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A. F. Th. van der Heijden
A. F. Th. van der Heijden, pen name of Adri van der Heijden (born 1951), is a Dutch novelist known for the cycles De tandeloze tijd and Homo duplex.
A. L. Snijders
A. L. Snijders, pen name of Peter Cornelis Müller, was a Dutch writer who invented the zkv, a very short story, and won the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 2010.
Abdelkader Benali
Abdelkader Benali, born in Morocco in 1975, is a Moroccan-Dutch writer whose debut novel Bruiloft aan zee (1996) made him a leading Dutch-language author of migrant literature.
Abraham Mapu
Abraham Mapu (אברהם מאפו, 1808–1867) was a Lithuanian Hebrew writer of the Jewish Enlightenment whose Ahavat Ziyyon, published in 1853, became the first Hebrew novel.
Achilles Tatius
Achilles Tatius (Ἀχιλλεὺς Τάτιος) was a Greek-language novelist of Alexandria, author of Leucippe and Clitophon, an erotic romance in eight books probably written in the early 2nd century CE.
Adalbert Stifter
Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), born in Oberplan in southern Bohemia, was an Austrian writer and painter of the Biedermeier period, known for Der Nachsommer and his detailed depictions of nature.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) was an Argentine writer and central figure of twentieth-century fantastic literature, known for La invención de Morel and his lifelong collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges.
Agnes Henningsen
Agnes Henningsen (1868–1962) was a Danish author whose candid novels and eight-volume memoirs defended women's erotic freedom, making her both famous and notorious in her time.
Agnes Ravatn
Agnes Ravatn, born 1983 in Ølen, Norway, is a novelist and essayist who writes in Nynorsk and is best known for The Bird Tribunal, published in 2013.
Agnes von Krusenstjerna
Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894–1940) was a Swedish novelist whose openly erotic depictions of women's lives triggered a national controversy, best known for the seven-volume saga Fröknarna von Pahlen.
Agneta Pleijel
Agneta Pleijel, born in 1940 in Stockholm, is a Swedish author, playwright, poet, and critic whose breakthrough novel Vindspejare appeared in 1987 and whose autobiographical series began with Spådomen in 2015.
Agustina Bessa-Luís
Agustina Bessa-Luís, born Maria Agustina Ferreira Teixeira Bessa, was a Portuguese novelist and playwright who wrote more than fifty books and received the Prémio Camões in 2004.
Aksel Sandemose
Aksel Sandemose, born Axel Nielsen (1899–1965), was a Danish-Norwegian novelist who moved to Norway in 1930 and formulated the Jante Law in his 1933 breakthrough novel.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2008), French novelist and filmmaker, leader and theoretician of the nouveau roman at Éditions de Minuit; author of Les Gommes, La Jalousie, and Pour un nouveau roman, and screenwriter of Last Year at Marienbad.
Alain-Fournier
Alain-Fournier, pen name of Henri Alban Fournier (1886–1914), French author of the single novel Le Grand Meaulnes (1913); friend of Jacques Rivière, model for Yvonne de Galais was Yvonne de Quiévrecourt; killed in 1914 near Saint-Rémy-la-Calonne.
Albert Cohen (novelist)
Albert Cohen (1895-1981), Corfu-born Swiss French-language novelist and League of Nations civil servant; author of the Solal cycle (Solal, Mangeclous, Belle du Seigneur, Les Valeureux); Belle du Seigneur won the 1968 Grand Prix du Roman.
Albert Helman
Albert Helman was the pen name of Lodewijk Lichtveld (1903–1996), a Surinamese-Dutch writer, composer, and politician considered the first important author from the former Dutch West.
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia, pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist (1907–1990) whose novels, from Gli indifferenti (1929) to La noia (1960), were widely translated and filmed.
Alberts Bels
Alberts Bels, born Jānis Cīrulis, was a Latvian writer and screenwriter whose modernist novels examined the individual under Soviet totalitarian power; he lived from 1938 to 2024.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Александр Исаевич Солженицын)
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Александр Исаевич Солженицын), 1918–2008, Russian novelist and Gulag survivor; Nobel Literature laureate 1970, author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, expelled 1974, returned 1994.
Aleksandrs Grīns
Aleksandrs Grīns, real name Jēkabs Grīns (1895–1941), was a Latvian writer and army captain best known for Dvēseļu putenis, executed in Soviet captivity in 1941.
Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi, born Alexis Stenvall (1834–1872), was a Finnish author regarded as the founder of Finnish-language literature; his novel Seven Brothers (1870) is considered the first significant Finnish-language novel.
Ales Adamovich
Ales Adamovich (Алесь Адамовіч) was a Belarusian writer and literary scholar known for documentary war prose such as Khatyn Story, and for co-writing the 1985 film Come and See.
Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco (born 1958 in Turin) is an Italian writer and performer whose novel Silk and monologue Novecento, filmed as The Legend of 1900, brought international fame.
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) was an Italian novelist, poet, and linguistic reformer whose historical novel I promessi sposi, set in seventeenth-century Lombardy, is considered the cornerstone of Italy's linguistic unity.
Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky
Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky (Александр Бестужев; 1797–1837) was a Russian Romantic prose writer, poet, and critic, a Decembrist exiled to Siberia who wrote under the pseudonym Marlinsky.
Alexander Kazbegi
Alexander Kazbegi (ალექსანდრე ყაზბეგი; 1848–1893) was a Georgian prose writer and poet, a leading figure of Georgian critical realism known for stories about the mountaineers of Khevi.
Alexander Kielland
Alexander Lange Kielland (1849–1906) was a Norwegian prose writer, editor, and public official, counted among the "four greats" of Norwegian literature alongside Ibsen, Bjørnson, and Lie.
Alexander Kuprin
Alexander Kuprin (Александр Куприн, 1870–1938) was a Russian writer of the early twentieth century, best known for the novels The Duel and The Pit and the story The Garnet Bracelet.
Alexander Prokhanov (Александр Андреевич Проханов)
Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov (Александр Андреевич Проханов, born 1938, Tbilisi) is a Russian novelist and editor-in-chief of Zavtra, formerly Den; village prose, war correspondence, the 1991 GKChP manifesto, and the National Bestseller-winning Gospodin Geksogen distinguish him.