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Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds, born 1966 in Barry, Wales, is a British science fiction author and former ESA astrophysicist, creator of the Revelation Space series, winner of the BSFA and Locus awards, and author of twenty novels including Chasm City and Eversion.
Albert Cohen (novelist)
Albert Cohen (1895-1981), Corfu-born Swiss French-language novelist and League of Nations civil servant; author of the Solal cycle (Solal, Mangeclous, Belle du Seigneur, Les Valeureux); Belle du Seigneur won the 1968 Grand Prix du Roman.
Albert Helman
Albert Helman was the pen name of Lodewijk Lichtveld (1903–1996), a Surinamese-Dutch writer, composer, and politician considered the first important author from the former Dutch West.
Albert Steffen
Albert Steffen (1884–1963) was a Swiss poet, novelist, and playwright who edited the weekly Das Goetheanum for 42 years and chaired the General Anthroposophical Society from 1925 until his death.
Albert Verwey
Albert Verwey (1865–1937) was a Dutch poet, critic, and translator who co-founded De Nieuwe Gids in 1885, edited De Beweging, and taught Dutch literature at Leiden.
Albert Wendt
Albert Wendt, born in Apia, Samoa, in 1939, is a Samoan novelist and poet whose 1973 first novel, Sons for the Return Home, is hailed as the first Pacific novel.
Alberto Blest Gana
Alberto Blest Gana (1830–1920) was a Chilean novelist and diplomat regarded as the founder of the Chilean novel, known for Martín Rivas (1862) and Durante la Reconquista (1897).
Alberto de Oliveira
Alberto de Oliveira (Antônio Mariano Alberto de Oliveira, 1857–1937) was a Brazilian pharmacist, professor, and Parnassian poet, a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 1897.
Alberto Gerchunoff
Alberto Gerchunoff (1884–1950) was an Argentine writer, essayist, and journalist whose 1910 story collection Los gauchos judíos is regarded as the founding work of Jewish Latin American writing.
Alberto Hidalgo
Alberto Hidalgo (Alberto Hidalgo Lobato, 1897–1967) was a Peruvian avant-garde poet and narrator who founded simplismo, compiled a landmark 1926 anthology of Latin American avant-garde poetry, and lived almost his whole adult life in Argentina.
Alberto Laiseca
Alberto Laiseca (1941–2016) was an Argentine novelist, poet, and essayist, creator of realismo delirante, whose novel Los sorias (1998) is called the longest in Argentine literature.
Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born Canadian essayist and translator, author of A History of Reading, who read to Borges and directed Argentina's National Library.
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Moravia, pseudonym of Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist (1907–1990) whose novels, from Gli indifferenti (1929) to La noia (1960), were widely translated and filmed.
Alberto Zum Felde
Alberto Zum Felde, also known by his pseudonym Aurelio del Hebrón, was a Uruguayan essayist, historian, and literary critic and a founding member of the Academia Nacional de Letras.
Alberts Bels
Alberts Bels, born Jānis Cīrulis, was a Latvian writer and screenwriter whose modernist novels examined the individual under Soviet totalitarian power; he lived from 1938 to 2024.
Alcaeus
Alcaeus was an ancient Greek lyric poet of Mytilene on Lesbos, born around 625 BCE and an older contemporary of Sappho, known for the Alcaic stanza later imitated by Horace.
Alceu Amoroso Lima
Alceu Amoroso Lima, who wrote as Tristão de Ataíde, was a Brazilian essayist, literary critic, and journalist who became the leading lay figure of Brazilian Catholic intellectual life after converting in 1928.
Alcides Arguedas
Alcides Arguedas (1879–1946) was a Bolivian novelist, essayist, historian, and diplomat whose essay Pueblo enfermo (1909) and novel Raza de bronce (1919) made him the most recognized Bolivian writer of his era.
Alcman
Alcman (Ἀλκμάν) was a Greek choral lyric poet active in Sparta in the later seventh century BC, best known for his partheneia, songs for choruses of girls.
Alda do Espírito Santo
Alda do Espírito Santo, also known as Alda Graça (1926–2010), was a Santomean poet and politician who wrote the national anthem "Independência Total" and led the national assembly.
Alda Lara
Alda Lara, pen name of Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, was an Angolan poet and physician who wrote of exile and longing for Angola before dying in 1962.
Alda Merini
Alda Merini (1931–2009) was an Italian poet, born and died in Milan, regarded as a major lyric voice of twentieth-century Italian poetry, known for her asylum years.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist and essayist, author of Brave New World; moved from satirical novels of ideas to mysticism, mescalin writings, and Hollywood screenwriting.
Aleida Assmann
Aleida Assmann (born 1947) is a German professor of English and literary studies, emerita at Konstanz, who developed the theory of cultural memory with her husband Jan Assmann.
Alejandra Pizarnik
Alejandra Pizarnik (1936–1972) was an Argentine poet known for short, intense lyric poems on solitude, childhood, and death, and for her suicide at age 36.
Alejandro Abadilla
Alejandro Abadilla, better known as AGA, was a Filipino poet, novelist, and critic called the "Father of Modern Tagalog Poetry" for introducing free verse to Tagalog poetry.
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980) was a Cuban novelist and musicologist who coined the marvelous real in his 1949 prologue to El reino de este mundo and won the Cervantes Prize.
Aleko Konstantinov
Aleko Konstantinov (Алеко Константинов, 1863–1897) was a Bulgarian satirist, travel writer, and lawyer, best known for creating Bay Ganyo, the most famous satirical character in Bulgarian literature, and for writing To Chicago and Back.
Aleksa Šantić
Aleksa Šantić (1868–1924) was a Serbian poet and dramatist from Mostar, one of the most popular Serbian poets, known for "Emina" and "Ostajte ovdje" (Stay Here).
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Александр Исаевич Солженицын)
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Александр Исаевич Солженицын), 1918–2008, Russian novelist and Gulag survivor; Nobel Literature laureate 1970, author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, expelled 1974, returned 1994.