Authors

Wole Soyinka

Dramaturgo and Nigerian poet, Nobel winner, known for 'Death and the King's Knight'.

Gabriel Chevallier

French novelist, known for "Locchemerle.".

Henri Charriere

French novelist, known by "Papillon.".

Christa Wolf

German novelist, known as "Cassandra.".

Mikhail Bulgakov

Russian novelist and playwright, known by "The Master and Margarita.".

Herta Muller

Novelist and Romanian-German poet, Nobel winner, known for "The Beast of the Heart.".

Laurie Anderson

American artist and composer, known for his album "Big Science.".

Rosa Montero

Novelist and Spanish journalist, known by 'La hija del cannibal' and his series on the android "Bruna Husky.".

V. S. Naipaul

Novelist and trinitense-British, Nobel winner, known for "A House for Mr. Biswas.".

J. M. Coetzee

South African novelist, Nobel winner, known for "Disgrace.".

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Polish-American writer, Nobel winner, known by "The Wizard of Lublin.".

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Novelist and Moroccan poet, known for "The Holy Night.".

Dino Buzzati

Novelist and Italian journalist, known for "The Tatar Desert.".

Evelyn Waugh

English novelist, known for "Return to Brideshead.".

Maya Angelou

Poetisa and American activist, known for "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.".

Amos Oz

Israeli novelist and essayist, known for "A story of love and darkness.".

Nikos Kazantzakis

Novelist and Greek philosopher, known for "Zorba the Greek.".

Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

Spanish novelist, known by 'The gozos and the shadows'.

Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio

Spanish novelist and essayist, known by 'El Jarama'.

Antonio Muñoz Molina

Spanish novelist, known for 'The Winter in Lisbon'.

Rosalia de Castro

Spanish poet and novelist, known by 'Cantares Gallegos'.

Clara Campoamor

Spanish writer and policy, defender of women's rights.

Emilia Pardo Bazan

Spanish novelist and essayist, known by 'Los pazos de Ulloa'.

Eudora Welty

American writer and photographer, known for "The daughter of the optimist.".

José Hierro

Spanish poet, known for 'How much I know about me'.

Enrique Vila-Matas

Spanish novelist and essayist, known by 'Bartleby and company'.

Jorge Manrique

The 15th century Spanish poet, known by 'Cops for the death of his father'.

Luis Rosales

Spanish Poet, member of the Generation of 36, known by 'The House On'.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Spanish poet, Nobel winner, known by 'Platero y yo'.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

Novelist and Spanish journalist, known by 'Los mares del Sur'.

Damaso Alonso

Poet and Spanish literary critic, member of the Generation of 27.

Tirso de Molina

Dramaturgo and Spanish poet, known by 'El mockador de Sevilla'.

Fernando de Rojas

Spanish Dramaturgo, known by 'La Celestina'.

Heinrich Boll

German novelist, Nobel winner, known for 'Opinions of a clown'.

Ramon María del Valle-Inclan

Spanish novelist and playwright, known by 'Llamas de bohemia'.

Arthur Koestler

Hungarian novelist and essayist - British, known for "The Zero and the Infinite.".

Octavia Butler

American science fiction writer, known for "Parable of the Sower.".

Khaled Hosseini

Afghan-American writer, known for "Comets in the Sky.".

Colson Whitehead

American novelist, known for "The Underground Railway.".

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Hungarian novelist, known by "Satantango.".

Michael Ondaatje

Novelist and Canadian poet, known by "The English Patient.".

John Cheever

American novelist and storyteller, known as "The Wapshot.".

Han Kang

South Korean novelist, known for "The Vegetarian.".

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigerian novelist and essayist, known as "Half-yellow sun.".

Margaret Drabble

English novelist, known for "The Millstone.".

Sherman Alexie

Novelist, poet and native American filmmaker, known for "The completely true newspaper of a part-time Indian.".

Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian novelist and playwright, Nobel winner, known as "The Pianist.".

Miguel Angel Asturias

Novelist and Spanish diplomat, Nobel winner, known by 'The President'.