Joël Dicker
Young Swiss writer who has written several mystery novels that have achieved great international internal success
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Bernard Cornwell
Novelist and English journalist, born in London in 1944, son of a Canadian aviator and a component of the Women's Assistant Air Force of Great Britain. After a season as a professor at the University of London, he joined...
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs was an American novelist, visual artist, essayist and social critic. Renovator of narrative language and one of the main figures of the Beat Generation, label with which he never agreed.
Marco Tulio Cicerón
He was a jurist, politician, philosopher, writer and Roman speaker. It is considered one of the largest rhetorical and stylist of Latin prose of the Roman Republic
Dante Alighieri
He was an Italian poet and writer, known for writing the Divine comedy, one of the fundamental works of the transition from medieval to Renaissance thought and one of the summits of universal literature.
Frederick Forsyth
He's a British writer. It is mainly known by suspended novels such as The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File, Icon, The Fist of God and The List. The author as a MI6 spy reflected his knowledge in all of...
Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián and Morales was a Jesuit, a Spanish writer from the Golden Century who cultivated the didactic and philosophical prose. Among his works is El Criticón, which is one of the most important novels in Spanis...
Homero -
It is the name given to the aedo to which the authorship of the main Greek epic poems is traditionally attributed: the Iliad and the Odyssey. There is no single biography that can be considered final.
Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé Carbó ("Juan Marsé Carbó") was a Spanish novelist from the so-called 50 generation, specifically from the so-called School of Barcelona, which involved his friends Jaime Gil de Biedma, Carlos Barral, Juan Garc...
Víctor Mora
Victor Mora Pujadas was a Spanish comic writer and novelist, creator of The Captain Thunder, among many other works.
Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo Villegas and Santibáñez Cevallos was a Spanish noble, political and writer of the Golden Century. He was a gentleman of the Order of Santiago from 1618 and a lord of the Tower of John Abad from...
Henryk Sienkiewicz
He was a Polish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. It is the fifth Nobel Prize in the history of the award and the first in Eastern Europe.
Henri Beyle Stendhal
He was a French writer, valued for his acute analysis of the psychology of his characters and for the concision of his style, he is considered one of the first and most important literary representatives of realism.
Susanna Tamaro
She is an Italian novelist who has also served as a scientific documentalist and as an assistant in film management.
Jules Verne
He was a French writer, poet and playwright famous for his adventure novels and for his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Rafael Alberti
Spanish writer, especially recognized as a poet and member of the generation of 27. It is considered one of the greatest literates of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish literature.
Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet, prominent member of the Generation of 27. Considered one of the great Spanish poets of the 20th century, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1977.
Hans Christian Andersen
He was a Danish writer and poet famous for his children's stories, among them The ugly duckhead, the sirenite, the emperor's new suit, and the queen of the snow.
José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín)
he was a Spanish writer from the 98 generation, who cultivated various literary genres: the novel, the essay, the journalistic chronicle and the literary criticism and, to a lesser extent, the theatre. As a politician, h...
Pío Baroja
Spanish writer of the 98 generation. He was doctorate in medicine, but ended up leaving the profession in favor of literature, an activity in which he cultivated the novel and, to a much lesser extent, the theatre.
Charles Baudelaire
French poet, one of the highest exponents of symbolism and considered the initiator of modern poetry.
Simone de Beauvoir
Author, teacher and French philosopher. Beauvoir was a precursor to feminism. He shared life with also writer Jean- Paul Sartre.
Jacinto Benavente
He was a Spanish playwright, director, screenwriter and film producer. In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti Farrugia was a writer, poet, playwright and Uruguayan journalist, a member of the Generation of 45, to which the writers Idea Vilariño and Juan Carlos Onetti belonged, among others
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
He was a Spanish writer, journalist and politician who promoted naturalism and realism.
Giovanni Boccaccio
He was an Italian writer and humanist. He is one of the parents, along with Dante and Petrarca, of Italian literature.
Charles Perrault
He was a French writer, mainly recognized for having given literary form to classic children's stories such as Asno Skin, Pulgarcito, Blue Barba, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding and The Cat with Boots, in many ca...
Jacob Grimm
He was a German linguist and mythologist, considered founder of the historical grammar. His life and work was strongly linked to that of his younger brother, Wilhelm, so it is often heard of the Grimm Brothers as a whole...
Antonio Buero Vallejo
He was a Spanish playwright, winner of the Lope de Vega Prize in 1949 and the Cervantes Prize in 1986
Anthony Burgess
He was a British writer and composer, who performed a prolific literary and musical work, being generally known for the novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962, which became famous for Stanley Kubrick's homonymous film in 1971.
George Gordon Lord Byron
He was a poet of the British Romanticism movement, antecedent of the figure of the cursed poet. Because of his poetic talent, personality, physical appeal and life as scandals, he was a celebrity of his time. He was the ...
Fernán Caballero
Fernán Caballero is the pseudonym used by Spanish writer and folklorist Cecilia Böhl de Faber and Ruiz de Larrea. He cultivated a quaint of a customary character and his work is distinguished by the defense of traditiona...
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
He was a Cuban writer and writer, who after exiled from his country obtained British citizenship. He won the 1997 Cervantes Award.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
He was a Spanish writer, a Catholic priest, known primarily for being one of the most important Baroque literates of the Golden Century, especially for his theatre.
Anton Pavlovich Chejov
He was a Russian storyteller, playwright and doctor. In the literary currents of realism and naturalism, he was a master of short story, and is considered one of the most important authors of gender in the history of lit...
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a British Catholic writer, philosopher and journalist from the early 20th century. He cultivated, among other genres, the essay, the narration, the biography, the lyrical, the journalism and ...
Pierre-Ambroise-François Choderlos de Laclos
He was a French writer and military officer, known for the novel "The Dangerous Relations.".
Arthur Charles Clarke
British writer and scientist. Author of scientific and science fiction outreach works, such as the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Sentinel or Rama Cita.
Robin Cook
Robin Cook is an American doctor and novelist who writes about medicine and issues that affect public health. It is well known for combining medical writing with the thriller genre.
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator. Without renouncing his Argentine nationality, he chose French in 1981 to protest against the military dictatorship in his country, which pursued him and prohibited him.
Alphonse Daudet
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet was a French writer, author of Tartarín de Tarascón and Cartas from my mill.
Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist and member of the Royal Spanish Academy from 1975 until his death, occupying the chair "e.".
Denis Diderot
He was a decisive figure of the Illustration as a French writer, philosopher and encyclopedist..
John Dos Passos
New American journalist and journalist. Traveller, intellectual and artist cult of independent ideology close to socialism, is considered one of the essential members of the lost American generation.