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Vytautas Bubnys
Vytautas Bubnys (1932–2021) was a Lithuanian prose writer, dramatist, and essayist, one of the most widely printed Soviet-era Lithuanian authors, later a Seimas member from 1992 to 1996.
W. F. Hermans
W. F. Hermans (Willem Frederik Hermans, 1921–1995) was a Dutch writer and physical geographer, one of the "de Grote Drie" of postwar Dutch literature with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve.
W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald (Winfried Georg Sebald, 1944–2001), German writer and UEA professor in Norwich, author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Austerlitz; hybrid photo-text prose on memory, exile, and the Holocaust, written in German.
Wanda Wasilewska
Wanda Wasilewska (1905–1964) was a Polish and Soviet communist activist and writer who chaired the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR during World War II.
Werner Bergengruen
Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964) was a Baltic German novelist and poet best known for the anti-Nazi historical novel Der Großtyrann und das Gericht (1935); he was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Wilhelm Raabe
Wilhelm Raabe, who debuted as Jakob Corvinus with Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse in 1856, was a German novelist of poetic realism ranked with Fontane and Storm.
Willem Elsschot
Willem Elsschot, pen name of Antwerp writer Alfons Jozef de Ridder (1882–1960), was a Flemish novelist and poet whose Kaas (Cheese, 1933) is the most translated book from Flanders.
William Heinesen
William Heinesen (1900–1991) was a Faroese writer who composed his entire oeuvre in Danish; he won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1965 for Det gode håb.
Willy Kyrklund
Willy Kyrklund, born Paul Wilhelm Kyrklund in Helsinki in 1921, was a Sweden-based Finland-Swedish author of condensed, ironic prose, known for Solange and the essay book Om godheten.
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), Polish novelist and playwright, author of Ferdydurke, Trans-Atlantyk, Pornografia, Cosmos and the Diary; themes of form, immaturity and identity; 24-year exile in Argentina; critic of Sartre's committed literature.
Władysław Reymont
Władysław Stanisław Reymont (born Rejment, 1867–1925), Polish novelist of the Young Poland period and 1924 Nobel laureate in Literature for the four-volume peasant epic Chłopi (The Peasants); also wrote Ziemia obiecana and Komediantka.
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920–1989) was a German writer and co-founder of the Gruppe 47, best known for short stories of war, guilt, and ruined postwar Berlin.
Wolfgang Herrndorf
Wolfgang Herrndorf was a German writer and painter best known for the 2010 novel Tschick, which sold about 3 million copies and was translated into 36 languages.
Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Koeppen (1906–1996) was a German novelist and critic whose trilogy Tauben im Gras, Das Treibhaus, and Der Tod in Rom confronts postwar Germany with its Nazi past.
Yaşar Kemal
Yaşar Kemal, born Kemal Sadık Göğceli (1923–2015), was a leading Turkish novelist who drew on oral tradition; his debut novel İnce Memed (1955) won international fame.
Yehoshua Perle
Yehoshua Perle, also spelled Yehoshue Perle (1888–1943), was a Polish Yiddish novelist and essayist based in Warsaw whose 1935 novel Ordinary Jews is regarded as a Yiddish masterpiece.
Yevhen Hrebinka
Yevhen Hrebinka (Євген Гребінка; 1812–1848) was a Ukrainian Romantic writer who wrote fables, poetry, and prose in Ukrainian and Russian, and helped publish Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840.
Yiorgos Theotokas
Yiorgos Theotokas (Γιώργος Θεοτοκάς) was a Greek novelist, essayist, and playwright born in Constantinople, whose essay Free Spirit (1929) became the manifesto of the Generation of the 1930s and whose novels include Argo and Leonis.
Yordan Yovkov
Yordan Yovkov (Йордан Йовков, 1880–1937) was a Bulgarian writer considered a master of the short story, known for war tales and the 1927 cycle Staroplaninski legendi.
Yuri Dombrovsky
Yuri Osipovich Dombrovsky (1909–1978) was a Russian writer, poet, and literary critic whose novels about Stalin-era terror include The Keeper of Antiquities and The Faculty of Useless Things.
Yuri Olesha
Yuri Olesha, born Yury Karlovich Olesha (Юрий Карлович Олеша), was a Soviet writer famous for his metaphor-rich novel Envy (1927) and the fairy tale The Three Fat Men.
Yuri Trifonov
Yuri Trifonov (Юрий Трифонов; full name Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov, 1925–1981) was a Soviet Russian writer, the best-known author of "urban prose," whose Moscow novellas include The House on the Embankment.
Yurii Vynnychuk
Yurii Vynnychuk (Юрій Винничук; born 1952) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, and editor known as the "father of black humor" in Ukrainian literature, whose fiction centers on Lviv.
Yurii Yanovsky
Yurii Yanovsky (Юрій Яновський), born Hryhorii Ivanovych Yanovsky, was a Ukrainian writer, 1902 to 1954, whose civil war novel Horsemen earned him the nickname the Ukrainian Homer.
Zsigmond Kemény
Zsigmond Kemény (Kemény Zsigmond, 1814–1875) was a Hungarian novelist and politician from Transylvania, the foremost Hungarian psychological novelist, whose works include Özvegy és leánya and Zord idő.
Zsigmond Móricz
Zsigmond Móricz (Móricz Zsigmond, 1879–1942) was a Hungarian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist whose unsentimental fiction about peasant life made him a central figure of twentieth-century Hungarian prose.