Writers & Poets
68 entries in the Writers & Poets compendium.
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GhalibIndian poet and letter writer of the Mughal Empire.Gotthold Ephraim LessingGerman Enlightenment philosopher, dramatist, and first dramaturg.Gustave FlaubertFrench novelist and leading exponent of literary realism.Guy de Maupassant19th-century French short story master and naturalist author.HafezPersian lyric poet whose collected works are regarded as one of the highest pinnacles of PHan YuTang dynasty essayist and Confucian scholar who shaped Neo-Confucianism.Haruki MurakamiJapanese author of best-selling, genre-blending novels.Heinrich HeineGerman poet and satirist whose works were banned and later became prophetic.Henrik IbsenNorwegian playwright considered father of modern drama.Henry JamesAmerican-British novelist, key figure between realism and modernism.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAmerican poet and educator, fireside poet from New England.Hermann HesseGerman-Swiss poet and novelist, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.Honoré de BalzacFrench novelist and playwright, founder of realism.Hunter S. ThompsonAmerican journalist and author who popularized gonzo journalism.Ivan BuninFirst Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933.Ivan TurgenevRussian novelist and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.J. M. CoetzeeSouth African and Australian novelist, Nobel laureate, and two-time Booker winner.J. R. R. TolkienEnglish author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.Jack KerouacAmerican novelist and poet, Beat Generation pioneer.Jack LondonAmerican novelist, journalist, activist, and pioneer of commercial fiction.James JoyceIrish modernist writer known for Ulysses and stream of consciousness.Jane AustenEnglish novelist whose six major novels have inspired nearly two centuries of adaptations.Jean CocteauAvant-garde artist whose work spanned poetry, theatre, and film.Jean RacineFrench dramatist, master of neoclassical tragedy and the alexandrine.Abu NuwasForemost Abbasid poet of wine, pleasure, and homoerotic verse.Adam MickiewiczPolish Romantic poet and national bard of Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus.Alejo CarpentierCuban novelist and founder of magical realism in Latin American literature.Alexander PopeEnglish poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era.Alexander PushkinRussian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Alexandre DumasFrench writer of historical adventure serials.Anna AkhmatovaRussian and Soviet poet whose work witnessed Stalinist terror and memory.Arthur RimbaudFrench poet who stopped writing at age 20.Bai JuyiTang dynasty poet, politician, and musician known for vernacular verse.Ben OkriNigerian-born British poet and novelist, Booker Prize winner.Bertolt BrechtGerman theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.Carlos FuentesMexican novelist, essayist, and ambassador to France.Chinghiz AitmatovKyrgyz author and diplomat known for blending folklore with Soviet life.Chinua AchebeNigerian novelist, poet, and critic, central figure of modern African literature.Constantine P. CavafyGreek poet from Alexandria, known for historical and sensual verse.D. H. LawrenceEnglish modernist writer whose works faced censorship for explicit content.Du FuTang dynasty poet and civil servant, devastated by the An Lushan rebellion.Edith WhartonAmerican writer and designer of the Gilded Age.Emily DickinsonAmerican poet whose work was largely unpublished until after her death.Ezra PoundAmerican poet and critic who shaped modernism and faced treason charges.F. Scott FitzgeraldAmerican novelist who chronicled the Jazz Age's excess.Federico García LorcaSpanish poet, playwright, and theatre director of the Generation of '27.FerdowsiPersian poet who composed the epic Shahnameh.François RabelaisFrench Renaissance writer, physician, and satirist.François VillonLate medieval French poet and criminal.Fuzuli (poet)16th-century poet of Azerbaijani, Persian, and Arabic works.Gabriel García MárquezColombian writer and journalist, Nobel laureate in literature.KālidāsaClassical Sanskrit author, often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.Léopold Sédar SenghorFirst president of Senegal and theorist of Négritude.Jin YongKorean poet and translator of English poetry.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman polymath and most influential writer in the German language.John DrydenEnglish poet, critic, translator, playwright; first Poet Laureate (1668).John MiltonEnglish poet, polemicist, and civil servant, author of Paradise Lost.John SteinbeckAmerican writer and Nobel laureate known for social realism.Joseph BrodskyRussian-American poet and Nobel laureate expelled from the Soviet Union.Joseph ConradPolish-British novelist who mastered English prose.José SaramagoPortuguese writer awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.Jules VerneFrench author of adventure novels blending science and imagination.Kabir15th-century Indian mystic poet critical of organised religion.Kahlil GibranLebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist.KalidasaClassical Sanskrit author, often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright.Karen BlixenDanish author of Out of Africa and Babette's Feast.Kazuo IshiguroBritish novelist awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.Kenzaburō ŌeJapanese Nobel laureate whose work fused myth and modern predicament.
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