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Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (1905–1994), Bulgarian-born Sephardic German-language writer, Nobel laureate 1981, author of the novel Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung) and the crowd-psychology study Crowds and Power (Masse und Macht), and of a celebrated memoir trilogy.
Elias Venezis
Elias Venezis was a Greek novelist born in Ayvalık, Asia Minor, in 1904, best known for Number 31328, based on his captivity as a prisoner in 1922.
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.
Elin Wägner
Elin Wägner (1882–1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, and social critic who campaigned for women's suffrage, peace, and the environment, becoming the second woman elected to the Swedish Academy after Selma Lagerlöf.
Elio Vittorini
Elio Vittorini (1908–1966) was an Italian novelist, translator, and editor, author of Conversazione in Sicilia and founder of the postwar journals Il Politecnico and Il Menabò.
Eliza Orzeszkowa
Eliza Orzeszkowa, born Eliza Pawłowska, was a Polish novelist and essayist, the leading woman writer of the Warsaw Positivism movement, whose masterpiece is Nad Niemnem (1888).
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.
Emil Strauß
Emil Strauß (1866–1960) was a German novelist and dramatist, best known for the school novel Freund Hein (1902) and later controversial for his Nazi ties.
Émile Zola
Émile Zola was a French novelist and journalist, the leading figure of literary naturalism, author of Les Rougon-Macquart and of "J'accuse…!" (1898), his defining intervention in the Dreyfus Affair.
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and critic who introduced literary naturalism to Spain; her masterpiece, Los pazos de Ulloa (1886), portrays rural Galicia.
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.
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, also published as Marien Kind, was an Austrian baroness and novelist (1871–1955) who led German-language Catholic historical fiction before her books were banned under the Nazis.
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.
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark, 1898–1970), German novelist of Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), a World War I veteran exiled by the Nazis whose anti-war and exile novels sold over 20 million copies.
Ernest Claes
Ernest Claes (1885–1968) was a Flemish novelist and civil servant whose comic-ironic fiction about village life, especially De Witte (1920), made him one of Flanders' most widely read authors.
Ernst Jünger
Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), German writer, soldier, and entomologist, author of Storm of Steel (1920), Der Arbeiter (1932), and On the Marble Cliffs (1939); Pour le Mérite recipient, Weimar radical, Third Reich outsider, Paris officer, and controversial postwar Goethe Prize laureate.
Ernst Weiß
Ernst Weiß (1882–1940) was an Austrian physician and writer of German-language expressionist fiction, a friend of Franz Kafka, who died in Paris exile in 1940 and is best known for Der Augenzeuge.
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer
Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878–1962) was a German-language novelist, dramatist, and poet born in Budapest, admired for his Paracelsus trilogy and later stigmatized as a Nazi-era writer for his völkisch ideology.
Eugène Sue
Eugène Sue (Marie Joseph Sue, 1804–1857) was a French novelist and socialist deputy. His serialized romans-feuilletons Les Mystères de Paris (1842–43) and Le Juif errant (1844–45) were best sellers; arrested in the 1851 coup, he died in exile at Annecy.
Eyvind Johnson
Eyvind Johnson, born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson, was a Swedish novelist and member of the Swedish Academy who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson.
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.
Felix Timmermans
Felix Timmermans (1886–1947) was a Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, and painter from Lier, Belgium, whose debut novel Pallieter (1916) sold about 1 million copies internationally.
Ferdinand von Saar
Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906) was an Austrian writer, playwright, and poet, regarded with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach as a leading realist narrator of late nineteenth-century Austrian literature.
Ferenc Herczeg
Ferenc Herczeg (1863–1954) was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and editor, celebrated as the 'king of writers', who edited Új Idők for half a century and was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Fernán Caballero
Fernán Caballero was the pen name of Spanish novelist Cecilia Böhl de Faber (1796–1877), who debuted with La Gaviota in 1849 and pioneered the realist novel in Spain.
Fernando Namora
Fernando Namora, full name Fernando Gonçalves Namora (1919–1989), was a Portuguese physician and writer, a leading neo-realist novelist and one of Portugal's most translated authors.
Ferreira de Castro
Ferreira de Castro (José Maria Ferreira de Castro) was a Portuguese novelist whose Amazon novels Emigrantes and A Selva opened Portuguese fiction to social realism.
François Mauriac
François Mauriac (1885–1970) was a French novelist, journalist, and member of the Académie française who won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature for novels of sin and grace set around Bordeaux.
François Rabelais
François Rabelais (c. 1494–1553), French Renaissance humanist, physician, and author of Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534), satirical giant chronicles condemned by the Sorbonne; wrote as Alcofribas Nasier.