Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize in 1957. He is often associated...
Anatole France , born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist,...
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged...
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was...
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS , was a British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist. Although...
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known...
Czesław Miłosz [ˈt͡ʂɛswaf ˈmiwɔʂ] ; was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator. From 1961 to 1978 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and...
The Hon. Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC (born January 23, 1930) is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T...
Ernest Miller Hemingway was a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I...
Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won...
Frans Eemil Sillanpää ( pronunciation (help·info)) (September 16, 1888—June 3, 1964) was one of the most famous Finnish writers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939 "for his...
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country,...
George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright. Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for...
Giosuè Carducci was an Italian poet, oft reckoned as one of Italy's greatest, and a noted teacher. He was very influential and was...
Grazia Deledda was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a bourgeois family, she attended...
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning...
Henri-Louis Bergson (French pronunciation: [bɛʁkˈsɔ̃]; 18 October 1859–4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson...
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known works include Steppenwolf,...
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was a 20th century Icelandic novelist and author of Independent People, The Atom...
Isaac Bashevis Singer – July 24, 1991 was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born American author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish...
John Steinbeck III was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published...
Knut Hamsun, born Knud Pedersen was a Norwegian author. He was considered by Isaac Bashevis Singer to be the "father of modern literature", and by King Haakon to be...
Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934. Pirandello was born into an upper-class family...
Patrick Victor Martindale White was an Australian author who was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he...
Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. With his works translated into many languages,...