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Hans E. Kinck
Hans E. Kinck (Hans Ernst Kinck, 1865–1926) was a Norwegian novelist, short-story writer, dramatist, and essayist who renewed Norwegian prose through dialect and psychological fiction.
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada, pen name of Rudolf Ditzen (1893–1947), was a German novelist whose bestsellers Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947) brought him fame.
Hans Scherfig
Hans Scherfig (Hans Christian Scherfig, 1905–1979) was a Danish writer, painter, and communist known for satirical novels like Det forsømte forår and naivist jungle paintings.
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann, in full Luiz Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), was a German satirical novelist and essayist, brother of Thomas Mann, best known for Professor Unrat and Der Untertan.
Henri Bosco
Henri Bosco (1888–1976) was a French novelist whose Provençal novels include Malicroix and the school classic L'Enfant et la rivière; he won the 1945 Prix Renaudot.
Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was an Austrian Jewish novelist and essayist who wrote The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil and fled to America in 1938.
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-born Swiss writer of Demian, Siddhartha, Der Steppenwolf, and Das Glasperlenspiel; Nobel Prize in Literature 1946; over 150 million books sold in more than 70 languages.
Hermann Kesten
Hermann Kesten (1900–1996) was a German novelist and editor of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement who, in exile from the Nazis, published and rescued persecuted German-language writers.
Hermann Lenz
Hermann Lenz (1913–1998) was a German writer known for a nine-volume autobiographical novel cycle around his alter ego Eugen Rapp; he won the 1978 Georg Büchner Prize.
Hermann Stehr
Hermann Stehr (1864–1940) was a German novelist and short-story writer from Habelschwerdt, Silesia, whose religious-mystical fiction about Silesian peasants culminated in Der Heiligenhof (1918).
Hjalmar Bergman
Hjalmar Bergman (1883–1931) was a Swedish novelist and dramatist whose fiction centers on the fictional town of Wadköping; his best-known novel is Markurells i Wadköping (1919).
Hjalmar Söderberg
Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and translator regarded as a major early twentieth-century Swedish author, best known for Doktor Glas and his portraits of Stockholm.
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (1864–1944) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, the leading Turkish representative of realism and naturalism, known for novels of late Ottoman Istanbul life.
Ignas Šeinius
Ignas Šeinius, real surname Jurkūnas, was a Lithuanian and Swedish writer and diplomat, regarded as the leading impressionist in Lithuanian prose; his novel Kuprelis appeared in 1913.
Ignazio Silone
Ignazio Silone, pen name of Secondino Tranquilli (1900-1978), Italian novelist and politician; PCI founder 1921, Swiss exile author of Fontamara and Pane e vino; subject of the informer controversy.
Ilf and Petrov
Ilf and Petrov (Ильф и Петров), Soviet satirical duo Ilya Ilf (Fainzilberg, 1897–1937) and Evgeny Petrov (Kataev, 1903–1942), authors of The Twelve Chairs and The Golden Calf featuring Ostap Bender.
Ina Seidel
Ina Seidel (1885–1974) was a German writer and poet whose bestselling family novel Das Wunschkind (1930) made her one of Germany's most widely read authors.
Irmgard Keun
Irmgard Keun (1905–1982) was a German novelist of the Weimar era, best known for Gilgi and The Artificial Silk Girl and her exile novels against Nazi Germany.
Israel Joshua Singer
Israel Joshua Singer (1893–1944) was a Yiddish novelist and journalist born in Poland, best known for Yoshe Kalb and The Brothers Ashkenazi, and elder brother of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Ivan Cankar
Ivan Cankar (1876–1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and political activist regarded as the greatest writer in the Slovene language and founder of Slovene modernism.
Ivan Shmelyov
Ivan Shmelyov (Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв) was a Russian writer who emigrated to Paris after his son's execution, writing The Sun of the Dead and The Summer of the Lord.
Jakob Wassermann
Jakob Wassermann was a German novelist and essayist from Fürth, one of the most widely read German-language authors of the early twentieth century, best known for Der Fall Maurizius (1928).
Jan Fridegård
Jan Fridegård (1897–1968) was a Swedish novelist and poet of proletarian literature, known for the autobiographical Lars Hård series and a Viking Age trilogy told from a slave's view.
Jan Parandowski
Jan Parandowski (1895–1978) was a Polish essayist, novelist, and translator best known for Mitologia (1924), his prose Odyssey, and 45 years as president of the Polish PEN Club.
Jaroslav Hašek
Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923) was a Czech writer, journalist, and humorist whose unfinished satirical novel The Good Soldier Švejk, published 1921–1923, became the most translated book of Czech literature, appearing in 54 languages by 1994.
Jean Giono
Jean Giono (1895–1970) was a French novelist and pacifist from Manosque in Provence, known for the Pan trilogy, the Hussard cycle, and "The Man Who Planted Trees."
Jean Schlumberger (writer)
Jean Schlumberger (1877–1968) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright who co-founded La Nouvelle Revue Française with André Gide in 1908 and ran it from 1909 to 1914.
Jelena Dimitrijević
Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945) was a self-taught Serbian writer and feminist, recognized as the first Serbian woman world traveler who focused on the lives of women in the East.
Johan Bojer
Johan Bojer (1872–1959) was a Norwegian novelist and playwright whose epic portrayals of ordinary people made him internationally popular in the 1920s, on par with Norway's Nobel laureates.
Johan Falkberget
Johan Falkberget (1879–1967) was a Norwegian novelist and former miner whose Røros mining novels, including Den fjerde nattevakt and Nattens brød, made him a major 20th-century author.