H. G. Wells
English writer
magic realism writers
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
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, …
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