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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.
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.
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.
Alexandre Dumas fils
Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895), French novelist and dramatist, natural son of Dumas père; author of La Dame aux camélias (novel, 1852 play, Verdi's La traviata), theorist of the théâtre utile, Académie française 1874.
Alexey Pisemsky
Alexey Pisemsky (Алексей Феофилактович Писемский, 1821–1881) was a Russian realist novelist and dramatist best known for the novel A Thousand Souls (1858) and the peasant drama A Bitter Fate.
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) was a French novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist known for the comic Tartarin de Tarascon novels and the Provençal tales of Lettres de mon moulin.
Anatole France
Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault, 1844–1924), French novelist, poet, and critic; Académie française 1896, Nobel Prize in Literature 1921, Dreyfusard, first president of the French PEN Club.
András Fáy
András Fáy, born Fáy András (1786–1864), was a Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician of the Reform Era, known as the Hungarian Aesop and founder of Hungary's first savings bank.
Andrejs Upīts
Andrejs Upīts (1877–1970) was a Latvian writer, literary scholar, and critic, regarded as the most prolific author in Latvian literature, best known for the Robežnieki novel cycle.
Anton Hansen Tammsaare
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878–1940) was an Estonian prose writer, playwright, and essayist whose epic five-part novel Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice), published 1926–1933, is regarded as one of the defining works of Estonian literature.
Antonio Fogazzaro
Antonio Fogazzaro (1842–1911) was an Italian novelist, poet, and senator from Vicenza, ranked after Verga as the greatest late-19th-century Italian novelist; his Il Santo was placed on the Index.
Apuleius
Apuleius (Lucius Apuleius, c. 123 to c. 170) was a Roman writer and Platonist philosopher from Madauros in North Africa, author of The Golden Ass.
Armando Palacio Valdés
Armando Palacio Valdés (1853–1938) was a Spanish realist novelist and critic, a member of the Real Academia Española best known for La hermana San Sulpicio.
Arne Garborg
Arne Garborg, born Aadne Garborg, was a Norwegian writer, journalist, and translator, a farmer's son from Jæren who became a leading Nynorsk advocate and author of Bondestudentar and Haugtussa.
Arvid Järnefelt
Arvid Järnefelt (1861–1932) was a Finnish jurist turned novelist and Tolstoyan social reformer who abandoned his legal career in 1891 and wrote the acclaimed debut novel Isänmaa (1893).
August Šenoa
August Šenoa (1838–1881) was a Croatian novelist, poet, and journalist of Zagreb, regarded as the founder of the modern Croatian novel, best known for the historical novel Zlatarovo zlato (1871).
Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920), Spanish Realist novelist, dramatist and Republican politician from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, considered Spain's greatest novelist after Cervantes; author of the 46-volume Episodios nacionales and Fortunata y Jacinta.
Bertha von Suttner
Bertha von Suttner was an Austrian pacifist novelist whose anti-war novel Die Waffen nieder! (1889) made her the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1905.
Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus was the pen name of Aleksander Głowacki, a Polish novelist, short-story writer, and journalist (1847–1912) whose novels The Doll and Pharaoh rank among the greatest works of Polish literature.
Božena Němcová
Božena Němcová, born Barbora Novotná (1820–1862), was a Czech writer and folklorist regarded as the founder of modern Czech prose, best known for the novel Babička (1855).
Camilo Castelo Branco
Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890) was a Portuguese novelist and the leading figure of Romanticism in Portugal, its first professional writer, whose masterpiece Amor de Perdição (1862) remains his most read novel.
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866) was a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, and radical reformer, best known for the 1839 novel Det går an and his American exile.
Chariton
Chariton (Χαρίτων), in full Chariton of Aphrodisias, was a Greek novelist who wrote Chaereas and Callirhoe, generally regarded as the earliest fully extant Greek novel.
Cyriel Buysse
Cyriel Buysse (1859–1932) was a Flemish novelist and playwright who introduced French naturalism into Dutch-language literature, writing starkly realistic novels like Het gezin Van Paemel about the poor Flemish countryside.
Demetrios Vikelas
Demetrios Vikelas (Δημήτριος Βικέλας, 1835–1908) was a Greek merchant and man of letters who was the first president of the International Olympic Committee and brought the 1896 Games to Athens.