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François-René de Chateaubriand
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), French writer, diplomat, and politician; author of Atala, Le Génie du christianisme, René, and the posthumous Mémoires d'outre-tombe; founder of French Romanticism, foreign minister in 1822, elected to the Académie française in 1811.
Frank Thiess
Frank Thiess, real name Frank Theodor Thieß (1890–1977), was a German novelist and essayist of Baltic German origin whose bestselling naval novel Tsushima (1936) sold several hundred thousand copies.
Frans Eemil Sillanpää
Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964) was a Finnish writer who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in Literature for portraying his country's peasantry, with novels including Hurskas kurjuus.
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.
Franz Hellens
Franz Hellens, pen name of Frédéric Van Ermengem (1881–1972), was a Belgian novelist and poet who wrote in French, founded the review Le Disque vert, and developed fantastic realism.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Prague German-Jewish writer of The Trial, The Castle, Amerika, and The Metamorphosis; insurance clerk whose friend Max Brod defied his burn order and published his manuscripts posthumously.
Franz Werfel
Franz Werfel (1890–1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet, a leading figure of German expressionism known for The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and The Song of Bernadette.
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.
Fredrika Bremer
Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865) was a Swedish novelist born in Finland, the first Swedish fiction writer with an international reputation, whose 1856 novel Hertha helped win unmarried women legal majority.
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.
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882) was an Estonian writer, physician, and folklorist, author of the national epic Kalevipoeg and a central figure of the Estonian national awakening.
Frigyes Karinthy
Frigyes Karinthy (Karinthy Frigyes, 1887–1938) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and critic, one of the creators of 20th-century humorous literature, known for the 1912 parody volume Így írtok ti.
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, born Nils Fritiof Adam Nilsson (1895–1972), was a Swedish author and lawyer whose humorous stories set in Skåne made him one of Sweden's most popular storytellers.
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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский), 1821–1881, Russian novelist and journalist; author of Poor Folk, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov, serialized in Katkov's Russian Messenger, distinguished by Siberian exile, Bakhtin's polyphony interpretation, and 1880 Pushkin speech.
Fyodor Sologub
Fyodor Sologub (Фёдор Сологуб), pen name of Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, and playwright, 1863 to 1927, best known for the influential novel The Petty Demon.
George Sand
George Sand, pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804-1876), French novelist of Indiana, La Mare au Diable and about seventy books; feminist, 1848 republican, friend of Flaubert and lover of Chopin.
Georges Duhamel (author)
Georges Duhamel (1884–1966) was a French physician-turned-writer and frontline surgeon of World War I whose novel cycles Vie et aventures de Salavin and Chronique des Pasquier made him one of the most widely read French authors.
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.
Gerard Walschap
Gerard Walschap (1898–1989) was a Flemish novelist and critic who renewed the Flemish novel, had a public dispute with the Catholic Church, and received the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren in 1968.
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.
Gertrud von Le Fort
Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971) was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays whose work joined the Renouveau catholique; her novella Die Letzte am Schafott inspired Bernanos' Dialogues des Carmélites.
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 Gárdonyi
Géza Gárdonyi (Gárdonyi Géza; born Ziegler Géza, 1863–1922) was a Hungarian novelist and journalist, best known for Egri csillagok (Stars of Eger, 1901) and A láthatatlan ember (The Invisible Man, 1902).
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.