Writers and literary biographies

Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela (1916–2002) was a Spanish novelist who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for La familia de Pascual Duarte and La colmena.

Can Themba

Can Themba (1924–1967) was a South African teacher, journalist, and short story writer, a leading figure of Drum magazine and author of the celebrated story "The Suit".

Can Xue

Can Xue (残雪) is the pen name of a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer, active since 1985, known for surrealist, dream-like novels that earned her the label "China's Kafka".

Can Yücel

Can Yücel, nicknamed "Can Baba," was a Turkish poet and translator (1926–1999) who brought street language and humor into modern Turkish poetry and freely translated Shakespeare, Lorca, and Brecht.

Candace Bushnell, American author and columnist (born Connecticut, 1958 or c. 1959), creator of Sex and the City: 1994 New York Observer column, 1996 book, HBO series 1998–2004; ten books including The Carrie Diaries.

Cao Bá Quát

Cao Bá Quát (1808 or 1809 – 1854 or 1855) was a Vietnamese poet and mandarin who led an 1853 uprising against the Nguyễn dynasty.

Caprice Crane

Caprice Crane (born 1970, Los Angeles), daughter of Tina Louise and Les Crane, is an American novelist and screenwriter, author of Stupid and Contagious and Forget About It and writer for the 90210 and Melrose Place reboots.

Carl de Souza

Carl de Souza, born 1949 in Rose Hill, Mauritius, is a Mauritian novelist writing in French whose fiction explores identity and intercommunal tension in postcolonial Mauritius.

Carl Einstein

Carl Einstein, born Karl Einstein, was a German writer and art critic whose 1915 book Negerplastik pioneered the study of African sculpture as art in Europe.

Carl Erik Soya

Carl Erik Soya (1896–1983) was a Danish writer of satirical novels, plays, and screenplays, a radical renewer of Danish drama best known through film adaptations of his work.

Carl Friedrich Glasenapp

Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (1847–1915) was a Baltic German philologist, schoolteacher, and music writer in Riga, best known for the first monumental six-volume biography of Richard Wagner.

Carl Gustaf Estlander

Carl Gustaf Estlander (1834–1910) was a Finland-Swedish professor of aesthetics and modern literature who pioneered Finnish art history and helped found the Ateneum art museum.

Carl Hiaasen

Carl Hiaasen (born 1953) is an American novelist and Miami Herald columnist known for Florida-set satirical crime novels like Tourist Season, Strip Tease, and Skinny Dip, the Newbery Honor book Hoot, and award-winning investigative journalism; about 14 million US copies sold.

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793–1866) was a Swedish novelist, poet, playwright, and radical reformer, best known for the 1839 novel Det går an and his American exile.

Carl Michael Bellman

Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) was a Swedish poet, songwriter, and singer, one of Sweden's national poets, best known for Fredman's Epistles (1790) and Fredman's Songs.

Carl Robert Jakobson

Carl Robert Jakobson (1841–1882) was an Estonian writer, teacher, and activist who led the radical wing of the national awakening and founded Sakala, the first Estonian-language political newspaper.

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), American poet, journalist, folk song collector, and Lincoln biographer of the Chicago literary renaissance; author of Chicago Poems, The American Songbag, and the Pulitzer-winning Abraham Lincoln: The War Years.

Carl Solomon

Carl Solomon (1928-1993), American writer and Ace Books editor, associate of the Beat Generation, dedicatee of Ginsberg's "Howl"; published Mishaps, Perhaps (1966), More Mishaps (1968), and Emergency Messages (1989).

Carl Spitteler

Carl Spitteler (1845–1924) was a Swiss poet who won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature for his epic Olympischer Frühling, and whose 1914 speech defending Swiss neutrality became a founding text of Swiss self-understanding.

Carl Weitbrecht

Carl (Karl) Weitbrecht (1847–1904) was a German writer, literary historian, and clergyman who held the chair of aesthetics and German literature in Stuttgart and championed the Swabian school.

Carl Zuckmayer

Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977) was a German playwright and writer whose folk-styled dramas, Der Hauptmann von Köpenick and Des Teufels General, made him a leading German-language dramatist.

Carles Riba

Carles Riba i Bracons (1893–1959) was a Catalan poet, translator, and classical scholar of Barcelona, whose exile cycle Elegies de Bierville is among the major works of modern Catalan poetry.

Carley Fortune

Carley Fortune, Canadian romance novelist and former journalist, author of Every Summer After (2022), Meet Me at the Lake, This Summer Will Be Different, One Golden Summer, and Our Perfect Storm; adapted as Prime Video's Every Year After and Netflix projects.