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Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (c. 1622–1676) was a German Baroque novelist whose picaresque Simplicissimus, set in the Thirty Years' War, became the era's most widely read German novel.
Hans Scherfig
Hans Scherfig (Hans Christian Scherfig, 1905–1979) was a Danish writer, painter, and communist known for satirical novels like Det forsømte forår and naivist jungle paintings.
Harry Mulisch
Harry Mulisch (1927–2010) was a Dutch novelist and one of the "Big Three" of postwar Dutch literature, best known for The Assault and The Discovery of Heaven.
Hasan Ali Toptaş
Hasan Ali Toptaş (born 1958) is a Turkish novelist and short-story writer whose dreamlike, poetic narratives, blurring dream and reality, made him a leading name in contemporary Turkish literature.
Heimito von Doderer
Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966) was an Austrian novelist whose Vienna novels Die Strudlhofstiege (1951) and Die Dämonen (1956) made him a major postwar German-language writer.
Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll (1917–1985) was a German writer from Cologne associated with postwar rubble literature who won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first for a German writer in 43 years.
Heinrich Mann
Heinrich Mann, in full Luiz Heinrich Mann (1871–1950), was a German satirical novelist and essayist, brother of Thomas Mann, best known for Professor Unrat and Der Untertan.
Hella S. Haasse
Hella S. Haasse (Hélène Serafia Haasse, 1918–2011) was a Dutch writer whose debut novella Oeroeg and historical novels made her one of the most translated Dutch authors.
Helle Helle
Helle Helle, born Helle Olsen in 1965 in Nakskov, is a Danish author known for spare, understated realism in everyday settings, winning major Danish prizes including the Critics' Prize.
Hendrik Conscience
Hendrik Conscience (1812–1883) was a Flemish writer who published the first Dutch-language novel in Belgium and gave Flanders its national epic, De Leeuw van Vlaenderen (1838).
Henri Bosco
Henri Bosco (1888–1976) was a French novelist whose Provençal novels include Malicroix and the school classic L'Enfant et la rivière; he won the 1945 Prix Renaudot.
Henri Queffélec
Henri Queffélec (1910–1992) was a French novelist and screenwriter, considered the great French-language maritime novelist of the 20th century, known for Un recteur de l'île de Sein.
Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidan (1857–1943) was a Danish realist novelist who shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Karl Gjellerup; his major works include Lykke-Per and De dødes rige.
Herbjørg Wassmo
Herbjørg Wassmo, born 1942 in Vesterålen, Norway, is a novelist and poet who won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1987 for Hudløs himmel, part of her Tora trilogy.
Herman Bang
Herman Bang (1857–1912) was a Danish novelist, journalist, and stage director, the most prominent representative of impressionist literature in Denmark, known for works such as Stuk and Tine.
Herman Brusselmans
Herman Brusselmans is a Flemish novelist, poet, and columnist born in 1957 in Hamme, Belgium, who has published more than 75 books and writes a weekly column for Humo.
Herman Teirlinck
Herman Teirlinck (1879–1967) was a Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, and theater reformer, considered one of the best modern Flemish writers and the first laureate of the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren in 1956.
Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was an Austrian Jewish novelist and essayist who wrote The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil and fled to America in 1938.
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-born Swiss writer of Demian, Siddhartha, Der Steppenwolf, and Das Glasperlenspiel; Nobel Prize in Literature 1946; over 150 million books sold in more than 70 languages.
Hermann Kesten
Hermann Kesten (1900–1996) was a German novelist and editor of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement who, in exile from the Nazis, published and rescued persecuted German-language writers.
Hermann Lenz
Hermann Lenz (1913–1998) was a German writer known for a nine-volume autobiographical novel cycle around his alter ego Eugen Rapp; he won the 1978 Georg Büchner Prize.
Hermann Stehr
Hermann Stehr (1864–1940) was a German novelist and short-story writer from Habelschwerdt, Silesia, whose religious-mystical fiction about Silesian peasants culminated in Der Heiligenhof (1918).
Herta Müller
Herta Müller, born 1953 in the Banat, Romania, is a German-Romanian novelist who emigrated to West Germany in 1987 and won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature for works on deportation and surveillance under dictatorship.
Hjalmar Bergman
Hjalmar Bergman (1883–1931) was a Swedish novelist and dramatist whose fiction centers on the fictional town of Wadköping; his best-known novel is Markurells i Wadköping (1919).
Hjalmar Söderberg
Hjalmar Söderberg (1869–1941) was a Swedish novelist, playwright, and translator regarded as a major early twentieth-century Swedish author, best known for Doktor Glas and his portraits of Stockholm.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist born in Tours, author of La Comédie humaine, over 90 linked novels with 2,000+ recurring characters; founder of literary realism, pioneer of the serial novel, married Mme Hanska in 1850.
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko (Григорій Квітка-Основ'яненко, 1778–1843) was a Ukrainian writer and playwright, known as the father of Ukrainian prose and a founder of Kharkiv's cultural life.
Hugo Claus
Hugo Claus, full name Hugo Maurice Julien Claus, was a leading Belgian novelist, poet, and playwright in Dutch, whose 1983 novel The Sorrow of Belgium became a classic of Flemish literature.
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (1864–1944) was a Turkish novelist and playwright, the leading Turkish representative of realism and naturalism, known for novels of late Ottoman Istanbul life.
I. L. Peretz
I. L. Peretz (1852–1915) was a Yiddish and Hebrew writer of short fiction, drama, and poetry, active in Warsaw and one of the founders of modern Yiddish prose.