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Aleksandrs Čaks
Aleksandrs Čaks, real name Aleksandrs Čadarainis (1901–1950), was a Latvian poet who gave voice to ordinary people and objects of Riga street life in Mana paradīze (1932).
Aleksandrs Grīns
Aleksandrs Grīns, real name Jēkabs Grīns (1895–1941), was a Latvian writer and army captain best known for Dvēseļu putenis, executed in Soviet captivity in 1941.
Aleksei Kruchenykh
Aleksei Kruchenykh (Алексей Кручёных, 1886–1968) was a Russian Futurist poet, artist, and publisher, a radical experimenter of the avant-garde who co-created zaum, a transrational poetic language.
Aleksey Apukhtin
Aleksey Apukhtin (Алексей Апухтин) was a Russian lyric poet, 1840 to 1893, whose melancholy love verse became famous romances set by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff; his first collection appeared in 1886.
Aleksey Khomyakov
Aleksey Khomyakov (1804–1860) was a Russian Orthodox lay theologian, poet, and philosopher who, with Ivan Kireevsky, founded Slavophilism; his concept of sobornost shaped Orthodox ecclesiology.
Aleksey Koltsov
Aleksey Koltsov (Алексей Васильевич Кольцов) was a self-taught Russian lyric poet, 1809 to 1842, the son of a Voronezh cattle dealer whose folk-style songs like "Kosar" became popular folk songs.
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Алексей Константинович Толстой)
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (Алексей Константинович Толстой, 1817–1875), Russian count, poet, novelist, and dramatist, second cousin of Leo Tolstoy; author of The Vampire, Prince Serebryany, the tsar drama trilogy, and co-creator of Kozma Prutkov.
Aleksey Surkov
Aleksey Surkov (Алексей Сурков; 1899–1983) was a Soviet poet, journalist, and first secretary of the Union of Writers of the USSR from 1953 to 1959.
Aleksis Kivi
Aleksis Kivi, born Alexis Stenvall (1834–1872), was a Finnish author regarded as the founder of Finnish-language literature; his novel Seven Brothers (1870) is considered the first significant Finnish-language novel.
Alemseged Tesfai
Alemseged Tesfai, born in 1944 in Adi Quala, Eritrea, is a playwright, novelist, and historian known for The Other War and his trilogy on Eritrean political history.
Ales Adamovich
Ales Adamovich (Алесь Адамовіч) was a Belarusian writer and literary scholar known for documentary war prose such as Khatyn Story, and for co-writing the 1985 film Come and See.
Ales Harun
Ales Harun (Алесь Гарун) was the pen name of Belarusian poet and political activist Alesaksandr Prushynski, 1887 to 1920, exiled to Siberia from 1908 to 1917.
Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco (born 1958 in Turin) is an Italian writer and performer whose novel Silk and monologue Novecento, filmed as The Legend of 1900, brought international fame.
Alessandro Manzoni
Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873) was an Italian novelist, poet, and linguistic reformer whose historical novel I promessi sposi, set in seventeenth-century Lombardy, is considered the cornerstone of Italy's linguistic unity.
Alessandro Tassoni
Alessandro Tassoni (1565–1635) was an Italian poet, critic, and courtier from Modena, best known for the mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita about the theft of a bucket from Bologna.
Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson, born 1973, is an American novelist and journalist, author of the twelve-book John Wells CIA thriller series and winner of the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First Novel for The Faithful Spy; former New York Times and Iraq war correspondent; also nonfiction author of Tell Your Children and Pandemia.
Alex Haley
Alex Haley (1921–1992), American author of Roots and co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X; first Playboy interviewer; won a special Pulitzer Prize; later faced plagiarism suits and accuracy disputes.
Alex La Guma
Alex La Guma (Justin Alexander La Guma, 1925–1985) was a South African novelist, journalist, and anti-apartheid activist whose fiction about District Six made him a leading activist writer.
Alex Miller
Alex Miller, born 1936 in the United Kingdom and raised in Australia, is an Australian novelist who won the Miles Franklin Award for The Ancestor Game in 1993 and Journey to the Stone Country in 2003.
Alexander Baumgartner
Alexander Baumgartner (1841–1910) was a Swiss Jesuit priest, poet, and literary historian known for a three-volume Goethe biography and an unfinished six-volume history of world literature.
Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky
Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky (Александр Бестужев; 1797–1837) was a Russian Romantic prose writer, poet, and critic, a Decembrist exiled to Siberia who wrote under the pseudonym Marlinsky.
Alexander Blok
Alexander Blok (Александр Блок), 1880–1921, Russian Symbolist poet and playwright of the Silver Age; author of Verses About the Beautiful Lady and the revolutionary long poem The Twelve; died in Petrograd of heart failure from malnutrition.
Alexander Druzhinin
Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864) was a Russian literary critic and writer who led the aesthetic criticism school, defending "art for art's sake" against Chernyshevsky's utilitarian criticism.
Alexander Kazbegi
Alexander Kazbegi (ალექსანდრე ყაზბეგი; 1848–1893) was a Georgian prose writer and poet, a leading figure of Georgian critical realism known for stories about the mountaineers of Khevi.
Alexander Kielland
Alexander Lange Kielland (1849–1906) was a Norwegian prose writer, editor, and public official, counted among the "four greats" of Norwegian literature alongside Ibsen, Bjørnson, and Lie.
Alexander Kuprin
Alexander Kuprin (Александр Куприн, 1870–1938) was a Russian writer of the early twentieth century, best known for the novels The Duel and The Pit and the story The Garnet Bracelet.
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith, Zimbabwean-born Edinburgh emeritus professor of medical law and author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (1998), the 44 Scotland Street serial, and other gentle crime series.
Alexander Ostrovsky
Alexander Ostrovsky (Александр Островский), 1823 to 1886, was a Russian dramatist credited with creating the national Russian repertory theater and often called the father of Russian drama.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was an English poet and satirist, master of the heroic couplet, known for The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, and The Dunciad.
Alexander Prokhanov (Александр Андреевич Проханов)
Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov (Александр Андреевич Проханов, born 1938, Tbilisi) is a Russian novelist and editor-in-chief of Zavtra, formerly Den; village prose, war correspondence, the 1991 GKChP manifesto, and the National Bestseller-winning Gospodin Geksogen distinguish him.