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Blanca Varela
Blanca Varela (1926–2009) was a Peruvian poet of the Generación del 50, whose first book Ese puerto existe appeared in 1959 and whose prizes included the Octavio Paz award.
Blas de Otero
Blas de Otero (1916–1979) was a Spanish poet from Bilbao whose work moved from tormented existential verse to the socially committed poetry of the postwar generation.
Bloke Modisane
Bloke Modisane, born William Modisane (1923–1986), was a South African journalist, writer, and actor of the 1950s Drum generation, known for the autobiography Blame Me on History.
Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group was an informal circle of English intellectuals and artists centered in London. They were known for their work in art, literature, and the Omega Workshops.
Bo Carpelan
Bo Carpelan (1926–2011), full name Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan, was a Finland-Swedish poet, novelist, and Helsinki librarian whose minimalist poetry and the Sibelius novel Axel won wide acclaim.
Bobbie Ann Mason
Bobbie Ann Mason (born 1940) is an American novelist and short-story writer from Mayfield, Kentucky, known for Shiloh and Other Stories (1982) and the novel In Country (1985).
Bocas Lit Fest
The Bocas Lit Fest is a non-profit literary festival held each year in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, founded by Marina Salandy-Brown and first staged in 2011.
Bodheswaran
Bodheswaran, born Keshava Pillai, was an Indian independence activist and Malayalam poet who took part in the Vaikom Satyagraha and wrote Kerala Ganam, declared Kerala's cultural song in 2014.
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, born Tadeu Hâjdeu, was a Romanian writer, philologist, historian, and folklorist who held the first chair of Indo-European comparative linguistics at Bucharest and left unfinished the dictionary Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae.
Bohdan Lepky
Bohdan Lepky (Богдан Лепкий, 1872–1941) was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and teacher from Galicia, best known for his historical novels about Hetman Mazepa and the song "Zhuravli".
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (Богдан-Ігор Антонич, 1909–1937) was a Ukrainian poet of Lemko origin whose five collections, fusing pagan and Christian imagery, influenced the Kyiv school of the 1960s.
Bohumil Hrabal
Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) was a Czech writer, one of the most important of the twentieth century, whose comic, vernacular novels include Closely Watched Trains and Too Loud a Solitude.
Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus was the pen name of Aleksander Głowacki, a Polish novelist, short-story writer, and journalist (1847–1912) whose novels The Doll and Pharaoh rank among the greatest works of Polish literature.
Boonlua Debyasuvarn
Boonlua Debyasuvarn, writing as Boonlua, was a Thai educator, critic, and novelist whose essays became the foundation of modern Thai literary criticism; UNESCO honored her centenary in 2012.
Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak (Борис Пастернак), 1890–1960, Russian poet, translator, and author of Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго); won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature and was forced by Soviet authorities to decline it.
Boris Pilnyak
Boris Pilnyak (Борис Пильняк), born Boris Andreyevich Vogau, was a leading Russian Soviet prose writer of the 1920s, best known for The Naked Year and executed in 1938.
Boris Ryzhy
Boris Ryzhy (Борис Рыжий, 1974–2001) was a Russian poet from Yekaterinburg whose verse fused classical form with the industrial Urals; he won the AntiBooker prize in 1999.
Boris Vian
Boris Vian was a French novelist, jazz trumpeter, and songwriter, author of L'Écume des jours (1947) and, as Vernon Sullivan, J'irai cracher sur vos tombes.
Boris Zaytsev (writer)
Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev (Борис Константинович Зайцев) was a Russian writer and dramatist of the Silver Age, recognized before 1917, who emigrated to Paris in 1922.
Borys Hrinchenko
Borys Hrinchenko (1863–1910) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, teacher, and lexicographer who compiled the four-volume Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, published in Kyiv in 1907–1909.
Botelho de Vasconcelos
Adriano Botelho de Vasconcelos, born 1955 in Malange, Angola, is an Angolan poet with nine poetry collections who won the 2003 Grande Prémio Sonangol for Tábua.
Botho Strauß
Botho Strauß, born 1944 in Naumburg (Saale), is a German writer known for plays like Trilogie des Wiedersehen and Groß und klein, and for the 1993 essay Anschwellender Bocksgesang.
Boubacar Boris Diop
Boubacar Boris Diop, born in 1946 in Dakar, is a Senegalese novelist who writes in French and Wolof and won the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Božena Němcová
Božena Němcová, born Barbora Novotná (1820–1862), was a Czech writer and folklorist regarded as the founder of modern Czech prose, best known for the novel Babička (1855).
Bozor Sobir
Bozor Sobir (Бозор Собир) was a Tajik poet regarded as a leading figure of modern Tajik poetry, known for patriotic verse and awarded the Rudaki State Prize in 1988.
Bozorg Alavi
Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی), born Sayyed Mojtabā Alavi, was an Iranian leftist writer and a founder of modern Persian prose fiction, best known for his 1952 novel Her Eyes.
Brad Meltzer
Brad Meltzer is an American novelist, comic book writer, and television host known for bestselling thrillers, Identity Crisis, and the Ordinary People Change the World books.
Brad Thor
Brad Thor (born 1969, Chicago) is the #1 New York Times bestselling American thriller author of the Scot Harvath series, begun with The Lions of Lucerne (2002); former DHS Analytic Red Cell member.
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker (Abraham Stoker, 1847-1912), Dublin-born Irish Protestant writer, barrister, and Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre manager, wrote eleven novels; his Gothic horror Dracula (1897) created the Transylvanian vampire count and defines vampire fiction today.
Brandon Sanderson
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) is an American fantasy and science fiction author, creator of the Mistborn saga and The Stormlight Archive, who completed Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.