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
magic realism
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
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo [ao] or Gabito [aito] throughout Latin America
Julio Cortazar
Argentine-French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator
Robertson Davies
Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor
Ray Bradbury
American author and screenwriter
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century
Italo Calvino
Italian writer and journalist
Isabel Allende
Chilean writer