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Alexandre Dumas fils
Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895), French novelist and dramatist, natural son of Dumas père; author of La Dame aux camélias (novel, 1852 play, Verdi's La traviata), theorist of the théâtre utile, Académie française 1874.
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης, 1851–1911) was a Greek short-story writer and translator who lived in poverty in Athens and wrote about the poor of Skiathos, his masterpiece being The Murderess of 1903.
Alexei Remizov
Alexei Mikhailovich Remizov (Алексей Михайлович Ремизов, 1877–1957) was a Russian Silver Age prose writer known for ornate, folklore-based prose who published 83 books and left Paris after emigrating in 1921.
Alexey Pisemsky
Alexey Pisemsky (Алексей Феофилактович Писемский, 1821–1881) was a Russian realist novelist and dramatist best known for the novel A Thousand Souls (1858) and the peasant drama A Bitter Fate.
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.
Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin (also Linke Poot), 1878–1957, German physician and Expressionist modernist writer; author of the montage novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929); exiled 1933, converted to Catholicism 1941, died in Emmendingen.
Alois Jirásek
Alois Jirásek (1851–1930) was a Czech writer and gymnasium teacher called the "chronicler of the nation" for historical novels like Temno and F. L. Věk.
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) was a French novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist known for the comic Tartarin de Tarascon novels and the Provençal tales of Lettres de mon moulin.
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.
Anatole France
Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault, 1844–1924), French novelist, poet, and critic; Académie française 1896, Nobel Prize in Literature 1921, Dreyfusard, first president of the French PEN Club.
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.
András Fáy
András Fáy, born Fáy András (1786–1864), was a Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician of the Reform Era, known as the Hungarian Aesop and founder of Hungary's first savings bank.
André Chamson
André Chamson (1900–1983) was a French novelist and archivist who directed the Louvre's 1940 evacuation, led the Archives de France, and joined the Académie française.
André Gide
André Gide (1869-1951), French novelist, essayist, and diarist; Nobel Laureate in Literature 1947; author of Les Nourritures terrestres, L'Immoraliste, Corydon, and Les Faux-monnayeurs; co-founder of the NRF.
André Malraux
André Malraux (1901–1976), French novelist, art theorist, and first Minister of Cultural Affairs (1959–1969) under de Gaulle; Prix Goncourt 1933 for La Condition humaine, creator of the musée imaginaire, Resistance leader Colonel Berger, Panthéon 1996.
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 Bely (Андрей Белый)
Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый), pen name of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880–1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, and critic, a leading figure of Russian Symbolism and author of Petersburg.
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.
Andrei Mryi
Andrei Mryi (Андрэй Мрый), pen name of Andrei Shashalevich, was a Belarusian prose writer and journalist best known for the satirical novel Zapiski Samsona Samasuya, which led to his persecution.
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov (Андрей Платонов), born Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, was a Russian Soviet writer and playwright whose novels Chevengur and The Foundation Pit made him one of the most distinctive figures of twentieth-century literature.
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.
Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers (Netty Reiling/Radványi, 1900–1983), German-Jewish communist writer born in Mainz; exile in France and Mexico; author of Das siebte Kreuz (1942) and Transit (1944); Büchner Prize 1947; led the GDR Writers' Union 1952–1978.
Annette Kolb
Annette Kolb, born Anna Mathilde Kolb (1870–1967), was a German-French novelist, essayist, and translator whose pacifist Briefe einer Deutsch-Französin (1916) brought bans, exile, and persecution by the Third Reich.
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.
Antal Szerb
Antal Szerb (Szerb Antal, 1901–1945), Hungarian literary historian and novelist of Journey by Moonlight, The Pendragon Legend and Oliver VII; died in the Balf labor camp; Pushkin Press translations by Len Rix.
Antanas Škėma
Antanas Škėma (1910–1961) was a Lithuanian émigré writer, actor, and director, a pioneer of modern Lithuanian drama whose novel Balta drobulė (White Shroud) ranks among the most significant works of Lithuanian prose.
Antanas Vaičiulaitis
Antanas Vaičiulaitis (1906–1992) was a Lithuanian prose writer, poet, critic, and diplomat, one of interwar Lithuania's foremost prose stylists who later lived in the United States.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), French aviator and writer, Aéropostale line pilot and author of Vol de nuit, Terre des hommes, and Le Petit Prince; disappeared on a 1944 reconnaissance flight, wreckage identified off Marseille in 2003–2004.
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.