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Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts (born 1952, Melbourne) is the Australian author of Shantaram (2003), based on his escape from Pentridge Prison and fugitive years in Bombay; also wrote The Mountain Shadow and The Spiritual Path.
Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire (born 1954) is an American author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995), the revisionist Oz novel behind the Broadway musical and films, plus Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Elphie.
Gregory of Narek
Gregory of Narek (Armenian: Grigor Narekatsi, ca. 950–1003) was an Armenian monk, poet, and theologian of Narek monastery on Lake Van, author of the Book of Lamentations.
Gregory Rabassa
Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016), American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese, translator of Cortázar's Hopscotch and García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude; first National Book Award for Translation (1967) and 2006 National Medal of Arts.
Gretchen Felker-Martin
Gretchen Felker-Martin (born 1989) is a Massachusetts-based transgender horror novelist and film critic, author of Manhunt (2022), Cuckoo (2024), and Black Flame (2025); her DC Red Hood comic was canceled in September 2025.
Grigol Orbeliani
Grigol Orbeliani (გრიგოლ ორბელიანი, 1804–1883) was a Georgian Romantic poet and Imperial Russian general who took part in the 1832 independence plot and later served as governor-general of Tiflis.
Grigol Robakidze
Grigol Robakidze (გრიგოლ რობაქიძე) was a Georgian poet, novelist, and playwright who led the Blue Horns symbolist group and died in Swiss exile in 1962.
Grigor Khlatetsi
Grigor Khlatetsi, also known as Tserents or Bznunetsi, was a medieval Armenian writer, poet, and musician (1349–1425) known for reworking the Armenian menologion and chronicling the Timurid invasions.
Grigor Magistros
Grigor Magistros (Գրիգոր Մագիստրոս, ca. 990–1058), also known as Grigor Bjnetsi, was an Armenian prince, poet, and philosopher called the first secular Armenian author and a Byzantine official.
Grigor Parlichev
Grigor Parlichev (1830–1893) was a writer and teacher from Ohrid who won the 1860 Athens poetry prize and made the first Bulgarian translation of Homer's Iliad.
Grupo de Barranquilla
The Grupo de Barranquilla was a circle of writers and artists in Barranquilla, Colombia, from the late 1940s, decisive in the young Gabriel García Márquez's formation.
Grupo de Guayaquil
Grupo de Guayaquil was a circle of five Ecuadorian writers, founded in 1930, who practiced social realism about the coast's montubio people, Indigenous people, and workers.
Gu Cheng
Gu Cheng (顾城, 1956–1993) was a Chinese poet from Beijing, a leading figure of the Misty Poetry movement, best known for the poem "A Generation" and called the "fairy-tale poet."
Gu Hua
Gu Hua (古华), born Luo Hongyu in 1942, is a Chinese novelist from Hunan whose Fu Rong Zhen won the first Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1982.
Gu Taiqing
Gu Taiqing (顾太清, 1799–1877) was a Manchu poet of the Qing dynasty, regarded as its leading woman ci poet and paired with Nalan Xingde in a famous saying.
Gu Zhenguan
Gu Zhenguan (1637–1714) was a Qing dynasty ci poet from Wuxi, Jiangsu, best known for two Jinlüqu poems to his exiled friend Wu Zhaoqian and for his friendship with Nalan Xingde.
Guan Yunshi
Guan Yunshi (贯云石, 1286–1324), originally named Xiaoyunshihaiya, was a Yuan dynasty sanqu poet of Uyghur origin who resigned a Hanlin post and settled in Hangzhou, ranking among the era's most celebrated song-lyric writers.
Guðbergur Bergsson
Guðbergur Bergsson (1932–2023) was an Icelandic writer and translator who pioneered modernist prose in Iceland with novels like Tómas Jónsson, Bestseller, and translated Don Quixote into Icelandic.
Guðmundur G. Hagalín
Guðmundur G. Hagalín was an Icelandic novelist and librarian best known for novels of rural life in western Iceland, above all Kristrún í Hamravík (1933).
Guðmundur Kamban
Guðmundur Kamban (1888–1945) was an Icelandic playwright, novelist, and stage director who lived mostly in Denmark; his main work was the four-volume historical novel Skálholt.
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir
Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (born 1976) is an Icelandic novelist and short story writer whose work is translated into more than a dozen languages; she won the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2011.
Guido Cavalcanti
Guido Cavalcanti was a Florentine poet and philosopher of the late 13th century, the leading figure of the dolce stil novo and Dante's closest poetic friend.
Guido Gezelle
Guido Gezelle (1830–1899) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and poet who wrote in Dutch and his native West Flemish, and is regarded as a founder of modern Flemish poetry.
Guido Guinizelli
Guido Guinizelli (also spelled Guinizzelli), born in Bologna and died in Monselice in 1276, was an Italian poet and judge regarded as the originator of the dolce stil novo.
Guilherme de Almeida
Guilherme de Almeida, born Guilherme de Andrade e Almeida, was a Brazilian poet, journalist, and translator, a leading São Paulo Modernist and the first Modernist elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, 1880-1918), French avant-garde poet born in Rome; author of Alcools and Calligrammes, inventor of the calligram, coiner of "surréalisme", died of Spanish flu two days before the 1918 armistice.
Guillaume de Lorris
Guillaume de Lorris was a 13th-century French poet who wrote the first part of the Roman de la Rose, an allegorical dream-vision love poem in Old French.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929–2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and film critic best known for Tres tristes tigres; he won the Cervantes Prize in 1997.
Guillermo Prieto
Guillermo Prieto, pseudonyms Fidel and Don Benedeno, was a Mexican poet, chronicler, and liberal politician (1818–1897) who served in congress for some forty-eight years and was finance minister four times.
Guillermo Valencia
Guillermo Valencia, full name Guillermo Valencia Castillo (1873–1943), was a Colombian poet, translator, diplomat, and Conservative politician from Popayán, a leading figure of modernismo whose works include Poésies, Catay, and Anarkos.