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

Barbara Cartlend
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Giacomo Leopardi
Italy
ItalyItalian poet

Sarah Dessen
USA
USAAmerican writer

Artur Nils Lundkvist
Sweden
SwedenSwedish poet, novelist and essayist

Seamus Heaney
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1995

John Silver
Fictional character

Charles Baudelaire
France
FranceFrench poet, creator of the sensational book 'Flowers of Evil'

Seamus Deane
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet, novelist, critic, literary scholar, essayist

John Boynton Priestley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish novelist, essayist, playwright and theatre director.

Katerina Gogou
Greece
GreeceGreek anarcho-feminist, poet and theater and film actress

Edward Fitzgerald
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, poet, first translator of Omar Khayyam

Yves Bonnefoy
France
FranceFrench poet, prose writer, essayist, translator.

Vladimir Korotkevich
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer, poet, creator of the Belarusian historical novel

Luis Carlos Montalvan
USA
USAAmerican writer, former military man

Edward Crowley Aleister
Great Britain
Great BritainWriter, author of occult works

Lyubov Krichevskaya
Poetess and writer

Mihail Protopopov
Russia
RussiaA talented critic

Leonid Plyush
France
FranceMathematician, publicist

Ivan Vagilevich
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, historian of Ukrainian literature, writer, priest

Egerton Castle
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and historian.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
France
FranceWriter

Vyacheslav Bakulin
Science fiction writer

Ewald August Konig
Germany
GermanyGerman novelist

David Grossman
Israel
IsraelWriter

Johan Wessel
Norway
NorwayDanish and Norwegian poet

Derenik Demirchian
Writer

Andrea Levy
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Laurell Hamilton
USA
USAAmerican writer of horror stories with elements of fantasy and erotica.

Pavel Vezhinov
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian writer and playwright.

Valeriy Levenko
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet and Ukrainian Russian-speaking poet, journalist, publicist

John Passos
USA
USAAmerican writer

Antoine Eugene Genoud
France
FranceFrench publicist.

Evgeniy Kumichich
Croatia
CroatiaAn outstanding Croatian writer.

Kostas Korsakas
Lithuania
LithuaniaLithuanian Soviet poet, critic, literary critic and public figure.

Natalka Belotserkovets
Ukraine
UkrainePoetess, author of several poetry collections.

Ivan Olbracht
Czech
CzechCzech writer, publicist, journalist

Kazushi Hosaka
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

Alexander Abasheli
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian poet and science fiction writer. Author of the first Georgian science fiction novel (1932).

Alexander Dobrolubov
Russia
RussiaPoet

Nikolay Vorobyov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet.

Pol Verlaine
France
FranceFrench symbolist poet

Alina Vituhnovskaya
Russia
RussiaRussian poetess.

Vasiliy Antonov
Writer, translator

Michael Gear
USA
USAWriter, archaeologist

Catherine Crowe
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer.

Jojo Moyes
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer and journalist

Fazıl Husnu Daglarca
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish poet

Hideyuki Kikuchi
Japan
JapanA Japanese writer known for his novels

Fridrih Durrenmantt
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss writer

Kirsha Danilov
The alleged compiler of the first collection of Russian epics, historical, lyrical songs, and spiritual poems