Prose
Prose: biographies of writers, poets and literary figures, their major works, creative ideas and influence on literature and culture.

Mohammed Dib
Algeria
AlgeriaAlgerian writer

Jhumpa Lahiri
USA
USAIndian American writer

Lev Schultz
France
FranceRussian and French artist, jeweler, inventor, philosopher and publicist.

Ales Garun
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian poet, writer, publicist

Timothy Kask
USA
USAAmerican writer and editor, especially famous among fans of role-playing games.

Halldour Laxness
Iceland
IcelandIcelandic writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955

Gylman Ilkin
Azerbaijan
AzerbaijanAzerbaijani Soviet writer, People's Writer of Azerbaijan

Guntis Berelis
Latvia
LatviaLatvian writer

Evgeniy Kokovin
Soviet children's writer, author of the famous story "Childhood in Solombala"

Ivan Antun Kaznacic
Dalmatian patriotic poet

Pierre Boulle
France
FranceFrench writer.

David L. Robbins
USA
USAAmerican writer

Ida Pollock
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish writer

Carl Gustav Jochmann
Germany
GermanyGerman publicist

Lawrence Durrell
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer and poet

Emmanuelle Arsan
France
FranceFrench writer

Friedrich Klinger
Germany
GermanyGerman writer

Wilhelm von Scholtz
Germany
GermanyGerman poet, writer

Jose Bergamin
Spain
SpainSpanish poet, novelist, playwright, political journalist, thinker and essayist

Katharine Susannah Prichard
Austria
AustriaAustralian writer

Georgette Heyer
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Mary Godwin
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Anatoliy Dneprov
Soviet science fiction writer

Robert Silverberg
USA
USAAmerican science fiction writer

Heinrich Bellamann
USA
USAAmerican writer, poet and music educator

Andrey Korobeyshikov
Russia
RussiaRussian writer, businessman, researcher of the shamanic culture of Siberia and the Altai Mountains.

Toni Morrison
USA
USAAmerican Women Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993

Boris Zelensky
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian and Russian science fiction writer and translator.

Susan Kyle
USA
USAAmerican writer

Louis Adamic
USA
USAAmerican writer and translator of Slovenian origin.

Ghassan Kanafani
Palestinian writer and political activist

Henke Shirl
USA
USAWriter of women's novels

Gavin Lyall
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer of crime and spy novels

Mika Toimi Waltari
Finland
FinlandAn outstanding Finnish writer

Oded Burla
Israel
IsraelIsraeli writer

Anatoliy Gujel
Moldova
MoldovaMoldavian poet, publicist.

James Chase
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish detective writer

Svetlana Martynchik
Ukraine
UkraineRussian-speaking writer and artist

Zeev Bar-Cella
Israel
IsraelIsraeli literary scholar, publicist and journalist

Amos Oz
Israel
IsraelIsraeli writer

Peter Krasztev
Hungary
HungaryHungarian ethnographer, literary scholar and publicist of Bulgarian origin.

Muriel Spark
Great Britain
Great BritainClassic of world prose of the second half of the 20th century

Ibrahim Al-kuni
Libya
LibyaContemporary Arabic-language Libyan novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist

Elisa Orzeszkowa
Poland
PolandPolish writer

Max Gladstone
USA
USAAmerican writer, science fiction writer

Saul Itskovich
Russian Moldavian writer, poet, journalist, local historian

Eduard Hodos
Ukraine
UkraineWriter and publicist, Ukrainian public figure

Jan Brzechwa
Poland
PolandThe pseudonym “Brzechwa” means “joker”, “chatterbox”.

John Barth
USA
USAWriter, author of the novel "Chimera"

Max Brod
A writer born in the Czech Republic, then part of Austria-Hungary, who wrote in German.