Madame de Lafayette
French writer; she authored La Princesse de Clves, France’s first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.
novelist
Par Lagerkvist
Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.
Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew
Jhumpa Lahiri
American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English, and, more recently, in Italian
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italian writer and the last Prince of Lampedusa
D. H. Lawrence
English writer and poet
Halldor Laxness
Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature
John le Carre
British-Irish author, best known for his espionage novels
Stephen King
American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter
James Joyce
Irish novelist, short story writer, poet and literary critic