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Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek, born in 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, is an Austrian novelist and playwright who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for works like The Piano Teacher.
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak (born 1971, Strasbourg) is a British-Turkish novelist of 21 books in about 60 languages, author of The Forty Rules of Love; tried in 2006 under Article 301 over The Bastard of Istanbul.
Elsa Morante
Elsa Morante (1912–1985), Italian novelist, poet, and essayist, wife of Alberto Moravia; author of Menzogna e sortilegio, Strega-winning L'isola di Arturo, the 600,000-copy bestseller La Storia (1974), and Prix Médicis-winning Aracoeli.
Emilian Stanev
Emilian Stanev (Емилиян Станев), pen name of Nikola Stoyanov Stanev, was a Bulgarian writer born in Veliko Tarnovo in 1907, known for The Peach Thief and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Erdal Öz
Erdal Öz (1935–2006) was a Turkish writer, publisher, and author of children's books who founded Can Yayınları, one of Turkey's leading literary publishing houses, in 1981.
Fakir Baykurt
Fakir Baykurt, born Tahir (1929–1999), was a Turkish teacher, novelist, and poet, a leading village literature writer whose first novel, Yılanların Öcü, won the 1958 Yunus Nadi Novel Prize.
Fazil Iskander
Fazil Iskander, also known as Fazil Abdulovich Iskander, was a Soviet and Russian writer of Abkhaz origin, best known for the satirical novel-epic Sandro of Chegem.
Franz Fühmann
Franz Fühmann (1922–1984) was a German writer, one of the most significant authors of East Germany, who worked as poet, essayist, and translator of Hungarian and Czech poetry.
Fredrik Backman
Fredrik Backman (born 1981) is a Swedish novelist, born in Stockholm and raised in Helsingborg, author of A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) and the Beartown trilogy, translated into more than 40 languages.
Friedrich Christian Delius
Friedrich Christian Delius (1943–2022) was a German novelist, poet, and essayist who chronicled the Federal Republic of Germany and won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2011.
Frode Grytten
Frode Grytten (born 1960) is a Norwegian writer and journalist from Odda who writes mostly in Nynorsk; his collective novel Bikubesong (1999) won the Brage Prize and he won it again in 2023.
Füruzan
Füruzan, born Feruze Çerçi, was a Turkish writer and screenwriter known for stories about poverty, women, and Turkish emigrants in Germany, and for winning the Sait Faik award in 1972.
Fyodor Abramov
Fyodor Abramov (Фёдор Абрамов) was a Soviet Russian writer and literary scholar, a leading figure of village prose known for the novel Brothers and Sisters.
Georges Perec
Georges Perec (1936–1982) was a French novelist and leading member of the Oulipo, known for La Disparition, a novel without the letter e, and Life: A User's Manual.
Gerard Reve
Gerard Reve, born Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, was a Dutch writer counted with Harry Mulisch and Willem Frederik Hermans among the Great Three of postwar Dutch literature.
Gerbrand Bakker
Gerbrand Bakker (born 1962 in Wieringerwaard) is a Dutch novelist and professional gardener whose 2006 debut novel, The Twin, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Gerrit Krol
Gerrit Krol (1934–2013) was a Dutch novelist, poet, and essayist who worked as a computer programmer, and whose fiction draws on mathematics, logic, and computing.
Gesualdo Bufalino
Gesualdo Bufalino (1920–1996) was an Italian novelist, poet, and essayist from Comiso, Sicily, who published his first novel, Diceria dell'untore, in 1981 and later won the Strega Prize for Le menzogne della notte.
Géza Ottlik
Géza Ottlik (Ottlik Géza), 1912 to 1990, was a Hungarian writer, translator, and bridge theorist whose novel School at the Frontier is a landmark of Hungarian prose.
Gilbert Cesbron
Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979) was a French novelist and playwright whose socially engaged Catholic novels sold millions of copies, notably Chiens perdus sans collier on juvenile delinquency.
Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was an Italian writer and poet whose fiction centers on Ferrara's Jewish community under fascism; his best-known novel is Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957) was a Sicilian aristocrat, duke of Palma and prince of Lampedusa, whose only novel, Il Gattopardo, won the 1959 Strega Prize after his death.
Goffredo Parise
Goffredo Parise (1929–1986) was an Italian writer and journalist from Vicenza who won the Premio Viareggio for Il padrone and the Premio Strega in 1982.
Guðbergur Bergsson
Guðbergur Bergsson (1932–2023) was an Icelandic writer and translator who pioneered modernist prose in Iceland with novels like Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, and translated Don Quixote into Icelandic.
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (born 1976) is an Icelandic novelist and short story writer whose work is translated into more than a dozen languages; she won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2011.
Günter Grass
Günter Grass (1927-2015), German novelist and graphic artist of the Danzig trilogy (Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre), Nobel Literature laureate 1999; revealed in 2006 his teenage Waffen-SS service.
György Konrád
György Konrád, published in English as George Konrád, was a Hungarian novelist, essayist, and sociologist whose debut novel The Case Worker (1969) drew on his work as a children's welfare supervisor.
Hafid Bouazza
Hafid Bouazza (1970–2021) was a Moroccan-born Dutch writer of novels, stories, plays, essays, and translations whose exuberant prose won the Gouden Uil prize for Paravion (2003).
Hakan Günday
Hakan Günday (born 1976) is a Turkish novelist and screenwriter known for his dark underground literature, especially Daha, which won France's Prix Médicis in 2015.
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Halldór Guðjónsson, 1902–1998) was Iceland's leading twentieth-century novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature 1955, author of Independent People, Salka Valka, and Iceland's Bell.