20th-century male writers

Ignazio Silone

Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-Fascist novels

Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner

English war poet, writer, and soldier

Irish novelist, playwright and satirist, considered a major figure in twentieth century Irish literature

Nigerian poet and novelist

Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat

Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer

Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist

Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic and political and social commentator

Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century