Literature
Explore the world of renowned authors, poets, and literary icons. Discover the lives and works of celebrated figures from Shakespeare to Maya Angelou. Get insights into their inspiration, themes, and impact on the literary landscape.

Edward Lear
Great Britain
Great BritainPoet

Anastasiya Afanasyeva
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet

Jacques Dupin
France
FranceFrench poet, art critic

Witold Wirpsza
Poland
PolandPolish poet, essayist, translator.

Charles Perrault
France
FranceFrench poet, critic, storyteller, creator of the images of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Thumb, Puss in Boots... He was a lawyer in Paris, served in the fiscal (tax) department.

Adrienne Cecile Rich
USA
USAAmerican poet, essayist

Anna Gavalda
France
FranceWriter

Yankev Groper
Israel
IsraelJewish poet

Christian Combaz
France
FranceFrench writer.

Nelli Gutina
Israel
IsraelIsraeli publicist who writes in Russian.

Musine Kokalari
Albania
AlbaniaAlbanian writer and political activist

Edward Kuznetsov
Israel
IsraelIsraeli public figure, writer, journalist

Irina Bezladnova
USA
USAPublicist and radio show host, as well as the author of the song 'You are no more beautiful'

Walter Scott
Great Britain
Great Britainwriter, poet, biographer, master of the historical novel

Ded Moroz
Operator
OperatorMaster of winter affairs

Vazha-Pshavela
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian writer and poet of the 19th century

Paulo Coelho
Brazil
BrazilWriter

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

Iuriy Vlasov
Ukraine
UkraineWriter

Robert Calvert
Great Britain
Great BritainPoet, writer, songwriter and vocalist

William Faulkner
USA
USAAmerican writer - master of Yoknapatawpha, Nobel laureate in literature 1949.

Gioconda Belli
Nicaragua
NicaraguaNicaraguan writer

Manuel Maria Barbosa Bocage
Portugal
PortugalPortuguese poet

Jacob Jan Cremer
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch short story writer, was a painter.

Gordon Dickson
Canada
CanadaAmerican science fiction writer.

Max Kalbeck
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, musicologist, music critic

Mirza-Fatali Ahundov
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani writer

Mery Clarke
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Vladimir Weidle
Literary scholar, cultural scientist, liberal thinker, cultural historian, poet

Jeffrey Eugenides
USA
USAAmerican writer

Judith Krantz
USA
USAAmerican writer

Raymond Queneau
France
FranceFrench writer, poet, essayist, translator

Christopher Smart
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet

Sibilla Aleramo
Italy
ItalyItalian writer and feminist

Tomas Iriarte
Spain
SpainSpanish poet and fabulist, nephew of Juan Iriarte

Baba Taher
One of the early representatives of Persian poetry, a mystic. Much of his biography remains unclear.

Christian Kracht
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss writer and journalist

Brian Aldiss
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and anthology editor, best known for his science fiction novels and short stories.

Eugenie John
Germany
GermanyGerman novelist

Antonio Caccianiga
Italy
ItalyItalian writer.

Robert Browning
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, introduced the genre of confessional monologue into English poetry

Robert Walser
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss poet and prose writer, wrote in German.

Djuna Barnes
USA
USAAmerican writer

Maria Konopitskaya
Poland
PolandPolish writer, author of ballads, songs related to national folklore

Maarten Biesheuvel
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch writer

Mariano Antonio Capra
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

Jose Maria da Costa e Silva
Portugal
PortugalPortuguese poet and literary critic

Sigitas Geda
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, translator.

Shirley Conran
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Pierre Boulle
France
FranceFrench writer.