William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk
20th-century essayists
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
John Fowles
English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism
Amitav Ghosh
Indian writer and the winner of the 54th Jnanpith award, Indias highest literary honor, best known for his work in English fiction
Umberto Eco
Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic and political and social commentator
T. S. Eliot
Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor
Arthur C. Clarke
English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
Julio Cortazar
Argentine-French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator
Anthony Burgess
English writer and composer
Hubert Butler
Irish essayist who wrote on a wide range of topics, from local history and archaeology to the political and religious affairs of eastern Europe before and during World War II. He also travelled to Nazi Austria on his own initiative and at his own expense and helped save Jews from being sent to concentration camps.