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

Takeshi Kaiko
Japan
JapanJapanese writer and publicist

Peter Altenberg
Austria
AustriaAustrian writer.

Sergey Kaledin
Russia
RussiaWriter

Jack Kerouac
USA
USAAmerican writer and poet

Edgar Zevort
France
FranceFrench writer

Victor Konetsky
Russia
RussiaMarine writer

Rayko Zhinzifov
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian writer, journalist, translator.

Carles Hac Mor
Spain
SpainCatalan writer.

Tatiana Baturina
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanLiterature critic, poet

Stepan Panasenko
Ukrainian writer, teacher, screenwriter and translator

Leopoldo Alas y Urena
Spain
SpainSpanish writer, literary critic

Eckhart Tolle
Canada
CanadaGerman writer

Joyce Dunbar
Great Britain
Great BritainChildren's writer who tried to sue surgeon after surgery to remove 'bump' on finger

Djoomart Bokonbaev
Kyrgyzstan
KyrgyzstanKyrgyz Soviet poet

Iuriy Vlasov
Ukraine
UkraineWriter

Gregory Keyes
USA
USAAmerican writer

Madame de La Fayette
France
FranceFrench writer.

Tony Parsons
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish journalist and writer

Rudyard Kipling
Great Britain
Great BritainWriter, Nobel laureate 1907

Karel Capek
Czech
CzechWriter

Witold Wirpsza
Poland
PolandPolish poet, essayist, translator.

Enrichetta Caracciolo
Italy
ItalyItalian writer, journalist

Nora Berta Unica Ruth Zurn
Germany
GermanyGerman writer, artist, sculptor

Paul Ginisty
France
FranceFrench writer, bibliographer, journalist, literary and theatre critic.

Seabury Quinn
USA
USAAmerican writer and lawyer, known in his time for his horror stories

Charles Caleb Colton
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, priest and art collector

Bozidar Adzija
Croatia
CroatiaYugoslav left-wing political figure and publicist.

Roger Zelazny
USA
USAScience fiction writer

Simon Green
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish science fiction writer

Yulyus Yanonis
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet

Giannina Braschi
USA
USAAmerican poet, playwright, novelist

Richard Corbet
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet.

Yanka Bryl
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian Soviet writer

Pete Dexter
USA
USAAmerican writer

Carl Arnold Kortum
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

Laso de la Vega Carrillo
Spain
SpainSpanish writer of the early 17th century

Ivan Kasatkin
Russian Soviet writer, employee of the Cheka

Abay Kunanbaev
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanKazakh poet

Sameh Izhar
Israel
IsraelIsraeli writer

Kojin Karatani
Japan
JapanJapanese literary critic and Marxist thinker

Grigol Abashidze
Georgia
GeorgiaSoviet Georgian poet and writer. Co-author of the lyrics of the Anthem of the Georgian SSR (1944). Hero of Socialist Labor (1974). Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951). Member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) since 1944. First Secretary of the Board of the Writers' Union of Georgia since 1967. Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the

Krasimir Edrev
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian poet, publicist.

Nadejda Nadejdina
Russia
RussiaWriter

Franz Kafka
Austria
AustriaGerman writer, Austrian official, Jewish sufferer and citizen of Czechoslovakia

Alexander Brykov
Ukraine
UkrainePoet, speaker, journalist, public figure

Erik Larson
USA
USAAmerican writer.

Taisa Supranovich
Belarus
BelarusWriter

John Cooke
USA
USAAmerican novelist

Alya Rahmanova
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss writer of Russian origin

Corinna Bille
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss poet and novelist