H. G. Wells
English writer
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Polish-born Jewish-American writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help of editors and collaborators
Salman Rushdie
British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer
Ben Okri
Nigerian poet and novelist
Toni Morrison
American novelist
Franz Kafka
German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, the first Japanese author to receive the award
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
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (Russian: , tr. Nikolay Vasil’yevich Gogol’, IPA: [nklaj vsiljvd ol]; Ukrainian: , romanized: Mykola Vasyl’ovych Hohol’; 1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin.Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque, …