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

Sava Damyanov
Serbia
SerbiaSerbian writer, literary critic and literary scholar

Gennadiy Katzov
Ukraine
UkraineRussian poet, writer, journalist

Giovanni Battista Casti
Italy
ItalyItalian poet.

Olexa Desnyak
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian Soviet writer

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
Argentina
ArgentinaArgentine and Italian writer

Ivan Korsak
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian journalist and author of historical novels.

Omelian Ogonovskiy
Ukraine
UkraineWriter

Radmilo Andelkovic
Serbia
SerbiaSerbian and Yugoslav science fiction writer

Vadim Gardner
USA
USARussian poet

Kozma Jerusalem
Byzantine church poet of the 8th century.

Friedrich Bodenstedt
Germany
GermanyA German writer and renowned translator who made a significant contribution to introducing the German reader, in particular, to Russian literature.

Heinrich Anacker
Switzerland
SwitzerlandGerman writer and poet

Tamas Aczel
Hungary
HungaryHungarian writer, journalist

Haim Guri
Israel
IsraelIsraeli poet, novelist, journalist and film director

Leonid Suhorukov
Great Britain
Great BritainAphorism Man

Vaisanen Vaisanen
Finland
FinlandFinnish writer, novelist

Richard Aldington
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and poet

Robertson Davies
Canada
CanadaCanadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist.

E.D. Miller
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Shusaku Endo
Japan
JapanOutstanding Japanese writer, prominent representative of the “third new”, novelist

Ken Follett
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Shelly Thacker Meynhardt
USA
USAWriter

Leigh Brackett
USA
USAAmerican writer and screenwriter

Yulia Shilova
Russia
RussiaWriter

Adolf Digasinskiy
Poland
PolandPolish writer, publicist, teacher; one of the founders of Polish naturalism and its largest representative.

Iain Banks
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish writer

Robert Berns
Great Britain
Great BritainPoet

Giuseppe Carle
Italy
ItalyItalian publicist

Uno Laht
Estonia
EstoniaEstonian poet, prose writer and publicist

Carlos Castaneda
USA
USAWriter, founder of the company 'Cleargreen'

Josephine von Knorr
Austria
AustriaAustrian poet and translator

Maurice Blanchot
France
FranceFrench writer, thinker and essayist.

Pieter Frans van Kerckhoven
Belgium
BelgiumFlemish writer

Joshua Sundquist
USA
USAParalympic skier, writer, motivator

Pierre Vidal-Naquet
France
FranceFrench historian and publicist.

Petre Ispirescu
Romania
RomaniaRomanian writer and collector of folk tales

Sakyo Komatsu
Japan
JapanJapanese science fiction writer

Menander
Greece
GreeceAn ancient Greek comedy writer, the greatest master of Neo-Attic comedy.

Naomi Wolf
USA
USAAmerican writer, journalist, former political adviser to Al Gore and Bill Clinton

Majgull Axelsson
Sweden
SwedenSwedish writer and journalist.

Jakob Wassermann
Germany
GermanyGerman writer and short story writer

Buhar-Jerao Kalkaman-Uli
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanPoet

Horace
Italy
ItalyAncient Roman poet of the "golden age" of Roman literature

Thomas Hansen Kingo
Denmark
DenmarkBishop and Danish lyric poet

Charles Brown
USA
USAThe first important American novelist.

Angelo Poliziano
Italy
ItalyPoet, humanist, court poet, friend of Lorenzo de' Medici, teacher of his sons.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Ireland
IrelandIrish writer, author of Gothic prose

Robert Creeley
USA
USAAmerican poet and writer.

Etheridge Knight
USA
USAAfrican American poet

Guillaume Apollinaire
France
FranceFrench writer