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

Marie Calm
Germany
GermanyGerman writer.

Vladimir Yashuk
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian local historian, poet

Hermann Jellinek
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

Janet Evanovich
USA
USADetective novelist

Salli Boumen
Great Britain
Great BritainWriter

Doris Lessing
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish science fiction writer

Jivani
Armenian poet, musician and ashugh

Abdel Vail Zuayter
Palestinian translator, writer, intellectual and representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Dr. Watson
Great Britain
Great BritainA fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories

Alexander Irvanets
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, translator.

Nagai Gou
Japan
JapanWriter, one of the most scandalous, controversial and famous manga artists in the history of the manga industry

Amber Argyle
USA
USAAmerican writer

Thomas Pynchon
USA
USAAmerican writer

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

Kunio Ogawa
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Nikola Bualo-Depreo
France
FranceFrench poet, classicist theorist

Petr Gorskiy
Russia
RussiaRussian poet and writer, essayist.

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

Yakov Yakovlev
Russia
RussiaBolshevik. Edited <Krestyanskaya Gazeta> and <Bednota>. In 1939-1934 - People's Commissar of Agriculture of the USSR. Fell into the machine of repression and shot.

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
France
FranceThe greatest poetess of French romanticism

Yuriy Dold-Mihaylik
Ukrainian Soviet writer, playwright, critic, publicist.

Gail Kathleen Godwin
USA
USAAmerican writer

Alexander Isbakh
Russian writer, literary scholar, journalist

Robert Hans Van Gulik
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch orientalist, diplomat, musician and writer

John Ernst Steinbeck
USA
USAAmerican writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1962

Gustav Kuhne
Germany
GermanyGerman writer and literary critic

Poulin Klavin
Latvia
LatviaLviv poetess and translator.

Ahad Ha Am
Israel
IsraelJewish writer, publicist and philosopher

Wawrzyniec Korwin
Poland
PolandA 16th-century Polish writer known as Novoforensis

Endre Ady
Hungary
HungaryHungarian poet and publicist, whose works reflected the rebellious world of the turn of the century, with its insights and its delusions.

Juozas Tumas
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian writer, playwright, critic, publicist, literary critic, church and public figure.

Richard Brotigan
USA
USAAmerican writer and poet, an iconic figure of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s.

Vikas Swarup
India
IndiaAuthor of the book "Slumdog Millionaire"

Grigory Nedetovsky
Russia
RussiaA talented writer

Konstantin Gamsahurdia
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian classic writer, father of the former President of Georgia.

Thomas Harris
USA
USAWriter and journalist, famous for the series of novels about Hannibal Lecter

Patricia Cornwell
USA
USAContemporary American writer

Alessandro Baricco
Italy
ItalyItalian writer

Dmitriy Valuev
Russia
RussiaOne of the prominent representatives of the Slavophile school

Michael Bond
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish creator of the Paddington Bear stories for children

Haroldo De Campos
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian poet, translator and translation theorist

Gyula Krudy
Hungary
HungaryHungarian writer and journalist, author of 60 novels and 3,000 short stories

Grigoriy Kakovkin
Writer, journalist, screenwriter, documentary film director

Beryl Margaret Bainbridge
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge
USA
USAAmerican writer and publisher of children's books.

Gonchabeyim
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani poetess

Marie Colban
Norway
NorwayNorwegian writer.

Kalju Kangur
Estonia
EstoniaEstonian writer, poet and translator

Sarat Alieva
Dargin poetess, master of lyric poetry

Guenter Grass
Poland
PolandWriter, Nobel Prize winner (1999)