Primo Levi
Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer
short story
Sinclair Lewis
American writer and playwright
Clarice Lispector
Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories
Jack London
American novelist, journalist and social activist
H. P. Lovecraft
American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction
Fritz Leiber
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
Rudyard Kipling
English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist
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 Kundera’s Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979; he received his Czech citizenship in 2019.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
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