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Gerald Vizenor
Gerald Vizenor, born 1934 in Minneapolis, is an Anishinaabe writer and professor emeritus at Berkeley who has written over 40 books and coined the concept of survivance.
Geraldine Brooks (writer)
Geraldine Brooks (born 1955) is the Australian-American author and former Wall Street Journal correspondent who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for March; her novels include Year of Wonders, People of the Book, and Horse (2022), based on the racehorse Lexington. Not the Vancouver psychologist Geraldine S. Brooks.
Gérard de Nerval
Gérard de Nerval, pen name of Gérard Labrunie, was a French writer (1808–1855) whose late works, including Sylvie, Les Chimères, and Aurélia, explore the boundary between dream and reality.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins, also known as Gerard Hopkins, was an English poet and Jesuit priest who invented sprung rhythm; his poems, collected by Robert Bridges in 1918, reshaped modern poetry.
Gerard Reve
Gerard Reve, born Gerard Kornelis van het Reve, was a Dutch writer counted with Harry Mulisch and Willem Frederik Hermans among the Great Three of postwar Dutch literature.
Gerard Walschap
Gerard Walschap (1898–1989) was a Flemish novelist and critic who renewed the Flemish novel, had a public dispute with the Catholic Church, and received the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren in 1968.
Gerard Way
Gerard Way (born 1977, Summit, New Jersey) is the My Chemical Romance frontman and Eisner Award-winning comic writer of The Umbrella Academy with Gabriel Ba, DC's Young Animal curator, and executive producer of the Netflix adaptation.
Gerardo Diego
Gerardo Diego (1896–1987) was a Spanish poet, critic, and teacher of the Generation of 27; his 1932 anthology defined the group, and he won the 1979 Cervantes Prize shared with Borges.
Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero
Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585–1618) was an Amsterdam comic playwright and poet of the Dutch Golden Age whose best-known works include Spaanschen Brabander, Moortje, and Klucht van de Koe.
Gerbrand Bakker
Gerbrand Bakker (born 1962 in Wieringerwaard) is a Dutch novelist and professional gardener whose 2006 debut novel, The Twin, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann was a German Naturalist dramatist whose 1889 play Before Dawn broke with nineteenth-century German drama; he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
Germán Arciniegas
Germán Arciniegas (1900–1999) was a Colombian writer, journalist, politician, and diplomat who served as Minister of Education from 1942 to 1946 and wrote historical essays on Latin America.
Germano Almeida
Germano Almeida, born 1945 on Boavista, is a Cape Verdean writer and lawyer known for the novel O Testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo.
Gerrit Achterberg
Gerrit Achterberg was a highly regarded Dutch poet whose themes explored desire beyond death, and was known for killing his landlady in 1937 and later serving mandatory detention.
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Gerrit Kouwenaar (1923–2014) was a Dutch poet and translator, a central member of the experimental Vijftigers group linked to Cobra and one of the most important Dutch-language poets after 1945.
Gerrit Krol
Gerrit Krol (1934–2013) was a Dutch novelist, poet, and essayist who worked as a computer programmer, and whose fiction draws on mathematics, logic, and computing.
Gertrud Kolmar
Gertrud Kolmar, pen name of Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, was a German Jewish lyric poet who left about 450 poems and was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943.
Gertrud von Le Fort
Gertrud von Le Fort (1876–1971) was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays whose work joined the Renouveau catholique; her novella Die Letzte am Schafott inspired Bernanos' Dialogues des Carmélites.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), American modernist writer, poet, and art collector; Paris salon host at 27 rue de Fleurus with Alice B. Toklas; author of Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; patron of Picasso and Matisse; Vichy-era politics remain debated.
Gesualdo Bufalino
Gesualdo Bufalino (1920–1996) was an Italian novelist, poet, and essayist from Comiso, Sicily, who published his first novel, Diceria dell'untore, in 1981 and later won the Strega Prize for Le menzogne della notte.
Géza Gárdonyi
Géza Gárdonyi (Gárdonyi Géza; born Ziegler Géza, 1863–1922) was a Hungarian novelist and journalist, best known for Egri csillagok (Stars of Eger, 1901) and A láthatatlan ember (The Invisible Man, 1902).
Géza Ottlik
Géza Ottlik (Ottlik Géza), 1912 to 1990, was a Hungarian writer, translator, and bridge theorist whose novel School at the Frontier is a landmark of Hungarian prose.
Ghada al-Samman
Ghada al-Samman (غادة السمان), born in Damascus in 1942, is a Syrian novelist, poet, and journalist based in Beirut whose war novel Beirut Nightmares (1976) is her best-known work.
Ghalib (غالب)
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (غالب, 1797–1869), Urdu and Persian ghazal poet of late Mughal Delhi, court poet to Bahadur Shah Zafar, author of the celebrated Urdu divan, chronicler of 1857's devastation of Delhi.
Ghassan Kanafani (غسان فايز كنفاني)
Ghassan Kanafani (غسان فايز كنفاني, 1936–1972), Palestinian novelist of the Nakba, author of Men in the Sun and Return to Haifa, PFLP spokesman and Al-Hadaf editor, assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut on 8 July 1972.
Ghazaleh Alizadeh
Ghazaleh Alizadeh (غزاله علیزاده) was an Iranian novelist and short story writer, born in Mashhad in 1947, best known for the acclaimed novel Khāne-ye Edrisihā (1991).
Ghazi al-Gosaibi
Ghazi al-Gosaibi (غازي القصيبي), full name Ghazi bin Abdulrahman Algosaibi (1940–2010), was a Saudi poet, novelist, diplomat, and government minister who published roughly seventy books.
Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi (1788–1869) was a Moldavian and Romanian scholar, poet, journalist, and engineer who founded Romanian-language education, the press, and theater in Moldavia, publishing the newspaper Albina românească.
Ghevond
Ghevond (Ղևոնդ; also Ghewond or Łewond) was an eighth-century Armenian priest and historian, the main source for Arab rule over Armenia and the Armenian uprisings of the 700s.
Ghevond Alishan
Ghevond Alishan (Ղևոնդ Ալիշան), born Kerovbe Alishanean, was an Armenian Catholic priest, poet, and historian of the Mekhitarist Congregation in Venice who wrote more than 45 volumes.