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Ernest Claes
Ernest Claes (1885–1968) was a Flemish novelist and civil servant whose comic-ironic fiction about village life, especially De Witte (1920), made him one of Flanders' most widely read authors.
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), German writer, soldier, and entomologist, author of Storm of Steel (1920), Der Arbeiter (1932), and On the Marble Cliffs (1939); Pour le Mérite recipient, Weimar radical, Third Reich outsider, Paris officer, and controversial postwar Goethe Prize laureate.
Ernst Weiß
Ernst Weiß (1882–1940) was an Austrian physician and writer of German-language expressionist fiction, a friend of Franz Kafka, who died in Paris exile in 1940 and is best known for Der Augenzeuge.
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) was a German-language novelist, dramatist, and poet born in Budapest, admired for his Paracelsus trilogy and later stigmatized as a Nazi-era writer for his völkisch ideology.
Eyvind Johnson
Eyvind Johnson, born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson, was a Swedish novelist and member of the Swedish Academy who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson.
Felix Timmermans
Felix Timmermans (1886–1947) was a Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, and painter from Lier, Belgium, whose debut novel Pallieter (1916) sold about 1 million copies internationally.
Ferenc Herczeg
Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and editor, celebrated as the 'king of writers', who edited Új Idők for half a century and was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Fernando Namora
Fernando Namora, full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora (1919–1989), was a Portuguese physician and writer, a leading neo-realist novelist and one of Portugal's most translated authors.
Ferreira de Castro
Ferreira de Castro (José Maria Ferreira de Castro) was a Portuguese novelist whose Amazon novels Emigrantes and A Selva opened Portuguese fiction to social realism.
François Mauriac
François Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French novelist, journalist, and member of the Académie française who won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature for novels of sin and grace set around Bordeaux.
Frank Thiess
Frank Thiess, real name Frank Theodor Thieß (1890–1977), was a German novelist and essayist of Baltic German origin whose bestselling naval novel Tsushima (1936) sold several hundred thousand copies.
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) was a Finnish writer who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature for portraying his country's peasantry, with novels including Hurskas kurjuus.
Franz Hellens
Franz Hellens, pen name of Frédéric Van Ermengem (1881–1972), was a Belgian novelist and poet who wrote in French, founded the review Le Disque vert, and developed fantastic realism.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Prague German-Jewish writer of The Trial, The Castle, Amerika, and The Metamorphosis; insurance clerk whose friend Max Brod defied his burn order and published his manuscripts posthumously.
Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet, a leading figure of German expressionism known for The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and The Song of Bernadette.
Frigyes Karinthy
Frigyes Karinthy (Karinthy Frigyes, 1887–1938) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and critic, one of the creators of 20th-century humorous literature, known for the 1912 parody volume Így írtok ti.
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, born Nils Fritiof Adam Nilsson (1895–1972), was a Swedish author and lawyer whose humorous stories set in Skåne made him one of Sweden's most popular storytellers.
Fyodor Sologub
Fyodor Sologub (Фёдор Сологуб), pen name of Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, and playwright, 1863 to 1927, best known for the influential novel The Petty Demon.
Georges Duhamel (author)
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) was a French physician-turned-writer and frontline surgeon of World War I whose novel cycles Vie et aventures de Salavin and Chronique des Pasquier made him one of the most widely read French authors.
Gerard Walschap
Gerard Walschap (1898–1989) was a Flemish novelist and critic who renewed the Flemish novel, had a public dispute with the Catholic Church, and received the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren in 1968.
Gertrud von Le Fort
Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971) was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays whose work joined the Renouveau catholique; her novella Die Letzte am Schafott inspired Bernanos' Dialogues des Carmélites.
Géza Gárdonyi
Géza Gárdonyi (Gárdonyi Géza; born Ziegler Géza, 1863–1922) was a Hungarian novelist and journalist, best known for Egri csillagok (Stars of Eger, 1901) and A láthatatlan ember (The Invisible Man, 1902).
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882–1952) was an Italian literary critic, novelist, and journalist best known for the novel Rubè (1921) and the anti-fascist study Goliath (1937).
Gösta Carlberg
Gösta Carlberg (1909–1973) was a Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist whose debut novel won Bonniers' 15,000-kronor jubilee prize, and who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1940.
Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), Sardinian novelist from Nuoro, winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature as the second woman laureate and only Italian woman; author of Canne al vento, La madre, and Cosima.
Gregorios Xenopoulos
Gregorios Xenopoulos (Γρηγόριος Ξενόπουλος) was a Greek novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote more than 80 novels and about 35 plays and founded the magazine Nea Estia in 1927.
Guðmundur G. Hagalín
Guðmundur G. Hagalín was an Icelandic novelist and librarian best known for novels of rural life in western Iceland, above all Kristrún í Hamravík (1933).
Gunnar Gunnarsson
Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975) was an Icelandic novelist and short-story writer who wrote mostly in Danish while living in Denmark, winning European acclaim and becoming Iceland's best-selling author abroad.
Gustav Frenssen
Gustav Frenssen (1863–1945) was a German novelist and former Lutheran pastor whose Dithmarschen peasant novels, especially Jörn Uhl (1901), made him one of Germany's most-read writers.
H. C. Branner
H. C. Branner, full name Hans Christian Branner, was a Danish writer (1903–1966) known for psychologically probing novels and for raising the radio play to a serious art form.