Curzio Malaparte
Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat
20th-century essayists
Hilary Mantel
British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories
Doris Lessing
British-Zimbabwean novelist
Milan Kundera
Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Aldous Huxley
English writer and philosopher
C. L. R. James
Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist
Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk
Gunter Grass
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.He was born in the Free City of Danzig . As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS and was taken as a prisoner of war by U.S. forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood
Lucy Grealy
Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement