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

Andrey Kyrkov
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, teacher, filmmaker.

Valeria Gerasimova
Russian Soviet writer

Victoria Platova
Russia
RussiaWriter, author of detective novels

Juhani Aho
Finland
FinlandFinnish writer, journalist, translator

Novella Matveeva
Russia
RussiaPoetess

Eliza Cook
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poetess

Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Poland
PolandPolish writer, poet, playwright, translator

Juliusz Slowacki
Poland
PolandAn outstanding romantic poet

Daniel Kehlmann
Germany
GermanyAustrian and German writer

Sarah Morgan
USA
USAAmerican writer

Petr Zamoiskiy
Writer

Feodosiy Osmachka
USA
USAUkrainian writer, prose writer, poet, translator.

Ulas Samchuk
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, journalist and publicist.

Friedrich Wilhelm Carove
Germany
GermanyGerman publicist, lawyer and philosopher, student of Hegel.

Rafik Shami
Syria
SyriaSyrian and German writer.

Alexey Andriyshev
Ukraine
UkrainePublicist, philanthropist, public figure, beekeeper and teacher

Carl Barth
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss theologian and writer, one of the founders of dialectical theology, the manifesto of which was Barth's essay on the letter of the Apostle Paul to the Romans.

Brunonia Barry
USA
USAAmerican writer, speaker, businesswoman

Russell Baker
USA
USAAmerican writer and journalist

George Meredith
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, poet

Abdulla Avloni
Uzbek writer who wrote for children, playwright, educator and teacher

Sergey Borodin
Russian Soviet prose writer

Andrey Lupan
Moldova
MoldovaMoldavian Soviet writer

Virginia Brown
USA
USAWriter of women's novels

Domingos Caldas Barbosa
Brazil
BrazilBrazilian poet.

Elza Triolet
France
FranceWriter

Nick Hornby
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer, novelist

Mikhail Bubennov
Russian Soviet prose writer

David Baldacci
USA
USAAmerican crime writer

Algis Budrys
USA
USAAmerican science fiction writer, literary critic and editor.

Kim Newman
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, film critic and journalist

Olga Tarasevich
Belarus
BelarusWriter

Eric Rassel
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish science fiction writer, master of the short ironic story.

Osip Senkovsky
Lithuania
LithuaniaRussian writer, orientalist

Gavriil Kovachevich
Serbia
SerbiaSerbian writer

Serge Golon
France
FranceFrench geochemist, writer, artist

Ingeborg Bachmann
Austria
AustriaAustrian writer.

Irwin Shaw
USA
USAAmerican writer and screenwriter. His first novel, The Young Lions, brought him fame.

Pearl Buck
USA
USAAmerican writer, Nobel laureate 1938. A few months after the birth of their daughter, her missionary parents returned to China, where the writer lived until 1933.

Hans Vilhelm Kaalund
Denmark
DenmarkDanish lyricist

Vladimir Anikeev
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian bibliographer and literary scholar of science fiction

Erik Dammann
Norway
NorwayNorwegian writer, anti-globalist and environmentalist

Virginia Woolf
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Ales Bachilo
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian Soviet poet, Honored Cultural Figure of the BSSR

Leonardo Sciascia
Italy
ItalyItalian writer and public figure

Molla Panah Vagif
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani poet

Kage Baker
USA
USAAmerican writer.

Danilo Kish
Yugoslav poet, prose writer, playwright, translator of Russian, French and Hungarian literature.

Elaine Cunningham
USA
USAAmerican fantasy and science fiction writer

Cheslav Milosh
Poland
PolandPolish-American poet of Lithuanian origin, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1980.