Roberto Calasso
Italian writer and publisher
20th-century essayists
Samuel Beckett
Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator
Ronald Blythe
British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village , an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature
Gaston Bachelard
French philosopher
J. G. Ballard
English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World . In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories , such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition . In the mid-1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash , a story about car crash fetishism, and High-Rise , a depiction of a luxury apartment building’s descent into violent chaos
W. N. P. Barbellion
Nom-de-plume of Bruce Frederick Cummings , an English diarist who was responsible for The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature
Isaac Asimov
American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University