Literature
Explore the world of renowned authors, poets, and literary icons. Discover the lives and works of celebrated figures from Shakespeare to Maya Angelou. Get insights into their inspiration, themes, and impact on the literary landscape.
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Tristan Corbiere
 FranceFrench symbolist poet, representative of the group of "damned poets".
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Rakhimjan Ataev
 UzbekistanWriter of Uzbekistan
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David Gerrold
 USAAmerican writer, science fiction writer
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K. Bertini
 IsraelIsraeli poet, publicist and translator
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Michael Ondaatje
 CanadaCanadian writer and poet
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David Baldacci
USA American crime writer
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Ejvind Jonson
 SwedenSwedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1974
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Luc Plamondon
Canada Famous French-speaking librettist and author of song lyrics.
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William John Courthope
 Great BritainEnglish writer, biographer and literary historian.
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Edward Forster
Great Britain English writer.
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Gustav Karpeles
 GermanyGerman publicist and literary historian.
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Eleonora Hummel
Germany German writer and novelist
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Lev Gumilevsky
Russian Soviet prose writer and editor
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Jordje Balashevich
 Bosnia and HerzegovinaOutstanding Serbian songwriter and singer.
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Rene Louis de Girardin
France French military man and publicist.
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Gerhard Knoop
Germany German novelist.
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Cirano de Bergerac (Savinien)
France French writer
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Konrad Bussov
Sweden Writer about Russia
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Irakliy Abashidze
 GeorgiaGeorgian poet.
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Leonid Glebov
 UkraineUkrainian writer, poet, publisher
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Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
Great Britain English poetess
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Francis Wey
France French writer and art critic
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Sergey Bulyga
 BelarusBelarusian writer and screenwriter
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Charles Marie Zevort
France French writer and statesman in the field of public education.
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George Topyrchanu
 RomaniaRomanian poet, prose writer, memoirist and publicist, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy since 1936.
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Louis Antoine Caraccioli
France French writer, member of the Oratorian Congregation.
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Israel Zangwill
Great Britain English writer and Jewish activist
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Honore De Balzac
France French writer
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Alexander Kozmesku
 MoldovaMoldovan prose writer, playwright and translator.
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Henry Kingsley
Great Britain English novelist
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Ludovic Halevy
France Playwright and novelist.
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Jorge Barbosa
Poet and writer from Cape Verde.
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Anais Nin
France American and French writer, known for her erotic novels and the diary she kept for over 60 years.
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Richard Jefferies
Great Britain English writer, essayist
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Cabi
 IndiaPoets of Medieval India
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Valentina Dmitrieva
 RussiaFamous writer
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Aristofan
 GreeceAncient Greek playwright, the founder of the entire trend of comic poetry in world literature, `father of comedy
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George William Curtis
USA North American writer
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Ignaz Kuranda
 AustriaAustrian publicist and parliamentarian
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germany German poet, novelist and playwright
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Yuliy Daniel
Writer
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Yohan Runeberg
 FinlandFinnish poet who wrote poems of national romantic content in Swedish.
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Ferdinand Brunetiere
France French writer, historian, literary theorist, critic.
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Oles Gonchar
Ukraine Ukrainian writer
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Karol Irzykowski
 PolandPolish literary critic, film critic, poet, writer, playwright, film theorist, translator, chess player
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Sandor Marai
 HungaryHungarian writer
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Marcel Jouhandeau
France French modernist novelist, essayist, playwright
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Harriette Arnow
USA American writer
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Maxim Zhbankov
Belarus Belarusian culturologist, film analyst, journalist.
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Andre Breton
France French poet, one of the founders of surrealism
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