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Anders Bodelsen
Anders Bodelsen (1937–2021) was a Danish author and journalist, a leading realist of the welfare society, whose breakthrough suspense novels came in 1968 and were widely translated and filmed.
Anders Österling
Anders Österling (1884–1981) was a Swedish poet, critic, and translator who served in the Swedish Academy for 62 years, as its permanent secretary from 1941 to 1964.
András Fáy
András Fáy, born Fáy András (1786–1864), was a Hungarian writer, lawyer, and politician of the Reform Era, known as the Hungarian Aesop and founder of Hungary's first savings bank.
André Aciman
André Aciman (born 1951, Alexandria) is an Egyptian-American novelist, memoirist, and CUNY comparative literature professor, author of Call Me by Your Name and Out of Egypt, known for themes of exile, memory, and desire.
André Bjerke
André Bjerke (Jarl André Bjerke, 1918–1985) was a Norwegian poet, novelist, and translator who wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym Bernhard Borge, including De dødes tjern.
André Breton
André Breton (1896–1966), French poet and founder and lifelong leader of Surrealism; wrote the 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism defining it as pure psychic automatism, plus Nadja and L'Amour fou.
André Brink
André Brink (André Philippus Brink, 1935-2015), South African novelist and Die Sestigers figure; author of Kennis van die Aand, the first banned Afrikaans novel, and A Dry White Season.
André Chamson
André Chamson (1900–1983) was a French novelist and archivist who directed the Louvre's 1940 evacuation, led the Archives de France, and joined the Académie française.
Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus (1936–1999), American short story writer and essayist, Louisiana-born Marine captain turned Iowa MFA, author of The Lieutenant, "Killings," and Dancing After Hours; father of Andre Dubus III.
André Gide
André Gide (1869-1951), French novelist, essayist, and diarist; Nobel Laureate in Literature 1947; author of Les Nourritures terrestres, L'Immoraliste, Corydon, and Les Faux-monnayeurs; co-founder of the NRF.
André Malraux
André Malraux (1901–1976), French novelist, art theorist, and first Minister of Cultural Affairs (1959–1969) under de Gaulle; Prix Goncourt 1933 for La Condition humaine, creator of the musée imaginaire, Resistance leader Colonel Berger, Panthéon 1996.
André Schwarz-Bart
André Schwarz-Bart, born Abraham Szwarcbart, was a French novelist of Polish-Jewish origin who won the 1959 Prix Goncourt for his first novel, Le Dernier des Justes.
Andrea Hirata
Andrea Hirata, born in 1967 on Belitung Island, is an Indonesian novelist whose debut Laskar Pelangi (The Rainbow Troops, 2005) sold more than five million copies and became his country's most translated novel.
Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy (1956–2019), British novelist and Windrush-generation daughter, wrote Small Island (Orange Prize, Whitbread Book of the Year) and The Long Song (Booker shortlist, Walter Scott Prize).
Andrea Long Chu
Andrea Long Chu (朱华敏), born 1992, is an American critic at New York magazine, winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, author of Females (2019) and Authority: Essays (2025).
Andrea Werhun
Andrea Werhun is a Toronto writer, performer, producer, and sex worker, author of Modern Whore: A Memoir (2017/2018, expanded 2022) with Nicole Bazuin; subject of the 2025 Sean Baker-executive-produced documentary and consultant on Anora.
Andreas Gryphius
Andreas Gryphius, born Andreas Greif, was a German Baroque lyric poet and dramatist from Glogau in Silesia, famous for his sonnets and regarded as the founder of German art drama.
Andreas Kalvos
Andreas Kalvos (Ανδρέας Κάλβος, 1792–1869) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos whose twenty odes celebrating the Greek War of Independence made him a landmark of modern Greek poetry.
Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый)
Andrei Bely (Андрей Белый), pen name of Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev (1880–1934), was a Russian novelist, poet, and critic, a leading figure of Russian Symbolism and author of Petersburg.
Andrei Bitov
Andrei Bitov (Андрей Битов, 1937–2018) was a Russian novelist, poet, and screenwriter regarded as a founder of postmodernism in Russian literature, known chiefly for the novel Pushkin House.
Andrei Mryi
Andrei Mryi (Андрэй Мрый), pen name of Andrei Shashalevich, was a Belarusian prose writer and journalist best known for the satirical novel Zapiski Samsona Samasuya, which led to his persecution.
Andrei Platonov
Andrei Platonov (Андрей Платонов), born Andrei Platonovich Klimentov, was a Russian Soviet writer and playwright whose novels Chevengur and The Foundation Pit made him one of the most distinctive figures of twentieth-century literature.
Andrei Voznesensky
Andrei Voznesensky (Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky) was a Soviet Russian poet and trained architect who filled stadiums during the Khrushchev Thaw, drawing official censure and mass popularity.
Andrejs Pumpurs
Andrejs Pumpurs (1841–1902) was a Latvian poet of the national awakening era, best known as the creator of the Latvian national epic Lāčplēsis, published in 1888.
Andrejs Upīts
Andrejs Upīts (1877–1970) was a Latvian writer, literary scholar, and critic, regarded as the most prolific author in Latvian literature, best known for the Robežnieki novel cycle.
Andrés Eloy Blanco
Andrés Eloy Blanco was a Venezuelan poet and politician, born in 1896, best known for the poem "Píntame angelitos negros" and for dying in exile in Mexico in 1955.
Andrés Holguín
Andrés Holguín, born Andrés Holguín Holguín (1918–1989), was a Colombian poet, translator, critic, and diplomat from Bogotá whose anthologies of Colombian and French poetry became reference works.
Andrés Rivera
Andrés Rivera, pen name of Marcos Ribak (1928–2016), was an Argentine novelist and short-story writer known for La revolución es un sueño eterno and El farmer.
Andrew Joseph White
Andrew Joseph White, American trans and autistic horror author from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley; NYT-bestselling YA novels Hell Followed With Us, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth, Compound Fracture; adult debut You Weren't Meant to Be Human.
Andrew Klavan
Andrew Klavan, American crime novelist, screenwriter, and Daily Wire podcast host; two-time Edgar winner, author of Don't Say a Word, True Crime, the Homelanders and Cameron Winter series, and memoir The Great Good Thing.