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Giovanni Villani
Giovanni Villani (died 1348) was a Florentine merchant, banker, and public official who wrote the Nuova Cronica, a twelve-book chronicle famed for its economic data.
Giovannino Guareschi
Giovannino Guareschi (1908–1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist, and humorist from Parma who created the Don Camillo stories and edited the satirical weeklies Il Bertoldo and Candido.
Girija Kumar Mathur
Girija Kumar Mathur (गिरिजा कुमार माथुर) was a Hindi poet and critic, included in Tar Saptak (1943) and winner of the 1991 Sahitya Akademi Award.
Giriraj Kishore
Giriraj Kishore (गिरिराज किशोर, 1937–2020) was an Indian Hindi novelist, short story writer, and playwright, best known for Pahla Girmitiya about Gandhi in South Africa.
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882–1952) was an Italian literary critic, novelist, and journalist best known for the novel Rubè (1921) and the anti-fascist study Goliath (1937).
Giuseppe Parini
Giuseppe Parini (1729–1799) was an Italian poet, satirist, and priest of the Lombard Enlightenment, best known for Il Giorno and the Odi, satirizing the idle Milanese aristocracy.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896–1957) was a Sicilian aristocrat, duke of Palma and prince of Lampedusa, whose only novel, Il Gattopardo, won the 1959 Strega Prize after his death.
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970) was an Italian poet, forerunner of the Hermetic poets, who reinvented Italian verse with minimal, fragmented poems, beginning with the 1916 trench collection Il porto sepolto.
Gjergj Fishta
Gjergj Fishta (1871–1940) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, and politician, author of the national epic Lahuta e Malcís, banned under communism and rehabilitated in the 1990s.
Gjon Buzuku
Gjon Buzuku was a sixteenth-century northern Albanian Catholic priest, author and translator of Meshari, the first known book written in Albanian, completed January 5, 1555.
Gleb Uspensky
Gleb Uspensky, full name Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky (Глеб Иванович Успенский), was a Russian prose writer and publicist, born in Tula in 1843, whose village sketch cycles made him an authority on the peasant question.
Glennon Doyle
Glennon Doyle, American author of Untamed, Love Warrior, and Carry On, Warrior; host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast with Abby Wambach; founder of Together Rising and Treat Media.
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor (1950–2016) was an American novelist whose debut, The Women of Brewster Place, about seven Black women in a New York tenement, won the National Book Award for best first novel in 1983.
Gloria Young
Gloria Young is a Panamanian poet, essayist, and diplomat, born in Panama City around 1953, who served as ambassador to Morocco and the UN in Austria.
Godfried Bomans
Godfried Bomans (Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, 1913–1971) was a popular Dutch writer, columnist, and television personality, best known for the fairy tale Erik of het klein insectenboek (1941).
Goenawan Mohamad
Goenawan Mohamad, born in 1941 in Batang, Central Java, is an Indonesian poet, essayist, and journalist best known as co-founder and editor of Tempo magazine.
Goffredo Mameli
Goffredo Mameli was an Italian poet and patriot who wrote the lyrics of Il Canto degli Italiani, Italy's national anthem, and died at 21 defending the Roman Republic in 1849.
Goffredo Parise
Goffredo Parise (1929–1986) was an Italian writer and journalist from Vicenza who won the Premio Viareggio for Il padrone and the Premio Strega in 1982.
Gogynfeirdd
The Gogynfeirdd were professional Welsh court poets who composed praise poetry in Middle Welsh for Welsh princes and nobility from roughly 1100 into the fourteenth century.
Golchin Gilani
Golchin Gilani (گلچین گیلانی) was the pen name of Majd-al-Din Mir-Fakhra'i, an Iranian poet and physician who lived in London and wrote "Bārān" (The rain).
Golo Mann
Golo Mann, born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a German-Swiss historian and writer, the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann, best known for his biography Wallenstein.
Gonçalves de Magalhães
Gonçalves de Magalhães, full name Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, was a Brazilian poet, physician, and diplomat whose 1836 Suspiros poéticos e saudades founded Brazilian Romanticism.
Gonçalves Dias
Gonçalves Dias (Antônio Gonçalves Dias; 1823–1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, and ethnologist, the leading Indianist poet and author of "Canção do exílio"; he is patron of chair 15 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Gonzague de Reynold
Gonzague de Reynold (1880–1970) was a Swiss Catholic conservative historian and essayist from Fribourg, professor of French literature at the Universities of Bern and Fribourg.
Gonzalo Arango
Gonzalo Arango (Gonzalo Arango Arias; 1931–1976) was a Colombian poet, journalist, and essayist who founded Nadaísmo, the countercultural movement proclaimed in Medellín in 1958 that broke with Colombian cultural and religious tradition.
Gonzalo Rojas
Gonzalo Rojas (1916–2011) was a Chilean poet and one of the major figures of twentieth-century Hispanic American poetry, winner of the 2003 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spanish-language letters' highest award.
Gopabandhu Das
Gopabandhu Das (1877–1928), honored as Utkalmani, the Jewel of Utkal, was an Odia poet, journalist, and independence activist who founded the open-air Satyabadi school near Puri and the newspaper The Samaja.
Gopal Halder
Gopal Halder (গোপাল হালদার, 1902–1993) was a Bengali essayist, literary critic, novelist, and journalist who edited the journal Parichay and wrote the two-volume survey Bangla Sahityer Ruprekha.
Gopal Prasad Rimal
Gopal Prasad Rimal (गोपालप्रसाद रिमाल, 1918–1973) was a Nepali poet and playwright whose play Masan, published in 1946, is treated as the true beginning of modern realistic drama in Nepali literature.
Gopalakrishna Adiga
Mogeri Gopalakrishna Adiga (ಗೋಪಾಲಕೃಷ್ಣ ಅಡಿಗ, 1918–1992) was a Kannada poet, critic, and teacher who pioneered the Navya modernist movement, winning the Sahitya Akademi and Pampa prizes.