[{"n": "Ghalib", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/ghalib/", "s": "The poet of love, loss, and philosophy in Mughal India."}, {"n": "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/gotthold-ephraim-lessing/", "s": "German Enlightenment philosopher, dramatist, and first dramaturg."}, {"n": "Guy de Maupassant", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/guy-de-maupassant/", "s": "19th-century French short story master and naturalist author."}, {"n": "Han Yu", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/han-yu/", "s": "Tang dynasty essayist, Confucian scholar, and prose master who shaped Neo-Confucianism."}, {"n": "Henrik Ibsen", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/henrik-ibsen/", "s": "Norwegian playwright considered father of modern drama."}, {"n": "Hermann Hesse", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/hermann-hesse/", "s": "German-Swiss poet and novelist, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature."}, {"n": "Honoré de Balzac", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/honor-de-balzac/", "s": "French novelist and playwright, founder of realism in European literature"}, {"n": "Hunter S. Thompson", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/hunter-s-thompson/", "s": "American journalist and author who popularized gonzo journalism."}, {"n": "James Joyce", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/james-joyce/", "s": "Irish modernist writer known for Ulysses and stream of consciousness."}, {"n": "Abu Nuwas", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/abu-nuwas/", "s": "Foremost Abbasid poet of wine, pleasure, and homoerotic verse."}, {"n": "Adam Mickiewicz", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/adam-mickiewicz/", "s": "Polish Romantic poet and national bard of Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus."}, {"n": "Alexandre Dumas", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/alexandre-dumas/", "s": "French writer of historical adventure serials."}, {"n": "Anna Akhmatova", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/anna-akhmatova/", "s": "Russian and Soviet poet whose work witnessed Stalinist terror and memory."}, {"n": "Bai Juyi", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/bai-juyi/", "s": "Tang dynasty poet, politician, and musician known for vernacular verse and long narrative poems."}, {"n": "Ben Okri", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/ben-okri/", "s": "Nigerian-born British poet and novelist, Booker Prize winner."}, {"n": "Bertolt Brecht", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/bertolt-brecht/", "s": "German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet."}, {"n": "Chinua Achebe", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/chinua-achebe/", "s": "Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, central figure of modern African literature."}, {"n": "Constantine P. Cavafy", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/constantine-p-cavafy/", "s": "A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe."}, {"n": "D. H. Lawrence", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/d-h-lawrence/", "s": "English modernist writer whose works faced censorship for explicit content."}, {"n": "Emily Dickinson", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/emily-dickinson/", "s": "American poet whose work was largely unpublished until after her death."}, {"n": "François Rabelais", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/fran-ois-rabelais/", "s": "First great French prose author and satirist of giants."}, {"n": "François Villon", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/fran-ois-villon/", "s": "Late medieval French poet and criminal."}, {"n": "Fuzuli (poet)", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/fuzuli-poet/", "s": "16th-century poet of Azerbaijani, Persian, and Arabic works."}, {"n": "Gabriel García Márquez", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/", "s": "Colombian writer and journalist, Nobel laureate in literature."}, {"n": "Kālidāsa", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/k-lid-sa/", "s": "Classical Sanskrit author, often considered ancient India's greatest poet and playwright."}, {"n": "Léopold Sédar Senghor", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/l-opold-s-dar-senghor/", "s": "Senegalese poet, cultural theorist, and first president of Senegal."}, {"n": "Jin Yong", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/jin-yong/", "s": "Master of wuxia fiction and co-founder of Ming Pao"}, {"n": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/", "s": "German polymath and most influential writer in the German language"}, {"n": "Joseph Brodsky", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/joseph-brodsky/", "s": "Russian and American poet and essayist, Nobel laureate and United States Poet Laureate."}, {"n": "Joseph Conrad", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/joseph-conrad/", "s": "Polish-British novelist who mastered English prose."}, {"n": "Kabir", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/kabir/", "s": "15th-century Indian mystic poet critical of organised religion."}, {"n": "Kahlil Gibran", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/kahlil-gibran/", "s": "Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist."}, {"n": "Kenzaburō Ōe", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/kenzabur-e/", "s": "Japanese Nobel laureate whose work fused myth and modern predicament."}, {"n": "Alejo Carpentier", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/alejo-carpentier/", "s": "Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who pioneered magical realism in Latin American literature."}, {"n": "Alexander Pushkin", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/alexander-pushkin/", "s": "The greatest Russian poet and founder of modern Russian literature."}, {"n": "Carlos Fuentes", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/carlos-fuentes/", "s": "Mexico's most celebrated novelist and a key figure of the Latin American Boom."}, {"n": "Du Fu", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/du-fu/", "s": "Tang dynasty poet and official, known as the 'Poet-Historian' and 'Poet-Sage'."}, {"n": "Ezra Pound", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/ezra-pound/", "s": "American poet and critic, a major figure in early modernism, and a controversial collaborator in Fascist Italy"}, {"n": "Federico García Lorca", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/federico-garc-a-lorca/", "s": "Spanish poet and playwright of the Generation of '27"}, {"n": "Gustave Flaubert", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/gustave-flaubert/", "s": "The martyr of style and father of literary realism."}, {"n": "Heinrich Heine", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/heinrich-heine/", "s": "German poet, writer and literary critic known for his lyric poetry and satirical wit."}, {"n": "Henry James", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/henry-james/", "s": "American-British author, key transitional figure between literary realism and modernism"}, {"n": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/", "s": "American poet and educator, author of 'Paul Revere's Ride' and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy."}, {"n": "Ivan Bunin", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/ivan-bunin/", "s": "First Russian Nobel laureate in literature, master of classical prose and poetry."}, {"n": "Ivan Turgenev", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/ivan-turgenev/", "s": "Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in th"}, {"n": "Jack Kerouac", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/jack-kerouac/", "s": "Beat Generation pioneer and master of spontaneous prose"}, {"n": "Jack London", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/jack-london/", "s": "American novelist, journalist, and activist; pioneer of commercial fiction and advocate of socialism and anima"}, {"n": "Jane Austen", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/jane-austen/", "s": "English novelist known for her six novels critiquing the landed gentry."}, {"n": "Jean Racine", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/jean-racine/", "s": "Master of neoclassical tragedy and the French alexandrine."}, {"n": "John Milton", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/john-milton/", "s": "English poet, polemicist, and civil servant; author of Paradise Lost"}, {"n": "Jules Verne", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/jules-verne/", "s": "French novelist, poet, and playwright; creator of the Voyages extraordinaires."}, {"n": "Karen Blixen", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/karen-blixen/", "s": "Danish author of Out of Africa and Babette's Feast, known for her Gothic tales and life in Kenya."}, {"n": "Kazuo Ishiguro", "u": "/e/writers-and-poets/kazuo-ishiguro/", "s": "Novelist of emotional force who uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."}]