Authors
Leopoldo Alas Clarín
Spanish writer, his work is linked to the city of Oviedo. After his doctorate in law from 1871 to 1878, he returned to Asturias to occupy the chair of Roman law at the University.
Federico García Lorca
Poet, playwright and Spanish prosist. Adkrit to the Generation of 27, he is the most influential and popular poet in Spanish literature of the 20th century.
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was a French writer. He is considered one of the best Western novelists and is known mainly for his first published novel, Madame Bovary.
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III was an American playwright. The name "Tennessee" was given to him by his schoolmates because of his Southern accent.
Robert Graves
Robert von Ranke Graves was a British writer and scholar, father of the writer and translator Lucía Graves.
Terry Pratchett
Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE was a British writer of fantasy and science fiction, creator of the hilarious Discomundo.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a Spanish writer, poet and playwright born in Alcalá de Henares. He served as a soldier and fought at Lepanto, then spent several years captive in Algiers. He wrote Don Quixot...
Jonas Jonasson
Per Ola Jonasson, better known as Jonas Jonasson, is a Swedish journalist and writer.
Louis Berniéres (de)
Graduated at Victoria University in Manchester, he became famous for his novel "The Mandolin of Captain Corelli," with which he won the Commonwealth Writers Price.
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was an American novelist. He wrote thirty-four adventure novels, in which he recounts the life of the pioneers and their clashes with the red skins.
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster, OM, CH was an English novelist, essayist and libretor. His works address the class differences and hypocrisy of British society from the early 20th century.
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German writer, poet, novelist and painter, naturalized in May 1924.
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of well-known novels such as Mice and Men, The grapes of anger and East Eden.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was a writer and biochemist of Russian origin, American nationalized, known as a prolific author of science fiction, history and scientific dissemination.
Torcuato Luca de Tena Brunet
He was an active playwright and diplomat and belonged to the Royal Spanish Academy between 1946 and 1974.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Cleenewerck of Crayencour, known as Marguerite Yourcena, was a novelist, poet, playwright and national French translator in 1947.
Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a British journalist and writer, also wrote under the pseudonym Amy Silver, she is the author of the novels "The Girl of the Train," "Written in the Water" and "On Slow Fire.".
David Lagercrantz
Swedish journalist known mainly for the biography of Zlatan Ibrahimović and most recently for writing the fourth delivery of the Millenium saga, initiated by Stieg Larsson.
René Goscinny
He was a screenwriter and comic book editor. Mainly famous for being the co-author of the adventures of Asterix.
Albert Uderzo
He is a French cartoonist and screenwriter. Its most famous series is Asterix, whose first edition was created in 1959 with the writer René Goscinny.
Yann Martel
Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain. Son of Nicole Perron and Emile Martel, French-Canadian. His father was appointed as a diplomat by the Canadian Government.
Mark Haddon
He has written numerous books for children and a poemary. He worked for a while with people with physical and mental deficiencies, which helped him create his first novel The curious incident of the dog at midnight (2004...
Jonathan Littell
French-American writer. Her novel "Las bendivolas" ("Les bienveillantes") was awarded the 2006 Goncourt Prize and the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française of the same year. Thanks to this novel he also obtained ...
Jeff Lindsay
Lindsay is married to the niece of Ernest Hemingway, also writer Hilary Hemingway, with whom she has co-written many of her works. He is worldwide known for being the creator of Dexter.
Luz Gabás
Led in English Philology, for many years he has shared his teaching with the translation, publication of articles, literary and linguistic research.
Georges Prosper Remi (Hergé)
Belgian historian, better known by the pseudonym Hergé. Creator of "The Adventures of Tintín" in 1929.
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is an American writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 with the light you can't see.
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb is the second pseudonym of the novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden whose work focuses mainly on contemporary and medieval fantasy. It also uses the name Megan Lindholm.
Fernando Aramburu
Born in San Sebastián, a graduate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza (1982). It promoted culture from literary journals until it moved to Germany in 1985.
Víctor Arbol (del)
It was released in 2008, after being finalist of the Fernando Lara Prize with the novel "The Abyss of Dreams." In 2018 Del Tree was named Knight of the Letters and Arts of the French Academy.
Jean-Yves Ferri
French cartoonist and screenwriter, elected in 2011 writer of the series Astérix el Galo created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. He was personally advised by Uderzo. His first album was "Asterix y los pictos,",
Javier Marías
A long-standing Madrid writer and member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupies the "R" chair.
Javier Castillo
Javier Castillo studied business and wrote his work as a corporate consultant in a large company with writing.
Hillary Jordan
He grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma, and lives in Brooklyn. He obtained a degree at Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Scripture from Columbia University. He is the author of "Mudbound" and "When She Woke."...
Andrei Kurkov
Andrei Yuyevich Kurkov was born on April 23 in Leningrad. Son of a test pilot and a doctor, he began writing at age seven when two of his three hamsters died and decided to dedicate a poem on solitude to the survivor.
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin, known as George R. R. Martin, is an American writer and writer of fantastic literature, science fiction and terror.
Andrzej Sapkowski
Andrzej Sapkowski is a Polish heroic fantasy writer. His works are strongly influenced by Slavic culture and mythology, as well as traditional narrations.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, better known by the pseudonym of Agatha Christie, was a British writer and playwright specializing in police, for whose work she was internationally recognized.
Andrea Camilleri
Italian writer, theatrical and television director and novelist. In 1994, the first novel in the series starring Commissioner Montalbano was published, making him one of Italy's most successful writers.
Carmen Mola
Carmen Mola is the pseudonym used by three Spanish writers, who came out of anonymity in 2021 when receiving the Planet price.
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Journalist and author of several very successful novels, translated into forty languages. "Red Queen," "Black Loba" and "White King" have become a sales phenomenon and have consecrated it internationally.