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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alfred Andersch
Alfred Andersch (1914–1980) was a German writer, editor, and radio journalist who co-founded the writers' association Gruppe 47 and became known for novels including Sansibar oder der letzte Grund.
Ana María Matute
Ana María Matute (1925–2014) was a Spanish novelist and children's author of the postwar era, elected to the Real Academia Española in 1996 and awarded the Premio Cervantes in 2010.
Anatoly Kuznetsov
Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979), a Soviet Russian-language writer, wrote Babi Yar, testimony of the Nazi massacre at the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, and defected to Britain in 1969.
Anatoly Rybakov
Anatoly Rybakov (Анатолий Рыбаков, 1911–1998) was a Russian writer whose adventure novels sold over 20 million copies and whose Children of the Arbat became the symbol of glasnost.
André Schwarz-Bart
André Schwarz-Bart, born Abraham Szwarcbart, was a French novelist of Polish-Jewish origin who won the 1959 Prix Goncourt for his first novel, Le Dernier des Justes.
Andrei Bitov
Andrei Bitov (Андрей Битов, 1937–2018) was a Russian novelist, poet, and screenwriter regarded as a founder of postmodernism in Russian literature, known chiefly for the novel Pushkin House.
Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux, born 1940 in Lillebonne and raised in Yvetot, Normandy, is the French writer of La Place, Passion simple and Les Années who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature for her flat, clinical autobiographical writing on memory, class and women's lives.
António Lobo Antunes
António Lobo Antunes (1942–2026), Portuguese novelist and psychiatrist, debuted in 1979 with Memória de Elefante and Os Cus de Judas; served 27 months as an army doctor in Angola, which shaped his fiction; won the Prémio Camões in 2007 and wrote more than 30 novels translated into over fifteen languages.
Antonio Muñoz Molina
Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 1956) is a Spanish writer, a member of the Real Academia Española and winner of the 2013 Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.
Antonio Skármeta
Antonio Skármeta (1940–2024) was a Chilean novelist and diplomat whose novel Ardiente paciencia inspired the 1994 film Il Postino; he won Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.
Antonio Tabucchi
Antonio Tabucchi (1943–2012) was an Italian novelist, essayist, and translator who taught Portuguese literature and became the leading Italian editor and translator of Fernando Pessoa.
Ánxel Fole
Ánxel Fole (1903–1986) was a Galician writer and journalist, a master of the short story in Galician who blended oral tradition with influences like Poe, co-founding Editorial Galaxia.
Ari Behn
Ari Behn (Ari Mikael Bjørshol, 1972–2019), Norwegian author and visual artist best known for the 1999 story collection Trist som faen; married Princess Märtha Louise 2002–2017 and published seven books.
Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Grunberg, full name Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg, is a Dutch writer born in Amsterdam in 1971 whose novel Tirza won the Gouden Uil and Libris prizes.
Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011) was a Czech Jewish novelist, screenwriter, and professor who survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, wrote over twenty Holocaust books, and won the 2008 Franz Kafka Prize.
Arvo Valton
Arvo Valton, pen name of Arvo Vallikivi (1935–2024), was an Estonian writer considered a founder of Estonian modern prose, known for grotesque stories satirizing the Soviet regime.
Bernardo Atxaga
Bernardo Atxaga, pen name of Joseba Irazu Garmendia (born 1951), is a Spanish writer who works entirely in Basque; his collection Obabakoak (1988) brought Basque literature its widest audience.