Robert Musil
Austrian philosophical writer
20th-century short story writers
Gloria Naylor
American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place , Linden Hills and Mama Day .
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 Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019.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
T. S. Eliot
Poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor
Julio Cortazar
Argentine-French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature