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Encyclopedia > List of novelists by nationality

Well-known authors of novels, listed by country: Authorship redirects here. ...


See also: Lists of authors, List of poets, List of playwrights, List of short story authors 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 biographers List of childrens literature... This is a list of poets. ... List of notable playwrights. ... This is a partial list of short story authors: Lee K. Abbott (born 1947) Chinua Achebe (born 1930) Sherman Alexie (born 1966) Henry Allen (born 1982) Steve Almond Martin Amis (born 1949) Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) Isaac Babel (1894-1940) Andrea Barrett (born 1964) John Barth...

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Albania

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

Algeria

Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (March 4, 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia - April 2, 1976 in Saint-Michel-lObservatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rachid Boudjedra (1941-) is an Algerian writer and educator who has published numerous poems, essays and novels. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Albert Camus (IPA: ) (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mohammed Dib (1920-2003) was an Algerian author who wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short storys, poems, and childrens literature. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tahar Djaout (1954-1993) was an Algerian journalist, poet, and fiction writer. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Assia Djebar is the pen-name of Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (born August 4, 1936), an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a French author from Martinique, essayist, psychoanalyst, and revolutionary. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mouloud Feraoun (1913 - 1962) was an Algerian writer born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylie. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mouloud Mammeri is a Kabyle writer, anthropologist and linguist (Algeria born in December 28, 1917 in Taourirt Mimoune (Ath Yenni) in Kabylie, He died in February 1989 near Aïn Defla when he returning from a conference in Oujda (Morocco). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Rachid Mimouni (In Arabic:رشيد ميموني) (November 20, 1945 – February 12, 1995) was an Algerian writer, teacher and human rights activist. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Ahlam (or Ahlem) Mosteghanemi, the daughter of Algerian revolutionary leader Mohammed Chérif, is a notable Algerian writer. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Kateb Yacine (1929 - 1989) was an Algerian writer. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ...

Ancient Latin Authors

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

Angola

José Eduardo Agualusa [Alves da Cunha], a native of Huambo (b. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mário Coelho Pinto de Andrade (August 21, 1928 - August 26, 1990) was an Angolan poet and politician. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born in Benguela, Angola, in 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Oscar Bento Ribas (17 August 1909 – 19 June 2004) Angolan writer. ... José Luandino Vieira (born May 4, 1935) was an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...

Argentina

Marcos Aguinis (1935-) is an Argentine writer born in the province of Córdoba. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 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. ... Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer. ... Abelardo Castillo is an Argentine writer, born in the city of San Pedro. ... Julio Cortázar. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Macedonio Fernandez (1874-1952) was an Argentine novelist, humorist, and philosopher. ... Ricardo Güiraldes (13 February 1886 — 8 October 1927)[1] was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set among the gauchos. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Don Segundo Sombra is a seminal 1926 novel by Argentine rancher Ricardo Güiraldes. ... Sylvia Iparraguirre (b. ... Leopoldo Marechal was an Argentine poet, novelist, and critic, best known for his philosophically-oriented novels. ... Manuel Puig Manuel Puig (General Villegas, December 28, 1932 - Cuernavaca, July 22, 1990) was an Argentinian author. ... Kiss of the Spider Woman (Spanish: El beso de la mujer araña) is a 1976 novel by the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig. ... Andrés Rivera, a pseudonym of Marcos Ribak, is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires in 1928. ... 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). ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Luisa Valenzuela (b. ...

Armenia

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. ...

Assyrian

Languages Aramaic Religions Christianity Related ethnic groups other Semitic peoples The Assyrians (also called Syriacs or Aramaeans[11]) are an ethnic group whose origins lie in what is today Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria, but many of whom have migrated to the Caucasus, North America and Western Europe during the... Khalil Gibran (also known as Kahlil Gibran; born Gibran Khalil Gibran, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران, Syriac: ܓ̰ܒܪܢ ܚܠܝܠ ܓ̰ܒܪܢ) (born January 6, 1883; died April 10, 1931) was an artist, poet and writer. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Ivan Kakovitch (December 9, 1933 Kiev, USSR - December 22, 2006 Paris, France) was an Assyrian author, journalist, professor, and a nationalist leader. ... // Born on the fourth of July, in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan ( رزی ملک یونان ) is an Assyrian actress, artist, director, author and activist. ... Obelit Yadgar is an Assyrian-American published author and a radio personality from Glendale, Wisconsin. ...

Australia

See: List of Australian novelists This is a list of novelists living in Australia or publishing significantly while living there. ...


Austria

See also: German literature German literature comprises those literary texts originating within Germany proper and written in the German language. ...

Thomas Bernhard (February 9, 1931, Heerlen - February 12, 1989, Ohlsdorf) was an Austrian playwright and novelist. ... Peter Handke (born December 6, 1942) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian feminist playwright and novelist. ... Robert Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria – April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Joseph Roth (September 2, 1894 in Brody - May 27, 1939 in Paris) was an Austrian Jewish novelist who converted to Catholicism and is best known for his family saga The Radetzky March (1932), and for his novel of Jewish life Job (1930). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arthur Schnitzler Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 - October 21, 1931) was an Austrian writer and doctor. ... Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881, Vienna, Austria – February 23, 1942, Petrópolis, Brazil) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. ... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bangladesh

Mohammad Yunus can refer to: Mohammad Yunus, the founder of Bangladeshs Grameen Bank Mohammad Yunus (diplomat) , a career Indian diplomat and Special Envoy of Indira Gandhi Category: ... Taslima Nasrin Taslima Nasrin (Bangla: তসলিমা নাসরিন), also known as Taslima Nasreen, (born 25 August 1962 in Mymensingh, Bangladesh) is a Bengali Bangladeshi physician, author, feminist human rights activist and secular humanist. ...

Belarus

Vasil BykaÅ­ in Romania, 1944 Vasil Uladzimiravich BykaÅ­ (Belarusian: ; Russian: ) (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. ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UÅ‚adzimir Karatkievič also Uladzimir Karatkevich, Vladimir Korotkevich (Belarusian: , Russian: ) (November 26, 1930 - July 25, 1984) was a Belarusian romantic writer. ... Yakub Kolas (Якуб Колас, 1882–1956), real name Kanstantsin Mikhailavich Mitskevich (Міцке́віч Канстанці́н Міха́йлаві&#1095... Monument to Yanka Kupala, Minsk, Belarus Yanka KupaÅ‚a (Janka KupaÅ‚a, Belarusian: Я́нка Купа́ла) (July 7 (June 25, O.S.), 1882 – June 28, 1942) — penname of Ivan Łucevič (Іва́н Даміні́кавіч Луцэ́віч) was a famous Belarusian poet and writer. ... 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. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Belgium

Cornelis de Bie by Gonzalez Coques Cornelis de Bie (February 10, 1627, Lier, Belgium - 1715(?), Lier, Belgium) was a Belgian poet, rhetorician, jurist and minor politician. ... Louis Paul Boon (15 March 1912 - 10 May 1979) was a Flemish journalist and novelist who is considered one of the major 20th century writers in the Dutch language. ... Hendrik Conscience (born December 3, 1812 in Antwerp – died September 10, 1883 in Antwerp) was a Flemish writer. ... Andreas Ernestus Josephus Claes (October, 24th 1885 in Zichem - September, 2nd 1968 in Elsene) was a Flemsih author. ... Hugo Maurice Julien Claus (born April 5, 1929 in Bruges, Belgium) is a prolific Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director. ... Christine DHaen (Sint-Amandsberg, 25 October 1923) is a Flemish writer. ... Johan Daisne was the pseudonym of Flemish language author Herman Thiery (2 September 1912–9 August 1978). ... Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 - 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature. ... Belgian stamp honoring the writer Willem Elsschot (7 May 1882 - 31 May 1960), was a Flemish writer and poet (pseudonym of Alfons-Jozef De Ridder). ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Guido Gezelle (1830-1899) was a poet and Roman Catholic priest writing in the Dutch language area of Belgium. ... Marnix Gijsen (Antwerp, 20 October 1899- Lubbeek, 29 September 1984) was a Belgian writer. ... Hubert Lampo (born in 1920 in Antwerp) is a Belgian writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. ... Rosalie Loveling (1834-03-20 - 1875-05-04) was a Flemish author of poetry, novels and essays. ... Virginie (Marie) Loveling (1836-05-17 - 1923-12-01) was a Flemish author of poetry, novels, essays and childrens stories. ... Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, Belgian author Count Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist. ... Alice Nahon Alice Nahon (Grote Markt 58, Antwerp, 16 August 1896-Carnotstraat 17, Antwerp, 21 May 1933) was a Flemish poet. ... Amélie Nothomb (born August 13, 1967) is a Belgian writer. ... Maria Rosseels (Borgerhout, 23 October 1916-18 March 2005), was a Belgian Catholic writer. ... Stijn Streuvels, born Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, is a Belgian writer. ... Herman Louis Cesar Teirlinck (St. ... Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (July 5, 1886 – January 24, 1947) is the most translated author of Flanders. ... André Henri Constant van Hasselt (Dutch:  ; January 5, 1806 – December 1, 1874) was a Flemish poet. ... The Continence of Scipio by Carel van Mander (1600) Oil on copper, 44 x 79 cm. ... Emile Verhaeren (May 21, 1855- November 27, 1916) was a Belgian poet writing in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. ... Writer of novels as De Kleurenvanger; Memoires van een luipaard; Zwellend fruit; Tongkat His latest novel is the, so called political thriller,Zwerm. ... Gerard Walschap (Londerzeel-St. ... Jan Frans Willems (March 11, 1793 - June 24, 1846), Flemish writer. ... Ludovicus Carolus Zielens (13 June 1901–28 November 1944) was a Flemish novelist and journalist. ...

Benin

Florent Couao-Zotti (born 1964) is a writer of comics, plays, and short stories who lives in Cotonou. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Ğ: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Dogbeh (born Gbèmagon Richard Dogbeh 1932 in what is now Togo; died November 23, 2003 in Cotonou) was a novelist and educator. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ivo Andrić (Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a Serb from Bosnia, novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature from Yugoslavia. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) 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... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Botswana

Caitlin Davies is an author born in England in 1964. ... Unity Dow (born 1959) is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana. ... Bessie Emery Head (1937-1986) is usually considered Botswanas most important writer. ...

Brazil

Paulo Coelho (IPA: ) (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Burkina Faso

  • Sarah Bouyain (1968– )
  • Monique Ilboudo
  • Honorine Mare (1972– )
  • Suzy Henrique Nikiéma
  • Adiza Sanoussi

Sarah Bouyain (born 1968) is a French-Burkinabé writer and director. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Cameroon

Alexandre Biyidi Awala (June 30, 1932 - October 8, 2001), known as Mongo Beti, was a Cameroonian writer. ... Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is a Cameroonian writer who writes in French. ... Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (born 1929) is an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for irony that shows how easily people can be fooled. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hong Kong is Talking About . ...

Canada

See also: Canadian literature, List of Canadian writers Canadian literature may be divided into two parts, based on their separate roots: one stems from the culture and literature from France; the other from Britain. ... This is a list of Canadian literary figures, including poets, novelists, childrens writers, essayists, and scholars. ...

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Handmaids Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. ... This article is about the year. ... 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 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marie-Claire Blais is a Canadian author. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edward Morley Callaghan, CC, LL.B., LL.D., FRSC (September 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, TV and radio personality. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958) is a Canadian writer whose first novel, Losing Eddie won the 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Books in Canada First Novel Award has a tumultuous history. ... William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Book cover 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. ... Louis Émond, born November 9, 1969 in Lévis, is a Quebec writer. ... Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC , O. Ont. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Gayleen Froese (born 1972 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a mystery novelist and singer/songwriter from Western Canada. ... 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. ... Margaret Laurence (July 18, 1926–January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain) is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. ... Life of Pi is a novel by Canadian author Yann Martel. ... 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 considered to be one of the foremost authors of South Asian origin writing in English. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called Maud by family and friends) and publicly known as 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. ... Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Susanna Moodie, née Strickland (6 December 1803 – 8 April 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 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Farley McGill Mowat OC, BA, D.Litt (born May 12, 1921 in Belleville, Ontario) is a conservationist and one of Canadas most widely-read authors. ... Alice Ann Munro, née Laidlaw (born 10 July 1931) is an award-winning Canadian short story writer who is widely considered an important writer in that form. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC (born 12 September 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, The English Patient. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the book. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, screenwriter and essayist. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is the fourth novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gabrielle-Roy is a French first language elementary and high school located in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Margaret Marshall Saunders CBE (May 13, 1861 - February 15, 1947) was a Canadian author. ... Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Carol Shields, CC , OM , D.Litt. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was 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. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Roland Michel Tremblay (born October 15, 1972, in Quebec City, Canada) is a French-Canadian author, poet, scriptwriter, development producer and sci-fi consultant. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jane Urquhart, OC (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian author. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Cape Verde

Germano Almeida (born 1945) is a Cape Verde author and lawyer. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Manuel António do Sousa Lopes (December 23, 1907 in Mindelo - January 25, 2005) was a Cape Verdean fictionist, poet and an essayist and a founder of the modern Cape Verdean literature, with Baltasar Lopes da Silva, Jorge Barbosa was a creator of the paper named Claridade. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ...

Chad

  • Marie-Christine Koundja (1957– )

Marie-Christine Koundja is a writer from Chad. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ...

Chile

For the Chilean politician and daughter of Salvador Allende, see Isabel Allende Bussi. ... Francisco Coloane (b 1910 - d 2002) Chilean author of novels and short fiction. ... José Donoso was a Chilean writer. ... 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 Chinese literature spans back thousands of years, from the earliest recorded dynastic court archives to the matured fictional novel arising in the medieval period to entertain the masses of literate Chinese. ...

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Cao Xueqin (Chinese: ; pinyin: Cáo XuÄ›qín) (? 1715 - c. ... Year 1715 (MDCCXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1763 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... “The Story of the Stone” redirects here. ... Dai Sijie (b. ... Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Dai Sijie, and published in 2000 in French and in English in 2001. ... Gao Xingjian (pron. ... Han Shaogong is a prominent and innovative Chinese writer (born in 1953 in Hunan). ... Lao She (老舍, Pinyin: LÇŽo ShÄ›), (February 3, 1899 – October 14, 1966) was a noted Chinese writer. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... During the middle of the tenth century A.D. Li Houzhu ruled the Southern Tang Kingdom. ... Lu Xun (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), pen name of Zhou Shuren (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōu Shùrén; Wade-Giles: Chou Shu-jen) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The True Story of Ah Q, or Ä€ Q Zhèngzhuàn (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: ), is a long short fiction by Lu Xun, first published between December 1921 and February 1922. ... Mao Dun (July 4, 1896–March 27, 1981) was the pen name of Shen Dehong, a 20th century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Mo Yan (莫言) (born 1956) is a modern Chinese author, known in the West for two of his novels which were the basis of the film Red Sorghum. ... Red Sorghum (紅高梁, Pinyin: Hong gao liang) is a 1987 Chinese film, the first to be directed by Zhang Yimou, based off a novel by Mo Yan. ... Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese literary scholar, writer and polyglot, famous for his burning wit and formiddable erudition. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Wei Jingsheng WEI Jingsheng is the best-known Chinese human rights and democracy fighter and is the leader for the opposition against the Chinese Communist dictatorship. ... Eileen Chang (Chinese: 张爱玲; Pinyin: Zhāng Àilíng), (September 30, 1920 - found dead September 8, 1995) was a Chinese writer. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... A romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. ...

Colombia

Jaime Manrique (16 June 1949 - ) is a gay, Colombian-American author, poet, and journalist. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that was first published in Spanish in 1967 (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana), with an English translation by Gregory Rabassa released in 1970 (New York: Harper and... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 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... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Magic realism (or magical realism) is an artistic 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. ... For the toll-free telephone number see Toll-free telephone number Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... La Vorágine (The Vortex) is a novel written in 1924 by José Eustasio Rivera. ...

Congo-Brazzaville

Jeannette Balou Tchichelle is an author born in Republic of the Congo in 1947. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Emmanuel Dongala is a Congolese chemist and novelist. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ...

Congo-Kinshasa (formerly Zaire)

Motto Justice – Paix – Travail(French) Justice – Peace – Work Anthem Debout Congolais Capital (and largest city) Kinshasaa Official languages French Recognised regional languages Lingala, Kongo/Kituba, Swahili, Tshiluba Demonym Congolese Government Semi-Presidential Republic  -  President Joseph Kabila  -  Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga Independence  -  from Belgium June 30, 1960  Area  -  Total 2,344... Amba Bongo is a writer and advocate for refugees from Congo-Kinshasa. ... Maguy Rashidi-Kabamba(born 1960) is a writer and translator from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sony Labou Tansi (1947-1995) was a Congolese novelist and poet. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Valentine Y. Mudimbe is a philosopher, professor, and author of non-fiction books and articles about African culture, poems, and novels. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Frederick Kambemba Yamusangie is a novelist, playwright and poet who was born and partly brought up in Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo) in Africa. ...

Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community. ... Romain Gary (May 8, 1914 – December 2, 1980) was a French novelist, film director, World War II pilot, and diplomat. ... “Kafka” redirects here. ... Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: , Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Pavel Bém Area  - City 496 km²  (191. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ... German literature comprises those literary texts originating within Germany proper and written in the German language. ... Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest – March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Milan Kundera (IPA: ) (born April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born writer who writes in both Czech and French. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ahmed Salman Rushdie KBE (Hindi: Urdu: سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For the verses known as Satanic Verses, see Satanic Verses. ...

Costa Rica

  • Joaquín García Monge (1881 – 1958)

Joaquín García Monge is considered one of Costa Ricas most important writers. ...

Côte d'Ivoire

Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Tannella Boni is an Ivorian poet and novelist. ... Micheline Coulibaly (1950 – 19 March 2003) was a writer from Côte dIvoire. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Dogbeh (born Gbèmagon Richard Dogbeh 1932 in what is now Togo; died November 23, 2003 in Cotonou) was a novelist and educator. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ahmadou Kourouma, (November 24, 1927 – December 11, 2003) was an Ivorian novelist. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Véronique Tadjo is a writer, poet, and artist from Côte dIvoire. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Werewere Liking (b. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ...

Croatia

See also: Croatian literature // (ca. ...

Miroslav Krleža. ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Ivo Andrić (Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a Serb from Bosnia, novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature from Yugoslavia. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ivan Aralica (Promina near Knin, 1930–) is a Croatian novelist and essayist. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tomislav Ladan (born 1932, Ivanjica, Serbia) is a Croatian essayist, critic, novelist, and polymath. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Cuba

Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government. ... Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essay writer, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous boom period. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... José Lezama Lima (December 19, 1910-1976) was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature. ... Leonardo Padura Fuentes (born 1955) is a Cuban novelist and journalist. ...

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 ÄŒapek (pronounced ; IPA: ) (January 9, 1890 - December 25, 1938) was one of the most important Czech writers of the 20th century. ... Year 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses, see robot (disambiguation). ... Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek (IPA: ) (April 30, 1883 in Prague – January 3 , 1923 in Lipnice nad Sázavou ) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Å vejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in... Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian 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. ... Bohumil Hrabal (March 28, 1914, Brno - February 3, 1997, Prague) was a famous Czech writer. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... OstÅ™e Sledované Vlaky is a 1966 Czechoslovakian film directed by Jiří Menzel. ... Pigeon redirects here. ... Milan Kundera (IPA: ) (born April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born writer who writes in both Czech and French. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Jaroslav Seifert Jaroslav Seifert   (IPA: ) (September 23, 1901 – January 10, 1986) was a Nobel prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist. ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 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... This article is about the year. ...

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 Villy Sørensen Categories: | ...

Hans Christian Andersen or simply H.C. Andersen , (April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Karen Dinesen, was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the 1985 film based on this novel, see Out of Africa (film). ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Høeg, born on May 17, 1957, is one of Denmarks most celebrated contemporary writers of fiction. ... Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (in Denmark always called Johannes V. Jensen) (January 20, 1873 – November 25, 1950) was a Danish author, often considered the first great Danish writer of the 20th century. ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) 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... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Peter Kjærulff (b. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Djibouti

Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Abdourahman Waberi Abdourahman. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...

Ecuador

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

Gamal al-Ghitani, Arabic: (b. ... This article is about the Egyptian novelist. ... 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... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... The Cairo Trilogy is a trilogy of novels set in Cairo, Egypt. ... Alifa Rifaat (June 5, 1930 - 1996) was a controversial Egyptian author, whose short stories reflect on the life of traditional Muslim women in rural Egypt. ... Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian short story writer and novelist. ... Sonallah Ibrahim is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the Sixties Generation who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are expressed rather directly in his work. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Equatorial Guinea

María Nsué Angüe (born 1945 in Ebebeyín (Río Muni), Equatorial Guinea) is a noted contemporary Guinean writer and former Minister of Education and Culture. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (born 1950 in Neifang, Equatorial Guinea) is a writer and journalist part of a movement of young Afro-descended authors who have contributed to Hispanic culture the African experience and tradition. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (Malabo, 1966) is a Annobonese writer from Equatorial Guinea. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...

Estonia

Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Kaur Kender, (born 1972 Estonia) is a Estonian author. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Albert Kivikas (18 January 1898 Suure-Jaani, Estonia – 19 May 1978 Lund, Sweden) was an Estonian writer and journalist. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Jaan Kross (born 19 February 1920) is the most eminent contemporary Estonian writer. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Juhan Liiv as a young man Juhan Liiv (30 April 1864–1 December 1913) is one of Estonias most famous poets. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Tõnu Õnnepalu (b. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lilli Promet is an Estonian writer. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Karl Ristikivi (October 16, 1912 Lääne county - July 19, 1977 Stockholm) was an Estonian writer. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Anton Hansen Tammsaare Anton Hansen Tammsaare (born as Anton Hansen, 30 January 1878 - 1 March 1940), was an Estonian writer whose quintology Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice; 1926-1933) is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and The Estonian Novel. Tammsaare is depicted on the... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Heiki Vilep (born March, 1960 in Tartu, Estonia) is an Estonian writer. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ethiopia

Haddis Alemayehu (15 October 1910 - 6 December 2003) was a Foreign Minister and novelist from Ethiopia. ... Āfawarq Gabra Iyasus(1868-1947) is an Ethiopian writer and possibly their first novelist to gain repute. ... Moges Kebede, sometimes credited as Moges Kebede Damte or Moges Damte, is an Ethiopian author, essayist, and editor. ... Nega Mezlekia(1960-) is an award winning Ethiopian writer who writes in English. ... Hama Tuma(1949) is an Ethiopian poet and writer of the Amharic language born in Addis Ababa. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Finland

Juhani Aho (September 11, 1861 - August 8, 1921) was the first professional Finnish writer and is regarded as a kind of national writer of Finland. ... Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Tove Marika Jansson ( ; August 9, 1914 – June 27, 2001) was a Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Aino Kallas (nee Krohn in 1878) was the daughter of Julius Krohn, an outstanding Finnish national figure, scientist and writer. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) 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. ... Year 1834 (MDCCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Väinö Linna (December 20, 1920 - April 21, 1992) was one of the most influential Finnish authors of the 20th century. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Arto Paasilinna (born April 20, 1942 in Kittilä) 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. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Frans Eemil Sillanpää (September 16, 1888 – June 3, 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers. ... For the toll-free telephone number see Toll-free telephone number Year 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... 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... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mika Toimi Waltari ( ) (September 19, 1908 – August 26, 1979) was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen in Finnish) . // Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...

France

See: French literature, List of French novelists French literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak other traditional non-French languages. ... This is a list of novelists from France. ...


Gabon

Jean-Baptiste Nguema Abessolo, also seen as J.-B. Abessolo-Nguema, (b. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... René Maran (1887 – 1960) was the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Angèle Ntyugwetondo Rawiri (born 29 April 1954) is a Gabonese novelist. ...

Gambia

Lenrie Peters (b. ...

Germany

See also: German literature German literature comprises those literary texts originating within Germany proper and written in the German language. ...

A monument of Heinrich Böll in Berlin Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germanys foremost post-World War II writers. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Alfred Döblin (August 10, 1878 – June 26, 1957) was a German expressionist novelist, best known for Berlin Alexanderplatz. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Berlin Alexanderplatz is a novel by Alfred Döblin, published in 1929. ... “Goethe” redirects here. ... Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ... Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... “Renaissance man” redirects here. ... Günter Wilhelm Grass (born October 16, 1927) is a Nobel Prize-winning German author. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) 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... This article is about the year. ... Hermann Hesse (pronounced ) (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Swiss-German poet, novelist, and painter. ... 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel) is the last work and magnum opus of the German author Hermann Hesse. ... For other uses, see Steppenwolf. ... 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... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kehlmanns novel Measuring the World in 8 different languages Daniel Kehlmann (born January 13, 1975 in Munich) is a German language author. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (October 18, 1777 – November 21, 1811) was a German poet, dramatist and novelist. ... Year 1777 (MDCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Siegfried Lenz (b. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other persons named Thomas Mann, see Thomas Mann (disambiguation). ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 – September 25, 1970) was the pseudonym of Erich Paul Remark, a German author. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... For the films, see All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film). ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sten Nadolny, German novelist, was born in 1942 in Zehdenick, Germany. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Discovery of Slowness (original German title Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit) is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a double conceit: first, as a novelization of the life of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and second as a hymn of praise to slowness, a quality which Nadolnys... Patrick Süskind (born March 26, 1949) is a German writer and film script author. ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical horror novel (originally published in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick Süskind. ...

Ghana

Ama Ata Aidoo is a Ghanian author and playwright who was born Christina Ama Aidoo in Abeadzi Kyiakor in 1942. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanian writer. ... Bediako Asare is an African journalist and author from Ghana. ... Kofi Awoonor (born George Awoonor-Williams in 1935) is a Ghanaian poet and author, whose work combines the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... William Boyd, CBE (born 7 March 1952 in Accra, Ghana) is a contemporary Scottish novelist and screenwriter. ... Akosua Busia (born December 30, 1966) is a Ghanaian actress based in the U.S.. The daughter of Kofi Abrefa Busia, the ex-prime minister of the Republic of Ghana, Akosua is a princess of the Royal Family of Wenchi, a subgroup of the Ashanti. ... Photograph of J.E. Casely Hayford Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford or Ekra-Agiman (1866–1930) was a Fante journalist, author, lawyer, educator, and politician who supported pan-African nationalism. ... Amma Darko, May 2004 Amma Darko (1956 - ) is an African writer. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Efua Theodora Sutherland (June 27, 1924--January 2, 1996) was a Ghanaian playwright, childrens author, and dramatist, whose best-known works include Foriwa (1962), Edufa (1967), and The Marriage of Anansewa (1975). ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...

Guinea

Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Laye Camara (1928-1980) was a novelist and short story writer from Upper Guinea. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tierno Monénembo (Thierno Saïdou Diallo) was born in Guinea in 1947. ... Williams Sassine(1944-1996) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French. ...

Guinea-Bissau

Haïti

Haiti is a country situated on the western third of the island of Hispaniola and the smaller islands of La Gonâve, La Tortue (Tortuga), Grande Caye, and Ile a Vache in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba; the Dominican Republic shares Hispaniola with Haiti. ... Frankétienne Frankétienne (born Franck Étienne on April 12, 1936 in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti) is a world-renowned author, poet, playwright, musician and painter. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Renowned Haitian contemporary writer and pro-revolutionary Jacques Roumain. ...

Honduras

Roberto Castillo Sandoval is a Chilean author born in 1957 (Ph. ... Javier Abril Espinoza (America Central, 1967), been Honduran writer in Switzerland. ...

Hungary

  • Zoltán Ambrus (1861–1932)
  • Mihály Babits (1883-1941)
  • György Dalos (1943– )
  • József Eötvös (1813-1871)
  • Péter Esterházy (1950-)
  • István Fekete (1900–1970) author of Vuk
  • Jenő Heltai (1871–1957)
  • Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954)
  • Mór Jókai (1825–1904) greatest Hungarian novelist of the 19th c.
  • Margit Kaffka (1880–1918)
  • Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) author of scifi novels
  • József Kármán (1768-1795)
  • Zsigmond Kemény (1814–1875)
  • Imre Kertész (1929– ), Nobel Prize for Literature (2002)
  • János Kodolányi (1899–1969)
  • György Konrád (1933-)
  • Károly Kós (1883-1977)
  • Dezső Kosztolányi (1885–1936)
  • László Krasznahorkai (1954-)
  • Gyula Krúdy (1878–1933)
  • Ervin Lázár (1936-) author of children's novels
  • Iván Mándy (1918-1995) author of children's novels
  • Sándor Márai (1900–1989)
  • Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952) author of The Paul Street Boys
  • Ferenc Móra (1879-1934)
  • Zsigmond Móricz (1879–1942) greatest Hungarian novelist of the 20th c.
  • Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922) author of popular historical novels
  • Kálmán Mikszáth (1847—1910)
  • Péter Nádas (1942-)
  • László Németh (1901–1975)
  • Géza Ottlik (1912-1990)
  • Jenő Rejtő (1905-1943)
  • Henriett Seth F. (1980-) author of a scifi novel, 2006
  • Magda Szabó (1917-) author of The Door
  • Sándor Szathmári [1897–1974) author of Kazohinia
  • Antal Szerb (1901-1945) author of Journey by Moonlight
  • Áron Tamási (1897-1966)
  • Sándor Török (1904–1985) author of children's novels
  • Albert Wass (1908-1998)

Zoltán Ambrus (February 22, 1861 in Debrecen - February 28, 1932 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer and translator. ... Mihály Babits (November 26, 1883 in Szekszárd - August 4, 1941 in Budapest) was a Hungarian poet and translator. ... György Dalos (b. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... József, baron Eötvös (September 13, 1813 - February 2, 1871), Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Baron Ignacz Eötvös and the baroness Lilian, was born at Buda. ... Count Péter Esterházy de Galántha (occasionally written Eszterházy) is one of the most widely known contemporary Hungarian writers. ... István Fekete (January 25, 1900 – June 23, 1970) was a Hungarian writer, author of several youth novels and animal stories. ... Vuk (1981) is one of the most well-known Hungarian animated films, and along with Cat City is widely regarded as one of the ultimate classics of Hungarian cartoon making. ... Ferenc Herczeg (22 September 1863, Versecz, Hungary - 24 February 1954, Budapest) was a Hungarian playwright and author who promoted conservative nationalist opinion in his country. ... Mór Jókai Mór Jókai (19 February 1825 – 5 May 1904) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. ... Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825 (MDCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... Frigyes Karinthy (June 25, 1887 in Budapest - August 29, 1938 in Siófok) was a Hungarian author, playwright, poet, journalist and translator. ... József Kármán (1769-1795), Hungarian author, was born at Losoncz on the 14th of March 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. ... Baron Zsigmond Kemény (June 12, 1814–December 22, 1875) was a Hungarian author. ... Imre Kertész (born November 9, 1929) is a Jewish-Hungarian author, Holocaust concentration camp survivor, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history. Kertész best-known work, Fatelessness (Sorstalanság... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) 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... Also see: 2002 (number). ... János Kodolányi (Kodolányi János; Telki, March 13, 1899 – Budapest, August 10, 1969) Hungarian writer of short stories, novels and sociographies. ... György (George) Konrád (born 1933) is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom. ... Károly Kós December 16, 1883—August 25, 1977) was a Hungarian architect, writer, illustrator, ethnologist and politician of Austria-Hungary and Romania. ... Dezső Kosztolányi (March 29, 1885 – November 3, 1936) was a famous Hungarian poet and prose-writer. ... Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian writer, born in Gyula, Hungary, 1954. ... Gyula Krúdy (October 21, 1878 May 12, 1933) was a Hungarian writer, journalist. ... Ervin Lázár (May 5, 1936 – December 22, 2006) was a Hungarian author. ... Iván Mándy (born 23 December 1918 in Budapest, died 1995 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer. ... Sándor Márai (detail of his statue in Košice, Slovakia) Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) (April 11, 1900 – February 22, 1989) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. ... Ferenc Molnár (b. ... The Paul Street Boys is a youth novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Molnár (in Hungarian: Molnár Ferenc), first published in 1906. ... Ferenc Móra (Kiskunfélegyháza, 19 July 1879 – Szeged, 8 February 1934) was a Hungarian (Magyar) novelist, journalist, and museologist. ... Zsigmond Móricz (1879–1942) was a Hungarian novelist and social realist. ... Géza Gárdonyi (August 3, 1863 – October 30, 1922) was a Hungarian author. ... Kálmán Mikszáth (January 16, 1847 – May 28, 1910) was a Hungarian novelist and politician. ... Péter Nádas (born 1942 in Budapest) is a Hungarian writer. ... Géza Ottlik (born May 9, 1912 in Budapest, died October 9, 1990 in Budapest) was Hungarian writer, translator, mathematician, and bridge theorist. ... Jenő Rejtő (born Jenő Reich, pseudonyms: P. Howard, Gibson Lavery) was a Hungarian author, science fiction writer, playwright and journalist, who died as a political prisoner during the World War II. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on March 29, 1905, and died in Yevdokovo, Soviet Union (then under Axis... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Magda Szabó (b. ... The Door is a novel by Hungarian writer Magda Szabó, originally published in Hungary in 1987, and translated into English in 1995 (by Stefan Draughon) for American publication, and again in 2005 (by Len Rix) by British publication. ... SZATHMÁRI Sándor [Satma’ri Sa’ndor] (born 19 June 1897, Gyula – died 16 July 1974 in Budapest) was a writer, mechanical engineer, Esperantist, one of the largest figures in Esperanto literature. ... Kazohinia is a novel written (1935-1957) in Esperanto and again in Hungarian (1941, 1946?, 1957, 1972) by Sándor Szathmári. ... Antal Szerb (Budapest, 1901 - Balf, 1945) was a noted Hungarian scholar and writer. ... Journey by Moonlight (in Hungarian, Utas és holdvilág which literally means Traveler and Moonlight) is among the best-known novels in Hungarian literature. ... Memorial of Tamási in his native village, depicting his novel heroes (Ábel in the left corner) Áron Tamási (born: János Tamás) (20 September 1897 – 26 May 1966), was a Székely Hungarian writer. ... Albert Wass Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege (Hungarian gróf szentegyedi és czegei Wass Albert; Válaszút, Hungary (now Răscruci, Cluj County, Romania), 1908 – Astor, Florida, February 17, 1998) was a Hungarian noble, forest engineer, writer and poet from Transylvania. ...

Iceland

A statue of Snorri Sturluson by Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland was erected at Reykholt in 1947. ... 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. ... The term Edda (Plural: Eddas or Icelandic plural: Eddur) applies to the Old Norse Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, both of which were written down in Iceland during the 13th century, although some of the poems included in them may be centuries older. ... 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. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 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... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... SJÓN Photo:Hordur Sveinsson Sjón is the pen name of Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson (born August 27, 1962). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Winners of the Nordic Councils Literature Prize: 2004 Kari Hotakainen, Finland: Löpgravsvägen 2003 Eva Ström, Sverige: Revbensstäderna (digte) 2002 Lars Saabye Christensen, Norge: Halvbroren 2001 Jan Kjærstad, Norge: Opdageren (roman, last part of trilogy on Jonas Wergeland, the others: Forføreren and Erobreren) 2000... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

India

See also: Indian literature Indian literature is generally acknowledged, but not wholly established, as the oldest in the world. ...

Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (रामधारी सिंह दिनकर) (September 23, 1908 - April 24, 1974) was an Indian Hindi poet, who is considered as one of the most important modern Hindi poets. ... Vikram Chandra, is an emerging Indian writer who has won awards and critical acclaim for his novel, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, and a collection of short stories, Love & Longing in Bombay. ... Upamanyu Chatterjee, is a Bengali Indian author. ... Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Chattopadhyay in the original Bengali; Chatterjee as spelt by the British) was an Indian poet and author, most famous as the composer of Vande Mataram. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... Typical depiction of Bharat Mata by Abanindranath Tagore Vande Mataram (Sanskrit: वन्दे मातरम् Vande Mātaram, Bengali: বন্দে মাতরম Bônde Matorom) is the national song of India, distinct from the national anthem of India Jana Gana Mana. The song was composed by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay in a mixture of Bengali and Sanskrit. ... Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bangla: শরত্চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় Shôrotchôndro Chôţţopaddhae), also known as Saratchandra Chattopadhyay or Sharat Chandra Chatterjee (15 September 1876 - 16 January 1938) was an author from India. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... Amit Chaudhuri (b. ... Ramavriksha Benipuri (1902-1968) was a prominent writer of Hindi literature. ... David Davidar made the company, Penguin, a force to reckon with in the publishing industry in India. ... Anita Desai (b. ... Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) [1] is a South Asian American author. ... Purushottam Laxman Deshpande (Marathi: पुरुषोत्तम लक्ष्मण देशपांडे) (November 8, 1919 - June 12, 2000) was a noted Marathi writer from India. ... Marathi (मराठी ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western India (Maharashtrians). ... Eunice De Souza (born 1940) is a contemporary Indian English language poet and novelist. ... Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956 - ) is an Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program. ... Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan He was born Kedarnath Pande on 9 April 1893. ... Sunil Gangopadhyay was born on September 7, 1934 at Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... Amitav Ghosh (born 1956 in Calcutta), is an Indian author, known for his work in the English language. ... Mir Mosharraf Hossain Mir Mosharraf Hossain (Bangla: মীর মোশাররফ হোসেন) (1847-1912) was a Bengali language novelist, playwright and essayist in 19th century Bengal. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... Raj Kamal Jha (born 1966) is an Indian novelist and journalist. ... Datta Raghunath Kavthekar (1901-1979), also known as had been a renowned Marathi novelist in the 1930s through late 1970s era. ... Marathi (मराठी ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western India (Maharashtrians). ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... ... Prakash Kona (born July 14, 1967) is an Indian novelist, essayist, poet and theorist who lives in Hyderabad, India. ... Jhumpa Lahiri Vourvoulias (born Nilanjana Sudeshna in 1967) (Bengali: ঝুম্পা লাহিড়ী Jhumpa LahiÅ—i) is a contemporary Indian American author based in New York City. ... Kiran Nagarkar, born in Mumbai in 1942, is an Indian author who has published fiction in both Marathi and English. ... Marathi (मराठी ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western India (Maharashtrians). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Bhalchandra Nemade Bhalchandra Nemade (b. ... Marathi (मराठी ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western India (Maharashtrians). ... Kamala Markandaya (? - May 16, 2004), born Kamala Purnaiya Taylor, was an Indian novelist and journalist. ... Pankaj Mishra is a novelist, literary critic and essayist. ... Rohinton Mistry (born July 3, 1952) is considered to be one of the foremost authors of South Asian origin writing in English. ... Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (Bengali: ) (born 2 November 1935) is a famous writer in Bengali language. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... R. K. Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001), born Rasipuram Krishnaswami Ayyar Narayanaswami,[1] is among the best known and most widely read Indian novelists writing in English. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880 - October 8, 1936) (pen name: Premchand) was one of the greatest literary figures of modern Hindi and Urdu literature. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hindi ( , Devanagari: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken all over India in varying degrees and extensively in northern and central India, is one of the two central official languages of India, the other being English. ... Raja Rao (November 8, 1908 – July 8, 2006) was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism. ...   (Bengali: সত্যজিত্ রায় Shottojit Rae) (May 2, 1921–April 23, 1992) was an Indian filmmaker who is widely regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. ... Ahmed Salman Rushdie KBE (Hindi: Urdu: سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Sarang, Vilas (1942-) Article from Literary Encylopedia Novelist, Short story writer, Literary critic, Poet. ... Marathi (मराठी ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western India (Maharashtrians). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Vikram Seth (pronounced ), born June 20, 1952 is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, childrens writer, biographer and memoirist. ... (Bengali: , IPA: ) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awarded for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine. ... Young Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor (Born 9 March 1956 in London) was the official candidate of India for the succession to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came second out of seven official candidates in the race. ... Indian postal stamp on Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Bangla: ঈশ্বর চন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগর) (1820-1891) (born Ishwar Chandra Bandopadhyay) was a Bengali polymath. ... Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. ...

Iran

Abbas Marufi (عباس معروفی; in Persian) (May 17, 1957) was an Iranian novelist, and Journalist. ... Afshin Ellian (Tehran, Iran, 27 February 1966) is a Dutch professor of law, philosopher, and poet. ... Ahmad Mahmoud (احمد محمود ;in Persian) (December 25, 1931–October 4, 2002) was an Iranian novelist. ... Akhtar Naraghi is an Iranian-born writer who has long resided in Canada. ... Azar Nafisi speaking at the 2004 National Book Festival in Washington D.C. Azar Nafisi, Ph. ... 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. ... Fereydoun Hoveyda(1924-2006) an Iranian influential writer and thinker was born in Damascus, Syria where his father was the Consul-General of Iran, Hoveyda was raised in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. ... Houshang Golshiri (هوشنگ گلشیری; in Persian; March 16, 1938 — June 6, 2000) was an Iranian fiction writer, critic and editor Golshiri was born in Isfahan in 1938 and raised in Abadan. ... Jamal (Hosein) Mirsadeghi was born in 1933 in Tehran, Iran. ... Kader Abdolah is the penname of Hossein Sadjadi Ghaemmaghami Frahani, an Iranian writer who also writes in Dutch. ... Marjane Satrapi self portrait Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجانه ساتراپی) (born November 22, 1969 in Rasht, Iran) is a contemporary graphic novelist and illustrator. ... Mohammad Hejazi (محمد حجازی; in Persian) (April 14, 1901–January 30, 1974) was an Iranian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, translator, a government official and member of the senate. ... Reza Baraheni (born 1935) is an exiled Iranian novelist, poet, critic and political activist. ... // Born on the fourth of July, in Tehran, Iran, Rosie Malek-Yonan ( رزی ملک یونان ) is an Assyrian actress, artist, director, author and activist. ... Sadegh (or Sadeq) Hedayat (in Persian: صادق هدایت), is Irans foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories. ... Shahrnush Parsipur (شهرنوش پارسی پور ; in Persian) (February 17, 1946) was an influential Iranian novelist She was born and raised in Tehran, spent some time in the United States . ... Simin Daneshvar ( سیمین دانشور ;in Persian) ( 1921) was an Iranian novelist and translator . ... Zeyn al-Abedin Maraghei (1840-1910) was the first Iranian novelist. ...

Ireland

See: Irish fiction, List of Irish novelists 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. ...


Israel

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון; known as shay agnon, born Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes) (July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature (1966). ... Nobel Prize in Literature medal. ... Aharon Appelfeld (b. ... Badenheim 1939 is the first novel by Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld. ... David Grossman (born 1954 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli author. ... Yoram Kaniuk (born 1930) is an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic. ... Amos Oz, November 7 2004 Amos Oz (born May 4, 1939), birth name Amos Klausner, is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. ... Black Box is a book by Israeli writer Amos Oz. ... My Michael is a novel written in Hebrew by the Israeli author Amos Oz, published in 1968, and translated into about thirty languages. ... Yaakov Shabtai (1934-1981) was an Israeli novelist, born in Tel Aviv. ... Meir Shalev 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. ...

Italy

See also: Italian literature, List of Italian writers Italian literature is literature written in the Italian language, particularly by citizens of Italy. ... // [edit] Italian writers [edit] A Ludovico Ariosto [edit] B Alessandro Baricco Giorgio Bassani Stefano Benni Mario Benzing Giovanni Boccaccio Vitaliano Brancati Gesualdo Bufalino Aldo Busi Dino Buzzati [edit] C Italo Calvino Andrea Camilleri Greg Camilleri Mauro Campagnoli Dino Campana Achille Campanile Luigi Capuana Carlo Collodi [edit] D Gabriele DAnnunzio...

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Alessandro Baricco (b. ... Giorgio Bassani (March 4, 1916 - April 13, 2000) was a novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual. ... Stefano Benni (August 12, 1947, Bologna) is an Italian satirical writer and journalist. ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... This article is about the year. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poetry in the vernacular. ... Vitaliano Brancati (July 24, 1907-September 25, 1954) was an Italian writer. ... Gesualdo Bufalino. ... Aldo Busi (1948-) is an Italian writer and translator. ... Dino Buzzati Traverso (October 16, 1906 - January 28, 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. ... Italo Calvino, on the cover of Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) (pronounced ) 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. ... -1... Andrea Camilleri (Porto Empedocle, Agrigento, 1925) is a Italian writer. ... Carlo Cassola (17 March 1917 - 29 January 1987) was an important Italian novelist and essayist. ... he Tuscan village where his mother, Angela Orzali, was born. ... Carmen Covito (born 14 November 1948) is an Italian writer and translator, he was also slightly gay with chickens. ... Gabriele dAnnunzio (12 March 1863, Pescara – 1 March 1938, Gardone Riviera, province of Brescia) was an Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist and daredevil, 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. ... Dario de Judicibus Dario de Judicibus (Brescia, Italy (EU), June 25th, 1960 - living), journalist, writer of essays and novels, consultant of computer science and business strategy, involved in social volunteering. ... 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. ... Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays. ... Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973) is an Italian writer of the 20th century. ... Natalia Ginzburg née Levi (July 14, 1916, Palermo—October 7, 1991, Rome) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics, and philosophy. ... Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. ... A chemist pours from a round-bottom flask. ... Emilio Lussu. ... Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (March 7, 1785–May 22, 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. ... Dacia Maraini (Fiesole, Italy November 13, 1936 - ) is an Italian writer. ... Image:Per siti. ... Elsa Morante (August 18, 1918 - 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La Storia (History). ... Alberto Moravia. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Luigi Pirandello (June 28, 1867 – December 10, 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... Vasco Pratolini (October 19, 1913 - January 12, 1991) was an Italian writer. ... Andrea di Robilant is the author of A Venetian Affair, a 2003 novel set in 18th century Venice. ... Alberto Savinio, real name Andrea De Chirico, (Athens, August 25, 1891 - Florence, May 5, 1952) was an Italian writer and painter, brother of the more famous Giorgio De Chirico. ... Leonardo Sciascia Leonardo Sciascia (Racalmuto, Agrigento, January 8, 1921 - Palermo, November 20, 1989) was an Italian writer and politician. ... Ignazio Silone Ignazio Silone (May 1, 1900 - August 22, 1978) was the pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli, an Italian author. ... Mario Soldati (Turin, November 11, 1906 - Tellaro, June 19, 1999) was an Italian journalist, film director, also novel writer. ... Aron 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, who converted to Roman Catholicism after marrying Livia Veneziani. ... Antonio Tabucchi, born in Pisa on September 23, 1943, is an Italian writer and academic. ... Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (December 23, 1896 - July 23, 1957), was a Sicilian writer. ... Giovanni Verga. ... Elio Vittorini (July 23, 1908 - February 12, 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. ...

Jamaica

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Japan

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

-1... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... This is a Japanese name; the family name is Akutagawa RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa ); (March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927) was a Japanese writer active in Taisho period Japan. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Osamu Dazai (太宰 æ²» Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 in Aomori Prefecture - June 13, 1948) was a Japanese author. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Enchi Fumiko (円地文子) (October 2, 1905- November 12, 1986) was one of the prominent women writers of twentieth century Japan. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 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. ... Year 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... 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). ... Year 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Masuji Ibuse (1898 - 1993) was a Japanese author. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Yasunari Kawabata ); (14 June 1899 - 16 April 1972) was a Japanese short story writer and novelist whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese to receive the award. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awarded for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian 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... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kenji Miyazawa , 27 August 1896 - 21 September 1933) was a poet and author of childrens literature in early Showa period Japan. ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mori Ogais statue at his birthhouse in Tsuwano-cho Mori ÅŒgai ); (17 February 1862–8 July 1922) was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. ... This article is about 1862 . ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Haruki Murakami , born January 12, 1949) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. ... Ryu Murakami (村上龍 Murakami RyÅ«, born 19 February 1952 in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan) is a Japanese novelist and filmmaker. ... Natsume Soseki on the former 1000 yen note. ... Cunt BAg Twat Fuk suck my penis ring 0778851865!!!!!!Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Kenzaburo Oe Kenzaburo Oe , born January 31, 1935) is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awarded for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Murasaki Shikibu (紫 式部 Murasaki Shikibu, c. ... This is a Japanese name; the family name is Tanizaki Junichirō Tanizaki , 24 July 1886—30 July 1965) was a Japanese author who was one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, and remains perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Edogawa Rampo Edogawa Rampo (江戸川 乱歩 Edogawa Ranpo), born Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎 Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 - July 28, 1965) was a Japanese author and critic. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Banana Yoshimoto , born July 24, 1964[1], in Tokyo) is the pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子 Yoshimoto Mahoko), a Japanese contemporary writer. ...

Kenya

Margaret A Ogola is the celebrated Kenyan Author of novels The River and the Source and its sequel I Swear by Apollo. The River and the Source is a wonderful book that follows four generations of Kenyan women in a rapidly changing country and society. ... Grace Ogot was born in May 15, 1930 in Asembo, Kenya. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Moyez G. Vassanji (who writes as M.G. Vassanji) is a Kenyan/Canadian novelist. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo (born January 5, 1938) is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and childrens literature. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Meja Mwangi (born 1948) is one of Kenyas leading novelists. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Blixen in Kenya, 1918 Isak Dinesen (April 17, 1885-September 7, 1962) was a pen name for the Danish author Karen Blixen. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Latvia

  • Pauls Bankovskis
  • Alberts Bels
  • Anšlavs Eglītis
  • Nora Ikstena
  • Andrejs Upīts
  • Marģeris Zariņš
  • Egils Venters
  • Aleksandrs Čaks
  • Visvaldis Lāms
  • Zigmunds Skujiņš

Aleksandrs ÄŒaks (birth name Aleksandrs ÄŒadarainis) (October 27, 1901- February 8, 1950) was a Latvian poet and writer. ...

Lebanon

Youssef Saadallah Howayek (Arabic: ‎; also Yusuf Huwayyik, Hoyek, Hoayek, Hawayek) (1883-1962) a painter and sculptor from Helta, Lebanon. ... Elias Khoury (born in Beirut in 1948) is a Lebanese writer and critic. ... Amin Maalouf (Arabic: ; born (25 February 1949 in Beirut) is a Lebanese author. ...

Lesotho

Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (December 22, 1876- September 8, 1948) is considered to be the greatest Lesotho writer. ... Year 1876 Pick up Sticks(MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Republic of Macedonia

  • Slavko Janevski
  • Venko Andonovski

For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ...

Madagascar

  • Michèle Rakotoson

Michèle Rakotoson is a writer, journalist, and film maker from Madagascar. ...

Malawi

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Malaysia

Catherine Lim (Chinese: 林宝音) is a Malaysian-born Singaporean, a Straits-born Chinese author, born in 1942, in Penang, Malaysia. ... K. S. Maniam (b. ...

Mali

Amadou Hampâté Bâ (January or February 1900 or 1901 in Bandiagara, Mali – May 15, 1991 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast) was a Malian writer and ethnologist. ... Doumbi Fakoly (born January 1, 1944) is a Malian writer. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Moussa Konaté is a Malian writer, born in 1951 in Kita (Mali). ... Yambo Ouologuem (born August 22, 1940) is a Malian writer. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Malta

  • Sabine Cassar-Alpert (1959– ), author of Angelina's Ghost

Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mauritania

  • Moussa Ould Ebnou

Mauritius

  • Carl de Souza (1949– )
  • Ananda Devi
  • Jean Fanchette

Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mexico

Laura Esquivel (born September 30, 1950) is a Mexican author. ... Martín Luis Guzmán. ... Vicky Nizri Shoenfeld (born November 25, 1954) is a Mexican novelist. ... José Emilio Pacheco at the Octavio Paz award 2003 José Emilio Pacheco (México City, 1939) is a Mexican poet, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer. ... Juan Rulfo (16 May 1917 [not 1918 as he often told people after 1936, see note below] – 7 January 1986) was a Mexican novelist, short story writer, and photographer. ...

Morocco

see also Literature of Morocco Moroccan Folktales by Jilali El Koudia Moroccan literature is a literature written in (Moroccan) Arabic, Berber or French, and of course particularly by people of Morocco. ...

Mohamed Choukri (Arabic:محمد شكري) (b. ... Driss Chraïbi (born July 15, 1926) is a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism and are often semi-autobiographical. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Edmond Amran El Maleh is a Moroccan novelist, he was born in the city of Safi in 1917, to a Jewish family. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... Abdelkebir Khatibi (b. ... Mohammed Khair-Eddine is a legend in Moroccan litterature. ... Laila Lalami (Arabic: ليلى العلمي , born 1968) is a Moroccan American author and essayist. ... Ahmed Sefrioui (Arabic: أحمد صفروي) was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language. ... Mohamed Zafzaf (1942-2001) was a Moroccan novelist and poet from Kenitra writing in Moroccan Arabic. ...

Mozambique

Paulina Chiziane (born 4 June 1955, Manjacaze, Mozambique) is an author of novels and short stories in the Portuguese language. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Mia Couto, pron. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (also spelled as Ungulani ba ka Khosa) is a Mozambican writer. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Nepal

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Netherlands

Ayaan Hirsi Ali ( ; Somali: ; born Ayaan Hirsi Magan 13 November 1969[2] in Mogadishu, Somalia) is a feminist and political writer, daughter of the Somali scholar, politician, and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. ... 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. ...

New Zealand

See also: New Zealand literature New Zealand claims as its own many writers, even those immigrants born overseas or those emigrants who have gone into exile. ...

  • Janet Frame (1924-2004) author of An Angel At My Table

Barbara Anderson (born 1926) is a New Zealand writer who has become internationally recognised despite only starting her writing career in her late fifties. ... Catherine Chidgey was born in New Zealand in 1970 and grew up in the Hutt Valley. ... [[Joy Cowley]] (born in Levin, August 7, 1936) is a New Zealand author of novels, short stories, and childrens fiction. ... Nigel Cox is a New Zealand author and museum director, with five novels published as of early 2006. ... Barry Crump (1935 - 1996) was a New Zealand author of semi-autobiographical comic novels based on his image as a rugged outdoors man. ... Tessa Duder, born in 1940 in Auckland, is a New Zealand author of novels for young people, short stories, plays and non-fiction. ... Alan Duff (b. ... Kate Duignan Katherine (Kate) Duignan (see Clan O Duibhgeannain) is a New Zealand novelist. ... Janet Paterson Frame ONZ, CBE, (August 28, 1924 - January 29, 2004) was the New Zealand author of eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, a childrens book, and a three volume autobiography. ... Maurice Gee, born August 22, 1931 in Whakatane, New Zealand, is one of New Zealands most distinguished novelists. ... Patricia Grace (born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1937) is a notable Māori writer of novels, short stories, and childrens books. ... Keri Hulme is a New Zealand writer, best known for her debut (and to this point, only) novel, The bone people. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Annamarie Jagose (born Ashburton, New Zealand, 1965) is a writer of academic and fictional works. ... Fiona Kidman, born 26 March 1940 in Hawera, New Zealand, is a respected and popular New Zealand novelist, poet and scriptwriter. ... John Alfred Alexander Lee (31 October 1891 - 13 June 1982) was a New Zealand politician and writer. ... Ngaio Marsh DBE (April 23, 1895 - February 18, 1982), born Edith Ngaio Marsh was an author and theatre director from New Zealand. ... Owen Marshall (Owen Marshall Jones) (born 1941) is a New Zealand short story writer and novelist. ... Frederick Edward Maning (July 5, 1812 - July 25, 1883) was a notable early settler in New Zealand, a writer and judge of the Native Land Court. ... Ronald Hugh Morrieson (b. ... Rosie Scott in 2001 Rosie Scott, born in 1948 in Wellington, New Zealand, is a New Zealand novelist now based in Sydney, Australia. ... Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt (4 June 1932—10 October 2004) was a New Zealand writer. ... Christian Karlson Stead, ONZ, CBE, (born October 17, 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. ... Philip Temple (born in Yorkshire in 1939) is a New Zealand author of novels, childrens stories, and non-fiction. ... Sir Julius Vogel Sir Julius Vogel KCMG (February 24, 1835 - March 12, 1899) was New Zealands only practicing Jewish prime minister. ... Cherry Wilder (September 3, 1930 _ March 14, 2002) was the pseudonym of science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm. ...

Nigeria

See: List of Nigerian writers // Adam Abdulahi Yusufu Adamu Chris Abani Andy Abulu Chinua Achebe (1930– ) Wale Adebanwi Remi Adedeji (1937– ) Abiola Adegboyega Dapo Adeniyi Mobolaji Adenubi Kole Ade-Odutola Kayode Aderinokun Pius Adesanmi Akin Adesokan Sean Adetula Toyin Abiodun Toyin Adewale-Gabriel Sola Adeyemi (1965– ) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977– ) Emeka Agbayi Tolu Ajayi (1946...


Norway

See also: Norwegian literature Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. ...

Ingvar Even Ambjørnsen-Haefs (born May 20, 1956 in Larvik) is a Norwegian writer. ... Jens Bjørneboe (born October 9, 1920 in Kristiansand, Norway, died May 9, 1976 in Veierland in Nøtterøy) was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. ... Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson (December 8, 1832–April 26, 1910). ... 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. ... The author Johan Falkberget was born Johan Petter Lillebakken in Rugldal valley of Røros municipality on September 30, 1879, and died April 5, 1967. ... Jostein Gaarder (born August 8, 1952 in Oslo) is a Norwegian intellectual and author of several novels, short stories and childrens books. ... Sophies World (Sofies verden in the original Norwegian) is a novel by Jostein Gaarder, published in 1991. ... 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 for 1920. ... Sigurd Hoel (December 14, 1890 - October 14, 1960) was a Norwegian author and publishing consultant, born in Nord-Odal. ... 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, considered to be one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature. ... Erlend Loe (born May 24, 1969 in Trondheim) is 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. ... Sigrid Undset as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1927. ... Tarjei Vesaas (August 20, 1897 - March 15, 1970) was a Norwegian poet and novelist. ... Herbjørg Wassmo (born VesterÃ¥len, 1942 ) is a Norwegian author. ...

Pakistan

See also: Pakistani literature Pakistani literature, that is, the literature of Pakistan, as a distinct literature came into being when Pakistan gained its nationhooood as a sovereign state in 1947. ...

Ahmed Ali was a Pakistani novelist, diplomat and scholar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Zulfikar Ghose is a Pakistani-American English language writer. ... Mohsin Hamid (born 1971) is a Pakistani author. ... Saadat Hasan Manto Saadat Hasan Manto (Urdu: ‏‏سعادت حسن منٹو) (May 11, 1912-1955) was a Urdu short story writer of Kashmiri ancestry who was born in the Punjab. ... Kamila Shamsie (b. ... Bapsi Sidhwa (1938 - ) is an important author of Pakistani origin who writes in English. ...

Paraguay

Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga, (1944 - ) is a contemporary Paraguayan poet and novelist. ... Augusto Roa Bastos, (June 13, 1917 – April 26, 2005), was a Paraguayan novelist, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest that nation has produced. ...

Philippines

See also: Literature of the Philippines The literature of the Philippines started with fables and legends of pre-colonial Philippines down to the Mexican (New Spain) and Spanish influences, but there was a pre-hispanical writing system. ...

Francisco Arcellana - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Enrico Antiporda is both a writer and a visual artist whose works have been exhibited at galleries and art shows in California. ... Lualhati Torres Bautista is one of the foremost Filipino female novelists in the history of contemporary Philippine Literature. ... Carlos Bulosan (born to Ilocano parents in Pangasinan, Philippines on November 24, 1913, died in Seattle, Washington on September 13, 1956) was a Filipino American novelist best-known for the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart. ... ... Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born (and raised) in Manila, Philippines in 1949. ... Amado V. Hernandez Amado Vera Hernandez was born in Hagonoy, Bulacan but grew up Tondo, Manila, where he studied at the Manila High School and at the American Correspondence School. ... Stevan Javellana (1918-1977) is a Filipino novelist and short-story writer in the English language. ... Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín, best known as Nick Joaquin (May 4, 1917–April 29, 2004), was a Filipino writer, historian and journalist, best known for his short stories and novels. ... José Rizal José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda (June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896) is the national hero of the Philippines. ... Ninotchka Rosca born (and raised) in the Philippines in 1946, is a Filipina feminist, author and human rights activist who is active in the American branch of the Filipino womens rights organization Gabriela Network. ... Bienvenido N. Santos (1911-1996) is a very important Filipino-American fictionist, poet and nonfiction writer. ... Rogelio R. Sikat (also known as Rogelio Sícat) (1940-1997) is a Filipino fictionist, playwright, translator and educator. ... . Francisco Sionil José, born December 3, 1924, is one of the most well-read Filipino writers in the English language. ...

Peru

Ciro Alegría (1909-1967) was a Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist. ... Year 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... José María Arguedas (18 January 1911 – 28 November 1969) was a Peruvian novelist (writing in Spanish) although he also wrote poetry in Quechua. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Mario Vargas Llosa in his youth. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, trade unions, universities, and countries. ...

Poland

See also: Polish literature Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. ...

Maria DÄ…browska [] (6 October 1889 in Russów – 19 May 1965 in Warsaw) was a Polish writer. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Tadeusz DoÅ‚Ä™ga-Mostowicz (August 10, 1898 – September 20, 1939) was the Polish author of over a dozen popular novels. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tadeusz Konwicki, Warsaw (Poland), May 18, 2005 Tadeusz Konwicki (born 1926) is a Polish writer, and film director, a member of the Polish Language Council. ... Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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. ... The Union Jack, flag of the newly formed United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ... Józef Ignacy Kraszewski Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887) was a Polish writer and novelist. ... For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian 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 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 in MaÅ‚oszyce, near Kielce, Congress Poland, Russian Empire – July 24, 1969 in Vence, near Nice, France) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... StanisÅ‚aw Lem ( , September 12, 1921 – March 27, 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian 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). ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian 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). ... April 5-12: Mount Tambora explodes, changing climate. ... 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 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 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. ... Cunt BAg Twat Fuk suck my penis ring 0778851865!!!!!!Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) 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... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, literary critic and graphic artist, widely considered to be one of the greatest Polish prose stylists of the 20th century. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (IPA: [], artistic name: “Litwos”, IPA: []) ( May 5, 1846, Wola Okrzejska, Congress Poland, - November 15, 1916, Vevey, Switzerland), Oszyk Coat of Arms, was a Polish novelist and publicist. ... 1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full 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... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full 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 (March 30, 1857, - December 17, 1921) is the pseudonym of the Polish novelist and actress Maria G. Åšnieżko-BÅ‚ocka. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Stefan Jelita-Å»eromski Stefan Å»eromski ((?); October 14, 1864 - November 20, 1925) was a Polish novelist. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Eugeniusz Å»ytomirski (1911–1975) a Polish poet, playwright, novelist. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Portugal

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. ... Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro (Sernancelhe September 13 1885 - Lisbon, May 7, 1963) was a Portuguese novelist. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) 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... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Vergílio Ferreira (Melo, Gouveia, 1916 - Lisbon, 1 March 1996) was a Portuguese writer. ...

Puerto Rico

  • Luis López Nieves (born 1950), Seva (1984), Escribir para Rafa (1987), La verdadera muerte de Juan Ponce de León (2000), El corazón de Voltaire (2005)

Luis López Nieves (born in 1950) is one of the most important and best-selling Puerto Rican authors. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Romania

See also: Romanian literature Gabriela AdameÅŸteanu (b. ... Mateiu Caragiale (25 March 1885-17 January 1936) was a Romanian writer, born in Bucharest as the illegitimate son of playwright Ion Luca Caragiale and Maria Constantinescu. ... George Călinescu (1899 - 1965) was a Romanian novelist, poet, playwright, literary critic, and essayist. ... Mircea Cărtărescu, BucureÅŸti, 2003 Mircea Cărtărescu (b. ... Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (September 15, 1916, Valea Albă, Romania – June 22, 1992, Paris, France) was a Romanian writer, best known for his 1949 novel, The 25th Hour. ... Panait Istrati Panait (sometimes rendered as Panaït) Istrati (August 10, 1884—April 18, 1935) was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. ... Camil Petrescu ( April 22, 1894 — May 14, 1957) was a Romanian playwright and novelist. ... Cezar Petrescu (1892, Cotnari, IaÅŸi County—1961) was a Romanian journalist, novelist and childrens writer. ... Dumitru Radu Popescu (b. ... Marin Preda (5 August 1922-16 May 1980) was a Romanian novelist, often considered the best post-WWII Romanian novelist. ... Liviu Rebreanu - (* 27 November 1885, TârliÅŸua, curently BistriÅ£a-Năsăud County, † 1 September 1944, Valea Mare, ArgeÅŸ County), Romanian academician, novelist and playwriter. ... Mihail Sadoveanu (November 5, 1880—October 19, 1961) was a Romanian novelist and political figure; one of the most prolific Romanian language writers, he is remembered mostly for his historical novels. ... Duiliu Zamfirescu (October 30, 1858-June 30, 1922) was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. ... 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. ...


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. ...

Boris Budaev Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый) was the pseudonym of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880 - 1934), a Russian novelist, poet, theorist, and literary critic. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Andrei Bitov (Russian: }, born Leningrad/St. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков; May 15 [O.S. May 3] 1891, Kiev – March 10, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nikolai Chernyshevsky Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (Russian: Николай Гаврилович Чернышевский) (July 12, 1828 - October 17, 1889) was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist. ... Year 1828 (MDCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, IPA: , sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, or Dostoevski  ) (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821–February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) was a Russian novelist and writer of fiction whose works, including Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, have had a profound and lasting effect... Year 1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Gaito Gazdanov Gaito Gazdanov (Гайто Газда́нов) (1903-1971) was a Russian emigré writer of Ossetian extraction. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: ; IPA: ; Ukrainian: ) (April 1, 1809 — March 4, 1852) was a Russian-language writer of Ukrainian origin. ... Year 1809 (MDCCCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (June 18, 1812 – September 27, 1891; June 6, 1812 – September 15, 1891, O.S.) was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov (1859). ... For the overture by Tchaikovsky, see 1812 Overture; For the wars, see War of 1812 (USA - United Kingdom) or Patriotic War of 1812 (France - Russia) For the Siberia Airlines plane crashed over the Black Sea on October 4, 2001, see Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 1812 was a leap year starting... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Oblomov (first published: 1858) is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov. ... Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28 [O.S. March 16] 1868–June 18, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. ... Year 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Anna Kashina Anna S. Kashina, Ph. ... 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... Year 1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Leonid Leonov (born 1899) was a Russian novelist, best known for his psychological novel The Thief, which he wrote in 1927. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Nikolai Leskov by Valentin Serov, 1894 Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov ((Russian: , 16 February 1831 - 5 March 1895) was a Russian journalist, novelist and short story writer. ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Vladimir Makanin (Russian: ; born March 1937 in Orsk, Russia), is a Russian writer. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, pronounced ) (April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1899, Saint Petersburg – July 2, 1977, Montreux) was a Russian-American, Academy Award nominated author. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Lolita (1955) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: ) (February 10 [O.S. January 29] 1890 – May 30, 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer, in the West best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago. ... Year 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar). ... Year 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) 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... Aleksandr Pushkin by Vasily Tropinin Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин, Aleksandr Sergeevič PuÅ¡kin,  ) (June 6, 1799 [O.S. May 26] – February 10, 1837 [O.S. January 29]) was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet[1] [2][3] and the founder of modern Russian... 1799 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901) 1837 (MDCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Saltykov-Shchedrin. ... The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Ilia Shtemler, born 1933 in Baku, is on of the most influential Russian writers of the 20th century. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: , IPA:  ; born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) 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. ... One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: ) is a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, originally published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir. ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy(Lyof, Lyoff) (September 9 [O.S. August 28] 1828 – November 20 [O.S. November 7] 1910) (Russian: , IPA:  ), commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer – novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher – as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. ... Year 1828 (MDCCCXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Ivan Turgenev, photo by Félix Nadar (1820-1910) “Turgenev” redirects here. ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

Rwanda

  • Thérèse Muamini

Samoa

Sia Figiel (born 1967) is a contemporary Samoan novelist, poet and painter. ... Albert Wendt is a New Zealand writer, the author of six novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of poetry and a play. ...

São Tomé and Príncipe

Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sara Pinto Coelho (born 1913, São Tomé e Príncipe; died 1990, Portugal) was a writer of fiction and plays in the Portuguese language. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

Senegal

See: List of Senegalese writers This is a list of prominent Senegalese authors A - G Maïmouna Abdoulaye (1949- ) Christine Adjahi Gnimagnon, also connected with Benin Berte-Evelyne Agbo, also connected with Benin Emilie Anifranie Ehah, also connected with Togo Clotilde Armstrong (1929- ) Mariama Bâ (1929-1981) Mariama Barry, also connected with Guinea Sokhna Benga...


Serbia

Anthem Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Official languages Serbian 1 Recognised regional languages Hungarian, Croatian, Slovak, Romanian, Rusyn 2 Albanian 3 Government Semi-presidential republic  -  President Boris Tadić  -  Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Establishment  -  Formation 812   -  Kingdom established 1217   -  Empire established 1346   -  Independence lost to...

Sierra Leone

  • Syl Cheney-Coker
  • Aminatta Forna (b. 1964)

Syl Cheney-Coker (right) with Wole Soyinka during a panel on writers in exile at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in April, 2001. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ...

Somalia

Maxamed Daahir Afrax Ph. ... Faarax Maxamed Jaamac Cawl (often credited as Faarax MJ Cawl) (born 1937) is a Somali writer born in Hargeisa, Somalia. ... Nuruddin Farah (born 1945) is a Somali novelist particularly concerned with womens liberation in postcolonial Somalia. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Abdi A. Sheik-Abdi was born in Somalia and currently resides in the United States of America. ... Waris Dirie (born 1965 in Somalia) is a fashion model and a UN advocate for the abolition of female genital mutilation. ...

South Africa

See: List of South African writers This is a list of writers from South Africa. ...


South Korea

See: List of Korean novelists This is a a partial list of Korean novelists. ...


Spain

See:List of Spanish language authors. See: Spanish Literature This is a list of Spanish language authors, organised by country. ... The term Spanish literature refers to literature written in the Spanish language, including literature composed in Spanish by writers not necessarily from Spain. ...

Leopoldo Alas (1852 - 1901) was a Spanish author, writer and critic. ... “Cervantes” redirects here. ... (IPA: , but see spelling and pronunciation below), fully titled (The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha) is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. ... 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. ... Javier Marías (born September 20, 1951) is a Spanish novelist, translator and columnist. ... Juan Marsé is a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter, born in Barcelona on January 8, 1933 as Juan Faneca. ... The Premio Planeta is a Spanish literary prize, awarded since 1952 by the publisher Planeta to an original novel written in Spanish. ... Eduardo Mendoza is a Spanish novelist, born in Barcelona on 11 January 1943. ... Spanish stamp (2002) tribute to Captain Alatriste Arturo Pérez-Reverte (b. ... Don Miguel de Unamuno Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain. ... Antonio Muñoz Molina (b. ...

Sri Lanka

Shyam Selvadurai (born 1965) is a Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy (1994), which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens (1998). ...

Sudan

Al-Tayyib Salih (Arabic: الطيّب صالح) is a noted Sudanese writer. ... Ra’ouf Musad (sometimes known as Raouf Moussad-Basta) is an Arab playwright, journalist and novelist who was born in Sudan to Egyptian parents, moved to Egypt as a teenager and has lived in various countries, both in the Arab world and in Europe, during the past 30... Leila Aboulela (1964 — present) is a Sudanese writer and playwright. ...

Sweden

See also: List of Swedish language writers This is a list of Swedish language novelists, poets and other writers. ...

Marianne Fredriksson (born Gothenburg, March 28, 1927) is a Swedish author. ... Fröding in 1896. ... Erik Gustaf Geijer. ... Jan Guillou at the Swedish Book- and Library Convention in Gothenburg, Sweden Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou (pron. ... Eyvind Johnson, (July 29, 1900- August 25, 1976) was a Swedish author. ... Pär Lagerkvist. ... Selma Lagerlöf, painted by Carl Larsson, 1908 Selma Lagerlöf receives the Nobel Prize in Literature The Swedish 20-krona bill, with Selma Lagerlöf   (November 20, 1858 – March 16, 1940) was a Swedish author and the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren ( , née Ericsson, November 14, 1907 – January 28, 2002) was a Swedish childrens book author, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 countries. ... Harry Martinson (May 6, 1904 – February 11, 1978) was an author and poet. ... Vilhelm Moberg (August 20, 1898 - August 8, 1973) was a Swedish author and historian. ... Per Elis Albert Nilsson (born January 4, 1890 - died June 18, 1964) was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. ... Peter Pohl (Hamburg, Germany, 5 December 1940) is a Swedish author, mainly of youth literature. ... August Strindberg Portrait of August Strindberg by Richard Bergh   (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 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Esaias Tegnér Esaias Tegnér (November 13, 1782 - November 2, 1846), Swedish writer, was born at Kyrkerud in Wermelandia. ...

Switzerland

Friedrich Dürrenmatt (January 5, 1921 – December 14, 1990) was a Swiss author and dramatist. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Max Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991), was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, one of the most representative writers of 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. ... Year 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ...

Tanzania

Mark Behr is a South African author. ... Professor Euphrase Kezilahabi (born 13 April 1944 in Ukerewe, Tanganyika (now in Tanzania) is a Tanzanian novelist, poet, and scholar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

Togo

Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... David Ananou is a writer from Togo, and the author of:Le Fils du fétiche ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Dogbeh (born Gbèmagon Richard Dogbeh 1932 in what is now Togo; died November 23, 2003 in Cotonou) was a novelist and educator. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kossi Efoui (Anfoin, 1962) is a Togolese writer. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...

Trinidad and Tobago

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British writer of Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity and Bhumihar Brahmin heritage from Gorakhpur in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lakshmi Persaud is a prominent Caribbean novelist, whose ancestors were from India. ...

Tunisia

Hédi André Bouraoui (born July 16, 1932 in Sfax, Tunisia) is a Tunisian/Canadian poet, novelist and academic, who regularly deals with themes involving the transcendence of cultural boundaries. ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Albert Memmi (born December 15, 1920) is a Tunisian-born French writer and essayist. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

Turkey

  • Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
  • Ahmet Mithat
  • Ahmet Rasim
  • Ahmet Ümit
  • Ayşe Kulin
  • Aziz Nesin
  • Bilge Karasu, author of "Night", "Garden of Departed Cats", and "Death in Troy"
  • Buket Uzuner
  • Cem Akaş
  • Cemil Meriç
  • Elif Şafak
  • Ertugrul Oğuz Fırat, author of "Sevicira"
  • Fakir Baykurt
  • Haldun Taner
  • Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
  • Hasan Ali Toptaş
  • Mehmed Rauf
  • Metin Kaçan
  • Oktay Rifat
  • Orhan Kemal
  • Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize author of "Black Book" and "The White Castle"
  • Peyami Safa
  • Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem
  • Reşat Enis
  • Reşat Nuri Güntekin
  • Rıfat Ilgaz
  • Sabahattin Ali
  • Sabri Gürses
  • Sadık Yalsızuçanlar
  • Selim İleri
  • Tarık Buğra
  • Yahya Kemal
  • Yaşar Kemal, author of "Mehmed, My Hawk"
  • Yaşar Nabi Nayır
  • Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. ... Aziz Nesin (December 20, 1915—July 6, 1995) was a popular Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books. ... Elif Şafak, aka: Elif Shafak, (born 1971, Strasbourg, France) is a writer of Turkish descent. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil (1867 in İstanbul - 27 March 1945 in İstanbul) was a Turkish author. ... Hasan Ali Toptaş Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 1958) is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. ... Metin Kaçan (born 1961, Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish author, who is best known for his novels Agir Roman (Cholera Street), Harman Kaplan and Findik Sekiz. ... Oktay Rifat Horozcu (10 July 1914 – 18 April 1988), Turkish poet, writer and play writer who has been one of the forefront poets of modern Turkish poetry since late 1930s. ... Orhan Kemal (born 15 September 1914, Adana - died 2 June 1970, Sofia) is the pen name of Turkish novelist Mehmet Raşit Öğütçü. He is known for his realist novels that tells the stories of the poor in Turkey. ... Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul) is a Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awarded for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine. ... Resat Nuri Guntekin Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889, Istanbul - 7 December 1956, London) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. ... Sabahattin Ali Sabahattin Ali (February 25, 1907 – April 2, 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. ... Sabri Gürses (born February 7, 1972) is a Turkish writer. ... Yaşar Kemal (born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli) is one of the best known writers in Turkey. ... Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu (1879-1945) was a renowned Turkish journalist and founder of the newspaper Cumhuriyet. ...

Uganda

Moses Isegawa (born August 10, 1963 in Uganda) is an author. ... China Keitetsi is a Ugandan activist who has won international renown as a campaigner for the plight of child soldiers. ...

Ukraine

Andrey Kurkov (born in 1961 in Saint Petersburg, Russia) is a Ukrainian novelist who writes in Russian. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Larisa Alexandrovna (born December 7, 1971 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a journalist, essayist, poet. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ...

United Kingdom

England

See: List of English novelists

For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This is a list of novelists from England. ...

Scotland

See: List of Scottish novelists

This article is about the country. ... List of Scottish novelists is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish novelists. ...

Wales

See also: List of Welsh writers

This article is about the country. ... 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. ... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... Year 1976 Pick up sticks(MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jack Jones (1884-1970) was a Welsh novelist and playwright. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Llewellyn (real name Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd) (December 8, 1906 - November 30, 1983) was a British novelist. ... Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 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 Caribbean novelist who wrote 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. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Daniel Owen (October 20, 1836 - October 22, 1895), was a Welsh novelist. ... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Kate Roberts (February 13, 1891 - April 4, 1985) was one of the foremost Welsh-language authors of the twentieth century. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... List of Welsh writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of Welsh writers. ...

Northern Ireland

See also: List of Northern Irish writers and List of Irish novelists

Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... Northern Irish novelist screenwriter and former journalist. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Divorcing Jack Divorcing Jack is a 1994 novel by Colin Bateman. ... Ronan Bennett (born 1956) is an Irish novelist and screenwriter. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Time magazine cover featuring Joyce Cary, October 20, 1952 This article is about the male author Joyce Cary. ... The Horses Mouth is a 1944 novel by Joyce Cary, the third in a trilogy. ... Paul Kearney is a fantasy author. ... The Monarchies of God is an epic fantasy series written by Irish author Paul Kearney. ... Benedict Ben Kiely (August 15, 1919 – February 9, 2007) was an Irish author and broadcaster from Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. ... Bernard MacLaverty (born September 14, 1942 in Belfast) is a Northern Irish author. ... Cal is a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty, detailing the experiences of a young Irish Catholic named Cal, who is involved with the IRA. Through the course of the book, Cal must come to terms with taking part in the murder of a reserve police officer by his friend Crilly... Brian Moore (August 25, 1921 - January 11, 1999) was a novelist. ... The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne is a 1987 drama film made by Handmade Films Ltd. ... Flann OBrien (October 5, 1911, Strabane, County Tyrone Ireland – April 1, 1966 Dublin) is a pseudonym of the twentieth century Irish novelist and satirist Brian ONolan (in Irish Brian Ó Nuallain), best known for his novels An Béal Bocht, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman. ... The Third Policeman is Flann OBriens second novel, written in 1939 and 1940 but not published until 1967, after the authors death. ... Amanda McKittrick Ross (1860-1939) was a novelist born in Drumaness, Co Down in Ireland. ... List of Northern Irish writers This is a list of writers born in Northern Ireland. ... This is a list of novelists either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship. ...

United States

See: List of novelists from the United States This is a list of novelists from the United States. ...


Uruguay

See: Culture of Uruguay // Juan Manuel Blanes (1830-1901), Uruguays most famous 19th century artist, painted large canvases depicting the life of the gaucho, the South American cattle herder, and events from Uruguays history. ...

Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is an Uruguayan journalist whose books have been translated into many languages. ... Mario Benedetti (born September 14, 1920) is an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. ... Jorge Majfud was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay, in 1969. ... Juan Carlos Onetti, born July 1, 1909 in Montevideo, Uruguay - died May 30, 1994 in Madrid, Spain, was a novelist and short-story writer. ... Horacio Quiroga (December 31, 1878, Salto, Uruguay – February 19, 1937, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Uruguayan author of short stories. ... Juana de Ibarbourou (1892–1979), also known as Juana de América, was an Uruguayan poet. ... Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira (1875-1924) was a teacher and poet from Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. ... Delmira Agustini was born in Uruguay in 1886 and considered one of the greatest female Latin poets of the early 20th century. ... Lautréamont Comte de Lautréamont was the pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (April 4, 1846 – November 24, 1870), a French poet whose only work, Les Chants de Maldoror, had a major influence on modern literature, and in particular on the Surrealist movement. ... José Enrique Rodo (1872–1917) was a Latin American essayist from Uruguay. ... The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general English-language encyclopaedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ...

Venezuela

Rómulo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 4 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... For films titled Doña Bárbara, see Doña Bárbara (film) Doña Bárbara is a novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, first published in 1929. ...

Vietnam

Dương Thu Hương (1947 - present) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. ... Paradise of the Blind is a novel by Duong Thu Huong. ... Phạm Thị Hoài (born 1960) is an influential contemporary Vietnamese writer, editor and translator, living in Germany. ... Phung Le Ly Hayslip (b. ... When Heaven and Earth Changes Places is a 1989 memoir by Le Ly Hayslip about her childhood during the Vietnam War, her escape to the United States, and her return to visit Vietnam 20 years later. ... Bảo Ninh (born on October 18, 1952) is a Vietnamese novelist and short story writer. ...

Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, Jiddisch) is a Germanic language spoken by about four million Jews throughout the world. ... Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957), a. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... David (or Dovid) Bergelson (דוד בערגעלסאָן) (August 12, 1884–August 12, 1952) was a Yiddish language writer. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Der Nister (1884 in Berdichev, Ukraine – 1950 the Soviet Gulag) was the penname of Pinchas Kahanovich, a Yiddish author, philosopher, translator, and critic. ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shira Gorshman (April 10, 1906 – April 4, 2001) was a Yiddish language short story writer and memoirist. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Chaim Grade (b. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Hinde Ester Singer Kreytman (1891-1954), known in English as Esther Kreitman, was a Yiddish-language novelist and short story writer. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: People stubs | Jewish history-related stubs | Yiddish writers | Russian Jews ... Year 1836 (MDCCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... Joseph Opatoshu, from [1] Joseph Opatoshu (יוסף אָפאַטאָשו in Yiddish), (1886 – 1954) was a Polish-born Yiddish novelist and short story writer. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yitzok Lebesh Peretz (* 1852 Zamosc, died 1915 Warsaw) was a Yiddish writer. ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Sholom Aleichem Sholom (Sholem) Aleichem (February 18 (O.S.) = March 2 (N.S.), 1859 - May 13, 1916) was a popular humorist and author of Yiddish literature, including novels, short stories, and plays. ... Year 1859 (MDCCCLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... For the film, see Fiddler on the Roof (film) Fiddler on the Roof is a well-known Tony Award-winning musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Israel Joshua Singer photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1938 Israel Joshua Singer (November 30, 1893, BiÅ‚goraj, Poland - February 10, 1944 New York) was a Yiddish novelist and the brother of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer and novelist Esther Kreitman. ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Anzia Yezierska (1881 - 1970) was born in Pinsk, Poland, and emigrated to New York City when she was a teenager. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)

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Economy · Geography · Maps · History · Politics · Country subdivisions · Culture · Transport · Tourism · Religion Tsitsi Dangarembga. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chenjerai Hove (born February 9, 1956) is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Doris Lessing, CH, OBE (born October 22, 1919), is a British writer, born Doris May Taylor in Kermanshah, Persia (Iran). ... The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the old Persian homeland, and beyond in Western Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet. ... Year 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Nozipo Maraire (born 1966) is a Zimbabwean writer. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Charles Mungoshi (b. ... Solomon Mangwiro Mutswairo (b. ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ranahki 06:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)Alexander (R.A.A.) Sandy McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, (born August 24, 1948) is a Rhodesian-born Scottish writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stanlake John William Thompson Samkange (1922–1988) was a Zimbabwean historiographer, educationist, journalist, author, and African nationalist. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Dr. Yvonne Vera (September 19, 1964 - April 7, 2005) was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is are a series of lists by country. ... This list of countries, arranged alphabetically, gives an overview of countries of the world. ... These are lists of country-related topics, clicking an entry below does not take you to an article on that country. ... This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. ... This is a list of articles on the history of contemporary countries, states and dependencies. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... This is a list of current subnational entities, some of which may be states in the legal sense of the word, by country: See also: ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes based on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes. ... Information on culture by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Information on tourism by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ...

Codes

Country calling codes · FIPS country codes · Internet TLDs · IOC country codes · ISO country codes · Ship prefixes This is a list of country calling codes defined by ITU-T recommendation E.164. ... Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) two-letter country codes (FIPS 10-4) are used by the US Government for data processing, and in the CIA World Factbook. ... The following is a list of currently existing Internet Top-level domains (TLDs). ... The International Olympic Committee (IOC) allocates three-letter country codes to all National Olympic Committees and other groups competing in the Olympic Games. ... ISO 3166-1, as part of the ISO 3166 standard, provides codes for the names of countries and dependent areas. ... A ship prefix is a combination of letters, usually abbreviations, used in front of the name of a civilian or naval ship. ...

Names and symbols

Adjectives · Country name etymologies · Country native names · Coats of arms · Flags · State mottos · National anthems · National emblems The following is a partial list of Queer forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of the places. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This List of countries by native names is an alphabetical list of countries of the world with the names in the official (national) native languages, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... This gallery of sovereign state coats of arms shows the coat of arms of sovereign states in the list of sovereign states. ... This gallery of sovereign-state flags shows the flags of sovereign states in the list of sovereign states. ... Image:Antigua and barbuda coa. ... This is a list of national anthems. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Politics and government

Election results · Incumbents · Intelligence agencies · National leaders · National legislatures · Political parties (party systems) · Sovereign states · System of government · Member states of the United Nations · Voting systems These are lists of incumbents, i. ... The following is a partial list of current intelligence agencies. ... This is a list of state leaders, showing heads of state and heads of government where different, mainly in parliamentary systems; it should be noted that often a leader is both in presidential systems or dictatorships. ... This is a list of legislatures by country, whether parliamentary or congressional, that act as a plenary general assembly of representatives with the power to legislate. ... Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      This is a list of political parties around the world in the form of a table including links to the lists of political parties in the countries and entities listed in the list of countries, showing which party system... This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. ... This is a list of countries categorized by system of government. ... A map of UN member states and their dependent territories as recognized by the UN. Regions excluded: Antarctica (regulated by the Antarctic Treaty System), Vatican City (the Holy See is a UN observer), the Palestinian territories (Palestine, represented by the Palestine Liberation Organization, is a UN observer), and Western Sahara... These tables deal with voting to select candidates for office, not for the passing of legislation. ...

Other data by country

Abortion law · Airlines · Armed forces · Authors · Battles · Cathedrals · Cemeteries · Cities · Colleges and universities · Currencies · Death penalty · Education · Emergency contraception · Football (soccer) · Forex rates · Homosexuality laws · Islands · Light-rail transit systems · Music genres · National capitals (historical) · National parks · Newspapers · Official languages · People · Common family names · Railway companies · Schools · World Heritage Sites International status of abortion law  Legal on demand  Legal for rape, maternal life, health, mental health, socioecomic factors, and/or fetal defects  Legal for or illegal with exception for rape, maternal life, health, fetal defects, and/or mental health  Illegal with exception for rape, maternal life, health, and/or mental... This is a list of airlines in operation (by continents and country). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This list of battles is organized geographically, by country in its present territory. ... This is a list of cathedrals around the world, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in episcopal denominations, such as Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Orthodoxy) and a few prominent churches from non-episcopal denominations that have the word cathedral in their names. ... This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. ... This is a list of articles on the cities of contemporary countries, states and dependencies. ... This is a list of universities, colleges and other educational institutions providing higher education (meaning tertiary, quaternary or in some cases post-secondary education). ... At one time capital punishment was used in almost every part of the globe, but over the last few decades many countries have abolished it. ... The following is a list of countries that allow access to dedicated-purpose emergency contraceptive pills. ... Most European countries have two principal football (soccer) competitions: a more prestigious league which is typically a double round-robin tournament restricted to the elite clubs, and a cup which is a single-elimination tournament open to both the elite and lesser clubs. ... Exchange rate data in US Dollars since 1969 (Source Data: Reserve Bank of Australia www. ... World laws on homosexuality Legality of same-sex unions in the US. Legality of same-sex unions in Europe. ... The following is a list of cities that have tram / light-rail systems as part of their public transport system. ... Ainu Indigenous Australian Chamorro Maori Palestinian Russian Samaritan Afrikaner African American Anglo-American Anglo-Australian Cajun and Louisiana Creole Caribbean-British Immigrants to Australia Immigrants to the United States Indian-British Indo-Caribbean Irish- and Scottish-Australian Irish- and Scottish-Canadian Irish- and Scottish-American Latino-American North African-French... This is a list of national capitals of the world in alphabetical order. ... Throughout the world there are many cities that were once national capitals but no longer have that status because the country ceased to exist, the capital was moved, or the capital city was renamed. ... This is a list of national parks ordered by nation. ... This is a complete list of the official languages designated in the sovereign states of the world. ... Family names can be unique or come in large numbers. ... This is a list of the worlds railway operating companies listed alphabetically by continent and country. ... This is a list of lists of schools, sorted by country. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...

Other lists

Member states of the European Union (by accession • by political system) · Oldest person · Tallest buildings and structures // The flag of the Council of Europe and the European Union. ... //  The European Union as a single entity. ... // This is a list of European Union member states, their forms of government and their parliaments. ... // National longevity recordholders are those individuals who have survived to the oldest age in a given country. ... // This is a list of the tallest buildings and structures by country. ...

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