[{"n": "Lord Byron", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/lord-byron/", "s": "British Romantic poet and satirist, known for Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage."}, {"n": "Marcel Proust", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/marcel-proust/", "s": "French novelist who pioneered stream of consciousness."}, {"n": "Mark Twain", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/mark-twain/", "s": "American writer, humorist, and essayist, author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."}, {"n": "Matsuo Bashō", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/matsuo-bash/", "s": "The greatest master of haiku and a wandering poet of the Edo period."}, {"n": "Maya Angelou", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/maya-angelou/", "s": "Author and poet, best known for her autobiographies."}, {"n": "Mikhail Lermontov", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/mikhail-lermontov/", "s": "Russian Romantic poet and prose writer, key figure after Pushkin."}, {"n": "Natsume Sōseki", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/natsume-s-seki/", "s": "Japanese novelist, poet, and scholar of English literature."}, {"n": "Omar Khayyam", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/omar-khayyam/", "s": "Persian poet and polymath who revolutionized algebra and astronomy."}, {"n": "Ousmane Sembène", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/ousmane-semb-ne/", "s": "Father of African film and one of Africa's greatest authors."}, {"n": "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/percy-bysshe-shelley/", "s": "English Romantic poet and radical thinker."}, {"n": "Rabindranath Tagore", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/rabindranath-tagore/", "s": "The Bard of Bengal"}, {"n": "Roald Dahl", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/roald-dahl/", "s": "British author of children's literature whose works were controversially expurgated by Puffin Books in 2023."}, {"n": "Leo Tolstoy", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/leo-tolstoy/", "s": "Russian writer acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time."}, {"n": "Lewis Carroll", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/lewis-carroll/", "s": "English author, poet, mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderl"}, {"n": "Luís de Camões", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/lu-s-de-cam-es/", "s": "Portuguese poet, author of the epic Os Lusíadas."}, {"n": "Lu Xun", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/lu-xun/", "s": "Chinese writer who pioneered modern vernacular literature."}, {"n": "Lucretius", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/lucretius/", "s": "Roman poet and philosopher, author of De rerum natura."}, {"n": "Luigi Pirandello", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/luigi-pirandello/", "s": "Italian dramatist awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature."}, {"n": "Machado de Assis", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/machado-de-assis/", "s": "Founder and first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters."}, {"n": "Margaret Atwood", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/margaret-atwood/", "s": "Canadian author of The Handmaid's Tale and inventor."}, {"n": "Mary Shelley", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/mary-shelley/", "s": "English novelist who wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), an early science fiction work."}, {"n": "Maxim Gorky", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/maxim-gorky/", "s": "Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, and socialist advocate."}, {"n": "Mikhail Bulgakov", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/mikhail-bulgakov/", "s": "Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright whose posthumous novel reshaped his reputation."}, {"n": "Mikhail Sholokhov", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/mikhail-sholokhov/", "s": "Soviet Russian writer, author of And Quiet Flows the Don."}, {"n": "Molière", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/moli-re/", "s": "French playwright, actor, and poet, master of comedy."}, {"n": "Muhammad Iqbal", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/muhammad-iqbal/", "s": "Islamic philosopher and poet whose vision inspired the Pakistan Movement"}, {"n": "Murasaki Shikibu", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/murasaki-shikibu/", "s": "Heian-era novelist and lady-in-waiting, author of The Tale of Genji."}, {"n": "Naguib Mahfouz", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/naguib-mahfouz/", "s": "Egyptian author of the 1947 novel Midaq Alley, set in a Cairo back street as a microcosm of the world."}, {"n": "Nikolai Gogol", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/nikolai-gogol/", "s": "Russian writer of Ukrainian origin, master of the grotesque."}, {"n": "Nizami Ganjavi", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/nizami-ganjavi/", "s": "12th-century Persian poet, master of romantic epic."}, {"n": "Orhan Pamuk", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/orhan-pamuk/", "s": "Turkish novelist and 2006 Nobel laureate in literature."}, {"n": "Oscar Wilde", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/oscar-wilde/", "s": "Irish author, poet and playwright; key figure in Aestheticism; known for The Picture of Dorian Gray and his so"}, {"n": "Ovid", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/ovid/", "s": "Roman poet exiled for a poem and a mistake."}, {"n": "Pablo Neruda", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/pablo-neruda/", "s": "Chilean poet-diplomat and Nobel laureate."}, {"n": "Premchand", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/premchand/", "s": "Pioneer of Hindi and Urdu social fiction."}, {"n": "Qu Yuan", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/qu-yuan/", "s": "Chinese poet and aristocrat of the Warring States period."}, {"n": "Rainer Maria Rilke", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/rainer-maria-rilke/", "s": "Austrian poet known for Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus"}, {"n": "Ray Bradbury", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/ray-bradbury/", "s": "American author who wrote the story he considered the essence of his work."}, {"n": "Raymond Chandler", "u": "/e/authors-and-poets/raymond-chandler/", "s": "American-British novelist and screenwriter, creator of Philip Marlowe."}]