Prose
Discover a comprehensive list of renowned authors and prose writers, including their notable works, biographies, and contributions to the literary world. Explore the lives and legacies of influential figures in the realm of prose.

Claude Simon
France
FranceFrench novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature 1985

Raymond Queneau
France
FranceFrench writer, poet, essayist, translator

Anthony Houp
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer.

Eduard Hodos
Ukraine
UkraineWriter and publicist, Ukrainian public figure

Larry Johnson
USA
USAAmerican writer

Jeff Grubb
USA
USAWriter and game designer

Ngaio Marsh
New Zealand
New ZealandNew Zealand crime writer and theatre figure.

Fletcher Pratt
USA
USAAmerican writer

Ryszard Kapuscinski
Poland
PolandPolish writer and journalist

Barrington John Bayley
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish science fiction writer.

Patrick Suskind
Germany
GermanyGerman writer and screenwriter

Leo Seckendorff
Germany
GermanyGerman poet.

Joan Delano Aiken
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish novelist

Joyce Dunbar
Great Britain
Great BritainChildren's writer who tried to sue surgeon after surgery to remove 'bump' on finger

Charles Caleb Colton
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, priest and art collector

Alain Kervern
France
FranceFrench poet

Svetlana Aleksievich
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer

Ragim Alhas
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani poet and publicist

Sibilla Aleramo
Italy
ItalyItalian writer and feminist

Karel Hloucha
Czech writer, pioneer of Czech science fiction

Joshua Sundquist
USA
USAParalympic skier, writer, motivator

Kandzy Miyadzava
Japan
JapanJapanese writer

E.D. Miller
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Jaroslaw Grzedowicz
Poland
PolandPolish science fiction writer, journalist, literary critic, publisher and translator

Roman Kim
Russian Soviet writer, author of popular spy novels

Aleksis Kivi
Finland
FinlandFinnish writer, founder of realistic literature in Finnish.

Countess of Segur
France
FranceFrench writer of Russian origin

George Maurier
France
FranceEnglish writer, cartoonist

Sheridan Le Fanu
Ireland
IrelandIrish writer

Natsuo Kirino
Japan
JapanContemporary Japanese writer.

Honore De Balzac
France
FranceFrench writer

Michael Connelly
USA
USAPopular detective writer

Paul Kalanithi
USA
USAA neurologist who later became a patient

Joseph Konrad
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Valeriy Gitin
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian and Russian writer, psychologist

Ephraim Bauch
Israel
IsraelMoldovan and Israeli Russian writer, poet, translator, journalist

Victoria Benedictsson
Sweden
SwedenSwedish writer

Samuel Hopkins Adams
USA
USANorth American writer, publicist

Truman Capote
USA
USAAmerican novelist.

Elie Wiesel
Romania
RomaniaJewish novelist, journalist and teacher, Nobel Peace Prize, 1986

Robert Louis Stevenson
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer ('Treasure Island')

Robert de Montesquiou
France
FranceFrench writer, collector, bibliophile and patron of the arts

Alexey Nagi
Soviet prose writer of Austro-Hungarian origin.

Meena Kandasamy
India
IndiaIndian poet, writer, translator and activist

Eugen Jager
Germany
GermanyGerman publicist and economist

George Eliot
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Alexander Zavgorodny
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian poet and translator from Estonian.

Avetik Isahakyan
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian Soviet poet, prose writer, publicist.

Ramesh S. Balsekar
India
IndiaSpiritual successor of Nisargadatta Maharaj, who received direct transmission from him

Ricciotto Canudo
Italy
ItalyItalian and French writer, essayist, musicologist, critic