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

Lou Andreas-Salome
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

Kono Racin
Macedonia
MacedoniaMacedonian poet and writer, literary critic

Charles Robert Maturin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish (Irish) priest and writer

Anna Zegers
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

Karl Renz
Germany
GermanyEnlightened teacher of non-duality

Du Fu
China
ChinaChinese poet of the Tang Dynasty

Roman Kim
Russian Soviet writer, author of popular spy novels

Gwalchmai ap Meilyr
12th century Welsh poet

Pavel Kirmeser
Slovakia
SlovakiaSlovak writer

Roberto Saviano
Italy
ItalyItalian writer, promanist

Gilbert Cesbron
France
FranceFrench novelist

Pierre Boiste
France
FranceA lawyer by training, he is the author of a dictionary of universal geography

Eli Anderson
France
FranceWriter

Hristo Botev
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian poet, democratic revolutionary

Gottfried Benn
Germany
GermanyGerman essayist, short story writer and expressionist poet

Franz Anton Joseph Ignaz Maria von Sonnenberg
Germany
GermanyGerman poet

Winnie-the-Pooh
Book and cartoon character

Charlotte Kalb
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

Martti Johannes Larni
Finland
FinlandFamous Finnish writer

Jacques Bergier
France
FranceFrench science fiction writer, historian, philosopher, journalist, detective, engineer.

Diana J. Gabaldon
USA
USAAmerican writer, novelist

Hugo Kolontay
Poland
PolandPolish publicist and public figure of the Enlightenment. One of the authors of the Constitution of May 3 (1791).

Freya Stark
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish traveler and writer

Claudio Manuel da Costa
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian poet and patriot

Stanislav Vostokov
Russia
RussiaWriter

Mikael Niemi
Sweden
SwedenSwedish writer

Robert Fergusson
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish poet

Johannes Mario Simmel
Austria
AustriaAustrian writer.

Eugene Guillevic
France
FranceFrench poet, economist

Sei Ito
Japan
JapanJapanese writer, poet, literary critic, translator

Felix Krivin
Israel
IsraelRussian and Israeli writer, poet, prose writer

Yukichi Fukuzawa
Japan
JapanJapanese writer, translator and philosopher

Jean Chapelain
France
FranceFrench poet and literary critic of the 17th century.

Malcolm Bradbury
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer, academic, critic, Booker Prize winner, literary teacher Kazuo Ishiguro.

Shalkiiz Tlenshi-Uly
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanPoet

Gomer
Greece
GreeceAncient Greek poet

Laozi
China
ChinaPhilosopher

Tonino Benakvista
France
FranceFrench novelist and screenwriter.

Luiza Sharly-Labe
France
Francepoetess

Sei Shonagon
Japan
JapanWriter

Dorothy James
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer, author of popular detective stories.

Juliy Burkin
Russia
RussiaRussian writer, poet and rock musician, author and performer of songs

James Branch Cabell
USA
USAAmerican writer

Fletcher Pratt
USA
USAAmerican writer

Robert Frost
USA
USAAmerican poet, who during his lifetime became a classic and patriarch of American poetry

Quintus Ennius
Italy
ItalyAncient Roman poet

Samuel Youd
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish science fiction writer of the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries.

Elbert Hubbard
USA
USAAmerican writer, publisher, artist and philosopher

Wonder Woman
USA
USASuperheroine, comic book character from DC Comics.

Albert Knapp
Germany
GermanyGerman poet