Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic
novelist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic
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, …
William Golding
British novelist, playwright, and poet
Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also US: ; Russian: , tr. Ivn Aleksndrovich Goncharv, IPA: [van lksandrvd ntrof]; 18 June [O.S. 6 June] 1812 27 September [O.S. 15 September] 1891) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights). He …
Edmond de Goncourt
French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Acadmie Goncourt.
Kenneth Grahame
British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland
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
Robert Graves
British poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist