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

Valery Gitin
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian and Russian writer, psychologist

Albert Camus
France
FranceFrench writer Nobel Prize 1957

Ellias Lenrot
Finland
FinlandFinnish folklorist, creator of the Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala".

John Dos Passos
USA
USAAmerican writer of Portuguese descent.

Walter Scott
Great Britain
Great Britainwriter, poet, biographer, master of the historical novel

Allan Cole
USA
USAAmerican writer, author of science fiction novels and screenplays.

Alan Sillitoe
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet and novelist

Guy Samuel Endore
USA
USAAmerican screenwriter and novelist

Rae Armanyrout
USA
USAAmerican poet

Carolina Coronado
Spain
SpainSpanish poetess

Thomas Paine
Great Britain
Great BritainAnglo-American revolutionary and publicist

Luis de Gongora
Spain
SpainSpanish Baroque poet.

Katsura Masakazu
Japan
JapanWriter, famous and popular manga artist, a number of whose works have been filmed

Mahmoud Darwish
Palestine
PalestinePalestinian poet and writer

Aaly Tonomnaev
Kyrgyzstan
KyrgyzstanKyrgyz Soviet writer

Kia Abdullah
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and journalist

Fanny Crosby
USA
USAPoetess

Douglas Adams
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, playwright and screenwriter.

Dimitriy Buturlin
Russia
RussiaMilitary history writer

Juhan Smuul
Estonia
EstoniaPeople's writer of Estonia, author of the widely known diary of his journey to Antarctica, 'The Ice Book'.

Georgiy Lanskoy
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanWriter, journalist

Mariano Antonio Capra
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

Lisa Gardner
USA
USAAmerican writer, specialist in crime thrillers. Ranked first in the New York Times rankings.

Tom Clancy
USA
USAAmerican writer

Martselius Martynaytis
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet, literary critic, essayist, translator.

Evgeniy Dubrovin
Soviet prose writer, satirist

Gerbert Montreuil
France
FranceFrench poet

Arthur Ung
Great Britain
Great BritainFamous English writer.

William Murray
USA
USAAmerican writer - novelist

Maxine Kumin
USA
USAAmerican writer and poet

Regis Jauffret
France
FranceFrench novelist

Vernor Vinge
USA
USAAmerican mathematician and science fiction writer

Laymen Baum
USA
USAAn American children's writer who wrote the book "The Wizard of Oz", known in our country in the version by the writer Volkov as "The Wizard of the Emerald City".

Bruce Boston
USA
USAAmerican writer and poet of speculative fiction

William Olaf Stapledon
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish philosopher and science fiction writer.

Dave Barry
USA
USAAmerican publicist.

James Joyce
Ireland
IrelandIrish writer

Sergey Balahonov
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer.

Igor Sahnovskiy
Russia
RussiaRussian writer, poet, member of the Union of Russian Writers.

Vladimir Savchenko
Ukraine
UkraineScience fiction writer

Eli Shehtman
Ukraine
UkraineJewish writer in Yiddish

Pavel Zidek
Czech
CzechCzech writer.

Edward Lear
Great Britain
Great BritainPoet

Lynn Raye Harris
USA
USAAmerican writer specializing in romance literature; author of a number of bestsellers.

Gustave Benedit
France
FranceFrench poet and music critic.

Milo Dor
Austria
AustriaAustrian writer and translator of Serbian origin.

Apostolo Zeno
Italy
ItalyVenetian poet, librettist, journalist and man of letters

Rumi
Turkey
TurkeyAn outstanding Persian Sufi poet

Benito Perez Galdys
Spain
SpainSpanish writer and playwright

Thomas MacGreevy
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet and writer