Authors
Mélikah Abdelmoumen
Canada · French · b. 1972
1 work
Kōbō Abe
Japan · Japanese · 1924–1993
6 works
Peter Abelard
France · Medieval Latin · 1079–1142
5 works
Achilles Tatius
Roman Empire, Alexandria · Koine Greek · c. 100 - c. 170
1 work
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Denmark · Danish · b. 1950
1 work
Adomnán of Iona
Ireland, Scotland · Medieval Latin · c. 624–704
1 work
Adonis
Syria · Modern Arabic · b. 1930
2 works
Aelian
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 175 - c. 235
2 works
Aeschines
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 389 BCE–314 BCE
4 works
Aeschylus
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 525 BCE–456 BCE
9 works
Aesop
Ancient Greece · Archaic Greek · c. 620 - c. 564 BC
1 work
Leo Africanus
Spain, Tunisia · Renaissance Latin · c. 1494 - c. 1554
1 work
Sextus Julius Africanus
Ancient Rome · Latin · c. 160 - c. 240
1 work
M. Ageyev
Russia · Russian · 1898–1973
1 work
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Israel, Austria-Hungary · Modern Hebrew · 1887–1970
7 works
Camillo Agrippa
Italy · Italian · 1520–1600
1 work
José Eduardo Agualusa
Angola · Portuguese · b. 1960
4 works
Wajdi al-Ahdal
Yemen · Modern Arabic · b. 1973
1 work
César Aira
Argentina · Spanish · born 1949
23 works
Anna Akhmatova
Russia · Russian · 1889–1966
3 works
Vasily Aksyonov
Russia · Russian · 1932–2009
5 works
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Japan · Japanese · 1892–1927
1 work
Al-Ghazali
Iran · Classical Persian, Classical Arabic · c. 1058 - 1111
0 works
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
Sudan · Modern Arabic · b. 1969
1 work
Alain-Fournier
France · French · 1886–1914
1 work
Feurat Alani
France · French · b. 1980
1 work
Meryem Alaoui
Morocco · French · b. 1975
1 work
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Spain · Spanish · 1833–1891
1 work
Leopoldo Alas
Spain · Spanish · 1852–1901
1 work
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
Great Britain · Scottish Gaelic · 1698–1770
1 work
David Albahari
Serbia, Yugoslavia · Serbian · 1948–2023
1 work
Albert of Aix
France · Medieval Latin · fl. c. 1100
1 work
Leon Battista Alberti
Italy · Neo-Latin · 1404–1472
1 work
Alcaeus
Lesbos · Archaic Greek · c. 625 BCE - 580 BCE
1 work
Vicente Aleixandre
Spain · Spanish · 1898–1984
2 works
Svetlana Alexievich
Russia, Belarus · Russian · b. 1948
1 work
Vittorio Alfieri
Italy · Italian · 1749–1803
12 works
Sabahattin Ali
Turkey · Turkish · 1907–1948
1 work
Marcel Allain
France · French · 1885–1969
1 work
Isabel Allende
Chile · Spanish · b. 1942
10 works
Selva Almada
Argentina · Spanish · born 1973
3 works
Zahran Alqasmi
Oman · Modern Arabic · b. 1974
1 work
Saud Alsanousi
Kuwait · Modern Arabic · b. 1981
1 work
Ahmet Altan
Turkey · Turkish · born 1950
6 works
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Cuba · Spanish · born 1989
3 works
Mir Amman
India · Urdu, English · 1748–1806
1 work
Ammianus Marcellinus
Roman Empire, Roman Syria · Latin · c. 330 - c. 391-400
1 work
Anacreon
Anatolia · Archaic Greek · c. 573 BCE - c. 495 BCE
2 works
Benny Andersen
Denmark · Danish · 1929–2018
7 works
Hans Christian Andersen
Denmark · Danish · 1805–1875
1 work
Lena Andersson
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1970
3 works
Bernard André
France · Neo-Latin · 1450–1522
1 work
Andri Snær Magnason
Iceland · Icelandic · b. 1973
1 work
Ivo Andrić
Yugoslavia, Austria-Hungary · Serbo-Croatian · 1892–1975
1 work
Anselm of Canterbury
England · Medieval Latin · c. 1033–1109
1 work
Antonius Diogenes
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · fl. c. 2nd century
1 work
Sinan Antoon
Iraq · Modern Arabic · b. 1967
2 works
Nanae Aoyama
Japan · Japanese · b. 1983
1 work
Guillaume Apollinaire
France · French · 1880–1918
4 works
Apollodorus
Alexandria, Athens · Koine Greek · c. 120 - c. 180 BC
1 work
Apollonius of Rhodes
Alexandria · Homeric Greek · mid 3rd century BC
1 work
Nathacha Appanah
France, Mauritius · French · born 1973
4 works
Appian
Roman Empire, Alexandria · Koine Greek · c. 95 - c. 165
1 work
Apuleius
Roman Africa, Roman Empire · Classical Latin · 124–170
4 works
Thomas Aquinas
Italy · Medieval Latin · 1225–1274
1 work
Ibn Arabi
Almohad Caliphate · Classical Arabic · 1165–1240
1 work
Louis Aragon
France · French · 1897–1982
2 works
Víctor del Árbol
Spain · Spanish · b. 1968
3 works
Samuel Archibald
Canada · French · b. 1978
1 work
Pietro Aretino
Italy · Italian · 1492–1556
2 works
Tudor Arghezi
Romania · Romanian · 1880–1967
3 works
Homero Aridjis
Mexico · Spanish · born 1940
3 works
Ludovico Ariosto
Italy · Italian · 1474–1533
5 works
Aelius Aristides
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · 117–181
1 work
Aristophanes
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 446 BCE–386 BCE
12 works
Aristotle
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 384 BCE–322 BCE
27 works
Arrian
Roman Empire, Anatolia · Koine Greek · c. 86/89 - c. 160
1 work
Antonin Artaud
France · French · 1896–1948
2 works
Elisabeth Åsbrink
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1965
2 works
Rav Ashi
Sasanian Empire · Jewish Babylonian Aramaic · 352–427
1 work
Asser
Wales · Medieval Latin · died c. 905
1 work
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemala · Spanish · 1899–1974
2 works
Athanasius
Roman Empire, Alexandria · Koine Greek · c. 296-298–373
2 works
Athenaeus
Ancient Rome · Koine Greek · c. late second - early third century
1 work
Athenagoras of Athens
Roman Empire, Roman Greece · Koine Greek · c. 115 - c. 190
2 works
Attar of Nishapur
Iran · Classical Persian · c. 1145 - c. 1221
1 work
Bernardo Atxaga
Spain · Spanish, Basque · born 1951
5 works
Augustine of Hippo
Roman Africa, Roman Empire · Latin · 354–430
4 works
Ausonius
Roman Empire, Gaul · Latin · c. 310 - c. 395
19 works
Averroes
al-Andalus, Spain, Morocco · Classical Arabic · 1126–1198
18 works
Avicenna
Iran · Classical Arabic, Classical Persian · 980–1037
8 works
Yukito Ayatsuji
Japan · Japanese · b. 1960
4 works
Marcel Aymé
France · French · 1902–1967
12 works
Ibtisam Azem
Lebanon · Modern Arabic · b. 1974
1 work
Mariano Azuela
Mexico · Spanish · 1873–1952
1 work
Mariama Bâ
Senegal · French · 1929–1981
2 works
Isaac Babel
Soviet Union · Russian · 1894–1940
3 works
Babrius
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · fl. c. 200 CE
1 work
Babur
India · Chagatai · 1483–1530
1 work
Bacchylides
Aegean · Archaic Greek · c. 518 BCE - c. 451 BCE
3 works
Enrico Bacco
Germany · Italian · b. late 1500s - d. early 1600s
1 work
Fredrik Backman
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1981
1 work
Bae Suah
South Korea · Korean · born 1965
3 works
Andrea Bajani
Italy · Italian · b. 1975
2 works
Baldric of Dol
France · Medieval Latin · 1046–1130
1 work
Marc Ball
France · French · c. 1990
1 work
Solvej Balle
Denmark · Danish · born 1962
5 works
Eva Baltasar
Spain · Catalan · b. 1978
3 works
Honoré de Balzac
France · French · 1799–1850
17 works
Marco Balzano
Italy · Italian · b. 1978
1 work
Banarasidas
India · Braj Bhasha · 1586–1643
1 work
Hoda Barakat
Lebanon · Modern Arabic · b. 1952
1 work
María Baranda
Mexico · Spanish · b. 1962
12 works
Andrés Barba
Spain · Spanish · born 1975
5 works
Dominique Barbéris
France · French · b. 1958
1 work
Muriel Barbery
France · French · b. 1969
3 works
Henri Barbusse
France · French · 1873–1935
1 work
Barnabas
Roman Judea · Koine Greek · died c. 61
1 work
Roland Barthes
France · French · 1915–1980
30 works
Svetislav Basara
Serbia · Serbian · born 1953
3 works
Basava
India · Kannada · 1131–1196
1 work
Matsuo Bashō
Japan · Early Modern Japanese · 1644–1694
2 works
Basil of Caesarea
Roman Empire, Anatolia · Koine Greek · 330–379
3 works
Giambattista Basile
Italy · Neapolitan, Italian · 1566–1632
1 work
Giorgio Bassani
Italy · Italian · 1916–2000
2 works
Christophe Bataille
France · French · b. 1971
1 work
Charles Baudelaire
France · French · 1821–1867
15 works
Inès Bayard
France · French · b. 1991
1 work
Agustina Bazterrica
Argentina · Spanish · b. 1974
1 work
Shida Bazyar
Germany · German · b. 1988
2 works
Beatrice of Nazareth
Flanders, Holy Roman Empire · Middle Dutch · c. 1200–1268
1 work
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
France · French · 1732–1799
2 works
Simone de Beauvoir
France · French · 1908–1986
3 works
Bede
England · Medieval Latin · 672/673–735
3 works
Bei Dao
China · Modern Chinese · born 1949
10 works
Gaëlle Bélem
France, Réunion · French · b. 1984
2 works
Matthieu Belezi
France · French · b. 1953
1 work
Mario Bellatin
Mexico · Spanish · born 1960
5 works
Andrei Bely
Russia · Russian · 1880–1934
1 work
Jacinto Benavente
Spain · Spanish · 1866–1954
4 works
Antonio di Benedetto
Argentina · Spanish · 1922–1986
1 work
Benedict of Nursia
Italy · Late Latin · 408–547
1 work
Benedictus, Canon of St Peter's
Italy · Medieval Latin · fl. 1140s
1 work
Francesca Maria Benvuto
Italy · Italian · b. 1986
1 work
Nina Berberova
Russia, France, USA · Russian · 1901–1993
9 works
Henri Bergson
France · French · 1859–1941
3 works
Christophe Bernard
Canada · French · b. 1982
1 work
Bernard of Clairvaux
France · Medieval Latin · c. 1090–1153
3 works
Thomas Bernhard
Austria · German · 1931–1989
47 works
Béroul
France · Old French · c. 1140-1200
1 work
Aloysius Bertrand
France · French · 1807–1841
1 work
Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube
France · Old French · b. c. late 12th century - d. early 13th century
1 work
Philippe Besson
France · French · b. 1967
4 works
Bhartrihari
India · Classical Sanskrit · 5th century
1 work
Bhāsa
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 200-400
1 work
Bhavabhuti
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 680 - c. 750-760
1 work
Matteo B. Bianchi
Italy · Italian · b. 1966
1 work
Nelio Biedermann
Switzerland · German · b. 2003
1 work
Bihari Lal
India · Braj Bhasha · 1595–1663
1 work
Jon Bilbao
Spain · Spanish · b. 1972
1 work
Bilhana
India · Classical Sanskrit · 11th century
2 works
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentina · Spanish · 1914–1999
5 works
Maurice Blanchot
France · French · 1907–2003
2 works
Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Venezuela · Spanish · b. 1981
3 works
Andrzej Bobkowski
Poland · Polish · 1913–1961
1 work
Johannes Bobrowski
Germany · German · 1917–1965
4 works
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italy · Italian · 1313–1375
3 works
Boethius
Ostrogothic Kingdom · Latin · c. 480–524
2 works
Therese Bohman
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1978
4 works
Jakob Böhme
Germany · German · 1575–1624
3 works
Roberto Bolaño
Chile, Mexico · Spanish · 1953–2003
9 works
Heinrich Böll
Germany · German · 1917–1985
9 works
Miguel Bonnefoy
France · French · b. 1986
2 works
Yves Bonnefoy
France · French · 1923–2016
16 works
Jonas Bonnier
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1963
1 work
Massimo Bontempelli
Italy · Italian · 1878–1960
3 works
Caterina Bonvicini
Italy · Italian · b. 1974
1 work
Szilárd Borbély
Hungary · Hungarian · 1963–2014
2 works
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentina · Spanish · 1899–1986
6 works
Robert de Boron
France · Old French · lived c. 1150-1250
2 works
Tadeusz Borowski
Russia, Ukraine, Poland · Polish · 1922–1951
2 works
Patrick Boucheron
France · French · b. 1965
3 works
André du Bouchet
France · French · 1924–2001
7 works
Carmen Boullosa
Mexico · Spanish · born 1954
4 works
Franck Bouysse
France · French · b. 1965
3 works
Ignacio De Loyola Brandao
Brazil · Portuguese · born 1936
3 works
Bertolt Brecht
Germany · German · 1898–1956
5 works
Guido Maria Brera
Italy · Italian · b. 1969
1 work
André Breton
France · French · 1896–1966
3 works
Breyten Breytenbach
South Africa · Afrikaans, English · 1939–2024
2 works
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
France · French · 1755–1826
1 work
Hermann Broch
Austria · German · 1886–1951
2 works
Joseph Brodsky
Russia, USA · Russian, English · 1940–1996
4 works
Charlotte Van den Broeck
Belgium · Dutch · b. 1991
1 work
Alina Bronsky
Germany · German · born 1978
6 works
Fred Brouwers
Belgium · Dutch · b. 1948
1 work
Jean de La Bruyère
France · French · 1645–1696
1 work
Georg Büchner
Germany · German · 1813–1837
7 works
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russia · Russian · 1891–1940
4 works
Ivan Bunin
Russia · Russian · 1870–1953
8 works
Jacob Burckhardt
Switzerland · German · 1818–1897
2 works
Michel Butor
France · French · 1926–2016
1 work
Dino Buzzati
Italy · Italian · 1906–1972
4 works
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Spain · Spanish · c. 1488-1492–1559
1 work
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Argentina · Spanish · b. 1968
5 works
Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Ireland · Irish · 1906–1970
8 works
Julius Caesar
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · 100 BCE–44 BCE
5 works
Mario Calabresi
Italy · Italian · b. 1970
1 work
Roberto Calasso
Italy · Italian · 1941–2021
14 works
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Spain · Spanish · 1600–1681
1 work
Callimachus
Alexandria · Koine Greek · c. 310 - c. 240 BC
7 works
Callisthenes
Ancient Greece · Classical Attic Greek · c. 360 - c. 327 BCE
1 work
Italo Calvino
Italy · Italian · 1923–1985
9 works
Gui de Cambrai
France · Old French · born late 1100s - died early 1200s
1 work
Andrea Camilleri
Italy · Italian · 1925–2019
3 works
Luís de Camões
Portugal · Portuguese · c. 1524/1525–1580
2 works
Cristina Campo
Italy · Italian · 1923–1977
1 work
Albert Camus
France · French · 1913–1958
3 works
Can Xue
China · Modern Chinese · b. 1953
11 works
Elias Canetti
United Kingdom, Bulgaria · German · 1905–1994
3 works
Cao Xueqin
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · 1710–1763
1 work
Karel Čapek
Czechoslovakia · Czech · 1890–1938
6 works
Luisa Capetillo
United States, Puerto Rico · Spanish · 1882–1922
1 work
Ernesto Cardenal
Nicaragua · Spanish · 1925–2020
4 works
Annibale Caro
Italy · Italian · 1507–1566
1 work
Alejo Carpentier
Cuba · Spanish · 1904–1980
3 works
Jorge Carrión
Spain · Spanish · b. 1976
2 works
Mircea Cărtărescu
Romania · Romanian · born 1956
3 works
Giacomo Casanova
Italy · French · 1725–1798
1 work
Ernst Cassirer
Germany · German · 1874–1945
0 works
Horacio Castellanos Moya
El Salvador · Spanish · b. 1957
6 works
Lodovico Castelvetro
Italy · Italian · 1505–1556
2 works
Baldassare Castiglione
Italy · Italian · 1478–1529
1 work
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Spain · Spanish · 1492–1584
1 work
Daniela Catrileo
Chile · Spanish, Mapudungun · b. 1987
1 work
Catullus
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · 84 BCE–54 BCE
1 work
C. P. Cavafy
Greece, Egypt, Turkey · Modern Greek · 1863–1933
1 work
Guido Cavalcanti
Italy · Italian · c. 1250 - 1300
1 work
Camilo José Cela
Spain · Spanish · 1916–2002
1 work
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
France · French · 1894–1961
7 works
Benvenuto Cellini
Italy · Italian · 1500–1571
1 work
Cornelius Celsus
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · c. 25 BC - c. 50
1 work
Dahlia de la Cerda
Mexico · Spanish · b. 1985
1 work
Miguel de Cervantes
Spain · Spanish · 1547–1616
2 works
Eileen Chang
China, USA · Modern Chinese · 1920–1995
7 works
Charaka
India · Classical Sanskrit · lived c. 100-200
1 work
Chariton
Roman Empire, Ancient Greece · Koine Greek · c. 1st century
1 work
Sergio Chejfec
Argentina · Spanish · 1956–2022
4 works
Anton Chekhov
Russia · Russian · 1860–1904
29 works
Éric Chevillard
France · French · b. 1964
14 works
Giorgio de Chirico
Italy · French · 1888–1978
2 works
Cho Hae-jin
South Korea · Korean · b. 1976
1 work
Kamo no Chōmei
Japan · Classical Japanese · 1153/1155–1216
1 work
Christos Chomenidis
Greece · Greek · b. 1966
1 work
Mohamed Choukri
Morocco · Modern Arabic · 1935–2003
2 works
Inger Christensen
Denmark · Danish · 1935–2009
9 works
Cicero
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · 106 BCE–43 BCE
30 works
Coriolano Cippico
Venetian Empire · Renaissance Latin · 1425–1493
1 work
Jeannette L. Clariond
Mexico · Spanish · b. 1949
4 works
Hugo Claus
Belgium · Dutch · 1929–2008
1 work
Carl von Clausewitz
Germany · German · 1780–1831
1 work
Clement of Alexandria
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 150 - c. 215
3 works
Thomas Clerc
France · French · b. 1965
1 work
Stéfanie Clermont
Canada · French · b. 1988
1 work
J. M. G. Le Clézio
France · French · b. 1940
4 works
Jean Cocteau
France · French · 1889–1963
7 works
Martín Codax
Spain · Galician–Portuguese · b. late 13th century - d. early 14th century
1 work
Paulo Coelho
Brazil · Portuguese · b. 1947
11 works
Carlo Collodi
Italy · Italian · 1826–1890
1 work
Francesco Colonna
Italy · Neo-Latin, Italian · 1433–1527
1 work
Christopher Columbus
Italy · Spanish · 1451–1506
3 works
Ferdinand Columbus
Spain · Spanish · 1488–1539
1 work
Columella
Roman Empire, Roman Spain · Classical Latin · 4–c. 70
2 works
Philippe de Commines
France · Middle French · 1447–1511
1 work
Commodian
Roman Empire · Late Latin · fl. c. 250
1 work
Anna Comnena
Byzantine Empire · Byzantine Greek · 1083–1153
1 work
Maryse Condé
France, Guadeloupe · French · 1934–2024
16 works
Confucius
China · Archaic Chinese · c. 551 - c. 479
4 works
Benjamin Constant
Switzerland, France · French · 1767–1830
1 work
Gianpietro Contarini
Italy · Italian · c. 1546 - c. 1603
1 work
Corinna
Ancient Greece · Archaic Greek · c. 518 - c. 5th century BCE
1 work
Pierre Corneille
France · French · 1606–1684
6 works
Julio Cortázar
Argentina, France · Spanish · 1914–1984
10 works
Maria Corti
Italy · Italian · 1915–2002
1 work
Laurence Cossé
France · French · born 1950
3 works
Albert Cossery
France, Egypt · French · 1913–2008
6 works
Mia Couto
Mozambique · Portuguese · b. 1955
9 works
Tomás Ó Criomhthain
Ireland · Munster Irish · 1855–1937
1 work
Miloš Crnjanski
Yugoslavia, Austria-Hungary · Serbo-Croatian · 1893–1977
2 works
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexico · Spanish · 1648–1695
8 works
Catherine Cusset
France · French · b. 1963
1 work
Marquis de Custine
France · French · 1790–1857
1 work
Sylvain Cypel
France · French · 1947/1948
1 work
Józef Czapski
Poland · Polish · 1896–1993
3 works
Francesco D'Ambra
Italy · Italian · 1499–1558
1 work
Jean D'Amérique
Haiti · French · b. 1994
1 work
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Italy · Italian · 1863–1938
1 work
Madame d'Aulnoy
France · French · 1650–1705
2 works
Anjet Daanje
Netherlands · Dutch · b. 1965
2 works
Fatima Daas
France · French · b. 1995
1 work
Christelle Dabos
France · French · born 1980
5 works
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen
France · French · 1913–1957
2 works
Salvador Dalí
Spain · French, Spanish · 1904–1989
1 work
Dante Alighieri
Italy · Italian, Medieval Latin · 1264–1321
11 works
Kamel Daoud
Algeria · French · b. 1970
3 works
Rubén Darío
Nicaragua · Spanish · 1867–1916
1 work
Najwan Darwish
Palestine · Modern Arabic · b. 1978
5 works
Mahmoud Darwish
Palestine · Modern Arabic · 1941–2008
4 works
Gregorio Dati
Italy · Italian · 1362–1435
1 work
Alphonse Daudet
France · French · 1840–1897
1 work
René Daumal
France · French · 1908–1944
1 work
King David
Israel · Biblical Hebrew · c. 10th-9th century BCE
1 work
Françoise Davoine
France · French · b. 1943
1 work
Osamu Dazai
Japan · Japanese · 1909–1948
8 works
Frédéric Debomy
France · French · b. 1975
1 work
Pauline Delabroy-Allard
France · French · b. 1988
1 work
Nicolas Delalande
France · French · b. 1980
1 work
Vincent Delecroix
France · French · b. 1969
1 work
Grazia Deledda
Italy · Italian · 1871–1936
6 works
Gilles Deleuze
France · French · 1925–1995
1 work
Miguel Delibes
Spain · Spanish · 1920–2010
1 work
Demosthenes
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 384 BCE–322 BCE
10 works
Denis I of Portugal
Portugal · Galician-Portuguese · 1261–1325
1 work
Suat Derviş
Turkey · Turkish · 1905–1972
2 works
Agnès Desarthe
France · French · born 1966
5 works
René Descartes
France · Neo-Latin, French · 1596–1650
10 works
Mario Desiati
Italy · Italian · b. 1977
1 work
Claire Deya
France · French · c. 1965
1 work
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Senegal · French · b. 1955
2 works
Joël Dicker
Switzerland · French · b. 1985
4 works
Denis Diderot
France · French · 1713–1784
5 works
Kiki Dimoula
Greece · Modern Greek · 1931–2020
1 work
Cassius Dio
Roman Empire, Anatolia · Koine Greek · c. 165 - c. 235
1 work
Dio Chrysostom
Roman Empire, Anatolia · Koine Greek · c. 40 - c. 115
3 works
David Diop
France, Senegal · French · b. 1966
1 work
Philippe Djian
France · French · b. 1949
1 work
Alfred Döblin
Germany · German · 1878–1957
1 work
José Donoso
Chile · Spanish · 1924–1996
3 works
Ariel Dorfman
Argentina, Chile · Spanish · b. 1942
4 works
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russia · Russian · 1821–1881
18 works
Daša Drndić
Croatia · Croatian · 1946–2018
4 works
Du Fu
China · Classical Chinese · 712–770
1 work
Édouard Dujardin
France · French · 1861–1949
1 work
Alexandre Dumas
France · French · 1802–1870
9 works
Martin Dumont
France · French · b. 1988
1 work
Duo Duo
China · Modern Chinese · b. 1951
1 work
Marguerite Duras
France · French · 1914–1996
7 works
Claudia Durastanti
Italy · Italian · b. 1984
1 work
Émile Durkheim
France · French · 1858–1917
2 works
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Switzerland · German · 1921–1990
1 work
Elisa Shua Dusapin
Switzerland · French · born 1992
3 works
Jean Echenoz
France · French · b. 1947
7 works
Johann Peter Eckermann
Germany · German · 1792–1854
1 work
Meister Eckhart
Holy Roman Empire, Germany · Middle High German · 1260–1328
3 works
Umberto Eco
Italy · Italian · 1932–2016
7 works
Françoise Ega
France, Martinique · French · 1920–1976
1 work
Hans Eichner
Austria, Canada · German · 1921–2009
1 work
Einhard
France · Carolingian Latin · 775–840
1 work
Albert Einstein
Germany, USA · German, English · 1879–1955
10 works
Gunnar Ekelöf
Sweden · Swedish · 1907–1968
3 works
Cato the Elder
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · 234 BCE–149 BCE
1 work
Willem Elsschot
Belgium · Dutch · 1882–1960
1 work
Odysseas Elytis
Greece · Modern Greek · 1911–1996
14 works
Empedocles
Magna Graecia · Archaic Greek · c. 494 BCE - c. 434 BCE
2 works
Sextus Empiricus
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · mid/late 2nd century
5 works
Giuliano da Empoli
France · French, Italian · b. 1973
1 work
Mathias Énard
France · French · born 1972
7 works
Shūsaku Endō
Japan · Japanese · 1923–1996
1 work
Friedrich Engels
Germany · German, English · 1820–1895
4 works
Davide Enia
Italy · Italian · b. 1974
1 work
Álvaro Enrigue
Mexico · Spanish · b. 1969
3 works
Mariana Enriquez
Argentina · Spanish · born 1973
5 works
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Germany · German · 1929–2022
1 work
Xenophon of Ephesus
Anatolia, Roman Empire · Koine Greek · fl. 2nd - 3rd century
1 work
Epictetus
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 50 - c. 135
2 works
Epicurus
Ancient Greece · Koine Greek · 341 BCE–270 BCE
1 work
Erasmus
France, Holy Roman Empire · Neo-Latin · c. 1466–1536
1 work
Luciano Erba
Italy · Italian · 1922–2010
1 work
Annie Ernaux
France · French · b. 1940
8 works
Jenny Erpenbeck
Germany · German · b. 1967
7 works
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Germany, Holy Roman Empire · Middle High German · c. 1160-80 - c. 1220
2 works
Péter Esterházy
Hungary · Hungarian · 1950–2016
1 work
Euclid
Hellenistic World · Koine Greek · fl. 300 BCE
4 works
Euripides
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 480 BCE–406 BCE
20 works
Eusebius
Roman Palestine, Roman Empire · Koine Greek · 260–339
1 work
The Evangelists
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · Gospels were written c. 50-100
1 work
Ahmad ibn Fadlan
Abbasid Caliphate, Baghdad · Classical Arabic · c. 870-930
1 work
Urs Fae
Switzerland · German · b. 1947
1 work
Michel Fais
Greece · Modern Greek · b. 1957
2 works
Didier Fassin
France · French · b. 1955
2 works
Han Fei
China · Old Chinese · c. 280 - 233 BCE
1 work
Constantine Feldmann
Russia · Russian · 1881–1967
1 work
Feng Menglong
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · 1574–1646
1 work
Amedeo Feniello
Italy · Italian · b. 1962
1 work
Ferdowsi
Iran · Classical Persian · 940–1025
1 work
Nona Fernández
Chile · Spanish · b. 1971
3 works
Elena Ferrante
Italy · Italian · b. 1953
5 works
Joachim Fest
Germany · German · 1926–2006
1 work
Alexandre Dumas fils
France · French · 1824–1895
1 work
Agnolo Firenzuola
Italy · Italian · 1493–1543
1 work
Gustave Flaubert
France · French · 1821–1889
7 works
Dario Fo
Italy · Italian · 1926–2016
13 works
László F. Földényi
Hungary · Hungarian · b. 1952
2 works
Arturo Fontaine
Chile · Spanish · b. 1952
1 work
Jean de La Fontaine
France · French · 1621–1695
1 work
Theodor Fontane
Germany · German · 1819–1898
1 work
Denis Fonvizin
Russia · Russian · 1745–1792
1 work
Elena Fortún
Spain · Spanish · 1886–1952
1 work
Mario Fortunato
Italy · Italian · b. 1958
2 works
Ugo Foscolo
Italy, Austria · Italian · 1778–1827
2 works
Jon Fosse
Norway · Nynorsk · born 1959
9 works
Michel Foucault
France · French · 1926–1984
8 works
Marie de France
France · Old French · fl. 1160-1215
1 work
Anatole France
France · French · 1844–1924
10 works
Anne Frank
Germany, Netherlands · Dutch, German · 1929–1945
1 work
Angélica Freitas
Brazil · Portuguese · b. 1973
1 work
Rodrigo Fresán
Argentina, Spain · Spanish · b. 1963
1 work
Sigmund Freud
Austria · German · 1856–1939
9 works
Saul Friedländer
France, Israel · French, English · b. 1932
1 work
Jean Froissart
France · Old French · c. 1337 - c. 1405
1 work
Fulcher of Chartres
France · Medieval Latin · c. 1059 - after 1128
1 work
Marc Fumaroli
France · French · 1932–2020
1 work
Micí Mac Gabhann (Michael MacGowan)
Ireland · Ulster Irish · 1865–1948
1 work
Solomon ibn Gabirol
al Andalus · Judeo-Arabic, Medieval Hebrew · 1021/22 - c. 1070
2 works
Galen
Roman Empire, Anatolia · Koine Greek · 129–c. 216
2 works
Maria Celeste Galilei
Italy · Italian · 1600–1634
1 work
Galileo Galilei
Italy · Italian, Neo-Latin · 1564–1642
3 works
Antoine Galland
France · French · 1646–1715
1 work
Santiago Gamboa
Colombia · Spanish · born 1965
3 works
Michalis Ganas
Greece · Modern Greek · 1944–2024
7 works
Alisa Ganieva
Russia · Russian · born 1985
3 works
Franziska Gänsler
Germany · German · b. 1987
1 work
Gao Xingjian
China · Modern Chinese · b. 1940
13 works
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia · Spanish · 1927–2014
15 works
Anne Garréta
France · French · born c. 1962
3 works
Émile Ajar / Romain Gary
France · French · 1914–1980
4 works
Jean-Max Gaudillière
France · French · 1943–2014
1 work
Théophile Gautier
France · French · 1811–1872
2 works
GauZ'
Cote d'Ivoire · French · b. 1971
2 works
Anna Gavalda
France · French · born 1970
3 works
Andrei Gelasimov
Russia · Russian · b. 1965
4 works
Ia Genberg
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1967
2 works
Jean Genet
France · French · 1910–1986
9 works
Geoffrey of Monmouth
England · Medieval Latin · c. 1095 - c. 1155
1 work
Gerald of Wales
Wales · Medieval Latin · c. 1146 - c. 1223
5 works
Galo Ghigliotto
Chile · Spanish · b. 1977
1 work
Kahlil Gibran
Lebanon · Modern Arabic · 1883–1931
3 works
André Gide
France · French · 1869–1951
9 works
Natalia Ginzburg
Italy · Italian · 1916–1991
8 works
Malin Persson Giolito
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1969
4 works
Jean Giono
France · French · 1895–1970
8 works
Paolo Giordano
Italy · Italian · b. 1982
1 work
Marcos Giralt Torrente
Spain · Spanish · b. 1968
1 work
René Girard
France · French · 1923–2015
1 work
Anna Gmeyner
Austria · German · 1902–1991
0 works
Jón Gnarr
Iceland · Icelandic · born 1967
3 works
Godfrey of Viterbo
Germany, Italy · Medieval Latin · c. 1120 - c. 1200
1 work
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germany · German · 1749–1832
25 works
Vincent van Gogh
Netherlands · French, Dutch · 1853–1890
1 work
Nikolai Gogol
Ukraine, Russia · Russian · 1809–1852
8 works
Damião de Góis
Portugal · Neo-Latin, Portuguese · 1502–1574
1 work
Carlo Goldoni
Italy · Italian · 1707–1793
14 works
Witold Gombrowicz
Poland · Polish · 1904–1969
10 works
Luis Gómez
Spain · Neo-Latin · c. 1482 - 1542
1 work
Ivan Goncharov
Russia · Russian · 1812–1891
3 works
Goncourt Brothers
France · French · Edmond (1822-1896), Jules (1830-1870)
1 work
Ángel González
Spain · Spanish · 1925–2008
3 works
Belén Gopegui
Spain · Spanish · b. 1963
1 work
Maxim Gorky
Russia · Russian · 1868–1936
2 works
Georgi Gospodinov
Bulgaria · Bulgarian · b. 1968
4 works
Juan Goytisolo
Spain · Spanish · 1931–2017
3 works
Guido Gozzano
Italy · Italian · 1883–1916
3 works
Antonio Gramsci
Italy · Italian · 1891–1937
3 works
Günter Grass
Germany · German · 1927–2015
13 works
Ferdinand Gregorovius
Germany · German · 1821–1891
1 work
Gregory I
Italy, Byzantine Empire · Late Latin · c. 540–604
2 works
Seosamh Mac Grianna
Ireland · Irish · 1900/1901–1990
1 work
Alexander Griboyedov
Russia · Russian · 1795–1829
1 work
Jacob Grimm
Germany · German · 1785–1863
2 works
Brothers Grimm
Germany · German · Jacob 1784-1863; Wilhelm 1786-1859
1 work
Vasily Grossman
Russia · Russian · 1905–1964
3 works
Guan Hanqing
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · c. 1241–1320
1 work
Guarino Guarini
Italy · Italian · 1624–1683
1 work
Giovanni Battista Guarini
Italy · Italian · 1538–1612
1 work
Félix Guattari
France · French · 1930–1992
1 work
Carla Guelfenbein
Chile · Spanish · b. 1959
2 works
Che Guevara
Cuba, Argentina · Spanish · 1928–1967
6 works
Francesco Guicciardini
Italy · Italian · 1483–1540
1 work
François Guizot
France · French · 1787–1874
1 work
Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (Gorgani)
Iran · Classical Persian · 11th century
1 work
Lars Gustafsson
Sweden · Swedish · 1936–2016
10 works
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Cuba · Spanish · b. 1950
1 work
Petrus Gyllius
France · Neo-Latin · 1490–1555
1 work
Ha Seong-nan
South Korea · Korean · born 1967
3 works
Hella S. Haasse
Netherlands · Dutch · 1918–2011
0 works
Hubert Haddad
Tunisia · French · b. 1947
1 work
Hadewijch of Brabant
Netherlands · Brabantian Middle Dutch · c. 13th century
1 work
Yannick Haenel
France · French · b. 1967
1 work
Ernst Haffner
Germany · German · c. 1900 - c. 1938
1 work
Sakutarō Hagiwara
Japan · Japanese · 1886–1942
4 works
Tawfiq al-Hakim
Egypt · Modern Arabic · 1898–1987
12 works
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Roman Empire, Anatolia · Koine Greek · c. 60 BC - after 7 BC
1 work
Knut Hamsun
Norway · Norwegian · 1859–1952
5 works
Han Kang
South Korea · Korean · b. 1970
6 works
Shmuel HaNagid
Spain · Medieval Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic · 993 - c. 1056
3 works
Peter Handke
Austria · German · b. 1942
20 works
Roberto Harari
Argentina · Spanish · 1943–2009
1 work
Kaoutar Harci
France · French · b. 1987
1 work
Gunnar Harding
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1940
5 works
Indrek Hargla
Estonia · Estonian · b. 1970
2 works
Rodrigo Hasbún
Bolivia · Spanish · b. 1981
1 work
Jaroslav Hašek
Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia · Czech · 1883–1923
1 work
Jean Hatzfeld
France · French · b. 1949
1 work
Marlen Haushofer
Austria · German · 1920–1970
3 works
Johann Peter Hebel
Germany · German · 1760–1826
1 work
Sadeq Hedayat
Iran · Modern Persian · 1903–1951
3 works
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Germany · German · 1770–1831
8 works
Martin Heidegger
Germany · German · 1889–1976
1 work
Verner von Heidenstam
Sweden · Swedish · 1859–1940
1 work
Heinrich Heine
Germany · German · 1797–1856
5 works
Gaute Heivoll
Norway · Norwegian · b. 1978
2 works
Liliana Heker
Argentina · Spanish · b. 1943
1 work
Heliodorus of Emesa
Roman Empire, Roman Syria · Koine Greek · fl. c. 3rd - 4th century
1 work
Héloïse d'Argenteuil
France · Medieval Latin · 1101–1164
4 works
Henry of Huntingdon
England · Medieval Latin · c. 1088 - c. 1157
1 work
Gregor Hens
Germany · German · b. 1965
1 work
Heraclitus
Anatolia · Archaic Greek · 500 BCE–fl. c. 500 BC
2 works
Julián Herbert
Mexico · Spanish · born 1971
3 works
Hermas
Italy, Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 225 - c. 275
1 work
Joke J. Hermsen
Netherlands · Dutch · b. 1961
1 work
Herodian
Roman Empire, Roman Syria · Koine Greek · c. 170 - c. 240
1 work
Herodotus
Anatolia, Ancient Greece · Archaic Greek · 484 BCE–425 BCE
1 work
Yuri Herrera
Mexico · Spanish · born 1970
2 works
Tsangnyön Heruka
Tibet · Tibetan · 1452–1507
1 work
Alexander Herzen
Russia · Russian · 1812–1870
1 work
Hesiod
Ancient Greece · Homeric Greek · 750 BCE–650 BCE
5 works
Hermann Hesse
Germany, Switzerland · German · 1877–1962
3 works
Paul Heyse
Germany · German · 1830–1914
1 work
Papias of Hierapolis
Anatolia, Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 60 - c. 130
1 work
Hildegard of Bingen
Holy Roman Empire · Medieval Latin · 1098–1179
8 works
Hildur Knútsdóttir
Iceland · Icelandic · b. 1984
2 works
Hippocrates
Ancient Greece · Ionic Greek · c. 460 - c. 370 BC
68 works
Josef Hiršal
Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic · Czech · 1920–2003
1 work
Vigdis Hjorth
Norway · Norwegian · b. 1959
6 works
Hŏ Kyun
Korea · Early Modern Korean · 1569–1618
1 work
Peter Høeg
Denmark · Danish · b. 1957
8 works
Yoel Hoffmann
Israel · Modern Hebrew · 1937–2023
5 works
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Germany · German · 1776–1822
3 works
Gert Hofmann
Germany · German · 1931–1993
3 works
Ludwig Hohl
Switzerland · German · 1904–1980
1 work
Friedrich Hölderlin
Germany · German · 1770–1843
1 work
Homer
Greece · Homeric Greek · 900 BCE–803 BCE
3 works
Urszula Honek
Poland · Polish · b. 1987
1 work
Horace
Ancient Rome, Roman Empire · Classical Latin · 65 BCE–8 BCE
6 works
Michel Houellebecq
France · French · b. 1956
9 works
Bohumil Hrabal
Czechoslovakia · Czech · 1914–1997
8 works
Victor Hugo
France · French · 1802–1885
3 works
Alexander von Humboldt
Germany · French, German · 1769–1859
1 work
Joris-Karl Huysmans
France · French · 1848–1907
2 works
Iamblichus
Roman Empire, Syria · Koine Greek · fl. c. 165-180
1 work
Sonallah Ibrahim
Egypt · Modern Arabic · 1937–2025
1 work
Henrik Ibsen
Norway · Dano-Norwegian · 1828–1906
15 works
Ibycus
Magna Graecia · Archaic Greek · fl. c. 550-500 BCE
1 work
Saou Ichikawa
Japan · Japanese · b. 1979
1 work
Ignatius of Antioch
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · died c. 140
7 works
Ignatius of Loyola
Spain · Spanish, Neo-Latin · 1491–1556
2 works
Carolina Invernizio
Italy · Italian · 1851–1916
1 work
Irenaeus
Roman Empire, Gaul · Koine Greek · c. 125 - c. 202
1 work
Hamid Ismailov
Uzbekistan, Russia · Uzbek, Russian, French · b. 1954
1 work
Isocrates
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 436–338
0 works
Junji Ito
Japan · Japanese · b. 1963
4 works
Roy Jacobsen
Norway · Norwegian · 1954–2025
5 works
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Denmark · Danish · 1847–1885
1 work
Fleur Jaeggy
Switzerland · Italian · born 1940
6 works
Jean de Jandun
France · Medieval Latin · c. 1285 - 1328
1 work
Vladimir Jankélévitch
France · French · 1903–1985
1 work
Tove Jansson
Sweden · Swedish · 1914–2001
5 works
Jerzy Jarniewicz
Poland · Polish · b. 1958
1 work
Alfred Jarry
France · French · 1873–1907
3 works
Elfriede Jelinek
Austria · German · b. 1946
7 works
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Morocco · French · b. 1944
1 work
Johannes V. Jensen
Denmark · Danish · 1873–1950
1 work
Miljenko Jergović
Croatia, Bosnia-Herzogovina · Croatian · b. 1966
2 works
St. Jerome
Roman Empire · Late Latin, Koine Greek · c. 342-345–420
3 works
Ji Junxiang
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · c. 13th century
1 work
Meng Jiao
China · Chinese · 751–814
2 works
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Spain · Spanish · 1881–1958
4 works
Jocelin of Brakelond
England · Medieval Latin · c. 1150s - c. 1216-1230
1 work
John of the Cross
Spain · Spanish · 1542–1591
3 works
Eyvind Johnson
Sweden · Swedish · 1900–1976
1 work
John of Joinville
France · Old French · c. 1224–1317
1 work
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Iceland · Icelandic · b. 1963
4 works
Ragnar Jónasson
Iceland · Icelandic · b. 1976
1 work
Gert Jonke
Austria · German · 1946–2009
4 works
Flavius Josephus
Roman Judea, Roman Empire · Koine Greek, Aramaic · 37–100
2 works
Laia Jufresa
Mexico · Spanish · b. 1983
1 work
Julian the Apostate
Constantinople, Roman Empire · Koine Greek · 331–363
10 works
François Jullien
France · French · b. 1951
1 work
Carl Gustav Jung
Switzerland · German · 1875–1961
11 works
Ernst Jünger
Germany · German · 1895–1998
1 work
Itamar Vieira Junior
Brazil · Portuguese · b. 1979
1 work
Justinian
Byzantine Empire · Byzantine Greek, Late Latin · 482–565
1 work
Juvenal
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · c. 55–128
1 work
Ismail Kadare
Albania · Albanian · 1936–2024
9 works
Hédi Kaddour
France · French · b. 1945
1 work
Franz Kafka
Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia · German · 1883–1924
14 works
Jayanth Kaikini
India · Kannada · b. 1955
2 works
Kalidasa
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 4th - 5th century
1 work
Kambar
India · Tamil · 1180–1250
1 work
Anna Kamieńska
Poland · Polish · 1920–1986
6 works
Kan'ami Kiyotsugu
Japan · Classical Japanese · 1333–1384
2 works
Immanuel Kant
Germany · German · 1724–1804
3 works
Banna Kanute
Gambia · Mandinka · c. 1930 - 1994
1 work
Ryszard Kapuściński
Poland · Polish · 1932–2007
2 works
Rene Karabash
Bulgaria · Bulgarian · b. 1989
1 work
Nikolay Karamzin
Russia · Russian · 1766–1826
1 work
Andreas Karkavitsas
Greece · Modern Greek · 1866–1922
1 work
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Sweden · Swedish · 1864–1931
1 work
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Germany · German · 1901–1974
7 works
Kautilya
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 2nd-3rd century
1 work
Yasunari Kawabata
Japan · Japanese · 1899–1972
14 works
Hiromi Kawakami
Japan · Japanese · b. 1958
11 works
Mieko Kawakami
Japan · Japanese · b. 1976
5 works
Daniel Kehlmann
Germany · German · b. 1975
9 works
Thomas à Kempis
France · Medieval Latin · 1380–1471
1 work
Walter Kempowski
Germany · German · 1929–2007
3 works
Kenkō
Japan · Classical Japanese · 1283–1350
1 work
Johannes Kepler
Germany · Neo-Latin · 1571–1630
5 works
Lars Kepler
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1967
1 work
Imre Kertész
Hungary · Hungarian · 1929–2016
8 works
Euphrase Kezilahabi
Tanzania · Swahili · 1944–2020
3 works
Omar Khayyam
Iran, Turkey · Classical Persian · 1048–1131
1 work
Elias Khoury
Lebanon · Modern Arabic · 1948–2024
12 works
Vénus Khoury-Ghata
France · French · 1937–2026
3 works
Amir Khusrau (Khusro)
India · Urdu, Classical Persian · 1253–1325
1 work
Søren Kierkegaard
Denmark · Danish · 1813–1855
10 works
Danilo Kiš
Yugoslavia · Serbo-Croatian · 1935–1989
8 works
Heinrich von Kleist
Germany · German · 1777–1811
1 work
Ivan Klima
Czechia · Czech · 1931–2025
0 works
Alexander Kluge
Germany · German · 1932–2026
3 works
Karl Ove Knausgård
Norway · Norwegian · b. 1968
14 works
Edvard Kocbek
Slovenia · Slovene · 1904–1981
1 work
Wolfgang Koeppen
Germany · German · 1906–1996
3 works
Ibrahim al-Koni
Libya · Modern Arabic · b. 1948
9 works
György Konrád (George Konrad)
Hungary · Hungarian · 1933–2019
11 works
Dezső Kosztolányi
France · Hungarian · 1885–1936
3 works
Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Togo · French · b. 1941
1 work
Christian Kracht
Switzerland · German · b. 1966
4 works
László Krasznahorkai
Hungary · Hungarian · b. 1954
11 works
Karl Kraus
Austria · German · 1874–1936
2 works
Peter Kropotkin
Russia · Russian, French, English · 1842–1921
1 work
Jaan Kross
Estonia · Estonian · 1920–2007
6 works
Halyna Kruk
Ukraine · Ukrainian · b. 1974
1 work
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Russia · Russian · 1887–1950
4 works
Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakia, France · Czech, French · 1929–2023
10 works
Andrey Kurkov
Ukraine, Soviet Union · Russian · b. 1961
12 works
Eka Kurniawan
Indonesia · Bahasa Indonesia · born 1975
3 works
Robert Kurvitz
Estonia · Estonian · b. 1984
1 work
Madame de La Fayette
France · French · 1634–1693
1 work
Carlos Labbé
Chile · Spanish · born 1977
4 works
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
France · French · 1741–1803
1 work
Diogenes Laertius
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · fl. c. early third century
1 work
Jules Laforgue
France, Uruguay · French · 1860–1887
5 works
Pär Lagerkvist
Sweden · Swedish · 1891–1974
8 works
Selma Lagerlöf
Sweden · Swedish · 1858–1940
1 work
Nicola Lagioia
Italy · Italian · born 1973
2 works
Amara Lakhous
Italy · Italian · born 1970
5 works
Kev Lambert
Canada · French · b. 1992
3 works
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy · Italian · 1896–1957
1 work
Laozi
China · Archaic Chinese · 500 BCE–400 BCE
1 work
Alexandra Lapierre
France · French · born 1955
2 works
Stieg Larsson
Sweden · Swedish · 1954–2004
3 works
Stéphane Larue
Canada · French · b. 1983
1 work
Bartolomé de las Casas
Spain · Spanish · 1484–1566
2 works
Vincenzo Latronico
Italy · Italian · b. 1984
1 work
Comte de Lautréamont
France · French · 1846–1870
3 works
Halldór Laxness
Iceland · Icelandic · 1902–1998
10 works
Maurice Leblanc
France · French · 1864–1941
1 work
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Germany · Neo-Latin, French · 1646–1716
15 works
Michel Leiris
France · French · 1901–1990
15 works
Stanisław Lem
Poland · Polish · 1921–2006
21 works
Pedro Lemebel
Chile · Spanish · 1952–2015
3 works
Vladimir Lenin
Russia · Russian · 1879–1924
2 works
Michael Lentz
Germany · German · b. 1964
1 work
Moses de León
Spain · Aramaic, Medieval Hebrew · c. 1240–1305
1 work
Giacomo Leopardi
Italy · Italian · 1798–1837
3 works
Mikhail Lermontov
Russia · Russian · 1814–1841
1 work
Catherine Leroux
Canada · French · b. 1979
3 works
Nikolai Leskov
Russia · Russian · 1831–1895
8 works
Carlo Levi
Italy · Italian · 1902–1975
1 work
Primo Levi
Italy · Italian · 1919–1987
5 works
Li Haogu
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · lived c. 13th century - early 14th century
1 work
Li Bai (Li Po)
China · Classical Chinese · 701–762
1 work
Li Chaowei
China · Classical Chinese · lived c. late 8th - early 9th century
1 work
Liang Qichao
China · Late Classical Chinese · 1873–1929
1 work
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Germany · German · 1742–1799
1 work
Rosa Liksom
Finland · Finnish · born 1958
3 works
Jakov Lind
Austria · German · 1927–2007
3 works
Elvira Lindo
Spain · Spanish · b. 1962
1 work
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1968
3 works
Ewa Lipska
Poland · Polish · b. 1945
1 work
Clarice Lispector
Brazil · Portuguese · 1920–1977
16 works
Jonathan Littell
France, USA · French · b. 1969
1 work
Liu Cixin
China · Modern Chinese · b. 1963
3 works
Liu Xiang
China · Classical Chinese · 77 BCE–6 BCE
1 work
Livy
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · 59 BCE–17
1 work
Luljeta Lleshanaku
Albania · Albanian · born 1968
4 works
António Lobo Antunes
Portugal · Portuguese · 1942–2026
14 works
Longinus
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 1st century CE
1 work
Longus
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 2nd century
1 work
Federico García Lorca
Spain · Spanish · 1898–1936
8 works
Guillaume de Lorris
France · Old French · c. 1200 - c. 1240
1 work
Lucian
Roman Empire, Roman Syria · Koine Greek · c. 125 - c. 180
81 works
Lucretius
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · 99 BCE–55 BCE
1 work
Valeria Luiselli
Mexico, USA · Spanish · b. 1983
1 work
Luo Guanzhong
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · 1330–1400
1 work
Rosa Luxemburg
Germany, Poland · German · 1871–1919
1 work
Ma Zhiyuan
China · Classical Chinese · c. 1250–1321
1 work
Joachim Maria Machado de Assis
Brazil · Portuguese · 1839–1908
1 work
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italy · Italian · 1469–1527
5 works
Macrobius
Late Roman Empire · Late Latin · lived c. 400 - 450
1 work
Rachida Madani
Morocco · French · b. 1951
1 work
Claudio Magris
Italy · Italian · b. 1939
4 works
Akka Mahadevi
India · Kannada · 12th century
1 work
Naguib Mahfouz
Egypt · Modern Arabic · 1911–2006
5 works
Ana Paula Maia
Brazil · Portuguese · b. 1977
3 works
Maimonides
al-Andalus, Ayyubid Sultanate · Medieval Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic · c. 1135 - 1204
7 works
Andreï Makine
France, Russia · French · b. 1957
3 works
Luigi Malerba
Italy · Italian · 1927–2008
1 work
Stéphane Mallarmé
France · French · 1842–1898
4 works
Afrizal Malna
Indonesia · Bahasa Indonesia · b. 1957
1 work
André Malraux
France · French · 1901–1976
1 work
Claire Malroux
France · French · 1925–2025
6 works
Yuri Mamleev
Russia · Russian · 1931–2015
1 work
Jean-Patrick Manchette
France · French · 1942–1995
7 works
Osip Mandelstam
Russia · Russian · 1891–1938
3 works
Norman Manea
Romania, USA · Romanian · b. 1936
8 works
Antonio Manetti
Italy · Italian · 1423–1497
1 work
Henning Mankell
Sweden · Swedish · 1948–2015
1 work
Heinrich Mann
Germany · German · 1871–1950
1 work
Klaus Mann
Germany · German · 1906–1949
1 work
Thomas Mann
Germany · German · 1875–1955
5 works
Alessandro Manzoni
Italy, Austria · Italian · 1785–1873
1 work
Sándor Márai
Hungary · Hungarian · 1900–1989
1 work
Dacia Maraini
Italy · Italian · b. 1936
1 work
Giovanni Paolo Marana
Italy · French · 1642–1693
2 works
Emilio De Marchi
Italy · Italian · 1851–1901
1 work
Marcus Aurelius
Ancient Rome · Latin, Koine Greek · 121–180
1 work
Javier Marías
Spain · Spanish · 1951–2022
12 works
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italy · Italian, French · 1876–1944
2 works
Ranko Marinković
Croatia, Yugoslavia · Croatian · 1913–2001
1 work
Pierre de Marivaux
France · French · 1688–1763
3 works
Robert Marteau
France · French · 1925–2011
4 works
José Martí
Cuba · Spanish · 1853–1895
2 works
Martial
Roman Empire, Roman Spain · Classical Latin · c. 40 - c. 103
1 work
Roger Martin du Gard
France · French · 1881–1958
9 works
Luis Martín-Santos
Spain · Spanish · 1924–1964
0 works
Harry Martinson
Sweden · Swedish · 1904–1978
5 works
Justin Martyr
Roman Empire, Roman Palestine · Koine Greek · c. 90-100–165
4 works
Tip Marugg
Netherlands Antilles · Dutch · 1923–2006
1 work
Karl Marx
Germany · German, English · 1818–1883
7 works
Predrag Matvejević
Yugoslavia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina · Croatian · 1932–2017
3 works
Guy de Maupassant
France · French · 1850–1893
22 works
Claude Mauriac
France · French · 1914–1996
3 works
François Mauriac
France · French · 1885–1970
1 work
Laurent Mauvignier
France · French · b. 1967
3 works
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Soviet Union · Russian · 1893–1930
1 work
Lilian Mbaga
Tanzania · Swahili · b. 1991
1 work
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Germany · Low German · c. 1207 - c. 1282-1294
1 work
Lorenzo de' Medici
Italy · Italian · 1449–1492
2 works
Theognis of Megara
Ancient Greece · Archaic Greek · c. mid-6th century BC
1 work
Gerhard Meier
Switzerland · German · 1917–2008
1 work
Robert Melançon
Canada · French · b. 1947
2 works
Matteo Melchiore
Italy · Italian · b. 1981
1 work
Fernanda Melchor
Mexico · Spanish · born 1982
3 works
Meleager of Gadara
Judea · Koine Greek · fl. 1st century BCE
3 works
Thomas Melle
Germany · German · b. 1975
1 work
Roger Mello
Brazil · Portuguese · born 1965
4 works
Menander
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · c. 342/341 BC - c. 290 BC
21 works
Daniele Mencarelli
Italy · Italian · born 1974
3 works
Mencius (Mengzi)
China · Old Chinese · c. 371 - c. 289 BCE
1 work
Iman Mersal
Egypt · Modern Arabic · b. 1966
6 works
Sara Mesa
Spain · Spanish · born 1976
5 works
Guillebert de Mets
Belgium · French · c. 1390 - c. 1436
1 work
Jean de Meun
France · Old French · c. 1240 - c. 1305
1 work
Clemens Meyer
Germany · German · b. 1977
4 works
Amanda Michalopoulou
Greece · Modern Greek · born 1966
3 works
Andrée A. Michaud
Canada · French · b. 1957
1 work
Henri Michaux
France · French · 1899–1984
5 works
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Italy · Italian · 1475–1564
2 works
Pierre Michon
France · French · b. 1945
5 works
Adam Mickiewicz
Poland · Polish · 1798–1855
1 work
Dunya Mikhail
Iraq, USA · Modern Arabic, English · born 1965
5 works
Timotheus of Miletus
Anatolia · Archaic Greek · 446 BCE–357 BCE
4 works
Czesław Miłosz
Poland · Polish · 1911–2004
20 works
Hubert Mingarelli
France · French · 1956–2020
0 works
Marcus Minucius Felix
Roman Empire · Late Latin · c. 150 - c. 270
1 work
Yukio Mishima
Japan · Japanese · 1925–1970
22 works
Karim Miské
France · French · b. 1964
1 work
Gabriela Mistral
Chile · Spanish · 1889–1957
6 works
Maria Mitsora
Greece · Modern Greek · b. 1946
1 work
Martin Mittelmeier
Germany · German · b. 1971
1 work
Katama Mkangi
Kenya · Swahili · c. 1944 - 2004
1 work
Mo Yan
China · Modern Chinese · b. 1955
6 works
Patrick Modiano
France · French · b. 1945
19 works
Molière
France · French · 1622–1673
16 works
Clara Momanyi
Kenya · Swahili, English · c. 1960
1 work
Henry de Monfreid
France · French · 1879–1974
1 work
Michel de Montaigne
France · Middle French · 1533–1592
2 works
Eugenio Montale
Italy · Italian · 1896–1981
3 works
Mayra Montero
United States, Cuba · Spanish · b. 1952
8 works
Montesquieu
France · French · 1689–1755
1 work
Quim Monzó
Spain · Catalan, Spanish · born 1952
4 works
Terézia Mora
Hungary, Germany · German, Hungarian · b. 1971
1 work
Alberto Moravia
Italy · Italian · 1907–1990
30 works
Antonio Moresco
Italy · Italian · born 1947
3 works
Eduard Mörike
Germany · German · 1804–1875
2 works
Karl Philipp Moritz
Germany · German · 1756–1793
1 work
Moschus
Syracuse · Koine Greek · c. 2nd century BCE
1 work
Moses
Israel · Biblical Hebrew · legendary
1 work
Zeami Motokiyo
Japan · Classical Japanese · c. 1363 - c. 1443
16 works
Kanze Motomasa
Japan · Classical Japanese · c. 1394–1432
1 work
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austria · German · 1756–1791
1 work
Mozi
China · Archaic Chinese · 470 BCE–391 BCE
1 work
Giulio Mozzi
Italy · Italian · b. 1960
1 work
Fadhy Mtanga
Tanzania · Swahili · b. 1981
0 works
Muhammad
Arabia · Classical Arabic · c. 570–632
1 work
Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Congo · French · born 1981
3 works
Scholastique Mukasonga
France, Rwanda · French · born 1956
5 works
Herta Müller
Germany · German · b. 1953
10 works
Multatuli
Netherlands · Dutch · 1820–1887
1 work
Usama ibn Munqidh
Syria · Classical Arabic · 1095–1188
1 work
Haruki Murakami
Japan · Japanese · b. 1949
21 works
Murasaki Shikibu
Japan · Classical Japanese · 973–1020
2 works
Sayaka Murata
Japan · Japanese · b. 1979
0 works
Perumal Murugan
India · Tamil · b. 1966
15 works
Miyamoto Musashi
Japan · Japanese · c. 1583 - 1645
2 works
Banu Mushtaq
India · Kannada · b. 1948
7 works
Robert Musil
Austria · German · 1880–1942
12 works
Alfred de Musset
France · French · 1810–1857
1 work
Álvaro Mutis
Colombia · Spanish · 1923–2013
2 works
Cheon Myeong-kwan
South Korea · Korean · b. 1964
3 works
Wiesław Myśliwski
Poland · Polish · 1932–2026
3 works
Vladimir Nabokov
Russia, USA · Russian, English · 1899–1977
9 works
Johanan bar Nappaha
Roman Palestine · Galilean Aramaic · 180–279
1 work
Narayana Pandit
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 9th-10th century
1 work
Marguerite de Navarre
France · Middle French · 1492–1549
1 work
Marie NDiaye
France · French · b. 1967
11 works
María Negroni
Argentina · Spanish · b. 1951
1 work
Irene Nemirovsky
Russia, France · French · 1903–1942
5 works
Jan Neruda
Austria · Czech · 1834–1891
1 work
Pablo Neruda
Chile · Spanish · 1904–1973
25 works
Gérard de Nerval
France · French · 1808–1855
2 works
Jo Nesbø
Norway · Norwegian · b. 1960
8 works
Edoardo Nesi
Italy · Italian · b. 1964
1 work
Guadalupe Nettel
Mexico · Spanish · b. 1973
6 works
Andrés Neuman
Argentina · Spanish · born 1977
6 works
Isaac Newton
England · Neo-Latin, English · 1642–1727
7 works
Nguyen Thanh Hien
Vietnam · Vietnamese · b. 1940
1 work
Nguyễn Du
Vietnam · Vietnamese · 1766–1820
1 work
Friedrich Nietzsche
Germany · German · 1844–1900
7 works
Tsutomu Nihei
Japan · Japanese · b. 1971
1 work
Aya Nishitani
Japan · Japanese · b. 1955
1 work
Kanze Nobumitsu
Japan · Classical Japanese · b. 1435
1 work
Nonnus
Byzantine Empire · Homeric Greek · 5th century
1 work
Cees Nooteboom
Netherlands · Dutch · 1933–2026
22 works
Dorthe Nors
Denmark · Danish · born 1970
6 works
Amélie Nothomb
Belgium · French · born 1966
6 works
Flann O'Brien
Ireland · Irish · 1911–1966
1 work
Odoric of Pordenone
Italy · Medieval Latin · c. 1280 - 1331
1 work
Kenzaburō Ōe
Japan · Japanese · 1935–2023
7 works
Yōko Ogawa
Japan · Japanese · b. 1962
6 works
Samuel Bjork (Øien)
Norway · Norwegian · b. 1969
1 work
Bragi Ólafsson
Iceland · Icelandic · born 1962
3 works
Yury Olesha
Russia · Russian · 1899–1960
2 works
Maya Ombasic
Canada · French · b. 1979
1 work
Ondjaki
Angola · Portuguese · b. 1977
3 works
Fuyumi Ono
Japan · Japanese · b. 1960
2 works
Origen
Alexandria, Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 185 - c. 253
6 works
István Örkény
Hungary · Hungarian · 1912–1979
4 works
Sagymbai Orozbak uulu
Kyrgyzstan · Kyrgyz · 1868–1930
1 work
Hanne Ørstavik
Norway · Norwegian · born 1969
4 works
Alexander Ostrovsky
Russia · Russian · 1823–1886
2 works
Katsuhiro Otomo
Japan · Japanese · b. 1954
1 work
Ovid
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · 43 BCE–18
7 works
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo
Spain · Spanish · 1478–1557
1 work
Hiroko Oyamada
Japan · Japanese · born 1983
6 works
Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche)
Tibet · Tibetan · c. 700 - 900
1 work
Orhan Pamuk
Turkey · Turkish · b. 1952
15 works
Rithy Panh
Cambodia, France · French · b. 1964
1 work
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Spain · Spanish · 1851–1921
1 work
Park Jaesam
South Korea · Korean · 1933–1997
1 work
Parmenides
Magna Graecia · Archaic Greek · fl. c. late 5th - early 4th century BCE
3 works
Nicanor Parra
Spain · Spanish · 1914–2018
1 work
Shahrnush Parsipur
Iran · Modern Persian · b. 1946
2 works
Blaise Pascal
France · French · 1623–1662
10 works
Giovanni Pascoli
Italy · Italian · 1855–1912
10 works
Boris Pasternak
Russia · Russian · 1890–1960
3 works
Patanjali
India · Classical Sanskrit · lived c. 2nd century BC - 5th century AD
1 work
Paulinus Pellaeus
Roman Empire, France · Late Latin · 377 - c. 461
1 work
Pausanias
Roman Greece, Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 110 - c. 180
1 work
Cesare Pavese
Italy · Italian · 1908–1950
0 works
Octavio Paz
Mexico · Spanish · 1914–1998
12 works
Pearl Poet
England · Middle English · fl. c. late 14th century
4 works
Victor Pelevin
Russia · Russian · born 1962
6 works
Pepetela
Angola · Portuguese · b. 1941
1 work
Georges Perec
France · French · 1936–1981
4 works
Benito Pérez Galdós
Spain · Spanish · 1843–1920
1 work
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Spain · Spanish · b. 1950
4 works
Charles Perrault
France · French · 1628–1703
1 work
Valérie Perrin
France · French · born 1967
4 works
Saint-John Perse
France · French · 1887–1975
2 works
Persius
Roman Empire, Roman Italy · Classical Latin · 34–62
1 work
Fernando Pessoa
Portugal · Portuguese · 1888–1935
4 works
Peter the Venerable
France · Medieval Latin, Old French · c. 1092 - 1156
1 work
Petrarch
Italy · Italian, Neo-Latin · 1304–1374
8 works
Petronius
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · c. 27–c. 66 AD
1 work
Per Petterson
Norway · Norwegian · born 1952
8 works
Phaedrus
Ancient Rome · Latin · c. 15 BCE - c. 50 CE
1 work
Philo of Alexandria
Roman Empire, Alexandria · Koine Greek · c 20 BC - c 50
37 works
Philostratus
Roman Empire, Roman Greece · Koine Greek · c. 170s - 240s
4 works
Photios I of Constantinople
Eastern Roman Empire · Byzantine Greek · c. 815 - c. 893
2 works
Pablo Picasso
Spain · Spanish · 1881–1973
1 work
Lucio Piccolo
Italy · Italian · 1901–1969
4 works
Donatella di Pietrantonio
Italy · Italian · born 1962
4 works
Jerzy Pilch
Poland · Polish · 1952–2020
3 works
Pindar
Ancient Greece · Archaic Greek · c. 518 - c. 438 BCE
5 works
Irma Pineda
Mexico · Zapotec, Spanish · b. 1974
3 works
Robert Pinget
Switzerland · French · 1919–1997
0 works
Luigi Pirandello
Italy · Italian · 1867–1936
12 works
Sergio Pitol
Spain · Spanish · 1933–2018
7 works
Christine de Pizan
France · Middle French · 1364–c. 1430
2 works
Alejandra Pizarnik
Argentina · Spanish · 1936–1972
3 works
Josep Pla
Spain · Catalan · 1897–1981
4 works
Jacques Collin de Plancy
France · French · 1793–1881
1 work
Plato
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 428 BCE–348 BCE
37 works
Plautus
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · 254 BCE–184 BCE
9 works
Pliny the Elder
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · 23/24–79
1 work
Pliny the Younger
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · 61–c. 113
1 work
Plotinus
Roman Empire, Roman Egypt · Koine Greek · c. 204/205–270
1 work
Plutarch
Greece, Roman Empire · Koine Greek · 50–120
2 works
Marco Polo
Italy · Franco-Venetian, Italian · 1254–1324
1 work
Polybius
Roman Greece · Koine Greek · c. 200 - c. 118 BC
1 work
Polycarp
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · 69–155
1 work
Claude Ponti
France · French · born 1948
5 works
Henrik Pontoppidan
Denmark · Danish · 1857–1943
17 works
Marguerite Porete
Belgium, Holy Roman Empire, France · Old French · 1258–1310
1 work
Jente Posthuma
Netherlands · Dutch · b. 1974
1 work
Jacques Poulin
Canada · French · 1937–2025
5 works
Allama Prabhu
India · Kannada · c. 12th century
1 work
Uday Prakash
India · Hindi · b. 1952
2 works
Abbé Prévost
France · French · 1697–1763
1 work
Procopius
Byzantine Empire · Byzantine Greek · c. 500 - c. 565
3 works
Propertius
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · c. 50-45 BC - c. 15 BC
1 work
Marcel Proust
France · French · 1871–1922
7 works
Michael Psellus
Byzantine Empire · Byzantine Greek · c. 1018 - c. 1096
1 work
Ptolemy
Alexandria · Koine Greek · c. 100 - c. 170
2 works
Pu Songling
China · Classical Chinese · 1640–1715
1 work
Alexander Pushkin
Russia · Russian · 1799–1837
15 works
Fabio Pusterla
Switzerland · Italian, French · b. 1957
1 work
Qian Zhongshu
China · Modern Chinese · 1910–1998
1 work
Qingxin Cairen
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · c. 17th century
1 work
Quadratus of Athens
Roman Empire · Koine Greek · c. 50 - 129 CE
2 works
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italy · Italian · 1901–1968
1 work
Eça de Queiroz
Portugal · Portuguese · 1845–1900
1 work
Raymond Queneau
France · French · 1903–1976
10 works
Francisco de Quevedo
Spain · Spanish · 1580–1645
1 work
Jules Quicherat
France · French · 1814–1882
1 work
Pascal Quignard
France · French · b. 1948
21 works
Quintilian
Roman Empire, Roman Spain · Classical Latin · c. 35 - c. 100
1 work
Quintus Smyrnaeus
Late Roman Empire, Anatolia · Homeric Greek · c. late 4th century
1 work
Pascale Quiviger
Canada · French · b. 1969
1 work
François Rabelais
France · Middle French · 1494–1553
5 works
Jean Racine
France · French · 1639–1699
7 works
Zahia Rahmani
France, Algeria · French · b. 1962
1 work
Veronica Raimo
Italy · Italian · b. 1978
2 works
Ralph of Caen
France · Medieval Latin · c. 1080 - c. 1120
1 work
Muhsin Al-Ramli
Iraq, Spain · Modern Arabic · b. 1967
2 works
Graciliano Ramos
Brazil · Portuguese · 1892–1953
1 work
Christoph Ransmayr
Austria · German · b. 1954
7 works
Ravina II
Babylonia · Jewish Babylonian Aramaic · 5th century
1 work
Olga Ravn
Denmark · Danish · born 1986
3 works
Raymond of Aguilers
France · French · fl. c. late 11th - early 12th century
1 work
Erich Maria Remarque
Germany, USA · German · 1898–1970
0 works
Maurice Renard
France · French · 1875–1939
1 work
Laura Restrepo
Colombia · Spanish · b. 1950
1 work
Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Guatemala · Spanish · b. 1958
3 works
Władysław Reymont
Poland · Polish · 1867–1925
6 works
Gregor von Rezzori
Austria · German · 1914–1998
5 works
Djamila Ribeiro
Brazil · Portuguese · b. 1980
1 work
Lucas Rijneveld
Netherlands · Dutch · born 1991
2 works
Rainer Maria Rilke
Germany · German · 1875–1926
7 works
Arthur Rimbaud
France · French · 1854–1891
3 works
Seán Ó Ríordáin
Ireland · Irish · 1916–1977
2 works
Yiannis Ritsos
Greece · Modern Greek · 1909–1990
3 works
José Rizal
Philippines · Spanish · 1861–1896
2 works
Alain Robbe-Grillet
France · French · 1922–2008
2 works
Federico De Roberto
Italy · Italian · 1861–1927
1 work
François de La Rochefoucauld
France · French · 1613–1680
1 work
Mercè Rodoreda
Spain · Catalan · 1908–1983
1 work
Balam Rodrigo
Mexico · Spanish · b. 1974
1 work
Astrid Roemer
Suriname · Dutch · 1947–2026
4 works
Fernando de Rojas
Spain · Old Spanish · c. 1465/1473 - 1541
1 work
Carlos Rojas Vila
Spain · Spanish · 1928–2020
2 works
Clement I of Rome
Ancient Rome · Koine Greek · died c. 100 CE
4 works
Pierre de Ronsard
France · Middle French · 1524–1585
1 work
Adèle Rosenfeld
France · French · b. 1986
1 work
Evelio Rosero
Colombia · Spanish · born 1958
6 works
Amelia Rosselli
Italy · Italian · 1930–1996
1 work
Edmond Rostand
France · French · 1868–1918
1 work
Joseph Roth
Austria-Hungary · German · 1894–1939
5 works
Jacques Roubaud
France · French · 1932–2024
3 works
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Switzerland · French · 1712–1778
6 works
Raymond Roussel
France · French · 1877–1933
1 work
Tadeusz Różewicz
Poland · Polish · 1921–2014
2 works
Jean-Christophe Rufin
France · French · b. 1952
4 works
Rufinus of Aquileia
Ancient Rome · Late Latin · 344/345 - 411
1 work
Quintus Curtius Rufus
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · c. 1st century
1 work
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Spain · Spanish · 1964–2020
8 works
Juan Rulfo
Mexico · Spanish · 1917–1986
3 works
Rumi
Iran · Classical Persian, Classical Arabic · 1207–1273
2 works
Umberto Saba
Italy · Italian · 1883–1957
1 work
Ernesto Sabato
Argentina · Spanish · 1911–2011
3 works
Jaime Sabines
Mexico · Spanish · 1926–1999
7 works
Guillermo Saccomanno
Argentina · Spanish · born 1948
3 works
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Austria · German · 1836–1895
3 works
Marquis de Sade
France · French · 1740–1814
5 works
Saemundr Sigfússon
Iceland · Old Norse / Icelandic · 1056–1133
1 work
Juan José Saer
Argentina · Spanish · 1937–2005
7 works
Françoise Sagan
France · French · 1935–2004
4 works
Chika Sagawa
Japan · Japanese · 1911–1936
1 work
Ihara Saikaku
Japan · Japanese · 1642–1693
1 work
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
France · French · 1900–1944
1 work
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
France · French · 1737–1814
1 work
Duc de Saint-Simon
France · French · 1760–1822
1 work
Ivana Sajko
Croatia · Croatian · b. 1975
2 works
Emilio Salgari
Italy · Italian · 1862–1911
4 works
Sallust
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · c. 86 - c. 35 BC
2 works
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Russia · Russian · 1826–1889
2 works
Lydie Salvayre
France · French · born 1948
4 works
George Sand
France · French · 1804–1876
18 works
Andrzej Sapkowski
Poland · Polish · b. 1948
12 works
Sappho
Lesbos · Archaic Greek · c. 630 BC - c. 570 BC
1 work
José Saramago
Portugal · Portuguese · 1922–2010
3 works
Lady Sarashina (Takasue's daughter)
Japan · Japanese · c. 1008–c. 1058
1 work
Alejandro Saravia
Bolivia · Spanish · b. 1962
1 work
Margherita Sarfatti
Italy · Italian · 1880–1961
1 work
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Senegal · French · b. 1990
1 work
Nathalie Sarraute
France · French · 1900–1999
4 works
Giacomo Sartori
Italy · Italian · b. 1958
0 works
Jean-Paul Sartre
France · French · 1905–1980
11 works
Gaetano Savaterri
Italy · Italian · b. 1961
1 work
Peig Sayers
Ireland · Munster Irish · 1873–1958
2 works
Gábor Schein
Hungary · Hungarian · b. 1969
3 works
Friedrich Schiller
Germany · German · 1759–1805
6 works
Bernhard Schlink
Germany · German · b. 1944
1 work
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
France, Belgium · French · born 1960
6 works
Arthur Schopenhauer
Germany · German · 1788–1860
3 works
Bruno Schulz
Poland · Polish · 1892–1942
2 works
Evgeny Schwartz
Soviet Union · Russian · 1896–1958
1 work
Marcel Schwob
France · French · 1867–1905
0 works
Leonardo Sciascia
Italy · Italian · 1921–1989
5 works
Rocco Scotellaro
Italy · Italian · 1923–1953
2 works
Mihail Sebastian
Romania · Romanian · 1907–1945
1 work
George Seferis
Greece · Modern Greek · 1900–1971
9 works
Anna Seghers
Germany · German · 1900–1983
3 works
Mauricio Segura
Canada · French · b. 1969
3 works
Jaroslav Seifert
Czechoslovakia · Czech · 1901–1986
0 works
Seneca
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · c. 4 AD–65
6 works
Ra Yeshe Senge
Tibet · Tibetan · 12th century
1 work
Pierre Senges
France · French · b. 1968
8 works
Victor Serge
Belgium, Soviet Union · French · 1890–1947
4 works
Anne Serre
France · French · born 1960
6 works
Sulpicius Severus
Late Roman Empire, Gaul · Late Latin · c. 363 - c. 425
1 work
Madame de Sévigné
France · French · 1626–1696
1 work
Aharon Shabtai
Israel · Modern Hebrew · born 1939
9 works
Varlam Shalamov
Soviet Union · Russian · 1907–1982
1 work
Shankara
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 788-820 (disputed)
1 work
Vishnu Sharma
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 200 BC - AD 300
1 work
Shen Fu
China · Late Classical Chinese · 1763–1763 - after 1825
1 work
Shi Nai'an
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · c. 1296 - c.1372
1 work
Kazuko Shiraishi
Japan · Japanese · 1931–2024
4 works
Mikhail Shishkin
Russia, Switzerland · Russian · b. 1961
5 works
Viktor Shklovsky
Russia · Russian · 1893–1984
5 works
Mikhail Sholokhov
Russia · Russian · 1905–1984
0 works
Sei Shōnagon
Japan · Classical Japanese · 966–1015
1 work
Yang Shuang-zi
Taiwan · Modern Chinese · b. 1984
1 work
Diodorus Siculus
Ancient Greece · Koine Greek · 1st century BC
1 work
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poland · Polish · 1846–1916
1 work
Silius Italicus
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · c. 26 - c. 101
1 work
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Finland · Finnish · 1888–1964
3 works
Sima Qian
China · Chinese · c. 145 BCE - c. 86 BCE
1 work
Georges Simenon
Belgium · French · 1903–1989
1 work
Claude Simon
France · French · 1913–2005
1 work
Simonides
Aegean · Archaic Greek · c. 556 BCE - c. 468 BCE
1 work
Sîn-lēqi-unninni
Mesopotamia · Akkadian, Sumerian · 2100 BCE–1201 BCE
1 work
Pierre Singaravélou
France · French · b. 1977
1 work
Israel Joshua Singer
Poland, USA · Yiddish · 1893–1944
1 work
Isaac Bashevis Singer
United States · Yiddish, English · 1903–1991
8 works
Bion of Smyrna
Anatolia · Koine Greek · fl. c. 150-50 BCE
2 works
A. L. Snijders
Netherlands · Dutch · 1937–2021
3 works
Snorri Sturluson
Iceland · Old Norse / Icelandic · 1179–1241
2 works
Hwang Sok-yong
South Korea · Korean · b. 1943
1 work
Sasha Sokolov
Canada, Russia · Russian · b. 1943
5 works
Fyodor Sologub
Russia · Russian · 1863–1927
1 work
Solomon
Israel · Biblical Hebrew · c. 10th century BCE
1 work
Dag Solstad
Norway · Norwegian · 1941–2025
4 works
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russia · Russian · 1918–2009
8 works
Somacandra
India · Classical Sanskrit · 15th century
1 work
Somadeva
India · Classical Sanskrit · 11th century
1 work
Göran Sonnevi
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1939
7 works
Sophocles
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · 497 BCE–406 BCE
8 works
Vladimir Sorokin
Russia · Russian · b. 1955
9 works
Roberto Sosa
Honduras · Spanish · 1930–2011
4 works
Natsume Sōseki
Japan · Japanese · 1867–1916
3 works
Ersi Sotiropoulou
Greece · Greek · b. 1953
1 work
Philippe Soupault
France · French · 1897–1990
2 works
Pierre Souvestre
France · French · 1874–1914
1 work
Baruch Spinoza
Netherlands · Latin · 1632–1677
0 works
Carl Spitteler
Switzerland · German · 1845–1924
4 works
Germaine de Staël
Switzerland, France · French · 1766–1817
3 works
Peter Stamm
Switzerland · German · born 1963
0 works
Notker the Stammerer
Carolingian Empire, Switzerland · Medieval Latin · c. 840–912
1 work
Gaspara Stampa
Italy · Italian · 1523–1554
1 work
Domenico Starnone
Italy · Italian · born 1943
7 works
Statius
Roman Empire, Roman Italy · Classical Latin · c. 49 - c. 96
3 works
Stendhal
France · French · 1783–1842
5 works
Maria Stepanova
Russia · Russian · born 1979
3 works
Stesichorus
Aegean · Archaic Greek · c. 630 - 555 BCE
1 work
Adalbert Stifter
Austria, Bohemia · German · 1805–1868
4 works
Igor Štiks
Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina · Croatian · b. 1977
3 works
Hanna Stoltenberg
Norway · Norwegian · b. 1989
1 work
Strabo
Roman Empire, Anatolia · Koine Greek · c. 64/63 BC - c. 24 AD
1 work
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Italy · Italian · c. 1485 - 1558
1 work
Gottfried von Strassburg
Germany · Middle High German · died c. 1210
1 work
Strato
Anatolia · Koine Greek · fl. c. early 2nd century
1 work
August Strindberg
Sweden · Swedish · 1849–1912
6 works
Strugatsky Brothers (Arkady and Boris Strugatsky)
Russia · Russian · 1925–1991
1 work
Suetonius
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · c. 69 AD - c. 122 AD
1 work
Tatiana Sukhotina-Tolstaya
Russia · Russian · 1864–1950
0 works
Sun Tsu
China · Archaic Chinese · 544 BCE–496 BCE
1 work
Erik Axl Sund
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1974
1 work
Sushruta
India · Classical Sanskrit · lived c. 750-250 BC
1 work
Bamba Suso
Gambia · Mandinka · d. 1974
1 work
Søren Sveistrup
Denmark · Danish · b. 1968
1 work
Amanda Svensson
Sweden · Swedish · b. 1987
1 work
Italo Svevo
Italy · Italian · 1861–1928
1 work
Bridget of Sweden
Sweden · Medieval Latin · c. 1304–1373
1 work
Magda Szabó
Hungary · Hungarian · 1917–2007
4 works
Wisława Szymborska
Poland · Polish · 1923–2012
3 works
Antonio Tabucchi
Italy · Italian · 1943–2012
13 works
Tacitus
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · 56–120
4 works
Aeneas Tacticus
Ancient Greece · Classical Attic Greek · 4th century BC
0 works
Rabindranath Tagore
India · Bengali · 1861–1941
7 works
Shūzō Takiguchi
Japan · Japanese · 1903–1979
3 works
Susanna Tamaro
Italy · Italian · b. 1957
2 works
Dezső Tandori
Hungary · Hungarian · 1938–2019
1 work
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Turkey · Turkish · 1901–1962
2 works
Xue Tao
China · Chinese · c. 770 - 832
1 work
Torquato Tasso
Italy · Italian · 1544–1595
5 works
Tatian the Assyrian
Roman Empire, Syria · Koine Greek · c. 117 - c. 185
1 work
Yoko Tawada
Japan, Germany · Japanese, German · b. 1960
6 works
Giuliana Tedeschi
Italy · Italian · 1914–2010
1 work
Emili Teixidor
Spain · Catalan · 1932–2012
1 work
Ana Enriqueta Terán
Venezuela · Spanish · 1918–2017
5 works
Terence
Ancient Rome · Classical Latin · 195 BCE–159 BCE
6 works
Teresa of Ávila
Spain · Spanish · 1515–1582
3 works
Gabriele Tergit
Germany · German · 1894–1982
2 works
Tertullian
Roman Africa, Roman Empire · Late Latin · c. 155 - c. 220
32 works
Theocritus
Syracuse · Koine Greek · c. 300 - c. 260 BCE
1 work
Theophilus of Antioch
Roman Empire, Syria · Ancient Greek · d. 183
1 work
Klaus Theweleit
Germany · German · b. 1942
1 work
Franck Thilliez
France · French · b. 1973
2 works
Thiruvalluvar
India · Old Tamil · c. 6th century
1 work
Thucydides
Classical Athens · Classical Attic Greek · c. 460 - c. 400 BC
1 work
Carl Frode Tiller
Norway · Nynorsk · born 1970
3 works
Uwe Timm
Germany · German · born 1940
5 works
Aleksandar Tišma
Yugoslavia, Serbia · Serbian · 1924–2003
0 works
Alexis de Tocqueville
France · French · 1805–1859
2 works
Olga Tokarczuk
Poland · Polish · b. 1962
3 works
Leo Tolstoy
Russia · Russian · 1828–1910
20 works
Jáchym Topol
Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia · Czech · b. 1962
1 work
Benedek Totth
Hungary · Hungarian · b. 1977
1 work
Gregory of Tours
France · Late Latin · c. 538–594
1 work
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Belgium · French · born 1957
5 works
Alia Trabucco Zerán
Chile · Spanish · b. 1983
2 works
Tomas Tranströmer
Sweden · Swedish · 1931–2015
0 works
Larry Tremblay
Canada · French · b. 1954
1 work
Chrétien de Troyes
France · Old French · 1160–1191
5 works
Mizuki Tsujimura
Japan · Japanese · b. 1980
2 works
Marina Tsvetaeva
Russia · Russian · 1892–1941
5 works
Leonid Tsypkin
Soviet Union · Russian · 1926–1982
3 works
Magdalena Tulli
Poland · Polish · born 1955
4 works
Ivan Turgenev
Russia · Russian · 1818–1883
19 works
Turoldus
France · French, Old French · 1000–1100
1 work
Dubravka Ugrešić
Yugoslavia, Netherlands · Croatian · 1949–2023
0 works
Hebe Uhart
Argentina · Spanish · 1936–2018
5 works
Uketsu
Japan · Japanese · c. 1990
3 works
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Russia · Russian · b. 1943
1 work
Sigrid Undset
Norway · Dano-Norwegian, Norwegian · 1882–1949
3 works
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Italy · Italian · 1888–1970
2 works
Mati Unt
Estonia · Estonian · 1944–2005
3 works
Ibn Abi Usaybi'a
Syria, Ayyubid Sultanate · Classical Arabic · 1203–1270
1 work
Vagbhata
India · Classical Sanskrit · lived c. 400-800
1 work
Diego Valeri
Italy · Italian · 1887–1976
1 work
Valerius Flaccus
Roman Empire · Classical Latin · died c. 90
1 work
Vallabhadeva
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. later 1300s - early 1400s
1 work
César Vallejo
Peru · Spanish · 1892–1938
1 work
Valmiki
India · Epic Sanskrit · c. 8th-4th century BC
1 work
Jean-Christophe Valtat
France · French, English · b. 1968
1 work
Thanasis Valtinos
Greece · Modern Greek · 1932–2024
1 work
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peru · Spanish · 1936–2025
8 works
Varro
Late Roman Empire · Classical Latin · 116 BCE–27 BCE
2 works
Giorgio Vasari
Italy · Italian · 1511–1574
1 work
Lope de Vega
Spain · Spanish · 1562–1635
1 work
Grazia Verasani
Italy · Italian · b. 1964
2 works
Giovanni Verga
Italy · Italian · 1840–1922
5 works
Dimitri Verhulst
Belgium · Dutch · born 1972
1 work
Paul Verlaine
France · French · 1844–1896
12 works
Jules Verne
France · French · 1828–1905
7 works
Tarjei Vesaas
Norway · Nynorsk · 1897–1970
2 works
Giambattista Vico
Italy · Italian · 1668–1744
1 work
Alfred de Vigny
France · French · 1797–1863
1 work
Enrique Vila-Matas
Spain · Spanish · b. 1948
2 works
Geoffrey of Villehardouin
France · Old French · c. 1150 - c. 1218
1 work
François Villon
France · Middle French · c. 1431 - after 1463
4 works
Virgil
Ancient Rome, Roman Empire · Classical Latin · 70 BCE–19 BCE
4 works
Vishakhadatta
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 6th century
1 work
Vitruvius
Ancient Rome, Roman Empire · Classical Latin · c. 80/70 BC - c. 15 BC
1 work
Elio Vittorini
Italy · Italian · 1908–1966
4 works
Eugene Vodolazkin
Russia · Russian · b. 1963
1 work
Harald Voetmann
Denmark · Danish · born 1978
3 works
Antoine Volodine
France · French · b. 1950
12 works
Voltaire
France · French · 1694–1778
7 works
Jacobus de Voragine
Italy · Medieval Latin · 1230–1298
1 work
Varujan Vosganian
Romania · Romanian · b. 1958
1 work
Alexander Vvedensky
Russia · Russian · 1904–1941
1 work
Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa
India · Epic Sanskrit · legendary, Mahabharata was mostly completed in 4th-3rd century BCE
3 works
Robert Walser
Switzerland · German · 1878–1956
6 works
Wang Wei
China · Classical Chinese · 699–761
1 work
Saadallah Wannous
Syria · Modern Arabic · 1941–1997
5 works
Jakob Wassermann
Germany · German · 1873–1934
1 work
Jiří Weil
Czechoslovakia · Czech · 1900–1959
1 work
Simone Weil
France · French · 1909–1943
1 work
Gabriela Wiener
Peru · Spanish · b. 1975
2 works
William of Tyre
France · French · c. 1139 - 1186
1 work
Grzegorz Wróblewski
Poland, Denmark · Polish · b. 1962
1 work
Wu Cheng'en
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · 1500–1580
1 work
Stanisław Wyspiański
Poland · Polish · 1869–1907
1 work
Johann David Wyss
Switzerland · German · 1743–1818
1 work
Emi Yagi
Japan · Japanese · b. 1988
2 works
Satoshi Yagisawa
Japan · Japanese · b. 1977
2 works
Yajnavalkya
India · Classical Sanskrit · c. 7th century BC
1 work
Gabriela Ybarra
Spain · Spanish · b. 1983
1 work
Venedikt Yerofeyev
Russia · Russian · 1938–1990
1 work
Seishi Yokomizo
Japan · Japanese · 1902–1981
8 works
Eiji Yoshikawa
Japan · Japanese · 1892–1962
2 works
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
Iceland · Icelandic · b. 1963
1 work
Ji Yun
China · Chinese · 1724–1805
1 work
Asako Yuzuki
Japan · Japanese · b. 1981
2 works
Gabriel Zaid
Mexico · Spanish · b. 1934
2 works
Alejandro Zambra
Chile · Spanish · b. 1975
1 work
Yeveny Zamyatin
Russia · Russian · 1884–1937
1 work
Andrea Zanzotto
Italy · Italian · 1921–2011
9 works
Ghassan Zaqtan
Jordan, Palestine · Modern Arabic · b. 1954
6 works
Zyranna Zateli
Greece · Modern Greek · b. 1951
1 work
Zengzi
China · Archaic Chinese · 505 BCE–435 BCE
1 work
Serhiy Zhadan
Ukraine · Ukrainian · b. 1974
13 works
Zheng Guangzu
China · Classical Vernacular Chinese · c. 1260 - c. 1320
1 work
Zhisheng
China · Classical Chinese · 699–740
1 work
Duke of Zhou
China · Archaic Chinese · c. 1090 - c. 1032 BC
3 works
Zhuang Zhou
China · Archaic Chinese · 369 BCE–295 BCE
1 work
Youssef Ziedan
Egypt · Modern Arabic · b. 1958
1 work
Zisi
China · Archaic Chinese · c. 481 - c. 402 BC
1 work
Tomáš Zmeškal
Czech Republic · Czech · b. 1966
1 work
Émile Zola
France · French · 1840–1902
22 works
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Russia · Russian · 1894–1958
1 work
Zou Jingzhi
China · Chinese · b. 1952
1 work
Unica Zürn
Germany · German · 1916–1970
1 work
Stefan Zweig
Austria-Hungary · German · 1881–1941
6 works
Unknown
119 works