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

Maria Grabovskaya
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Russian-speaking poetess

Alfred Grosser
France
FranceGerman-French publicist, sociologist and political scientist

Daniel Burstein
USA
USAWriter

Thomas Moore
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet

Art Antonyan
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian and Ukrainian writer

Galaktion Tabidze
Georgian Soviet poet, People's Poet of the Georgian SSR (1933), Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR (1944).

Usif Chemenzeminly
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani writer

Jamaica Kincaid
Antigua
AntiguaWest Indian writer

Hercule Poirot
Belgium
BelgiumLiterary character

Djonrid Abdullahanov
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanUzbek prose writer, poet, playwright and journalist.

Chester Himes
USA
USAAmerican writer

Glen Cook
USA
USAScience fiction writer

Vasiliy Zalozetskiy
Russia
RussiaGalician-Russian writer, wrote in Russian.

Robert Duncan
USA
USAAmerican poet

Maurice Leblanc
France
FranceFrench writer, science fiction writer, author of books about Arsene Lupine

Jane Austen
Great Britain
Great BritainWriter, classic of English and world literature

Jean Charles Dominic de Lacretelle
France
FranceFrench historian and publicist, member of the French Academy

Tomasz Zan
Poet and member of the Philomath Society, friend of Adam Mickiewicz

Alberto Moravia (Pincherle)
Italy
ItalyItalian writer

Danielle Steel
USA
USAAmerican novelist, author of numerous bestsellers.

Savva Dangulov
Russian Soviet prose writer and publicist. Known primarily as the author of a series of novels about the activities of Soviet diplomats

Abid Al Memalik
Iran
IranIn 1906, he was the editor of the Persian newspaper Majlis. Adib al-Memalik was one of the first Persian poets of realistic creativity.

Geoffrey Moore
USA
USAWriter and technology consultant based in Silicon Valley.

Luko Paljetak
Croatian writer, translator

Harriet Beecher Stowe
USA
USAAmerican abolitionist and writer

Andre Gide
France
FranceFrench writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1947

Cleobulus
Greece
GreeceIn the 6th century BC, one of the "seven Greek sages", the son of Evagoras, was the ruler (tyrant) of the Rhodian city of Lindos in Rhodes

Adolf Bem
Russia
RussiaEngineer and writer

Irina Knorring
Russian poetess

Vakhilid
Greece
GreeceGreek poet

Anthony Hecht
USA
USAAmerican poet and critic

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
France
FranceThe greatest poetess of French romanticism

Eduard Douwes Dekker
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch writer

Paavo Korhonen
Finland
FinlandFinnish national poet

Henry Monfreid
France
FranceFrench writer of adventure fiction.

Hayashi Kyoko
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Valeriy Shambarov
Russia
RussiaA contemporary Russian writer and publicist of a national-patriotic persuasion.

Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle
France
FranceFrench publicist.

Adolf Silberstein
Hungary
HungaryHungarian-German writer

Georg Koberle
Germany
GermanyGerman writer.

Octave MIirbeau
France
FranceFrench writer

Vasil Bykov
Belarus
BelarusMilitary novelist

Christian Morgenstern
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, writer and translator, classic of German literature of the late 19th - early 20th centuries

Ion Creanga
Moldova
MoldovaMoldovan and Romanian writer and memoirist

Diana Hamilton
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Yury Vinnichyk
Ukraine
UkraineScience fiction writer

Petar Hektorovic
Croatia
CroatiaCroatian humanist poet

Marghanita Laski
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish journalist, radio pundit and writer

Diana Wynne Jones
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer, author of fantasy novels for children and adults

Stanislav Grohovyak
Poland
PolandPolish poet.