Boris Pasternak
Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator
modernist writers
Robert Musil
Austrian philosophical writer
Thomas Mann
German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate
Primo Levi
Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
Malcolm Lowry
English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.
D. H. Lawrence
English writer and poet
James Joyce
Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic
Franz Kafka
German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature
Knut Hamsun
Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun’s work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment
Ernest Hemingway
American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman