ... Jan Hendrik Wolkers (born Oegstgeest, 26 October 1925) is a Dutch author and artist. ... Gerard Reve (December 14, 1923) is a Dutch writer. ... A.F.Th. ...

Nigeria

• Chinua Achebe, (1930- ) Things Fall Apart, stories about the dissolution of traditional African society.
• Wole Soyinka, (1934- ) first African to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.

Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Things Fall Apart is a 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. ... // Etymology World map showing Africa (geographically) The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — land of the Afri (plural, or Afer singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day... Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka (b. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual...

Norway

(see also: Norwegian literature) Norwegian Literature // Early Influences Around 1030, Christianity came to Norway, bringing with it the Latin alphabet, which supplanted the runic alphabet. ...

• Ingvar Ambjørnsen
• Jens Bjørneboe
• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
• Johan Borgen
• Lars Saabye Christensen
• Olav Duun
• Johan Falkberget
• Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World
• Erik Fosnes Hansen
• Knut Hamsun, Hunger
• Sigurd Hoel
• Roy Jacobsen
• Alexander Kielland
• Jan Kjærstad
• Jonas Lie
• Erlend Loe
• Axel Sandemose
• Gabriel Scott
• Dag Solstad
• Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavrandsdatter
• Tarjei Vesaas
• Herbjørg Wassmo

Ingvar Ambjørnsen (born May 20, 1956 in Larvik) is a Norwegian writer. ... Jens Bjørneboe (October 9, 1920–May 9, 1976) was a Norwegian painter, dramatist, essayist and novelist. ... Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (December 8, 1832–April 26, 1910) was a Norwegian author and Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1903. ... Johan Collett Müller Borgen (April 28, 1903, Kristiania – October 16, 1979) was a Norwegian author, journalist and critic. ... Lars Saabye Christensen (born in 1953 in Denmark) is a Norwegian author. ... Olav Duun was a Norwegian author. ... Jostein Gaarder (born August 8, 1952) is a Norwegian author of novels, short stories, and childrens books. ... Book cover Sophies World (Sofies verden in Norway) is a novel by Jostein Gaarder, published in 1995. ... Erik Fosnes Hansen (born June 6, 1965 in New York) is a norwegian author. ... Knut Hamsun (31 years old) in 1890 Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. ... Roy Jacobsen (born September 21, 1954) is a norwegian author. ... Alexander Kielland when he was mayor of Stavanger. ... Jan Kjærstad (born March 6, 1953) is a Norwegian author. ... Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (November 6, 1833 - July 5, 1908) was a Norwegian novelist. ... Dag Solstad ( born July 16, 1941 in Sandefjord, Norway) is a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist whose work has been translated into several languages. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sigrid Undset as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1927. ... Tarjei Vesaas (August 20, 1897 - March 15, 1970) was a Norwegian poet and novelist. ...

Pakistan

(see also: Pakistani literature) Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Literature stubs | Literature of Pakistan ...

• Ahmed Ali
• Zulfikar Ghose
• Bapsi Sidhwa
• Tariq Ali

Ahmed Ali was a Pakistani novelist, diplomat and scholar. ... Zulfikar Ghose is a Pakistani-American English language writer. ... Bapsi Sidhwa (b. ... Tariq Ali Tariq Ali (born 1943) is an author, filmmaker, and historian. ...

Peru

• Mario Vargas Llosa, (1936- ), ran for president, author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Mario Vargas Llosa The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa (born March 28, 1936) is one of Latin Americas leading novelists and essayists. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ...

Poland

(see also: Polish literature) Poland — Polish literature Writers and novelists Main article: List of Polish language authors Writers in chronological order of birth: Jan Potocki (1761–1815) Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887) Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841–1910) Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) Bolesław Prus (1847–1912) Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925) Władysław Reymont (1867–1925) Zofia Nałkowska...

• Maria Dąbrowska (1889–1965)
• Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (1898–1939)
• Tadeusz Konwicki (1926– )
• Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801)
• Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887)
• Zofia Nałkowska (1885–1954)
• Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969)
• Stanisław Lem (1921- )
• Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841-1910)
• Jan Potocki (1761–1815)
• Bolesław Prus (1847–1912)
• Władysław Reymont (1867-1925), Nobel Prize for Literature 1924, author of The Peasants
• Bruno Schulz (1892–1942)
• Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), Nobel Prize for Literature 1905, author of Quo Vadis
• Gabriela Zapolska (1857–1921)
• Stefan Żeromski (1864–1925)
• Eugeniusz Żytomirski (1911-1975)

Maria DÄ…browska [] (6 October 1889 in Russów – 19 May 1965 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Tadeusz DoÅ‚Ä™ga-Mostowicz (August 10, 1898 – September 20, 1939) was the Polish author of over a dozen popular novels. ... 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Tadeusz Konwicki (born 1926) is a Polish writer, and film director, a member of the Polish Language Council. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Ignacy Krasicki Ignacy Krasicki (February 3, 1735, in Galicia — March 14, 1801, in Berlin) was a Polish prince of the Roman Catholic Church, a social critic, a leading writer, and the outstanding poet of the Polish Enlightenment, hailed by contemporaries as the Prince of Poets. ... Events April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887) was a Polish writer and novelist. ... 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... Graves of Julian Tuwim and Zofia NaÅ‚kowska in PowÄ…zki Cemetery in Warsaw Zofia NaÅ‚kowska (1884, Warsaw, Poland - 1954, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish writer. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Witold Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904, MaÅ‚oszyce, near Kielce, Poland – July 24, 1969, Vence, near Nice, France) was a Polish novelist and dramatist active from the 1930s until the end of his life. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... StanisÅ‚aw Lem in 1966 StanisÅ‚aw Lem (born September 12, 1921) is a Polish satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Eliza Orzeszkowa (1842-1910 ), Polish novelist, was born near Grodno, of the noble family of PawÅ‚owski. ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Noble Family Potocki Coat of Arms PiÅ‚awa Parents StanisÅ‚aw Potocki Anna Teresa OssoliÅ„ska Consorts Julia Lubomirska Konstancja Potocka Children with Julia Lubomirska Alfred Wojciech Potocki Artur Potocki with Konstancja Potocka Bernard Potocki Irena Potocka Teresa Potocka Date of Birth March 3, 1761 Place of Birth Leżajsk... 1761 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... BolesÅ‚aw Prus BolesÅ‚aw Prus (pronounced: [bÉ”lεswaf prus]; August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), born Aleksander GÅ‚owacki, was a Polish journalist, short-story writer, and novelist. ... 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw StanisÅ‚aw Reymont WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw StanisÅ‚aw Reymont (May 7, 1867 – December 5, 1925) (the actual name was Rejment) was a Polish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Self portrait of Schulz Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish novelist and painter of the Jewish faith, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (pronounce: [γεnrɨk É•enkieviʧ]) (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916) was a Polish novelist, one of the outstanding writers of the second half of the 19th century. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Quo Vadis is a novel by a Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, describing the introduction of Christianity into early A.D. Rome (while under Neros rule). ... Gabriela Zapolska: pseudonym of the Polish novelist and actress Maria G. Śnieżko-Błocka (born March 30, 1857, in Podhajce, Austrian Galicia, now Pidhaytsi, Ukraine - died December 17, 1921, in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine). ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Stefan Å»eromski Stefan Å»eromski (pronounce: [stεfan ʒεromski]) (1864-1925) was a Polish novelist and writer. ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Eugeniusz Å»ytomirski (1911–1975) a Polish poet, playwright, novelist. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Portugal

• António Lobo Antunes
• Fernando de Campos
• Eça de Queirós
• Aqulino Ribeiro
• Albino Forjaz de Sampaio, (1884-1949)
• José Saramago, (1922- ), Nobel Prize for Literature 1998

António Lobo Antunes (born September 1, 1942) is a Portuguese novelist. ... José Maria Eça de Queirós November 25, 1845 - August 16, 1900) was a Portuguese novelist. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... José Saramago José Saramago (born November 16, 1922) is a Portuguese writer, playwright, and journalist. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

Romania

(see also: Romanian literature) Romanian literature is literature written by Romanian authors, although the term may also be used to refer to all literature written in the Romanian language. ...

• Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1956), Nostalgia (1993), Orbitor II (2002),
• Ion Creangă (1839-1889),
• Mircea Eliade (1907-1986),
• Panait Istrati (1884-1935),
• Camil Petrescu (1894-1957), Patul lui Procust (1933),
• Marin Preda (1927-1980), Moromeţii (1956),
• Liviu Rebreanu (1885-1944), Ion (1920),
• Mihail Sadoveanu (1880-1961), Fraţii Jderi (1935-1942),
• Ioan Slavici (1848-1925), Moara cu noroc (1860),
• Vasile Voiculescu (1884-1963), Zahei orbul 1952;

1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Mircea Eliade Mircea Eliade (March 9, 1907, Bucharest - April 22, 1986, Chicago, Illinois) was a Romanian historian of religions and writer (fantasy and autobiographical). ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Panait Istrati (August 10, 1884, Braila - April 18, 1935, Bucharest) was a French language Romanian writer. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Camil Petrescu ( April 22, 1894 — May 14, 1957) was a Romanian playwright and novelist. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Marin Preda (5 August 1922-16 May 1980) was a Romanian novelist, often considered the best post-WWII Romanian novelist. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Mihail Sadoveanu Mihail Sadoveanu (5 November 1880 – 19 October 1961) was a Romanian novelist; one of the most prolific writers in the Romanian language. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Ioan Slavici (18 January 1848 – 17 August 1925) was a Romanian writer from Transylvania. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Russia

(see also: Russian literature) Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union. ...

• Andrey Bely, (1880-1934)
• Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891-1940), author of The Master and Margarita
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (1821-1881), author of The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed
• Nikolai Gogol, (1809-1852), author of Dead Souls
• Ivan Goncharov, (1812-1891), Oblomov, a tale of a "superfluous" man
• Mikhail Lermontov, (1814-1841)
• Nikolai Leskov, (1831-1895)
• Eduard Limonov, author of It's Me, Eddie and Memoir of a Russian Punk
• Vladimir Nabokov, (1899-1977) early novels in Russian, later, including Lolita, in English.
• Boris Pasternak, (1890-1960), refused the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doctor Zhivago
• Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799-1837)
• Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826-1889)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (1918- ), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, also historian
• Aleksey K. Tolstoy, (1817-1875)
• Aleksey N. Tolstoy, (1883-1945)
• Leo Tolstoy, (1828-1910) of whose greatest book it was said, "Loved the war, hated the peace".

Boris Budaev Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый) was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880 - 1934), a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mikhail Bulgakov Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (or Bulhakov, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков; May 15 (May 3 Old Style), 1891–March 10, 1940) was a Soviet novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Fyodor Dostoevsky. ... 1821 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (Russian: ) (March 31, 1809 - March 4, 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian writer. ... 1809 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (June 18, 1812 – September 15, 1891) was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov (1859). ... 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Oblomov (first published: 1858) is the most well-known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov. ... Mikhail Lermontov in 1837 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), (October 15, 1814–July 27, 1841), a Russian Romantic writer and poet, sometimes called the poet of the Caucasus, was the most important presence in the Russian poetry from Alexander Pushkins death until his own four years later, at the age... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian Николай Семёнович Лесков) (1831-1895) was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer. ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Eduard Limonov (Russian Эдуард Вениаминович Лимонов, real name Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko) is a Russian nationalist writer and dissident, currently leader of the neo-fascist National Bolshevik Party in Russia. ... Image:Nabokov. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Boris Pasternak (1890-1960). ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual work, though individual works are sometimes... Aleksandr Pushkin was a Russian poet and a founder of modern Russian literature Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин listen ( ♫)) (June 6 (May 26, O.S.), 1799 - February 10 (January 29, O.S.), 1837) was a Russian author whom many consider the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. ... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov (15 January 1826 - 28 April 1889 OS, or 27 January 1826 - 10 May 1889 NS), better known under his penname Shchedrin, was a leading Russian satirist, whose reputation is now in decline. ... 1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: ), born December 11, 1918, in Kislovodsk, Russia, is a novelist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1875 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Leo Tolstoy, pictured late in life Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy   listen? (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й; commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910; August 28, 1828 – November 7, 1910, O.S.) was a Russian novelist, social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, moral thinker and an influential member... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Serbia and Montenegro

• Desanka Maksimovic
• Ivo Andric
• Milorad Pavic, (1929- )
• Petar Petrovic Njegos

Desanka Maksimović (Десанка Максимовић) (1898. ... Ivo Andrić. ... Milorad Pavić (Милорад Павић) is a noted Serbian poet, prose writer, translator, and literary historian. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Petar II Petrović Njegoš (sr-cyr: Петар II Петровић Његош) (November 1, 1813-October 10, 1851) was a Montenegrin poet, ruler of Montenegro (sr-cyr: Црна Гора; sr-lat: Crna Gora) and Serb Orthodox Bishop (sr-cyr: Владика; sr-lat: Vladika) of the Metropolitanate (Bishopric) of Montenegro. ...

South Africa

• J. M. Coetzee
• Sheila Gordon

John Maxwell Coetzee (pronounced kut-SEE-uh) (born February 9, 1940) is a South African author. ... Sheila Gordon, a novelist born in South Africa in 1927, is the author of Waiting for The Rain, The Middle of Somewhere, and Unfinished Business. ...

Spain

• Leopoldo Alas, author of 'La Regenta'
• Miguel de Cervantes, : El Quijote, or Don Quixote
• Pérez Galdós
• Juan Goytisolo: El sitio de los sitios
• Juan Marsé: La Muchacha de las bragas de oro (Premio Planeta)
• Eduardo Mendoza: La ciudad de los prodigios, Sin Noticias de Gurp, El Misterio de la cripta embrujada
• Arturo Pérez-Reverte: El Club Dumas, Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste
• Miguel de Unamuno: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno Martir

Leopoldo Alas (1852 - 1901) was a Spanish author, writer and critic. ... Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616), was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, best known for his immortal masterpiece Don Quixote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature and certainly the... Jump to: navigation, search Statues of Don Quixote (left) and Sancho Panza (right) This page is about the fictional character. ... Pérez Galdós, detail of an oil painting by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida By courtesy of the Hispanic Society of America Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish novelist. ... Juan Goytisolo is a Spanish poet and novelist. ... Spanish stamp (2002) tribute to Captain Alatriste Arturo Pérez-Reverte (b. ... Miguel de Unamuno Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was a writer and philosopher from the Basque Country in Spain. ...

Sweden

• Marianne Fredriksson
• Gustaf Fröding
• Erik Gustaf Geijer
• Jan Guillou
• Eyvind Johnson
• Pär Lagerkvist
• Selma Lagerlöf
• Astrid Lindgren
• Harry Martinson
• Vilhelm Moberg
• Per Nilsson
• Peter Pohl
• August Strindberg (1849 - 1912)
• Esaias Tegnér

See also: List of Swedish language writers Marianne Fredriksson (born Gothenburg, March 28, 1927) is a Swedish author. ... Fröding in 1896. ... Categories: Literature stubs | 1783 births | 1847 deaths | Members of the Swedish Academy | Swedish language writers ... Jan Guillou Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (pron. ... Eyvind Johnson, (July 29, 1900- August 25, 1976) was a Swedish author. ... Pär Lagerkvist (May 23, 1891 – July 11, 1974) was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1951. ... Selma Lagerlöf receives the Nobel Prize in Literature The Swedish 20-krona bill, with Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf   listen[?] (November 20, 1858 – March 16, 1940) was a Swedish author, known internationally for Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige (a story for children), and awarded the... Astrid Lindgren (November 14, 1907 _ January 28, 2002) was a Swedish childrens book author, whose many titles were translated into over 70 languages and published in more than 100 countries. ... Harry Martinson (May 6, 1904 - February 11, 1978) is a Swedish author and poet from Blechingia. ... Vilhelm Moberg (August 20, 1898 - August 8, 1973) was a Swedish author and historian. ... Peter Pohl (Hamburg, Germany, 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author, mainly of youth literature. ... August Strindberg   August Strindberg[?] (full name Johan August Strindberg; January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright and painter. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Esaias Tegnér Esaias Tegnér (November 13, 1782 - November 2, 1846), Swedish writer, was born at Kyrkerud in Wermelandia. ... This is a list of Swedish language writers: A Alf Ahlberg (1892-1979) Sonja Ã…kesson (1926-1977) Ove Allansson (1932-) Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866) Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790-1855) Majgull Axelsson (1947-) B Victoria Benedictsson (1850-1888) Frans G. Bengtsson (1894-1954) Bo Bergman (1869-1967) Elsa...

Switzerland

• Max Frisch (1911 - 1991), Stiller (1954) (I'm Not Stiller), Mein Name sei Gantenbein (1964)

Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of the German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of personal identity, morality and political commitment. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Turkey

• Cem Akas
• Ertugrul Oguz Firat, author of "Sevicira"
• Metin Kacan
• Bilge Karasu, author of "Night", "Garden of Departed Cats", and "Death in Troy"
• Yahya Kemal
• Yasar Kemal, author of "Mehmed, My Hawk"
• Orhan Pamuk, author of "Black Book" and "The White Castle"
• Aziz Nesin
• Haldun Taner

Cem Akas (born 1968) is a Turkish novelist, who was born in Mannheim, Germany. ... Metin Kacan (born 1961, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish author, who is best known for his novels Agir Roman (Cholera Street), Harman Kaplan and Findik Sekiz. ... Jump to: navigation, search Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk (born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a leading Turkish novelist of post-modern literature. ... Aziz Nesin Aziz Nesin (1915-1995) has published over one hundred books. ...

Ukraine

• Andrey Kurkov, (1961-)
• Larisa Alexandrovna, (1971-)

Andrey Kurkov (born in 1961 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Ukrainian novelist. ... Larisa Alexandrovna (born December 7, 1971 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a journalist, poet, and essayist. ...

United Kingdom

England

See also List of novelists by country: England Jump to: navigation, search Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK... List of novelists from England (See also: English novel, English literature) J. R. Ackerley Peter Ackroyd, (born 1949) Douglas Adams, (1952 - 2001), author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Richard Adams, (born 1920), author of Watership Down Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995), novelist and poet, young author of Lucky...

• J. R. Ackerley
• Kingsley Amis, (1922-1995), author of Lucky Jim
• Martin Amis
• Lisa Appignanesi
• Jane Austen, (1775-1817), author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
• John Baker, novelist
• Nicola Barker
• Anne Brontë, (1820-1849), author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
• Charlotte Brontë, (1816-1855), author of Jane Eyre and Villette
• Emily Brontë, (1818-1855), author of Wuthering Heights
• Wallace Breem, (1926-1990)
• Anthony Burgess, (1917-1993), composer, essayist, author of A Clockwork Orange
• Fanny Burney, (1752-1840), author of Evelina
• Ramsey Campbell, (born 1956), author of The Face That Must Die and Ancient Images
• Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898), philosopher, logician, photographer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
• G. K. Chesterton, (1874-1936)
• Agatha Christie, (1890-1976), prolific mystery author
• Joseph Conrad, (1857-1924), Polish-born mariner, author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
• Daniel Defoe, (1660-1731), author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders
• Charles Dickens, (1812-1870), author of A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations
• George Eliot, (1819-1880), author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch
• Henry Fielding, (1707-1754), author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling and Joseph Andrews
• James Follet, (born 1939), author of over 20 novels, plus works for radio and television.
• E. M. Forster, (1879-1970), author of A Passage to India and Maurice
• John Fowles, (born 1926), author of The French Lieutenant's Woman
• John Galsworthy, (1867-1933), author of The Forsyte Saga
• Elizabeth Gaskell, (1810-1865)
• Alistair Gentry
• William Golding,(1911-1993), author of Lord of the Flies
• Graham Greene, (1904-1991), author of The Quiet American and The Heart of the Matter
• Thomas Hardy, (1840-1928), author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd
• Nick Hornby, author of About a Boy (1998)
• Elizabeth Jane Howard, (1923-)
• Aldous Huxley, (1884-1963), author of Brave New World and Point Counter Point
• Christopher Isherwood, (1904-1986)
• P.D. James, author of crime fiction but also the dystopian novel The Children of Men (1992)
• Geraldine Jewsbury (1812-1880)
• Rudyard Kipling, author of Kim and The Jungle Book, Nobel Prize for Literature (1907)
• C. H. B. Kitchin
• Hanif Kureishi, (born 1954), author of The Buddha of Suburbia
• D. H. Lawrence, (1885-1930), author of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Sons and Lovers
• Doris Lessing, (born 1919), author of The Golden Notebook
• W. Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965), playwright, author of Of Human Bondage and The Razor's Edge
• A. A. Milne, (1882-1956), poet, playwright, author of Winnie-the-Pooh
• George Orwell, (1903-1950) author of Animal Farm and 1984
• Charles Palliser
• Samuel Richardson, (1689-1761), author of Pamela and Clarissa
• Phil Rickwood, the politics of sin
• J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series
• Nevil Shute (1899-1960), author of On the Beach
• Laurence Sterne, (1713-1768), author of Tristram Shandy
• William Makepeace Thackeray
• J. R. R. Tolkien, (1892-1973), author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
• Anthony Trollope, (1815-1882)
• Jill Paton Walsh
• Evelyn Waugh, (1903-1966), author of Brideshead Revisited
• H. G. Wells, (1866-1946), essayist, science fiction author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds
• P. G. Wodehouse, (1881-1975), creator of Jeeves and Wooster
• Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), feminist, modernist, author of Mrs. Dalloway

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Scotland

• William Auld writes mainly in Esperanto
• Iain Banks aka Iain M. Banks, (1954- ) writes mainstream novels under the first name, science-fiction novels under the second.
• J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan among others.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the Great Detective, discoverer of the Lost World, believer in fairies.
• James Kelman
• Helen Clark MacInnes wrote suspense novels
• Ken MacLeod, (1954- ), science fiction
• Ian Rankin
• Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), innovator of the historical novel
• Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), author of Treasure Island
• Mary Stewart, (1916- )
• Nigel Tranter, (1909-2000), Scottish historical novels.
• Irvine Welsh, (1961- )

Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin: No one provokes me with impunity) (Scots: Wha daur meddle wi me) Scotlands location within the UK Languages with Official Status1 English Gaelic Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... William Auld (born 1924) is a Scottish author and the deputy director of a grammar school. ... Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international language. ... Ian M. Banks at 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Iain Menzies Banks writes mainstream novels as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A collection of well-known science-fiction novels and magazines Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. ... Sir James Matthew Barrie, Bt. ... Statue of Peter Pan in St. ... Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. ... Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1854–1957, according to William S. Baring-Gould) is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. ... by Sophie Anderson A fairy is a spirit (supernatural being) found in the legends, folklore, and mythology of many cultures. ... James Kelman (born in Glasgow in 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories and plays. ... Helen Clark MacInnes (October 7, 1907 - September 30, 1985), was a Scottish suspense novelist. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Ken MacLeod (born August 2, 1954), a Scottish science fiction writer, lives near Edinburgh. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ian Rankin (born April 28, 1960 in Fife, Scotland) is one of the best-selling crime writers of the United Kingdom, and one of the worlds foremost writers in the genre. ... Sir Walter Scott, Bart. ... 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the lifetime of the author. ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Treasure Island. ... Mary Stewart (born 1916 in Sunderland, County Durham, England) is a popular English novelist, best known for her trilogy about Merlin, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1916 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Nigel Tranter (November 23, 1909 - January 9, 2000) was a Scottish historian and an author. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Irvine Welsh, reading one of his new short stories at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Irvine Welsh (born Leith, Edinburgh, September 27, 1961) is a Scottish novelist probably best known for his novel Trainspotting, about a group of heroin addicts attempts to quit using the drug. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Wales

• English language
  • Mary Balogh
  • Amy Dillwyn
  • Ken Follett
  • Richard Hughes, (1900-1976), A High Wind in Jamaica
  • Jack Jones, (1884-1970)
  • Richard Llewellyn, (1907-1983), How Green Was My Valley
  • Jean Rhys
  • Bernice Rubens, author of A Solitary Grief
  • Howard Spring, (1889-1965)
• Welsh language
  • Daniel Owen, (1836-1895)
  • Kate Roberts, (1891-1985)

National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English, Welsh Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff First Minister Rhodri Morgan Area  - Total Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² Ethnicity: 97. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Mary Balogh (rhymes with Kellogg, born Mary Jenkins) is a British historical romance novelist. ... Amy Elizabeth Dillwyn (1845-1935) was a Welsh novelist, businesswoman and social benefactor. ... Ken Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. ... Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (19 April 1900-28 April 1976) was a British professional writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jack Jones (1884-1970) was a Welsh novelist and playwright. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) (December 8, 1906 - November 30, 1983) was a British novelist. ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... How Green Was My Valley is a novel of 1939, by Richard Llewellyn. ... Jean Rhys (August 24, 1890 - May 14, 1979), originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a novelist in the mid 20th century. ... Bernice Rubens (July 26, 1928 - October 13, 2004) was a Welsh novelist and screenwriter. ... A Solitary Grief (1991) is a novel by Bernice Rubens about a Harley Street doctor who cannot cope with his own life. ... Howard Spring (1889-1965) was a Welsh author. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Daniel Owen (October 20, 1836 - October 22, 1895), was a Welsh novelist. ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Kate Roberts (February 13, 1891 - April 4, 1985) was one of the foremost Welsh-language authors of the twentieth century. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

United States

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• Kathy Acker, (1943-1997)
• Robert H. Adleman, (1919-1995)
• Louisa May Alcott, (1832-1888), author of Little Women
• Nicholson Baker, (born 1957), author of The Mezzanine and Vox
• John Barth, (born 1930), author of The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy
• Saul Bellow, (1915-2005), author of Herzog and Humboldt's Gift
• Ray Bradbury, (born 1920), author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Illustrated Man
• Dan Brown, (born 1964), author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons
• Charles Bukowski, (1920-1994), poet & novelist, author of Post Office, Factotum
• William S. Burroughs, (1914-1997), author of Naked Lunch
• Truman Capote, (1924-1984), author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood
• Raymond Chandler, (1888-1959), author of The Big Sleep
• Tom Clancy, (born 1947), author of The Hunt for Red October
• James Fenimore Cooper, (1789-1851), author of The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer
• Stephen Crane, (1871-1900), author of The Red Badge of Courage
• JC De La Torre, (Born 1973), author of Ancient Rising
• Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho
• John Dos Passos, (1896-1970), author of U.S.A.
• Lloyd C. Douglas, (1877-1951), author of The Magnificent Obsession, The Robe and The Big Fisherman
• Theodore Dreiser, (1871-1945), author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy
• John Fante, (1909-1983), author of Ask the Dust
• William Faulkner, (1897-1962), Nobel Prize winning author of The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, The Unvanquished and Absalom, Absalom!
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1896-1940), author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night
• Davis Grubb (1919-1980) The Night of the Hunter
• Dashiell Hammett, (1894-1961), author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864), author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables
• Mark Helprin, author of Winter's Tale
• Ernest Hemingway, (1899-1961), author of For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises
• Frank Herbert, (1920-1986), author of Dune
• John Irving, (born 1942), author of The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules
• Henry James, (1843-1916), author of The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors
• Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road
• Stephen King, prolific horror author.
• Dean Koontz, true definition of 'prolific author', with over 80 thriller novels to his name.
• Harper Lee, (born 1926), author of To Kill a Mockingbird
• Sinclair Lewis, (1885-1951), author of Main Street and Elmer Gantry
• Jack London, (1876-1916), author of The Call of the Wild
• Ross Lockridge, Jr., (1914-1948), author of Raintree County
• Tim Lucas, (born 1956), author of Throat Sprockets
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow, (1836-1870), author of The Hasheesh Eater
• Bernard Malamud, (1914-1986), author of The Natural and The Fixer
• David Markson, (born 1927), author of This is Not a Novel and Wittgenstein's Mistress
• Herman Melville, (1819-1891), author of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick
• Henry Miller (1891-1980), author of Tropic of Cancer
• Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949), author of Gone with the Wind
• Toni Morrison, (born 1931), Nobel Prize winning author of Beloved
• Frank Norris, (1870-1902), author of The Octopus and McTeague
• E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
• Thomas Pynchon, (born 1937), author of Gravity's Rainbow
• Lucia St. Clair Robson, (born 1942), author of Ride the Wind and Shadow Patriots
• Philip Roth, (born 1933), author of Portnoy's Complaint and The Human Stain
• J. D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye
• William Saroyan
• Erich Segal, (born 1937), author of Love Story
• Upton Sinclair, (1878-1968), author of The Jungle
• John Steinbeck, (1902-1968), The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men
• Neal Stephenson, (born 1959), Cryptonomicon
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, (1811-1896), author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
• William Styron, (born 1925), author of Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Michael Szymczyk, (born 1981), author of Toilet: The Novel
• Booth Tarkington, (1869-1946), author of The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams
• John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969), author of A Confederacy of Dunces
• Sergio Troncoso, (born 1961), author of The Nature of Truth and The Last Tortilla and Other Stories
• Mark Twain, (1835-1910), pseudonym for Samuel Clemens author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• John Updike, (born 1932), author of Rabbit Run and The Witches of Eastwick
• Kurt Vonnegut, (born 1922), author of Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five
• Lew Wallace, (1827-1905), author of Ben-Hur
• Nathanael West, (1903-1940), author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
• Edith Wharton, (1862-1937), author of The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome
• Thornton Wilder, (1897-1975), author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey
• Tom Wolfe, (born 1931), journalist and author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
• Thomas Wolfe, (1900-1938), author of Look Homeward, Angel

Kathy Acker Kathy Acker (born April 18, 1947 in Manhattan and died November 30, 1997 in Tijuana, Mexico) is an American sex-positive feminist writer. ... Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian, was born on May 17, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died on November 16, 1995 in Ashland, Oregon. ... Louisa May Alcott Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women (1868). ... Little Women is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published on September 30, 1868, concerning the lives and loves of four sisters (from oldest to youngest: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy) growing up during the American Civil War. ... Jump to: navigation, search Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American novelist. ... The Vietnamese Society in Oxford (VOX) [Hội sinh viên Việt Nam tại Đại học Oxford], the official society of any student of Vietnamese origin, regardless of his/her nationality, who is pursuing education, training, higher research and/or other activities at the University of Oxford, UK. The community of Vietnamese... John Barth John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work. ... Giles Goat-Boy (or The Revised New Syllabus of George Giles our Grand Tutor) is an allegorical satirical postmodern novel written by John Barth. ... Bellow as depicted in his Nobel diploma. ... A family name. ... Humboldts Gift is a 1975 novel by Saul Bellow, which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American fantasy, science fiction, and mystery writer known best for his 1950 short story collection The Martian Chronicles and his 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. ... Fahrenheit 451 book cover Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is a dystopian fiction novel by Ray Bradbury that was originally published as a shorter novella in the February 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. ... The Illustrated Man has been through several printings. ... Dan Brown (born on June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire) is an American author of detective thrillers. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Angels and Demons book cover Angels and Demons (2000) is a mystery novel by Dan Brown, featuring the character Robert Langdon, who is also the principal character of his subsequent, better-known novel The Da Vinci Code. ... Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 2000), was a Los Angeles poet and novelist. ... William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic and spoken word performer. ... Naked Lunch was the third novel by William S. Burroughs. ... Truman Capote photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Truman Capote (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American writer. ... Breakfast at Tiffanys is a novella by Truman Capote, published in 1958. ... In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences, by Truman Capote, details the 1959 murders of Herb Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas; his wife, Bonnie; his sixteen-year-old daughter, Nancy; and his fifteen-year-old son, Kenyon, and the aftermath (ISBN 0679745580). ... Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American author of crime stories and novels. ... The Big Sleep is a 1939 novel by Raymond Chandler, with two film versions, one filmed in 1946, and one filmed in 1978. ... Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. ... Harper Collins 1993 paperback edition The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancys first novel, appeared in 1984. ... Cooper portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, 1822 James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular PIMPAmerican writer of the early 19th century. ... The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. ... The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, each featuring the hero Natty Bumppo, otherwise known as Leatherstocking, Pathfinder, Deerslayer, or Hawkeye. ... For other notable men with this name see: Stephen Crane (disambiguation). ... The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is a short novel (or a long short story) by Stephen Crane about the meaning of courage, as it is discovered by Henry Fleming, a young recruit in the Civil War. ... About JC De La Torre SciFi/Fantasy/Horror/Adventure writer Jason Christopher De La Torre was born on September 4th, 1973 in Tampa, Florida. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. ... Jump to: navigation, search American Psycho book cover This article is about the book and film. ... John Roderigo Dos Passos, born January 14, 1896, in Chicago, Illinois, United States - died September 28, 1970, in Baltimore, Maryland, was a novelist and artist. ... The U.S.A. Trilogy is the major work of American writer John Dos Passos. ... Lloyd Cassel Douglas (August 27, 1877 - February 13, 1951) was a noteworthy American minister and author. ... Magnificent Obsession is a 1929 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. ... The Robe, a 1952 historical novel featuring the Crucifixion, written by Lloyd C. Douglas, is more familiar as a 1953 Biblical epic film which tells the story of a Roman tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus. ... The Big Fisherman is a 1959 film about the life of St. ... Theodore Dreiser photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. ... Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream by embarking on a life of sin rather than by hard work and perseverance. ... An American Tragedy is a famous American novel, by Theodore Dreiser. ... John Fante (April 8, 1909 - May 8, 1983) was a novelist, short-story and screenwriter, born in Colorado; he was educated in Boulder and attended the University of Colorado but subsequently moved to California and most of his works are located there. ... William Faulkner, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954 William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... The Sound and the Fury is a well known novel written by American author William Faulkner. ... As I Lay Dying is a novel published in 1930 and written by William Faulkner, one of the most notable American novelists of the twentieth century. ... Light In August is a 1932 novel by William Faulkner. ... Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by William Faulkner, published in 1936. ... F.Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1937 Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896-December 21, 1940), was a Jazz Age novelist. ... The cover of the Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition, 1995. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tender is the Night book cover Tender is the Night is a 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. ... Davis Grubb (July 23, 1919 - July of 1980) was an American novelist and short story writer. ... The Night of the Hunter is a 1953 novel by American author, Davis Grubb. ... Raymond Chandler, in The Simple Art of Murder Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. ... Poster of the 1941 Warner Brothers film version, directed by John Huston The Maltese Falcon is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, made into a quintessential film noir movie. ... DVD cover The Thin Man is the title of the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, a hard-drinking and flirtatious married couple who banter wittily as they easily solve crimes. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. ... Salem Custom House The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is a classic American prose romance written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his masterpiece. ... The House of the Seven Gables, Salem, Massachusetts. ... Mark Helprin is a contemporary award-winning Jewish-American novelist and journalist. ... A comedy by William Shakespeare, The Winters Tale is also considered a problem play by many. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950 Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works, drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, are characterized by terse minimalism and understatement; they exerted... For Whom the Bell Tolls book cover For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway. ... A Farewell to Arms book cover A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1929. ... The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1926, following a group of expatriate Americans in Europe during the 1920s. ... Frank Herbert Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically and commercially successful American science fiction author. ... Dune is a science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and published in 1965 . ... John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (for The Cider House Rules, based on his book of the same name). ... The World According to Garp book cover The World According to Garp is a novel by John Irving. ... The Cider House Rules book cover This article relates to the novel, The Cider House Rules by John Irving. ... This article is about the writer; for the politician who was almost his contemporary see Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford. ... The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1881. ... The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James. ... Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer, poet, artist, and one of the most prominent members of the Beat Generation. ... On the Road is a novel by Jack Kerouac, published by Viking Press in 1957. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author best known for horror novels. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any media intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ... Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania) is a prolific and best-selling fiction author known primarily for his popular suspense novels. ... The thriller is a genre of fiction in which tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world. ... Harper Lee (born April 28,1926) is an American novelist and author of the classic 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. ... To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by Harper Lee, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. ... Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885–January 10, 1951) was an American novelist and playwright. ... Main Street book cover The novel Main Street by Sinclair Lewis was published in 1920. ... Jump to: navigation, search Elmer Gantry is a 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis as well as a 1960 film which tells the story of a con man who teams up with a female evangelist to sell religion to small-town America. ... Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote over 50 books. ... The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London. ... Ross F. Lockridge, Jr. ... Raintree County is a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr. ... Tim Lucas is a film critic, novelist, and publisher/editor of the video review magazine Video Watchdog. ... Fitz Hugh Ludlow, sometimes seen as Fitzhugh Ludlow, (September 11, 1836 – September 12, 1870) was an American author, journalist, and explorer; best-known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater (1857). ... The Hasheesh Eater is an autobiographical book by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, first published in 1857. ... Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) was an American writer born in Brooklyn, New York. ... The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball written by Bernard Malamud. ... The Fixer is a 1968 film which tells the true story of a Jew, Menahem Mendel Beilis, in Tsarist Russia who is unjustly imprisoned, the notorious Beilis trial that ensued, and the international uproar that it caused, forcing Russia to back down in the face of world indignation. ... David Markson is an American author, born in Albany, New York, in 1927. ... Herman Melville Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet. ... Billy Budd is a short novel finished around 1891 by Herman Melville. ... Moby-Dick book cover Moby-Dick - the official title of the first edition - is a novel by Herman Melville. ... Henry Miller (December 26, 1891, New York City–June 7, 1980, Pacific Palisades, California), was an American writer. ... The Tropic of Cancer (cancer (♋) is Latin for crab), one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth, is the parallel of latitude that runs 23° 26 22 north of the Equator. ... Jump to: navigation, search Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, that was published in 1936. ... Gone With the Wind was an instant success. ... Toni Morrison (born February 18, 1931) is one of the most prominent authors in world literature, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. ... Beloved has several meanings: Beloved is a best-selling historical romance about Zenobia written by Bertrice Small, written in 1983. ... Benjamin Franklin Norris (March 5, 1870 - October 25, 1902) was an American novelist during the Progressive Era, the United States first important naturalist writer. ... E. Annie Proulx (born August 22, 1935) is an author who is best known for her second novel, The Shipping News (1993), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. ... The Shipping News is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (ISBN 068485791X) by E. Annie Proulx which was published in 1993, and a film of the same name, released in 2001, set on the Canadian island of Newfoundland. ... Thomas Pynchon pictured in his high school yearbook. ... Gravitys Rainbow book cover. ... Lucia St. ... Ride the Wind by Lucia St. ... Shadow Patriots, by Lucia St. ... Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933) is a Jewish-American novelist who is best known for his sexually-explicit comedic novel Portnoys Complaint (1969) and for his late-90s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000). ... Portnoys Complaint book cover Portnoys Complaint (1969) is American writer Philip Roths fourth and, to date, still most popular novel, with many of its characteristics (ribald, comedic prose; themes of sexual desire and sexual frustration; a self-conscious literariness) having gone on to become Roth trademarks. ... The Human Stain book cover The Human Stain (2000) is a novel by Philip Roth, who was born in New Jersey in 1933. ... Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age story that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Catcher in the Rye book cover The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger. ... William Saroyan (August 31, 1908 - May 18, 1981) was an American author who wrote many plays and short stories about growing up impoverished as the son of Armenian immigrants. ... Erich Wolf Segal (born June 16, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author, screenwriter and educator. ... Love Story is a 1970 romance motion picture drama directed by Arthur Hiller that tells the story of two college students: Oliver, the emotionally vacant son of rich parents; and the girl he falls in love with, Jenny, a brassy music major at Radcliffe. ... Upton Beall Sinclair (September 20, 1878 - November 25, 1968) was a prolific (90 books) American author who wrote in many genres, often advocating Socialist views, and achieved considerable popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. ... The Jungle (1906) is the most famous novel by prolific U.S. author Upton Sinclair. ... John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century. ... The cover of The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is a work of fiction written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. ... Jump to: navigation, search Wikibooks has more about this subject: Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men book cover Of Mice and Men is a novella by John Steinbeck, first published in 1937, which tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two displaced Anglo migrant farm workers during... Neal Stephenson (b. ... Cryptonomicon is a sprawling novel by Neal Stephenson that is more a combination of historical fiction and contemporary techno-thriller than the science fiction of Stephensons earlier works. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, born Harriet Elizabeth Beecher (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an abolitionist, and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Toms Cabin which describes life in slavery, and which was first published in serial form from 1851... Uncle Toms Cabin is a novel by American abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. ... William Styron is an American novelist, born in Newport News, Virginia on June 11, 1925. ... Sophies Choice (1979) is a novel written by William Styron about a young American Southerner who wants to be a writer and befriends Nathan, who is Jewish, and his beautiful lover Sophie, a Polish (but not Jewish) survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. ... The Confessions of Nat Turner is a 1967 novel by William Styron. ... Author of Toilet: The Novel ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Time magazine, December 21, 1925 Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 _ May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist. ... The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington. ... Alice Adams is a 1935 comedy/drama film. ... John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist, from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces. ... A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel written by John Kennedy Toole, but not published during his lifetime. ... Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso is an American author of short stories and novels. ... The Nature of Truth: A Novel, by Sergio Troncoso The Nature of Truth is a novel by Sergio Troncoso first published in 2003 by Northwestern University Press. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, novelist, writer and lecturer. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ... Huckleberry Finn and Jim Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is commonly accounted as the first Great American Novel. ... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn book cover The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. ... John Updike John Updike (born March 18, 1932) is an American novelist and short story writer born in Reading, Pennsylvania. ... Rabbit Run is a 1960 novel by John Updike, concerning a former basketball player named Harry Rabbit Angstrom, and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life. ... The 1987 comedy The Witches of Eastwick stars Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Cats Cradle (ISBN 038533348X) is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Childrens Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Lew Wallace Lewis Lew Wallace (April 10, 1827–February 15, 1905) was an American Civil War general, U.S. statesman and author, who is probably best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur. ... Nathanael West (October 17, 1903 - December 22, 1940) was the pen name of Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein. ... Spoiler warning: Miss Lonelyhearts is Nathanael Wests first great novel. ... The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, depicting the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals whose dreams of success have effectively failed. ... Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. ... The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by Edith Wharton. ... Ethan Frome is a 1911 novel by Edith Wharton. ... Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American novelist and playwright. ... The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a 1927 novel by American author Thornton Wilder. ... Tom Wolfe (born March 2, 1931) is an American author and journalist. ... The Bonfire of the Vanities DVD This article is about the book and subsequent film; for the historical event, see Bonfire of the Vanities. ... Photo by Carl Van Vechten For the modern, currently living author and journalist, see Tom Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900–September 15, 1938) was a famous American novelist. ...

Venezuela

• Rómulo Gallegos, (1884-1969) Canaima, Doña Bárbara

Rómulo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 4 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ...

Vietnam

• Bao Ninh, (b. 1952)

Bao Ninh (born 1952) is a Vietnamese novelist. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Yiddish

• Sholom Aleichem, (1859-1916) (real name: Solomon Rabinovitz), Fiddler on the Roof was based on his stories
• Sholom Asch, (1880-1957)
• Mendele Moykher Sforim, (1836-1917), pseud. for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch
• Yitzok Lebesh Peretz, (1852-1915)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1904-1991)