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Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux, born 1940 in Lillebonne and raised in Yvetot, Normandy, is the French writer of La Place, Passion simple and Les Années who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature for her flat, clinical autobiographical writing on memory, class and women's lives.
Annie M. G. Schmidt
Annie M. G. Schmidt (1911–1995) was a Dutch writer of children's books, poems, songs, and musicals who created Jip en Janneke and won the 1988 Hans Christian Andersen Prize.
Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx (Edna Annie Proulx, born 1935, Norwich, Connecticut) is an American novelist and short-story writer, author of The Shipping News, which won the 1993 National Book Award and 1994 Pulitzer Prize, and of "Brokeback Mountain", adapted into an Oscar-winning 2005 film. Also wrote Postcards, Close Range, Barkskins, and Fen, Bog & Swamp.
Anno Birkin
Anno Birkin (1980-2001), English poet and musician of the band Kicks Joy Darkness, son of Andrew Birkin; died in a car crash near Milan; author of Who Said The Race Is Over? and namesake of the Anno's Africa charity.
Antal Szerb
Antal Szerb (Szerb Antal, 1901–1945), Hungarian literary historian and novelist of Journey by Moonlight, The Pendragon Legend and Oliver VII; died in the Balf labor camp; Pushkin Press translations by Len Rix.
Antanas Baranauskas
Antanas Baranauskas (1835–1902) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic bishop, poet, and linguist, best known for Anykščių šilelis, the most famous work of 19th-century Lithuanian poetry, and for classifying Lithuanian dialects.
Antanas Škėma
Antanas Škėma (1910–1961) was a Lithuanian émigré writer, actor, and director, a pioneer of modern Lithuanian drama whose novel Balta drobulė (White Shroud) ranks among the most significant works of Lithuanian prose.
Antanas Vaičiulaitis
Antanas Vaičiulaitis (1906–1992) was a Lithuanian prose writer, poet, critic, and diplomat, one of interwar Lithuania's foremost prose stylists who later lived in the United States.
Antero de Quental
Antero de Quental (1842–1891) was a Portuguese poet and philosopher from Ponta Delgada, Azores, the leading figure of the Generation of 70 and a cofounder of Portugal's socialist movement.
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess, pen name of John Anthony Burgess Wilson, was an English novelist, critic, and composer who wrote 33 novels, most famously A Clockwork Orange (1962).
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr (born 1973) is an American novelist and short story writer from Cleveland, Ohio, living in Boise, Idaho. Author of All the Light We Cannot See (2015 Pulitzer Prize, 15 million copies) and Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) was an American poet and critic known for formal, allusive verse confronting atrocity, winning the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for The Hard Hours.
Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz (born 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter, creator of Alex Rider, Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders, and the only writer authorized by both the Conan Doyle and Fleming estates for Sherlock Holmes and James Bond novels.
Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford (born 1970, Fairfield, California) is an American writer and former Marine scout-sniper of 2d Battalion, 7th Marines in the Gulf War, author of the 2003 bestselling memoir Jarhead, adapted as Sam Mendes's 2005 film, plus Exit A (2007) and Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails (2012).
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), English Victorian novelist and Post Office official; author of 47 novels, the Barsetshire and Palliser novel-sequences, and the pillar box; famed for his 5:30 a.m., 250-words-per-quarter-hour writing routine.
Antiphon
Antiphon (Ἀντιφῶν), c. 480–411 BCE, was an Athenian speechwriter and rhetorician, the earliest of the ten Attic orators and the first known professional speechwriter for clients.
Antjie Krog
Antjie Krog (Anna Elizabeth Krog), born 1952, is a South African poet and writer best known for Country of My Skull, about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Antoine Abel
Antoine Abel (1934–2004) was a Seychellois novelist, poet, and playwright described as the father of Seychelles literature; he was the first Seychellois writer published in Europe.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), French aviator and writer, Aéropostale line pilot and author of Vol de nuit, Terre des hommes, and Le Petit Prince; disappeared on a 1944 reconnaissance flight, wreckage identified off Marseille in 2003–2004.
Antoine Galland
Antoine Galland (1646–1715), French orientalist, numismatist, and first European translator of the Thousand and One Nights (Les mille et une nuits, 1704–1717); king's antiquary, Académie des Inscriptions member, and Collège de France Arabic professor who added Aladdin and Ali Baba from Hanna Diyab.
Antoine Godeau
Antoine Godeau (1605–1672) was a French poet and bishop of Grasse and then Vence, elected to the Académie française in 1634 and named bishop by Richelieu.
Anton Aškerc
Anton Aškerc (1856–1912) was a Slovene poet, priest, and editor, published under the pseudonym Gorazd, and served as the first city archivist of Ljubljana from 1898.
Anton Hansen Tammsaare
Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878–1940) was an Estonian prose writer, playwright, and essayist whose epic five-part novel Tõde ja õigus (Truth and Justice), published 1926–1933, is regarded as one of the defining works of Estonian literature.
Anton van Duinkerken
Anton van Duinkerken, pen name of Wilhelmus Johannes Maria Antonius Asselbergs (1903–1968), was a Dutch poet, essayist, and professor who was a leading Catholic voice between the wars.
Anton Wildgans
Anton Wildgans (1881–1932) was an Austrian poet, playwright, and jurist whose social dramas and 1930 radio speech Rede über Österreich gave the First Republic a cultural self-description.
Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Fraser (born 27 August 1932, London), née Pakenham, is a British historian and biographer. Breakthrough Mary Queen of Scots (1969); also Cromwell, Marie Antoinette, the Jemima Shore mysteries; wife of Harold Pinter.
Antonio Callado
Antonio Callado (Antônio Carlos Callado) was a Brazilian journalist, novelist, biographer, and playwright whose novel Quarup (1967) became a landmark portrait of Brazil's political crisis.
Antonio Candido
Antonio Candido was a Brazilian literary critic and sociologist who taught at the University of São Paulo; his Formação da Literatura Brasileira (1959) reorganized the study of literature around the literary system.
Antônio Cícero
Antônio Cícero (Antonio Cicero Correia Lima) was a Brazilian poet, philosopher, and songwriter who wrote for Marina Lima and joined the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 2017.
Antonio Cisneros
Antonio Cisneros, in full Antonio Alfonso Cisneros Campoy (1942–2012), was a Peruvian poet of the Generación del 60 whose Comentarios reales (1964) won the National Poetry Prize.