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English literature
English literature: literary works in the English language from Old English beginnings (c. AD 450) through Middle English, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Modernism to global Anglophone and postcolonial writing today.
Enheduanna
Enheduanna (En-ḫedu-ana), Old Akkadian princess, daughter of Sargon, and high priestess of Nanna at Ur ca. 2300 BCE, earliest named author in world literature, credited with five Sumerian poems including The Exaltation of Inana and the Temple Hymns.
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton (1897–1968), English children's author of the Famous Five, Secret Seven, Noddy, and Malory Towers; wrote an estimated 700 books, selling over 600 million copies in 40 languages, while attracting persistent criticism for sexism, racism, and xenophobia in her texts.
Ennius
Quintus Ennius, c. 239–169 BCE, was a Roman epic and dramatic poet born at Rudiae in southern Italy, regarded by later Romans as the father of Roman poetry.
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti
Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti, also published as Marien Kind, was an Austrian baroness and novelist (1871–1955) who led German-language Catholic historical fiction before her books were banned under the Nazis.
Enrique Amorim
Enrique Amorim (1900–1960) was a Uruguayan novelist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter whose fiction centered on rural society of the Río de la Plata; his best-known novel is La carreta.
Enrique Anderson Imbert
Enrique Anderson Imbert (1910–2000) was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic best known for his 1954 Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana and fantastic fiction.
Enrique Banchs
Enrique Banchs (1888–1968) was an Argentine poet who wrote his entire work, four books of poems, between the ages of 19 and 23, and then fell silent for the rest of his life.
Enrique González Martínez
Enrique González Martínez (1871–1952) was a Mexican poet, physician, and diplomat whose 1911 sonnet "Tuércele el cuello al cisne" became a manifesto of rupture with Modernismo.
Enrique Jaramillo Levi
Enrique Jaramillo Levi, born 1944 in Colón, Panama, is a Panamanian short-story writer, poet, essayist, and editor, best known for Duplicaciones (1973), written under Juan Rulfo's mentorship.
Enrique Larreta
Enrique Rodríguez Larreta (1873–1961) was an Argentine novelist and diplomat, a leading Modernista best known for the historical novel La gloria de Don Ramiro (1908).
Enrique Lihn
Enrique Lihn (Enrique Lihn Carrasco, 1929–1988) was a Chilean poet, novelist, playwright, critic, and visual artist of the Generación Literaria de 1950 whose breakthrough book was La pieza oscura (1963).
Enrique López Albújar
Enrique López Albújar (1872–1966) was a Peruvian judge and writer whose Cuentos andinos (1920) began indigenist narrative and whose novel Matalaché (1928) was the first negrista novel of Peru.
Enrique Molina (poet)
Enrique Molina (1910–1996) was an Argentine poet of the Generación del '40, one of the country's leading surrealist poets beside Olga Orozco and Aldo Pellegrini.
Enrique Santos Molano
Enrique Santos Molano (1942–2024) was a Colombian writer, journalist, and historical researcher at the newspaper El Tiempo, known for biographies of Antonio Nariño and José Asunción Silva.
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer (born 1965, Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish children's and adult author, creator of the 25-million-selling Artemis Fowl series, Fowl Twins trilogy, Highfire, and Ireland's third Laureate na nÓg (2014–2016).
Epeli Hauʻofa
Epeli Hauʻofa (1939–2009) was a Tongan writer and anthropologist at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, known for the essay "Our Sea of Islands" and his satirical fiction.
Ercilla
Ercilla is a Chilean name referring to Alonso de Ercilla, the Spanish poet of La Araucana, and to the Santiago publishing house and magazine named after him.
Erdal Öz
Erdal Öz (1935–2006) was a Turkish writer, publisher, and author of children's books who founded Can Yayınları, one of Turkey's leading literary publishing houses, in 1981.
Erdem Beyazıt
Erdem Beyazıt, usually spelled Erdem Bayazıt and fully named Adil Erdem Bayazıt, was a Turkish poet and politician of the Mavera generation who died in 2008.
Eremia Chelebi
Eremia Chelebi (Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan, 1637–1695) was an Armenian poet, historian, translator, and printer of seventeenth-century Constantinople, best known for his detailed chronicles of Istanbul and his Armeno-Turkish writings.
Eric Carle
Eric Carle (1929-2021), American picture-book author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear; known for painted tissue-paper collage, over 70 books, 170 million copies, and the Amherst museum he founded.
Eric Newby
Eric Newby (1919–2006) was an English travel writer, author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and The Last Grain Race, Observer travel editor 1964–73, wartime POW who married Wanda Skof.
Erica Jong
Erica Jong (born 1942) is an American novelist, poet, and essayist whose 1973 debut Fear of Flying, featuring Isadora Wing and the 'zipless fuck,' made her a central figure of the 1970s sexual revolution.
Erich Kästner
Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was a German writer, poet, and satirist whose Emil und die Detektive (1929) founded the realistic children's novel in German; his books were burned by the Nazis in 1933.
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark, 1898–1970), German novelist of Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), a World War I veteran exiled by the Nazis whose anti-war and exile novels sold over 20 million copies.
Erico Verissimo
Erico Verissimo (1905–1975) was a Brazilian novelist from Rio Grande do Sul, known for the O tempo e o vento trilogy and Olhai os lírios do campo.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931) was a Swedish lyric poet of Dalarna who in 1931 became the only writer ever awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously.
Erik Blomberg
Erik Blomberg (1894–1965) was a Swedish poet, art critic, and translator, a leading Swedish poet of the 1920s and translator of Hafis and Chinese lyric.
Erik Gustaf Geijer
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) was a Swedish historian, poet, philosopher, and composer, professor of history at Uppsala University and a leading figure of Swedish National Romanticism.