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

George Maurier
France
FranceEnglish writer, cartoonist

Liane Moriarty
Australia
AustraliaAustralian bestselling author

Oleg Avramenko
Ukraine
UkraineRussian and Ukrainian science fiction writer.

Alistair Maclean
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish writer, author of adventure novels. His first novel, HMS Ulysses (1955), is about his wartime experiences.

Saadi
Iran
IranPersian thinker and writer

Tatiana Galushko
Russia
RussiaPoetess

Ivan Blatny
Czech poet, novelist

Alexandre Andre Jacob
France
FranceFrench publicist

Will Cuppy
USA
USAAmerican satirist and literary critic

Carl Spitteler
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss poet, essayist, classical novelist; Nobel Prize laureate in Literature in 1919

Robert Kurtz
Germany
GermanyRadical publicist and journalist

Hans Grimmelshausen
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

John Coetzee
South Africa
South AfricaSouth African writer, poet and essayist

Andre Alice Norton
USA
USAAmerican science fiction writer

Edgar Doctorow
USA
USAAmerican novelist

Valerius Maximus
Italy
ItalyRoman writer

Aleksey Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff
USA
USAPoet, writer and scientist

Luigi Pirandello
Italy
ItalyItalian writer and playwright, Nobel laureate 1934

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

Reuben Brainin
Austria
AustriaJewish publicist, biographer, literary critic, Zionist activist

Jerzy Andrzejewski
Poland
PolandPolish writer

Mary Braddon
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

David Huggins
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish novelist, illustrator

Guy Uliy Orlovskiy
Ukraine
UkraineScience fiction writer

Andrew Motion
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish poet, short story writer and biographer

Fekla Bezubova
Erzya folk storyteller.

Susan Isaacs
USA
USAAmerican writer and screenwriter.

Namik Kemal
Turkey
TurkeyTurkish poet, journalist, novelist, translator and public figure

Radoje Domanovic
Serbia
SerbiaSerbian satirical writer

Peter Viertel
Spain
SpainNovelist and screenwriter

Henrih Borovik
Russia
RussiaPublicist

Nikolay Vingranovskiy
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet Ukrainian writer of the sixties, film director, actor, screenwriter and poet.

Philippe Gille
France
FranceFrench publicist and playwright.

Christina Crawford
USA
USAAmerican writer and actress

Julien Gracq
France
FranceOne of the most famous contemporary French writers

Evgeniy Horvath
Germany
GermanyRussian poet, then German artist

Gertrude Stein
USA
USAAmerican writer.

Bogdan Chorazuk
Poland
PolandPolish poet, lyricist.

Tsal Melamed
Latvia
LatviaLatvian Soviet satirist writer

Yiliam Yeats
Ireland
IrelandIrish poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1923

Thomas Mayne Reid
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Honore De Balzac
France
FranceFrench writer

Phyllis Dorothy James
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Fransisko Brines
Spain
SpainSpanish poet

Habriela Mistral
Chile
ChileChilean poetess, Nobel laureate 1945.

Libby Rees
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Clive Barker
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish horror writer

Iosif Baltsan
Moldova
MoldovaMoldavian Soviet poet.

Natsuo Kirino
Japan
JapanContemporary Japanese writer.

Olga Kobylianskaya
Ukrainian writer.