Fiodor Mijaïlovich Dostoevskiï
Fiodor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski was one of the leading writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social and spiritual context of the XXth century Russian society.
Authors
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and doctor, creator of the famous fiction detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific author whose work includes stories of science fiction, historical novel, theatre and...
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras, a pseudonym for Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, was a French novelist, screenwriter and film director.
Eça de Queirós
José Maria de Eça de Queirós was a Portuguese writer and diplomat, considered by many the best realist of his country in the 19th century. Among other novels of recognized importance, Los Maia highlights.
Esopo -
Esopo was a famous former Greek fabulous who lived around the 7th and 6th centuries. C. Despite being a slave to a philosopher, he managed to become a writer recognized by his more than 400 fables.
José de Espronceda
He was a Spanish writer from the time of Romanticism, considered the most representative poet of the first Romanticism in Spain.
Leandro Fernández de Moratín
He was a Spanish playwright and poet, the most relevant neo-classical comediographer of the 18th century.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Dramaturgo, novelist, poet and German naturalist, a fundamental contributor to Romanticism, which he exercised a great influence and was one of the greatest exponents of the Sturm und Drang movement that gave rise to.
Nikolaj Vasilevic Gogol
Russian writer, also known as a playwright, novelist and short story writer. His best known work is probably dead Souls, considered by many as the first modern Russian novel.
Carlo Goldoni
It was an Italian playwright of the Serene Republic of Venice in the Italian, Veneto and French languages.
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
He was a prolific Spanish avant-garde writer and journalist, generally attached to the generation of 1914 or novecentism, and promoter of the literary genre known as greguería.
Edmond de Goncourt
He was a French writer whose family came from Goncourt in Haute-Marne. He wrote part of his work in collaboration with his brother, Jules de Goncourt. The works of the Goncourt brothers belong to the current of naturalis...
Luis de Góngora y Argote
Luis de Góngora and Argote, was a Spanish poet and playwright of the Golden Century, the highest exponent of culteranism or gongorism, whose work will be imitated over the centuries in Europe and America.
Luis Goytisolo
He is a Spanish novelist, known mainly for his tetralogy Antagony. In 2013 he was awarded the National Prize for Spanish Letters. 1
Juan Goytisolo
Spanish writer and intellectual. Considered as the most important narrator of the Generation of the half century, and even the best Spanish novelist of the early 21st century, his work includes novels, stories and travel...
Graham Greene
He was a British writer, writer and literary critic, whose work explored the confusion of modern man and dealt with issues about politics or morally ambiguous in a contemporary background.
Maria Gripe
Maria Gripe, born Maria Walter, was a Swedish writer of children's and youth literature, awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize and translated into dozens of languages.
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard was an English Victorian writer of adventure novels, initiator of the "lost world" subgender.
Dashiell Hammett
American writer of black novel, short stories and film scripts, as well as political activist. Among the most remembered characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) and the Continental (Red Harvest) agent.
Mateo Alemán
Spanish writer of the Golden Century, author of "Guzmán de Alfarache." He began his studies in Seville; he continued his training in Salamanca and Alcalá de Henares where he studied medicine between 1564- 1568.
Aristóteles -
Greek philosopher, scientist and polymata. Considered together with Plato, the father of Western philosophy, his ideas have had an enormous influence on the intellectual history of the West.
J. J. Benítez
Juan José Benítez López, better known as J. J. Benítez, is a Spanish journalist and writer, known for his work on ufology. In his novelistic saga, Trojan Horse reports an experiment from the United States.
Bertolt Brecht
He was a German playwright and poet, one of the most influential of the 20th century, creator of the epic theatre, also called dialectic theatre.
Pearl S. Buck
She was an American writer and novelist. As a daughter of missionaries in China, and then as a missionary, Buck spent most of his life before 1934 in Zhenjiang.
Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda Bidou or Bidon was a prominent Spanish poet and literary critic, a member of the 27 Generation.
Cayo Julio César
Roman political and military, he reached the highest magistratures of the Roman State and dominated the policy of the Republic after winning in the civil war that faced the most conservative sector of the Senate.
Rosa Chacel
Spanish writer of the Generation of 27. Born in a liberal family, the environment in which he was raised allowed him to cultivate an independent personality as well as obtain a wide literary culture.
François-René Chateaubriand
He was a French diplomat, politician and writer considered the founder of romanticism in French literature.
Tom Clancy
He was an American writer, known for his novels of espionage and military intelligence set in the Cold War and later times.
Ramón de la Cruz
Don Ramón de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla was a Spanish playwright, considered as one of the definers of Madrid's casticism in the context of the "new art of making comedies" expressed in the form of a santo or entremés.
Charles Darwin
He was an English naturalist, recognized as the most influential scientist of those who put forward the idea of biological evolution through natural selection.
Jim Davis
James Robert Davis, better known as Jim Davis, is an American comic artist, renowned for being the creator of Garfield.
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Foe, better known for his pseudonym Daniel Defoe, was an English writer, journalist and pamphlet, world-famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe.
Demóstenes -
He was one of the most relevant speakers in history and an important Athenian politician. He was born in Athens in 384 a. C. and died in Calauria, in 322 a. C.
Daphne Du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier was a British writer famous for novels such as Rebeca and My cousin Raquel, both taken to the movies. The films Jamaica Inn and The Birds of Alfred Hitchcock were also based on their stories.
Erasmo De Rotterdam
He was a Dutch Christian philosopher, philologist and theologian, considered one of the greatest scholars of the Nordic Renaissance.
Esquilo -
Greek Dramaturgo, the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, is considered the first great representative of the Greek tragedy.
Eurípides -
Euripides was one of the three great Greek tragic poets of ancient times, along with Esquilo and Sophocles. He was born in Salamina around 480 BC and wrote about 90 works, of which 19 have survived to this day.
Robert Jordan
James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known by the pseudonym Robert Jordan, was an American writer, famous for being the author of the "The Wheel of Time" fantasy saga.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
He was a Spanish writer, jurist and enlightened politician. Especially committed to the economic and cultural development of his country, his report on the Agrarian Law or his report on public education were relevant.
Don Juan Manuel Príncipe de Villena
Member of the royal house and writer in Spanish, he was one of the main representatives of the medieval prose, especially thanks to his work "Count Lucanor," the set of moralizing stories.
Dominique Lapierre
French writer, author of several bestsellers, some of them in collaboration with Larry Collins. Between 1954 and 1967 he was a reporter for the magazine Paris Match.
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson, literally known as Astrid Lindgren, was a Swedish writer who created the literary character Pippi Calzaslong.
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado Ruiz was a Spanish poet, the youngest representative of the 98 generation.
Cayo Petronio Árbitro
Born at some point between the ages 14 and 27 in Massalia (now Marseilles) and died ca. of the year 65 and 66 in Cumas, he was a Roman writer and politician, who lived during the reign of the Emperor Nero. He is the auth...
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer, poet, critic and romantic journalist - American, generally recognized as one of the universal teachers of the short story, of which he was one of the first practitioners in his country. He was a renovator of the ...