Robert Ludlum
American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series
postmodern writers
Norman Mailer
American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor
Clarice Lispector
Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories
Milan Kundera
Czech writer who went into exile in France in 1975, becoming a naturalised French citizen in 1981. Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019. He “sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores”.Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Ursula K. Le Guin
American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series
John Irving
American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter
Kazuo Ishiguro
British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer
Michael Herr
American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches , a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine during the Vietnam War
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk
William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk