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

Solomon Kohn
Austria
AustriaGerman writer of Jewish origin.

Eoin Colfer
Ireland
IrelandIrish writer, author of the series

Louis Etienne Arthur La Gueronniere
France
FranceFrench publicist

Andrey Grirsman
USA
USAPoet, essayist, editor of the international poetry magazine Interpoetry

Kenichiro Isozaki
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Jonathan Franzen
USA
USAAmerican novelist.

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.

Nansy Mitford
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and biographer

Baltasar Gracian
Spain
SpainSpanish novelist, philosopher and literary theorist, Jesuit. The largest representative of Baroque literature.

Edward Frederic Benson
Great Britain
Great BritainWriter

Meysey Goto
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Mihail Balinskiy
Lithuania
LithuaniaNovelist

Prosper Merimee
France
FranceFrench writer

Srecko Kosovel
Slovenia
SloveniaSlovenian poet, prose writer and publicist

Saul Below
USA
USAAmerican writer, Nobel laureate 1976

Gollum
Fictional character

William Cartwright
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, native of Northway, Gloucestershire.

Edward Dahlberg
USA
USAAmerican writer, essayist and biographer.

Natalia Gavrilenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, author of historical novels

Kirsten Hammann
Denmark
DenmarkAuthor of children's books

James Kelman
Great Britain
Great BritainInfluential Scottish writer

James Donleavy
Ireland
IrelandIrish writer

Kostas Karyotakis
Greece
GreeceGreek poet

Felix Cadet
France
FranceFrench publicist.

Serafim Shashkov
Russia
RussiaWriter

Joseph Joubert
France
FranceFrench moralist and essayist

Masedonio Fernandes
Argentina
ArgentinaArgentine poet

Alexander Berdnik
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Soviet science fiction writer

Salvador Espriu
Spain
SpainCatalan poet, prose writer, playwright, wrote in Catalan.

Naftali Herz Imber
USA
USAJewish poet, author of the lyrics of "Hatikva" - the anthem of the Zionist movement

Nathalie Sarraute
France
FranceFrench novelist, critic and playwright.

Uncle Sam
USA
USASymbol of the American government

Zisi Weizman
Israel
IsraelJewish poet

Reiji Ando
Japan
JapanJapanese literary critic.

Lina Kostenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer of the sixties

Andrea Zanzotto
Italy
ItalyItalian poet, wrote in Italian and the Venetian dialect (Veneto).

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, essayist and children's writer

Helene Ghitelman
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian poetess.

Hurshudbanu Natavan
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanPoetess

Tracy Hickman
USA
USAFantasy author, creator of the Dragonlance universe

Igor Avilchenko
Russian writer and artist

Nancy Kress
USA
USAAmerican writer.

Maggie Stiefvater
USA
USAAmerican writer

Robert Ervin Howard
USA
USAAmerican science fiction writer

Vladislav Kozlovskiy
Poland
PolandPolish publicist.

Nina Kauhchishvili
Italy
ItalyItalian literary scholar.

Hart Catherine
USA
USAAmerican writer

Gaston Leroux
France
FranceFrench writer, author of the novel 'The Phantom of the Opera'

Samuil Marshak
Poet, translator

Gesiod
Greece
GreeceGreek poet