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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.
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.
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882) was an Estonian writer, physician, and folklorist, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg and a central figure of the Estonian national awakening.
Jonas Biliūnas
Jonas Biliūnas (1879–1907) was a Lithuanian writer considered the founder of the Lithuanian lyrical psychological novella; he died of tuberculosis at 28 in Zakopane, Poland, in 1907.
Rūdolfs Blaumanis
Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863–1908) was a Latvian prose writer, playwright, and poet known for fine psychological analysis; his novellas and the play Indrāni are in the Latvian Culture Canon.