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

Marissa Meyer
USA
USAAmerican novelist

Viktor Kastner
Germany
GermanyGerman poet.

Natalia Snyadenko
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer, journalist and translator

Francoise Sagan
France
FranceWriter

Hermann Sudermann
Germany
GermanyGerman writer and playwright.

Dmitriy Rus
Ukraine
UkraineWriter

Petr Citovich
Ukraine
UkraineWriter

August Schlegel
Germany
GermanyGerman critic, translator, scientist and poet.

Nina Rojdestvenskaya
Russia
RussiaWriter.

Stanislaw Witkiewicz
Poland
PolandPolish writer, artist and philosopher

Tadeusz Gajcy
Poland
PolandPolish poet, the second poet of his doomed generation after Baczyński.

Jaroslav Hasek
Czech writer, father of the good soldier Švejk

Ilmari Kianto
Finland
FinlandFinnish writer and poet.

Elizabeth Gilbert
USA
USAAmerican writer

Audrey Niffenegger
USA
USAAmerican writer, artist and academic

Henriette Roland Holst
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch poet, writer and politician

Dmitry Kapranov
Ukraine
UkraineWriter, publicist

Alexey Gedeonov
Ukraine
UkraineWriter

Richelle Mead
USA
USAAmerican writer working in the genres of horror, fantasy, and mysticism

Mark Bunny
Israel
IsraelIsraeli writer

Stefan Zizany
Ukraine
UkraineWestern Russian Orthodox writer and polemicist

Amir Gutfroid
Israel
IsraelIsraeli novelist

Cory Doctorow
Canada
CanadaCanadian science fiction writer, journalist, blogger, philosopher

Amir Khusrau
India
IndiaIndian and Tajik-Persian poet, scholar, musician

Evgeniy Veltistov
Soviet children's writer, science fiction writer, journalist and screenwriter

Jull Goncourt
France
FranceFrench writer, one of the Goncourt brothers

Valentina Kyalundzyuga
USA
USAUdege writer, public figure, storyteller

Emil Zola
France
FranceFrench writer, a prominent representative of naturalism in literature

Jusipbek Aymautov
A multi-genre writer, the founder of drama and novel in the Kazakh language

Mark Lanskoy
Russian Soviet writer

Henrik Pontoppidan
Denmark
DenmarkDanish novelist

Edouard D'Anglemont
France
FranceFrench poet of the 19th century

Alec Hope
Australia
AustraliaAustralian satirical poet

Gyorgy Dalos
Hungary
HungaryHungarian writer who writes in Hungarian and German.

Guido Casoni
Italy
ItalyItalian poet, writer and lawyer, polymath

Ekaterina Gabashvili
Georgia
GeorgiaWriter

Efim Levit
Moldova
MoldovaMoldavian literary critic, literary historian.

James Patrick Donleavy
Ireland
IrelandWriter

Tom Arden
Australia
AustraliaScience fiction writer

Andrey Dmitruk
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet and Ukrainian screenwriter, science fiction writer

Juan Goytisolo
Spain
SpainSpanish writer.

Klaus Ebner
Austria
AustriaAustrian writer.

Thomas Cooper
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish Chartist poet

Andre Breton
France
FranceFrench poet, one of the founders of surrealism

Semen Altov
Russia
RussiaRussian satirical writer.

Ernst Weis
France
FranceGerman-speaking Austrian writer and doctor of the Jewish faith.

Vojislav Ilic
Serbia
SerbiaSerbian poet, critic and publicist

Artem Czech
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian writer.

Konstantin Arabazhin
Russian and Ukrainian literary scholar, journalist, writer

Zoya Boguslavskaya
Russia
RussiaWriter