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

Jean Cocteau
France
FranceFrench avant-garde writer, film director, actor and artist.

Enid Mary Blyton
Great Britain
Great BritainAuthor of English children's books

Bernard Clavel
France
FranceFrench writer, novelist

Jacqueline Susann
USA
USAAmerican writer

Aziz Nesin
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish short story writer, playwright, novelist, publicist

Igor Severyanin
Russian poet of the "Silver Age"

Gregory Benford
USA
USAWriter

Mirza Shafi Vazeh
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani poet and thinker, educator and teacher

Semen Sborzunov
Russia
RussiaSoviet and Russian writer.

Pelham Wodehouse
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, playwright, comedy writer

Yohan Runeberg
Finland
FinlandFinnish poet who wrote poems of national romantic content in Swedish.

Janos Batsanyi
Hungary
HungaryHungarian poet-commoner.

Ruth Stiles Gannett
USA
USAAmerican children's writer

Harry Bates
USA
USAAmerican editor and writer,

Anita Desai
India
IndiaIndian writer.

Gottfried Keller
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss novelist and poet

Giuliano Cassiani
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

Walter Savage Landor
Great Britain
Great BritainFamous English poet

Demetrio Aguilera Malta
Ecuador
EcuadorEcuadorian writer.

Sait Abasuyanuk
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish writer.

Thomas De Quincey
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, author of the famous "Confessions of an English Opium Eater"

Ludwig Thoma
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

Ilia Novak
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Russian-speaking science fiction writer

Peter Cunningham
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Arkadij Gornfeld
Famous critic

Valeriy Gitin
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian and Russian writer, psychologist

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
USA
USAAmerican poet and translator

Michail Bishop
USA
USAWriter ('Eyes of Fire')

Georgiy Georgievsky
Latvia
LatviaPerformer of original song, author of poetry

Karlsson-on-the-Roof
Sweden
SwedenFictional character created by Astrid Lindgren

Ray Bradbury
USA
USAAmerican science fiction writer.

Edmond Dantes
The main character of the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo'

Yuri Shilov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, ideologist of one of the modern variants of Slavophilism.

Irina Kalinets
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poetess, figure in the dissident movement, artist, philologist.

Nasreddin
Turkey
TurkeyFolklore character of the Muslim East

Janis Akuraters
Latvia
LatviaLatvian writer

Tristan Bernard
France
FranceFrench writer, journalist

John Ball
USA
USAAmerican writer, author of detective stories

Daryl Gregory
USA
USAAmerican science fiction writer and comic book writer

Stefanie Zweig
Germany
GermanyGerman-Jewish writer and journalist

Pierre Louis Ginguene
France
FranceFrench poet and critic.

Ilia Shliapkin
Russia
RussiaLiterary historian.

Vidiadhar Najpol
India
IndiaNovelist, Nobel Prize in Literature, 2001

Akop Karapents
USA
USAAmerican writer and publicist

Irwin Ginsberg
USA
USAAmerican poet, beatnik

Yoji Arakawa
Japan
JapanContemporary Japanese Gendaishi poet and essayist

Knut Hamsun
Norway
NorwayNorwegian writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1920

Hamilton Aide
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet and novelist

Judith Merril
USA
USAAmerican and Canadian science fiction writer, editor and political activist

Kingsley Amis
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer