Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time
political
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer , poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, “Dean Swift”.
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub , An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity , Gulliver’s Travels , and A Modest Proposal . He is regarded by the Encyclopdia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry
Wilfred Thesiger
British military officer, explorer, and writer
Tobias Smollett
Scottish poet and author
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist in the English language
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
Vikram Seth
Indian novelist and poet
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer
Arundhati Roy
Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things , which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author
John Ruskin
English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era