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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet from Gardiner, Maine, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and is known for the ironic portraits "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy."
Edwin D. Mead
Edwin D. Mead (1849–1937) was an American writer and Boston lecturer on social and historical topics, and editor of the New England Magazine from 1889 to 1901.
Edwin Morgan
Edwin George Morgan (1920–2010) was a Scottish poet and translator based in Glasgow, considered the foremost Scottish poet of the twentieth century and Scotland's first national poet, appointed Scots Makar in 2004.
Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir (1887–1959) was a Scottish poet, critic, and translator, born in Orkney, who with his wife Willa produced the first English translations of Kafka.
Eeva-Liisa Manner
Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921–1995) was a Finnish poet, playwright, and translator regarded as a pioneer of Finnish post-war modernism; her breakthrough collection was Tämä matka (1956).
Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song
The Eight Great Prose Masters of the Tang and Song (唐宋八大家) are Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, and six Song writers canonized as models of classical guwen prose.
Eiichiro Oda (尾田栄一郎)
Eiichiro Oda (尾田栄一郎) is a Japanese manga artist from Kumamoto, creator of One Piece (1997, Weekly Shonen Jump); over 600 million copies, Guinness record for a single-author comic, executive producer of Netflix's live-action series.
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing) was a Chinese novelist and essayist of 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong, known for The Golden Cangue and Love in a Fallen City.
Einar Benediktsson
Einar Benediktsson (1864–1940) was an Icelandic poet, lawyer, and journalist, a leading lyric poet of his era. He published five collections and spent decades seeking foreign capital to harness Iceland's waterfalls.
Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran
Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran (1859–1938) was an Icelandic writer, journalist, editor, and leading spiritualist, a pioneer of naturalism in Icelandic literature and a Nobel Prize nominee in 1923 and 1924.
Einar Kárason
Einar Kárason is an Icelandic novelist and screenwriter, born in Reykjavík in 1955, one of the most popular authors of his generation, known for the Devils' Isle trilogy about post-war Reykjavík.
Einar Már Guðmundsson
Einar Már Guðmundsson, born 1954 in Reykjavík, is an Icelandic novelist and poet whose novel Angels of the Universe won the 1995 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Eka Kurniawan
Eka Kurniawan is an Indonesian novelist whose Beauty Is a Wound and Man Tiger made him the first Indonesian writer nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton (born 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter who won the 2013 Booker Prize for The Luminaries, the youngest winner ever at age 28.
Eleazar Kalir
Eleazar Kalir (Hebrew: אלעזר בירבי קליר), also Eleazar ha-Kalir, was a Byzantine Jewish liturgical poet, or paytan, of the Land of Israel whose Hebrew hymns, the piyyutim, are still sung in synagogue services.
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) was a Nigerian author and soldier best known for novels of pre-colonial village life, above all his debut novel The Concubine (1966), which sold nearly half a million copies.
Elena Farago
Elena Farago, born Elena Paximade (1878–1954), was a Romanian poet, translator, and publicist best known for her children's poetry and for directing the Aman Foundation in Craiova.
Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an anonymous Italian novelist, author of Troubling Love (1992) and the Neapolitan Quartet (2011–2014), translated into 50 languages; her identity remains unconfirmed despite Claudio Gatti's 2016 claim naming translator Anita Raja.
Elena Garro
Elena Garro, born Elena Delfina Garro Navarro (1916–1998), was a Mexican novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose first novel, Los recuerdos del porvenir (1963), became an early landmark of magical realism.
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek, born in 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Styria, is an Austrian novelist and playwright who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature for works like The Piano Teacher.
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (1905–1994), Bulgarian-born Sephardic German-language writer, Nobel laureate 1981, author of the novel Auto-da-Fé (Die Blendung) and the crowd-psychology study Crowds and Power (Masse und Macht), and of a celebrated memoir trilogy.
Elias Farkouh
Elias Farkouh (إلياس فركوح; 1948–2020) was a Jordanian novelist, short-story writer, and publisher whose novel Ard al-Yambous was shortlisted for the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008.
Elias Khoury
Elias Khoury (إيلياس خوري, 1948–2024) was a Lebanese novelist and public intellectual, one of the leading Arab writers of his generation, best known for Gate of the Sun (1998).
Elias Venezis
Elias Venezis was a Greek novelist born in Ayvalık, Asia Minor, in 1904, best known for Number 31328, based on his captivity as a prisoner in 1922.
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), Holocaust survivor from Sighet, Romania, author of Night (from Yiddish Un di velt hot geshvign), Nobel Peace Prize 1986, Boston University professor and human rights advocate.
Eliezer Greenberg
Eliezer Greenberg (1896–1977) was a Yiddish poet, translator, teacher, and critic who immigrated from Bessarabia to the United States in 1913 and became best known for anthologies of Yiddish literature.
Eliezer Shteynbarg
Eliezer Shteynbarg (אליעזר שטיינבאַרג, 1880–1932) was a Yiddish poet, educator, and fabulist born in Lipkany, Bessarabia, who wrote about 150 rhymed fables and led Jewish cultural life in interwar Romania.
Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak (born 1971, Strasbourg) is a British-Turkish novelist of 21 books in about 60 languages, author of The Forty Rules of Love; tried in 2006 under Article 301 over The Bastard of Istanbul.
Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand, American novelist, Queen of the Beach Reads, author of over 30 Nantucket-set novels including The Perfect Couple and Swan Song; retired Nantucket novels in 2024, now writes with daughter Shelby Cunningham.
Elin Pelin
Elin Pelin (Елин Пелин), pen name of Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov, was a Bulgarian short-story master born in 1877 who chronicled village life in works like Geratsite and Land.