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Ghirmai Negash
Ghirmai Negash is an Eritrean-born literary scholar at Ohio University known for his history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea and his translation of The Conscript.
Gholamhossein Sa'edi
Gholamhossein Sa'edi (غلامحسین ساعدی; 1936–1985) was an Iranian psychiatrist, fiction writer, and dramatist, regarded as one of the most prolific and influential figures of contemporary Persian literature.
Ghostwriter
Ghostwriter: a professional writer producing books, speeches, or articles credited to someone else without a byline. Term coined by Christy Walsh in the 1920s; EFA median rates 25¢–$1 per word; credit is rare but increasing.
Ghulam Abbas (writer)
Ghulam Abbas (غلام عباس) was an Urdu short story writer, born in Amritsar in 1909 and based in Karachi, best known for the story "Anandi".
Ghulam Ali Allana
Ghulam Ali Allana (غلام علي الانا, 1906–1985) was a Sindhi scholar and folklorist who published as G. Allana, compiling a 1976 bibliography of printed Sindhi books.
Ghulam Nabi Firaq
Ghulam Nabi Firaq was a Kashmiri poet, professor of English, and translator who won the 2004 Sahitya Akademi Award for Sada Te Samandar and died in Srinagar in 2016.
Ghulam Rasul Mehr
Ghulam Rasul Mehr, also written Ghulam Rasool Mehr (مولانا غلام رسول مہر), was an Urdu and Persian scholar, journalist, and historian in Lahore who died there in 1971.
Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Venetian adventurer and author of the French memoirs Histoire de ma vie; librarian at Dux, escaped the Piombi prison in 1756, and gave his name to the archetype of the seducer.
Giacomo da Lentini
Giacomo da Lentini, called il Notaro, was a Sicilian poet and imperial notary at the court of Frederick II, regarded as the central figure of the Sicilian school.
Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837), Recanati-born Italian poet, philologist, and philosopher, author of Canti, Operette morali, and the Zibaldone; central figure of Italian pessimism and one of Italy's greatest writers.
Giambattista Marino
Giambattista Marino, also known as Giovan Battista Marini (1569–1625), was an Italian Baroque poet from Naples whose sensual verse founded Marinism and whose mythological epic L'Adone was the most celebrated Italian poem of the seventeenth century.
Giannina Braschi
Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican poet and novelist, born in San Juan in 1953, credited with writing Yo-Yo Boing!, the first novel in Spanglish.
Giddens Ko
Giddens Ko (柯景騰), pen name Jiubadao, is a Taiwanese novelist and filmmaker known for the 2011 hit film You Are the Apple of My Eye.
Gilbert Cesbron
Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979) was a French novelist and playwright whose socially engaged Catholic novels sold millions of copies, notably Chiens perdus sans collier on juvenile delinquency.
Gilbert Gratiant
Gilbert Gratiant (1895–1985) was a Martinican poet and prose writer who wrote in both Creole and French, best known for the Creole fable collection Fab' Compè Zicaque.
Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn, American thriller author of Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl (over 20 million copies), former Entertainment Weekly critic, screenwriter of the 2014 Gone Girl film, Widows, and Utopia.
Gioconda Belli
Gioconda Belli, born 1948 in Managua, Nicaragua, is a Nicaraguan poet and novelist who joined the FSLN in 1970 and was stripped of citizenship by the Ortega government in 2023.
Giorgi Eristavi
Giorgi Eristavi (გიორგი ერისთავი, 1813–1864) was a Georgian playwright and founder of the first Georgian professional theater in Tbilisi in 1850, whose comedies founded Georgian critical realism.
Giorgio Bassani
Giorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was an Italian writer and poet whose fiction centers on Ferrara's Jewish community under fascism; his best-known novel is Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini.
Giorgio Caproni
Giorgio Caproni (1912–1990) was an Italian poet, critic, and translator, born in Livorno and raised in Genoa, known for formal lyrics probing memory and God's absence.
Giorgos Seferis
Giorgos Seferis (Γιώργος Σεφέρης; born Georgios Seferiades) was a Greek poet and diplomat who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Greek national to do so.
Giosuè Carducci
Giosuè Carducci (Giosue, 1835-1907), Italian poet, critic, and Bologna professor, author of Inno a Satana and Odi barbare; Italy's first Nobel laureate in Literature (1906), senator, anti-Romantic classicist and anticlerical poeta-vate.
Giovanni Battista Guarini
Giovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, diplomat, and literary theorist of the Ferrarese court, known for Il pastor fido, which developed the pastoral tragicomedy genre.
Giovanni Berchet
Giovanni Berchet (1783–1851) was an Italian poet, critic, and patriot whose 1816 Lettera semiseria became the manifesto of Italian Romanticism; he lived in exile until joining Milan's 1848 government.
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian novelist and early humanist of the Three Crowns with Dante and Petrarch. Born illegitimate in Florence or Certaldo, wrote the Decameron after the 1348 plague; late Latin works include Genealogia deorum gentilium.
Giovanni Macchia
Giovanni Macchia (1912–2001) was an Italian critic and essayist, remembered as a father of Italian francesistica, the scholarly study of French literature, and winner of the 1992 Balzan Prize.
Giovanni Papini
Giovanni Papini (1881–1956) was an Italian writer, critic, and polemicist from Florence who co-founded the avant-garde journals Leonardo and Lacerba, converted to Catholicism, and wrote the bestseller Storia di Cristo.
Giovanni Pascoli
Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) was an Italian poet and classical scholar who, with Gabriele D'Annunzio, led Italian Decadentism; his best-known works are Myricae and the Latin Carmina.
Giovanni Testori
Giovanni Testori (1923–1993) was an Italian writer, playwright, poet, painter, and art critic whose cycle I segreti di Milano portrayed Milan's industrial periphery and inspired Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers.
Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga (1840–1922), Catania novelist and short-story writer, leading exponent of Italian verismo; author of I Malavoglia, Mastro-don Gesualdo, Vita dei campi, and Cavalleria rusticana.