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Gopi Chand Narang
Gopi Chand Narang (گوپی چند نارنگ; 1931–2022) was an Indian Urdu literary critic and theorist who introduced structuralist methods into Urdu criticism and wrote more than 70 books.
Gopinath Mohanty
Gopinath Mohanty (ଗୋପୀନାଥ ମହାନ୍ତି; 1914–1991) was an Odia novelist and short story writer who brought tribal Odisha into Indian literature and became the first Odia winner of the Jnanpith Award.
Göran Sonnevi
Göran Sonnevi, born in 1939, is a Swedish poet and translator whose 1965 poem on the Vietnam War made him a voice of left-wing political poetry.
Göran Tunström
Göran Tunström (1937–2000) was a Swedish poet and novelist whose autobiographical, magical realist work is largely set in Sunne, Värmland; his novel Juloratoriet won the 1984 Nordic Council Literature Prize.
Gordon Korman
Gordon Richard Korman (born 1963) is a Canadian-born author of over 100 children's and young-adult novels. His first book, This Can't Be Happening at MacDonald Hall, was written in 7th grade and published by Scholastic in 1978; his 100th, The Fort, appeared in 2022.
Gordon Lish
Gordon Lish, born in 1934, is an American writer and editor who led fiction at Esquire and Knopf and is known for his heavy editing of Raymond Carver's stories.
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal (1925–2012), American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and political commentator; author of Burr, Myra Breckinridge, and United States: Essays 1952–1992 (1993 National Book Award); also known for campaigns for Congress and Senate and his televised debates with William F. Buckley Jr.
Gorgani
Fakhr al-Din As'ad Gorgani was an 11th-century Persian poet whose verse romance Vis o Ramin, completed around 1055 and dedicated to the Saljuq governor of Isfahan, shaped the Persian romance tradition.
Gorsedd Cymru
Gorsedd Cymru, formerly Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain (Gorsedd of the Bards of the Island of Britain), is a Welsh society of bards, poets, musicians and honorees founded in 1792 by Iolo Morganwg. It stages the ceremonies of the National Eisteddfod and renamed itself Gorsedd Cymru in 2019 despite its invented Druidic origins.
Gösta Carlberg
Gösta Carlberg (1909–1973) was a Swedish novelist, poet, and essayist whose debut novel won Bonniers' 15,000-kronor jubilee prize, and who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1940.
Gottfried Benn
Gottfried Benn (1886–1956) was a German physician, poet, and essayist who won notoriety with Morgue (1912), supported the Nazis in 1933, and was banned from publishing in 1938.
Gottfried Keller
Gottfried Keller (1819–1890) was a Swiss novelist and poet of German expression, born and died in Zürich, best known for Der grüne Heinrich and Die Leute von Seldwyla.
Gottfried von Strassburg
Gottfried von Strassburg was a Middle High German poet who died around 1210, known only as the author of Tristan, a courtly romance retelling the Tristan and Isolde legend.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), German Enlightenment playwright, critic, and philosopher; first officially appointed dramaturg; wrote Minna von Barnhelm, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise, and the Hamburgische Dramaturgie.
Govinda Pai
Manjeshwar Govinda Pai (1883–1963) was an Indian poet, playwright, and scholar from Manjeshwar who wrote in Kannada and became the first Kannada poet named Rashtrakavi in 1949.
Gōzō Yoshimasu
Gōzō Yoshimasu (吉増剛造, born 1939 in Tokyo) is a Japanese avant-garde poet, photographer, and filmmaker who debuted in 1964 and is a key figure of postwar Japanese poetry.
Graça Aranha
Graça Aranha (José Pereira da Graça Aranha, 1868–1931) was a Brazilian novelist and diplomat, author of Canaã and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Grace Lavery
Grace Lavery, also Grace E. Lavery, is a professor of English at UC Berkeley working on Victorian literature and trans feminist studies; author of Quaint, Exquisite, the memoir Please Miss (2022), and NBCC finalist Pleasure and Efficacy (2023).
Grace Paley
Grace Paley, née Goodside (1922–2007), was an American short story writer, poet, and peace activist whose three story collections made her a distinctive voice in twentieth-century American fiction.
Graciliano Ramos
Graciliano Ramos, full name Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira (1892–1953), was a Brazilian writer from Alagoas, a leading novelist of 1930s Brazilian Modernism best known for Vidas secas.
Graeme Gibson
Graeme Gibson (1934–2019), Canadian novelist, author of Five Legs, Communion, Perpetual Motion, and Gentleman Death; founding figure of the Writers' Union of Canada, Writers' Trust, and PEN Canada; longtime partner of Margaret Atwood and bird conservationist.
Graham Greene
Graham Greene (Henry Graham Greene) was an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who combined Catholic themes with espionage, writing Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, and The Quiet American.
Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison (born 1960, Glasgow) is a Scottish comics writer of Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, All-Star Superman, Batman, and New X-Men, distinct as a chaos-magician "British Generation" writer, MBE 2012.
Graveyard poets
The Graveyard poets were eighteenth-century English poets of melancholy, reflective works on human mortality, often set in graveyards, whose canon includes Gray's Elegy and Young's Night Thoughts.
Grazia Deledda
Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), Sardinian novelist from Nuoro, winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature as the second woman laureate and only Italian woman; author of Canne al vento, La madre, and Cosima.
Greg Egan
Greg Egan, Australian hard science fiction writer (first story 1983; Quarantine 1992, Diaspora 1997, Orthogonal trilogy). Known for math- and physics-dense fiction on identity, consciousness, and altered physical laws; Hugo, Locus, and Campbell award winner.
Greg Rucka
Greg Rucka (born 1969, San Francisco) is an American comic and novel writer, creator of Whiteout, Queen & Country, Lazarus, and The Old Guard, a five-time Eisner winner and 2021 Hugo winner, known for Gotham Central, Wonder Woman, and Batwoman: Elegy.
Greg Weisman
Greg Weisman, American writer and producer, creator of Gargoyles, co-creator of Young Justice and The Spectacular Spider-Man; former DC Comics editor and Disney development executive, also a novelist.
Gregorios Xenopoulos
Gregorios Xenopoulos (Γρηγόριος Ξενόπουλος) was a Greek novelist, playwright, and journalist who wrote more than 80 novels and about 35 plays and founded the magazine Nea Estia in 1927.
Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (Gregory Albert Benford, born 1941) is an American astrophysicist and hard science fiction writer, UC Irvine plasma physics professor, author of Timescape (Nebula, Campbell, BSFA, Ditmar winner) and the six-novel Galactic Center Saga.