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German literature
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Canadian literature,
List of Canadian writers
- Eduardo Paz-Martinez, "Inside The Volcano" (2001)
- Ranj Dhaliwal, author of Daaku
- Margaret Atwood, (1939– ), author of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)
- Pierre Berton, (1920–2004 )
- Marie-Claire Blais, (1939– )
- Morley Callaghan, (1903–1990) author of Strange Fugitive (1928)
- Deborah Joy Corey, (1958– ) winner Books in Canada First Novel Award
- Robertson Davies, (1913–1995), author of Fifth Business
- Réjean Ducharme
- Louis Emond
- Timothy Findley (1930–2002) (See also France)
- Gayleen Froese
- Donald Jack,
- Hugh MacLennan,
- Margaret Laurence,
- Stephen Leacock
- Yann Martel, author of "Life of Pi", 2002 Booker Prize
- Rohinton Mistry, (1952– )
- Lucy Maude Montgomery, (1874–1942)
- Susanna Moodie, (1803–1885)
- Farley Mowat
- Alice Munro, (1931– )
- Michael Ondaatje, (1943– ), author of The English Patient (1993)
- Mordecai Richler, (1931–2001), author of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959)
- Gabrielle Roy, (1909–1983)
- Margaret Marshall Saunders, (1861–1947)
- Carol Shields, (1935–2003)
- Catharine Parr Traill, (1802–1899)
- Roland Michel Tremblay, (1972– )
- Jane Urquhart, (1949– )
- Allende, Isabel
- Calderón, Teresa
- Coloane, Francisco
- Donoso, José
- Guelfenbein, Carla
- Gumucio, Manuela
- Maturana, Andrea
- Queirolo B., Jorge
- Rojas, Manuel
- Sepúlveda, Luis
- Serrano, Marcela
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Chinese literature
- Ang Li
- Cao Xueqin, (circa 1715–1763), author of Dream of the Red Chamber
- Dai Sijie, author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Gao Xingjian, exile and Nobel laureate
- Han Shaogong, (born 1953)
- Lao She, (1899–1966), author of Si Shi Tong Tang
- Li Yu
- Lu Xun, (1881–1936), author of The True Story of Ah Q and first modernist writer in China
- Mao Dun, (1896–1981), author of Zi Ye
- Mo Yan, author of Red Sorghum
- Qian Zhongshu, (1910–1998), author of Wei Cheng
- Wang Shuo
- Wei Jingsheng, democracy activist and political prisoner
- Zhang Ailing, (1920–1995), female romantic story writer
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Croatian literature
See also:
Literature of the Czech Republic
- Karel Čapek, (1890–1938) inventor of the word robot, moralist, ironist, Czech patriot
- Jaroslav Hašek, (1883–1923), author of The Good Soldier Svejk
- Bohumil Hrabal, (1914–1997), author of Closely Watched Trains, died trying to feed pigeons.
- Milan Kundera, (born 1929) author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
- Jaroslav Seifert (1901–1986), (Nobel Prize for Literature) (1984)
See also:
List of Danish authors
- Jüri Ehlvest, (1967– )
- Kaur Kender, (1971– )
- Heiti Kender, (1973– )
- Albert Kivikas, (1898–1978)
- Kadri Kõusaar, (1980– )
- Jaan Kross, (1920– )
- Juhan Liiv (1864–1913)
- Tõnu Õnnepalu, (aka Emil Tode, 1962– )
- Lilli Promet, (1922–2007)
- Karl Ristikivi, (1912–1977)
- Anton Hansen Tammsaare, (1878–1940)
- Heiki Vilep, (1960– )
- Juhani Aho, (1861–1921)
- Tove Jansson, (1914–2001), she wrote in Swedish
- Aino Kallas, (1878–1956), female
- Aleksis Kivi, (1834–1872)
- Väinö Linna, (1920–1992)
- Arto Paasilinna
- Kalle Päätalo, (1919–2000)
- Frans Emil Sillanpää, (1888–1964), (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1939)
- Mika Waltari, (1908–1979)
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French literature,
List of French novelists
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German literature
- Heinrich Böll, (1917–1985)
- Alfred Döblin, (1878–1957), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749–1832), polymath.
- Günter Grass, (1927– ), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)
- Hermann Hesse, (1877–1962), author of The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
- Daniel Kehlmann, (1975 –)
- Heinrich von Kleist, (1777–1811)
- Siegfried Lenz, (1926– )
- Thomas Mann, (1875–1955)
- Erich Maria Remarque, (1898–1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Sten Nadolny, (born 1942), author of The Discovery of Slowness
- Patrick Süskind (1949– ), author of Perfume
See also:
Indian literature
- Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar', Hindi
- Vikram Chandra, English
- Upamanyu Chatterjee, (born 1959), English
- Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838–1894), Bengali also wrote ‘Vande Mataram?
- Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876–1938), Bengali
- Amit Chaudhuri, (born 1962), English
- Ramavriksha Benipuri, Hindi
- David Davidar
- Anita Desai, English
- Kiran Desai, English
- P. L. Deshpande (1919–2000) Marathi
- Eunice De Souza (born 1940), English
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tibetan, Sanskrit.
- Sunil Gangopadhyay, Bengali
- Amitav Ghosh, English
- Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1912) Bengali
- Raj Kamal Jha, English
- Datta Raghunath Kavthekar (1901–1979) Marathi
- Amita Kanekar, author of A Spoke in the Wheel
- Prakash Kona
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Kiran Nagarkar (born 1942) Marathi & English
- Bhalchandra Nemade (born 1938) Marathi
- Kamala Markandaya
- Pankaj Mishra
- Rohinton Mistry, English
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Bengali
- R. K. Narayan, (1906–2001), English
- Surender Mohan Pathak, Hindi
- Moncy Pothen, English
- Munshi Premchand, (1880–1936), Hindi
- Raja Rao
- Satyajit Ray, Bengali
- Arundhati Roy, English
- Salman Rushdie, (born 1947), English
- Vilas Sarang (born 1942) Marathi & English
- Vikram Seth, author of A Suitable Boy
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali also poet, painter, philosopher & Nobel laureate
- Shashi Tharoor, English
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bengali also educator & social reformer
- Kavisekhara Dr Umar AlishaTelugu Language, written many novel in Telugu. He is a Poet, Freedom Fighter and a Social Reformer.
See:
Irish fiction,
List of Irish novelists
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nobel Prize winner; The Bridal Canopy, Yesteryear
- Aharon Appelfeld, Badenheim 1939
- David Grossman, See Under: Love, The Smile of the Lamb
- Yoram Kaniuk, His Daughter
- Amos Oz, Black Box, My Michael
- Yaakov Shabtai, Past Continuous
- Meir Shalev, The Blue Mountain, Esau
- Avraham B. Yehoshua, A Late Divorce, Mr. Mani
See also:
Italian literature,
List of Italian writers
- Riccardo Bacchelli
- Alessandro Baricco
- Giorgio Bassani
- Stefano Benni, journalist, poet, novelist, Terra (1985) is most popular work in English
- Alberto Bevilacqua
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Vitaliano Brancati
- Gesualdo Bufalino
- Aldo Busi
- Dino Buzzati, Il deserto dei Tartari (1940)
- Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979)
- Luigi Capuana
- Andrea Camilleri
- Carlo Cassola
- Carlo Collodi
- Carmen Covito
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, revolutionary
- Massimo D'Azeglio
- Dario de Judicibus
- Grazia Deledda
- Giuseppe Dessi
- Umberto Eco
- Carlo Emilio Gadda
- Natalia Ginzburg
- Primo Levi, resistance fighter, chemist and novelist
- Emilio Lussu
- Alessandro Manzoni
- Dacia Maraini
- Franco Mimmi
- Elsa Morante
- Alberto Moravia
- Elina Patanè
- Cesare Pavese
- Luigi Pirandello, playwright, Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Vasco Pratolini
- Andrea di Robilant
- Salvatore Satta
- Alberto Savinio
- Leonardo Sciascia
- Ignazio Silone
- Mario Soldati
- Italo Svevo
- Antonio Tabucchi, Declares Pereira (1994)
- Susanna Tamaro
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
- Giovanni Verga
- Elio Vittorini
See also:
Japanese literature,
List of Japanese authors
- Kobo Abe (1924–1993) The Woman In the Dunes, The Magic Chalk
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, (1892–1927), Rashomon
- Osamu Dazai, (1909–1948), No Longer Human, Melos, Run!
- Fumiko Enchi (1905–1986) A Tale of False Fortunes, The Waiting Years
- Shusaku Endo, (1923–1996) Silence, Deep River
- Shizuko Go
- Kaoru Hayamine, Yumemizu Kiyoshiro mysteries
- Ichiyo Higuchi, (1872–1896) Child's Play, The Thirteenth Night
- Masuji Ibuse, (1898–1993) Black Rain
- Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972) Snow Country, The Izu Dancer (Winner of the Nobel Prize, 1968)
- Yukio Mishima, (1925–1970), The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Confessions of a Mask
- Kenji Miyazawa, (1896–1933) Night Train to the Stars, Matasaburo the Wind Imp
- Ogai Mori, (1862–1922), The Wild Goose, The Dancing Girl
- Haruki Murakami
- Ryu Murakami
- Natsume Sōseki, (1867–1916), Kokoro, I Am a Cat
- Kenzaburo Oe (1935– ) Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, A Personal Matter (Nobel Prize, 1994)
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) Some Prefer Nettles, The Makioka Sisters
- Edogawa Rampo (1894–1965)
- Hisaye Yamamoto]
- Banana Yoshimoto
- Pauls Bankovskis
- Alberts Bels
- Anšlavs Eglītis
- Nora Ikstena
- Andrejs Upīts
- Marģeris Zariņš
- Egils Venters
- Aleksandrs Čaks
- Visvaldis Lāms
- Zigmunds Skujiņš
- Slavko Janevski
- Venko Andonovski
- Sabine Cassar-Alpert (1959– ), author of Angelina's Ghost
- Carl de Souza (1949– )
- Ananda Devi
- Jean Fanchette
- Abhimanyu Unuth
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New Zealand literature
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List of Nigerian writers
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Norwegian literature
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Pakistani literature
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Literature of the Philippines
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Polish literature
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Romanian literature
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Russian literature
- Andrey Bely, (1880–1934)
- Andrey Bitov, (born 1937)
- Mikhail Bulgakov, (1891–1940), author of The Master and Margarita
- Nikolai Chernyshevsky, (1828–1889), author of What Is To Be Done?
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, (1821–1881), author of The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed
- Gaito Gazdanov, (1903-1971)
- Nikolai Gogol, (1809–1852), author of Dead Souls
- Ivan Goncharov, (1812–1891), Oblomov, a tale of a "superfluous" man
- Maxim Gorky, (1868–1936)
- Anna Kashina, author of The Princess of Dhagabad
- Mikhail Lermontov, (1814–1841)
- Leonid Leonov, 1899-1994
- Nikolai Leskov, (1831–1895)
- Vladimir Makanin, (born 1937)
- Vladimir Nabokov, (1899–1977) early novels in Russian, later, including Lolita, in English.
- Boris Pasternak, (1890–1960), refused the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doctor Zhivago
- Aleksandr Pushkin, (1799–1837)
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, (1826–1889)
- Ilia Shtemler, (born 1933)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (1918– ), One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, also historian
- Aleksey K. Tolstoy, (1817–1875)
- Aleksey N. Tolstoy, (1883–1945)
- Leo Tolstoy, (1828–1910)
- Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883)
See:
List of Senegalese writers
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List of South African writers
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List of Korean novelists
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List of Spanish language authors. See:
Spanish Literature
See also:
List of Swedish language writers
- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
- Ahmet Mithat
- Ahmet Rasim
- Ahmet Ümit
- Ayşe Kulin
- Aziz Nesin
- Bilge Karasu, author of "Night", "Garden of Departed Cats", and "Death in Troy"
- Buket Uzuner
- Cem Akaş
- Cemil Meriç
- Elif Şafak
- Ertugrul Oğuz Fırat, author of "Sevicira"
- Fakir Baykurt
- Haldun Taner
- Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil
- Hasan Ali Toptaş
- Mehmed Rauf
- Metin Kaçan
- Oktay Rifat
- Orhan Kemal
- Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize author of "Black Book" and "The White Castle"
- Peyami Safa
- Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem
- Reşat Enis
- Reşat Nuri Güntekin
- Rıfat Ilgaz
- Sabahattin Ali
- Sabri Gürses
- Sadık Yalsızuçanlar
- Selim İleri
- Tarık Buğra
- Yahya Kemal
- Yaşar Kemal, author of "Mehmed, My Hawk"
- Yaşar Nabi Nayır
- Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu
- ''See: List of English novelists
- ''See: List of Scottish novelists
- ''See also: List of Welsh writers
- ''See also: List of Northern Irish writers and List of Irish novelists
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Culture of Uruguay
- Sholom Asch, (1880–1957)
- David Bergelson, (1884–1952)
- Der Nister, (1884–1950)
- Shira Gorshman, (1906 –2001)
- Chaim Grade, (1910–1982)
- Esther Kreitman, (1891–1954)
- Mendele Moykher Sforim, (1836–1917), pseudonym for Sholem Yankev Abramovitch
- Joseph Opatoshu, (1886–1954)
- Yitzok Lebesh Peretz, (1852–1915)
- Sholem Aleichem, (1859–1916) (real name: Solomon Rabinovitz), Fiddler on the Roof was based on his stories
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, (1904–1991)
- Israel Joshua Singer, (1893–1944)
- Anzia Yezierska (c. 1880–1970)
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Mouloud Feraoun (1913–1962) was an Algerian writer born in Tizi Hibel, Kabylie. Some of his books, written in French, have been translated into several languagues including English and German. He was assassinated by the French OAS on March, 1962.
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