Writers and literary biographies

Guinhoe

Guinhoe (구인회, 九人會, Circle of Nine) was a Korean modernist literary group founded August 15, 1933, in colonial Korea. Keeping nine rotating members including Lee Sang, Jeong Jiyong, and Park Tae Won, it opposed the KAPF and founded the magazines Poetry and Novel and Munjang.

Gulabdas Broker

Gulabdas Broker, pen name Kathak, was a Gujarati short-story writer, playwright, and critic (1909–2006) who worked as a stockbroker in Bombay and received the Padma Shri in 1991.

Gülten Akın

Gülten Akın, full name Gülten Akın Cankoçak, was a Turkish poet and lawyer who published more than twenty books from 1956 and was voted Turkey's greatest living poet in 2008.

Gulzar (گلزار)

Gulzar (گلزار), pen name of Sampooran Singh Kalra, born 1934 in Dina, Jhelum, is an Indian Urdu poet, Hindi film lyricist, and director of Bandini, Aandhi, and Ijaazat; winner of the Oscar, Grammy, Jnanpith, Sahitya Akademi, Padma Bhushan, and Dadasaheb Phalke awards.

Gunabhiram Barua

Gunabhiram Barua (গুণাভিৰাম বৰুৱা; 1837–1894) was an Assamese writer and social reformer who wrote the first modern Assamese play, Ram-Navami, and is counted among the founders of modern Assamese literature.

Gunadasa Amarasekara

Gunadasa Amarasekara (ගුණදාස අමරසේකර), born 1929 in Galle, Sri Lanka, is a Sinhala poet, novelist, and literary critic known for the novel Yali Upannemi and pioneering the Jathika Chinthanaya movement.

Gunnar Ekelöf

Gunnar Ekelöf, a Swedish poet and Swedish Academy member, is known for introducing surrealism and modernism to Swedish poetry, and received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1966.

Gunnar Gunnarsson

Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889–1975) was an Icelandic novelist and short-story writer who wrote mostly in Danish while living in Denmark, winning European acclaim and becoming Iceland's best-selling author abroad.

Gunnar Heiberg

Gunnar Heiberg (1857–1929) was a Norwegian playwright, theater critic, and stage director, judged the most noteworthy Norwegian dramatist after Ibsen; his 13 plays caused famous scandals.

Günter Grass

Günter Grass (1927-2015), German novelist and graphic artist of the Danzig trilogy (Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Maus, Hundejahre), Nobel Literature laureate 1999; revealed in 2006 his teenage Waffen-SS service.

Gunturu Seshendra Sarma

Gunturu Seshendra Sarma (గుంటూరు శేషేంద్ర శర్మ), known by the title Yuga Kavi, was a Telugu poet and critic best known for the long poem Naa Desam, Naa Prajalu.

Gunvantrai Acharya

Gunvantrai Acharya (ગુણવંતરાય આચાર્ય, 1900–1965) was an Indian Gujarati novelist and journalist who wrote more than 100 books and is best known for the sea-adventure saga Dariyalal, which won the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1945.

Gunvor Hofmo

Gunvor Hofmo (1921–1995) was a Norwegian lyrical modernist poet whose work is marked by the war and the loss of Ruth Maier, deported to Auschwitz in 1942.

Guo Xiaochuan

Guo Xiaochuan (郭小川) was a Chinese poet and political figure, one of the leading political lyric poets of 1949–1966, known for works such as Sugarcane Forest — Green Gauze Tent.

Gurajada Apparao

Gurajada Apparao (గురజాడ అప్పారావు, 1862–1915) was a Telugu playwright and social reformer whose play Kanyasulkam, written in the spoken dialect, is a classic of Telugu theater.

Gurbachan Singh Bhullar

Gurbachan Singh Bhullar (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਬਚਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੁੱਲਰ; born 1937) is an Indian Punjabi short-story writer known for fiction rooted in rural Punjab, winner of the 2005 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari

Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari was a Punjabi writer and editor widely described as the father of modern Punjabi prose, who founded the monthly magazine Preetlari in 1933 and built the literary township of Preet Nagar.

Gurdial Singh

Gurdial Singh is an Indian Punjabi novelist and short-story writer who won the Jnanpith Award in 1999. He focused on the life of Dalit and peasant people.

Gurgen Mahari

Gurgen Mahari (Գուրգեն Մահարի), born Gurgen Grigori Achemyan, was an Armenian poet and novelist (1903–1969), a refugee from Van whose works Burning Orchards and Barbed Wires in Blossom were suppressed.

Gustaf Fröding

Gustaf Fröding (1860–1911) was a Swedish poet from Värmland, regarded as the foremost renewer of Swedish lyric style; his 1891 debut Guitarr och dragharmonika sold 5,000 copies in five years.

Gustav Falke

Gustav Falke (1853–1916) was a German poet and writer from Lübeck, a leading poet-impressionist whose lyric verse, Hamburg novels, and children's books were set to music by composers including Richard Strauss and Arnold Schönberg.

Gustav Frenssen

Gustav Frenssen (1863–1945) was a German novelist and former Lutheran pastor whose Dithmarschen peasant novels, especially Jörn Uhl (1901), made him one of Germany's most-read writers.

Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag (1816–1895), German novelist, dramatist, and journalist of Die Grenzboten; author of Soll und Haben, Die Journalisten, Die Ahnen, and Die Technik des Dramas, source of Freytag's pyramid.

Gustav Hasford

Gustav Hasford (1947-1993), American novelist and Marine combat correspondent; wrote The Short-Timers (1979), basis of Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, plus The Phantom Blooper and A Gypsy Good Time; shared an Oscar nomination for the screenplay.

Gustav Meyrink

Gustav Meyrink, born Gustav Meyer, was an Austrian writer and former banker best known for the occult novel Der Golem (1915), set in Prague's former Jewish ghetto.

Gustav Schwab

Gustav Schwab, full name Gustav Benjamin Schwab, was a German writer, pastor, and Stuttgart Gymnasium teacher known for his retelling of Greek myths, Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Alterthums.

Gustav Suits

Gustav Suits (1883–1956) was an Estonian poet and scholar who led the Noor-Eesti movement, wrote the symbolist collection Tuulemaa (1913), and became the first professor of Estonian literature, dying in exile in Stockholm.

Gustav Wied

Gustav Wied, full name Gustav Johannes Wied, was a Danish author and dramatist (1858 to 1914) whose satire attacked the church, the nobility, and bourgeois morality.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), French novelist of Croisset, author of Madame Bovary (1857, tried for obscenity and acquitted), Salammbô, L'Éducation sentimentale, and Bouvard et Pécuchet; known for le mot juste and free indirect style.