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Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett, 1867-1931), English novelist, playwright and journalist of the Staffordshire Potteries, author of The Old Wives' Tale, the Clayhanger trilogy and the Five Towns fiction, attacked by Virginia Woolf and later reappraised.
Arnold Zweig
Arnold Zweig (1887–1968) was a German-Jewish novelist and anti-war writer whose 1927 novel Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa became a defining war novel of the Weimar Republic.
Arnon Grunberg
Arnon Grunberg, full name Arnon Yasha Yves Grünberg, is a Dutch writer born in Amsterdam in 1971 whose novel Tirza won the Gouden Uil and Libris prizes.
Arnošt Lustig
Arnošt Lustig (1926–2011) was a Czech Jewish novelist, screenwriter, and professor who survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, wrote over twenty Holocaust books, and won the 2008 Franz Kafka Prize.
Arnulf Øverland
Arnulf Øverland (1889–1968) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and lecturer, best known for the anti-fascist poem 'Du må ikke sove!' and his 1933 acquittal for blasphemy.
Arrian
Arrian, in full Lucius Flavius Arrianus, was a Greek historian and Roman official of Nicomedia in Bithynia in the second century CE, best known for the Anabasis of Alexander.
Arshak Chobanian
Arshak Chobanian, also known as Arshag Tchobanian, was an Armenian writer, critic, and journalist (1872–1954) who lived in Paris, founded the journal Anahit, and defended the Armenian national cause in Europe.
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (born 1948, Stockholm) is an American cartoonist and author of Maus, the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize (1992). He co-founded RAW magazine with Françoise Mouly and created Breakdowns and In the Shadow of No Towers.
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), British science fiction author and futurist, co-writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed geostationary communication satellites in a 1945 Wireless World article and lived in Sri Lanka from 1956.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, was a Scottish writer and physician who created Sherlock Holmes and also wrote historical novels and spiritualist works.
Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (1905–1983), Hungarian-British novelist and science writer, author of Darkness at Noon and The Act of Creation; communism, Spanish Civil War imprisonment, parapsychology bequest at Edinburgh.
Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), Welsh author born Arthur Llewellyn Jones, wrote The Great God Pan, The Three Impostors, and The White People, helped found weird fiction, and influenced Lovecraft, King, and Borges; his 1914 tale The Bowmen spawned the Angel of Mons legend.
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French Symbolist poet of Charleville and Marseille, wrote Le Bateau ivre, Une Saison en enfer, and Illuminations, pioneered free verse, then abandoned poetry for African trade.
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) was an Austrian physician and writer, a leading figure of Viennese modernism whose plays and prose explored love, death, and society, and whose erotic play Reigen provoked major theater scandals.
Arthur van Schendel
Arthur van Schendel (1874–1946) was a Dutch novelist, born in Batavia and long resident in Italy, whose Holland novels made him one of the most honored Dutch writers of the 1930s.
Arthur Waley
Arthur Waley (1889-1966), born Arthur David Schloss, was a British sinologist and self-taught translator of Chinese and Japanese. Known for One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems (1918), the six-volume Tale of Genji (1925-33), and Monkey (Journey to the West); never visited China or Japan; Queen's Medal for Poetry 1953.
Artur Adson
Artur Adson (1889–1977) was an Estonian poet, playwright, and theater critic, a founding member of the Siuru literary group and husband of poet Marie Under.
Artur Alliksaar
Artur Alliksaar, born Artur Alnek (1923–1966), was an Estonian poet and playwright who published almost nothing under Soviet rule but permanently changed Estonian free verse.
Arturo Camacho Ramírez
Arturo Camacho Ramírez (1910–1982) was a Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat, a member of the Piedra y Cielo group who led its Americanist, Neruda-influenced tendency.
Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906–2001) was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, and politician considered the leading figure of twentieth-century Venezuelan literature, known for the novel Las lanzas coloradas and the phrase "Sembrar el petróleo."
Arun Kamal
Arun Kamal (अरुण कमल; born 1954 in Bihar) is a Hindi poet, critic, editor, and translator who won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998 for Naye Ilake Mein.
Arun Kolatkar
Arun Kolatkar (born Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar) was an Indian poet who wrote in Marathi and English, best known for Jejuri, winner of the 1977 Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
Arun Mitra
Arun Mitra (অরুণ মিত্র; 1909–2000) was a Bengali poet of the post-Rabindranath era and translator from French, winning the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1987 for Khujte Khujte Eto Dur.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy (born 1961, Shillong) is an Indian novelist, essayist, and activist whose debut The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker Prize, sold over 6 million copies, and led to her career in political nonfiction.
Arvid Järnefelt
Arvid Järnefelt (1861–1932) was a Finnish jurist turned novelist and Tolstoyan social reformer who abandoned his legal career in 1891 and wrote the acclaimed debut novel Isänmaa (1893).
Arvid Mörne
Arvid Mörne (1876–1946) was a Finland-Swedish poet, novelist, and literary historian who published twenty poetry collections and led a Finnish folk high school from 1899 to 1909.
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra is an Indian poet, translator, and anthologist born in Lahore in 1947, a central figure in Indian poetry in English since the 1960s.
Arvo Valton
Arvo Valton, pen name of Arvo Vallikivi (1935–2024), was an Estonian writer considered a founder of Estonian modern prose, known for grotesque stories satirizing the Soviet regime.
Arzamas
Arzamas (Арзамас) was a private literary circle in Saint Petersburg from 1815 to 1818 whose members, including Zhukovsky and Pushkin, defended Karamzin's reforms of Russian literary language.
Asadi Tusi
Asadi Tusi (اسدی طوسی), born around 999 and died 1072, was a Persian poet and linguist from Tus in Khorasan, author of the epic Garshasp-nama and the Loghat-e fors dictionary.