Literature
Read about notable figures in Literature: books, literary careers, famous works and the cultural legacy of influential authors.

Sinclair Lewis
USA
USAAmerican writer first Nobel laureate in the United States

Haim Guri
Israel
IsraelIsraeli poet, novelist, journalist and film director

Pearl Buck
USA
USAAmerican writer, Nobel laureate 1938. A few months after the birth of their daughter, her missionary parents returned to China, where the writer lived until 1933.

Kazimierz Waliszewski
Poland
PolandPolish historian, writer and publicist

Maryam Vahidova
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanRussian publicist

Mark Haddon
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, author of the world bestseller “The Mysterious Night-Time Murder of a Dog”

Kathleen Woodiwiss
USA
USAWriter of women's novels

Michael Golodniy
Russia
RussiaSoviet poet.

Fazıl Husnu Daglarca
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish poet

Andzhey Dravich
Poland
PolandLiterary critic, essayist.

Shaul Chernihovskiy
Israel
IsraelJewish poet

Howard Lovecraft
USA
USAScience fiction writer

Margaret Mahy
New Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand writer, author of novels for children and young people.

Elcin Safarli
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanContemporary writer, journalist.

Vladislav Hodasevich
France
FrancePoet

Louis Etienne Arthur La Gueronniere
France
FranceFrench publicist

Kunio Ogawa
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Arkadiy Gaydar
Russia
RussiaChildren's writer, one of the youngest commanders of the Civil War (at the age of 16 he commanded a regiment). Participant of the Great Patriotic War.

Guillaume Joseph Gabriel de Lalandelle
France
FranceFrench writer.

Pol Verlaine
France
FranceFrench symbolist poet

Ivo Andric
Yugoslav poet and novelist, author of novels and short stories, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1961

Maggie Stiefvater
USA
USAAmerican writer

Ludwig Laistner
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

Vaclav-Kliment Klicpera
Czech
CzechCzech writer and political figure.

Valeriy Levenko
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet and Ukrainian Russian-speaking poet, journalist, publicist

Georgiy Lanskoy
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanWriter, journalist

Alain-Ren Lesage
France
FranceFrench writer, author of the classic moral novel Gilles Blas.

Alfred Bester
USA
USAAmerican journalist, editor, and science fiction writer.

Karel Vanek
Czech writer, columnist, journalist

Geinrich Bebel
Germany
GermanyGerman humanist poet, translator, satirist, teacher.

Gerrit Achterberg
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch poet.

Yuriy Rybnikov
Ukraine
UkraineSatirist writer

Laurence Sterne
Ireland
IrelandIrish writer

Charlotte Aisse
France
FranceFrench writer

Jose Valente
Spain
SpainSpanish poet, literary critic, translator of English and Italian poetry

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill,
USA
USAAmerican writer, naturalist, traveler and artist

Moses Ephraim Kuh
Germany
GermanyGerman poet

Siamanto (Atom Yardzhanyan)
Turkey
TurkeyArmenian poet

Thomas Gray
Great Britain
Great BritainAn 18th-century English sentimental poet, a precursor of Romanticism, and a literary historian.

Richard Adams
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Jonathan Littell
USA
USAWriter novelist

Pavel Amnuel
Israel
IsraelSoviet and Israeli physicist, writer.

Nadejda Nadejdina
Russia
RussiaWriter

Bogdan Istru
Moldavian poet, people's writer of the Moldavian SSR

Jozef Bogdan Zaleskiy
Poland
PolandPolish poet of the "Ukrainian school"

Valentin Conrart
France
FranceFrench writer of the 17th century

Michael Harrington
USA
USAAmerican democratic socialist, activist, political theorist, publicist, professor

Mihay Babich
Hungary
HungaryHungarian writer

Eugenie John
Germany
GermanyGerman novelist

Vasiliy Stus
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet, human rights activist, political prisoner, since 2005 - Hero of Ukraine.