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

Thomas MacGreevy
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet and writer

Aleksandr Nikitenko
Russia
RussiaA famous memoirist and critic

Georgiy Frumker
USA
USAHumorist

Yasushi Inoue
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Hamza Niyazi
Uzbekistan
UzbekistanUzbek writer

Mary Ames
USA
USAAmerican writer.

Fedor Rakushin
Russia
RussiaPoet, member of the USSR Writers Union (1974)

Vladimir Korobov
Russia
RussiaLiterary critic

Veikko Lavi
Finland
FinlandFinnish musician, poet and writer

Ludovic Kontsevich
Poland
PolandPolish writer.

Maarten Biesheuvel
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch writer

Leo Seckendorff
Germany
GermanyGerman poet.

Jean-Christophe Grange
France
FranceWriter

Anne-Catharina Vestly
Norway
NorwayNorwegian children's writer.

Anton Aleshka
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian Soviet writer.

Birgitta Gedin
Sweden
SwedenSwedish writer, poet and translator, author of books for children and adults

Anastasiya Afanasyeva
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet

Markus Zusak
Australia
AustraliaAustralian writer

Mihail Demin
Russian writer

Ilkka Auer
Finland
FinlandFinnish writer

John Keats
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet

Tatiyana Montyan
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian legal scholar, lawyer, publicist, public figure, YouTuber

Froim Oierbah
Israel
IsraelJewish poet and literary critic. Wrote in Yiddish.

Klaus Mann
Germany
GermanyGerman novelist, essayist, playwright. Son of Thomas Mann. His most famous novel is 'Mephisto' (1936), which was filmed in 1981 by the Hungarian director I. Szabo.

Teodor Banvil
France
FranceFrench writer, poet, theorist of <art for art's sake>

Vera Inber
Ukraine
UkrainePoetess, prose writer

Vladimir Filimonov
Estonia
EstoniaFiction writer and playwright

Teodor Bujnicki
Poland
PolandPolish poet, satirist and journalist

David Conyers
Australia
AustraliaAustralian horror and science fiction writer

Jan Badevsky
Belarus
BelarusScience fiction writer

Gabriel Gilbert
France
FranceFrench poet

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

Yuriy Braider
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian science fiction writer

Kazimierz Krzywicki
Poland
PolandPolish writer.

Philippe Jaccottet
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss poet, essayist, translator, writes in French.

Ibycus
Greece
GreeceGreek lyricist

Grigorios Zalykis
Greece
GreeceGreek writer

Natalia Sherba
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer

Alan Bergman
USA
USAAmerican songwriter

Tao Lin
USA
USAAmerican writer

Jerzy Zagorski
Poland
PolandPolish poet and writer, Righteous Among the Nations

Otfries Proysler
Germany
GermanyChildren's writer

Justinus Kerner
Germany
GermanyGerman poet and medical writer

Vasiliy Goloborodko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet

Arseniy Tarkovsky
Russia
RussiaPoet and father of film director

Maleeha Lodhi
Pakistan
PakistanPakistani journalist and political scientist

Ruth Rendell
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer, author of popular detective stories and thrillers.

Jean La Fontaine
France
FranceFrench writer, fabulist

Raffaello Giovagnoli
Italy
ItalyItalian historical novelist.

Kiran Desai
USA
USAIndian writer, novelist living in the USA