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

Corinna Bille
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss poet and novelist

Stanislav Mushatenko
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer

Hafid Bouazza
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch writer of Moroccan origin

Yuriy Konstantinov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer and journalist.

Nelson Algren
USA
USAAmerican writer

Vladimir Sirenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet, prose writer, editor, correspondent

Bob Colacello
USA
USAAmerican writer and journalist, specialist in biography.

Samuel Richardson
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and typographer, recognized as the first novelist.

Sterling Lanier
USA
USAAmerican science fiction writer, editor and sculptor

Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina
ArgentinaArgentine writer

Shannon Drake
USA
USAAmerican writer of women's novels

Simon Hlazshtein
Belarus
BelarusContemporary poet

Tom Butler-Bowdon
Great Britain
Great BritainWriter

Greg Cox
USA
USAAmerican science fiction writer

Takuboku Ishikawa
Japan
JapanJapanese poet, literary critic

Bohumil Hrabal
Czech
CzechCzech writer, prose writer

Francesco Petrarca
Italy
ItalyItalian poet

Zinaida Volkonskaya
Russia
RussiaPrincess, Russian writer

Paul Kock
France
FranceFrench novelist and playwright

Elizabeth Cavendish
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Boris Bialik
Russian and Soviet critic, literary scholar

Dadzai Osamu
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Alexander Kozmesku
Moldova
MoldovaMoldovan prose writer, playwright and translator.

Grigoriy Shargorodskiy
Ukraine
UkraineContemporary Russian writer

Fedor Imshenik
Belarusian literary scholar, memoirist, teacher.

Yiannis Ritsos
Greece
GreecePoet, translator of Russian poetry, laureate of the International Lenin Prize (1977)

Jean-Pierre Camus
France
FranceFrench writer and theologian

Joanna Chmielewska
Poland
PolandWriter of ironic detective stories

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italy
ItalyItalian poet and writer; founder, leader and theorist of futurism

Mihail Suhomlinov
Ukraine
Ukraine- famous literary historian

Enrique Amorim
Uruguay
UruguayUruguayan writer, poet, playwright

Sergey Anpilogov
Ukraine
UkraineContemporary Kyiv science fiction writer

Francois-Denis Camusat
France
FranceFrench writer

Mrs. Hudson
Great Britain
Great BritainA fictional character created by Sir A.C. Doyle

Lascelles Abercrombie
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish poet and literary critic

Jan Bottcher
Germany
GermanyGerman writer, novelist

Witold Gombrowicz
Poland
PolandPolish writer

Katherine Burdekin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, author of books in the fantasy genre.

Liudas Gira
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet, literary critic, playwright, publicist, translator, public figure.

Sehey Ooka
Japan
JapanOutstanding Japanese writer

Pshavela Vazja
Georgia
GeorgiaWriter

Matt Drudge
USA
USAAmerican journalist and publicist.

Robert Zubrin
USA
USAAmerican engineer and publicist

Arundhati Roy
India
IndiaIndian writer

Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski
Poland
PolandPolish critic, translator and publicist

William Peter Blatty
USA
USAWriter, screenwriter

David Levithan
USA
USAAmerican writer

Iuda Grossman
Russian (later Ukrainian) anarchist revolutionary, publicist

Sofia Romma
USA
USAPoetess

Victor Gollancz
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish public figure, book publisher, socialist publicist and human rights activist.