626 articles
Connie Palmen
Connie Palmen, born 1955 in Sint Odilienberg, is a Dutch writer and philosopher whose 1991 debut De wetten sold more than 400,000 copies within a year.
Cora Sandel
Cora Sandel, pen name of Sara Fabricius (1880–1974), was a Norwegian writer and painter best known for the semi-autobiographical Alberte trilogy about a woman's path to becoming a writer.
Cyriel Buysse
Cyriel Buysse (1859–1932) was a Flemish novelist and playwright who introduced French naturalism into Dutch-language literature, writing starkly realistic novels like Het gezin Van Paemel about the poor Flemish countryside.
Dacia Maraini
Dacia Maraini, born in Fiesole in 1936, is an Italian novelist, playwright, and poet whose work centers on women's condition, winning the Premio Strega in 1999.
Dag Solstad
Dag Solstad (1941–2025) was a Norwegian novelist, essayist, and playwright, born in Sandefjord, a central figure of postwar Norwegian literature whose eighteen novels tracked Norwegian society from the 1960s onward.
Daniele Del Giudice
Daniele Del Giudice (1949–2021) was an Italian writer and literary critic whose fiction explores perception, memory, and flight. Discovered by Italo Calvino, he debuted in 1983.
David Bergelson
David Bergelson (דוד בערגעלסאָן, 1884–1952) was a Yiddish novelist, dramatist, and literary editor, considered the first and most important Yiddish modernist prose writer of the twentieth century.
Demetrios Vikelas
Demetrios Vikelas (Δημήτριος Βικέλας, 1835–1908) was a Greek merchant and man of letters who was the first president of the International Olympic Committee and brought the 1896 Games to Athens.
Demir Özlü
Demir Özlü (1935–2021) was a Turkish short story writer, novelist, and lawyer of the 1950 generation, whose work was shaped by exile in Sweden after the 1980 coup.
Dezső Szabó (writer)
Dezső Szabó (1879–January 1945) was a Hungarian novelist, political satirist, and polemicist whose expressionist prose renewed Hungarian literary language; his 1919 novel Az elsodort falu sold some 200,000 copies.
Dinko Šimunović
Dinko Šimunović (1873–1933) was a Croatian writer of the modernist Croatian Moderna, best known for psychological novellas such as Duga, Muljika, and Alkar set in rural Dalmatian Zagora.
Dino Buzzati
Dino Buzzati, full name Buzzati-Traverso, was an Italian novelist, journalist, and painter who spent four decades at Corriere della Sera and won the 1958 Premio Strega.
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
Dmitry Merezhkovsky (Дмитрий Сергеевич Мережковский) is a Russian novelist, critic, and religious thinker whose Christ and Antichrist trilogy revived the Russian historical novel; he opposed the Bolsheviks and died in exile in 1941.
Doeschka Meijsing
Doeschka Meijsing, full name Maria Johanna Meijsing, was a Dutch novelist and critic (1947–2012), known for the prize-winning bestseller Over de liefde (2008) and her work around De Revisor.
Dominik Tatarka
Dominik Tatarka (1913–1989) was a Slovak prose writer, essayist, and publicist whose satirical novel The Demon of Consent is regarded as a central work of Slovak literature.
Dora Melegari
Dora Melegari, full name Dorette Marie Melegari (1849–1924), was a Swiss-born novelist and journalist who wrote in French and Italian and co-founded Italy's national council of women.
Dorrit Willumsen
Dorrit Willumsen, born in 1940 in Copenhagen, is a Danish author whose modernist novels center on women's experience; she won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1997 for Bang.
Dubravka Ugrešić
Dubravka Ugrešić (1949–2023), Croatian novelist, essayist, and scholar of the Russian avant-garde; postmodern patchwork fiction, exile after 1993, Neustadt Prize 2016, died in Amsterdam.
E. du Perron
E. du Perron, pen name of Charles Edgar du Perron (1899–1940), was a Dutch writer born in the Dutch East Indies who co-founded the journal Forum.
Eça de Queirós
Eça de Queirós, born José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845–1900), was a Portuguese novelist and diplomat regarded as the leading realist in Portuguese literature.
Edmondo De Amicis
Edmondo De Amicis (1846–1908) was an Italian writer, soldier, and journalist whose schoolboy novel Cuore (1886) became the first best-seller of unified Italy, translated into more than 25 languages.
Édouard Estaunié
Édouard Estaunié (1862–1942) was a French novelist and telecommunications engineer who rose to inspecteur général des Télégraphes, wrote twelve novels on the hidden inner life, and was elected to the Académie française in 1923.
Édouard Rod
Édouard Rod (Louis-Édouard Rod) was a French-Swiss novelist and critic, born at Nyon in 1857, who wrote psychological novels, championed comparative literary study, and died in 1910.
Eduard Vilde
Eduard Vilde (1865–1933) was an Estonian writer, journalist, and diplomat, a classic of Estonian literature and one of the founders of the Estonian novel, known for Külmale maale.
Eduardo Mendoza
Eduardo Mendoza (Eduardo Mendoza Garriga) is a Spanish novelist born in Barcelona in 1943 whose satirical novels set in the city earned him the 2016 Cervantes Prize.
Edvard Hoem
Edvard Hoem, full name Edvard Arnt Hoem, is a Norwegian novelist, poet, dramatist, and hymn writer who writes in Nynorsk. His four-volume family saga sold more than 300,000 copies.
Einar Kárason
Einar Kárason is an Icelandic novelist and screenwriter, born in Reykjavík in 1955, one of the most popular authors of his generation, known for the Devils' Isle trilogy about post-war Reykjavík.
Einar Már Guðmundsson
Einar Már Guðmundsson, born 1954 in Reykjavík, is an Icelandic novelist and poet whose novel Angels of the Universe won the 1995 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an anonymous Italian novelist, author of Troubling Love (1992) and the Neapolitan Quartet (2011–2014), translated into 50 languages; her identity remains unconfirmed despite Claudio Gatti's 2016 claim naming translator Anita Raja.
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.