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Alexander Pushkin (Александр Сергеевич Пушкин)
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Александр Сергеевич Пушкин, 1799–1837), Russian poet, playwright, and prose writer, founder of modern Russian literature and creator of the Russian literary language; author of Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov, and The Tales of Belkin; died in a duel with d'Anthès.
Alexander Theroux
Alexander Louis Theroux (born 1939, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American novelist, poet, and essayist, older brother of Paul Theroux, best known for the 704-page maximalist novel Darconville's Cat (1981), which Anthony Burgess named among the 99 best English novels since 1939.
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), Dumas père, French author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo; son of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, interred in the Panthéon in 2002.
Alexandre Dumas fils
Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895), French novelist and dramatist, natural son of Dumas père; author of La Dame aux camélias (novel, 1852 play, Verdi's La traviata), theorist of the théâtre utile, Académie française 1874.
Alexandre Exquemelin
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (c. 1645–1707), also John Esquemeling, French barber-surgeon and buccaneer chronicler; wrote De Americaensche Zee-Rovers (1678), The Buccaneers of America, the key eyewitness source on Caribbean piracy and Henry Morgan.
Alexandre Herculano
Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo (1810–1877) was a Portuguese poet, novelist, and historian who, with Almeida Garrett, introduced Romanticism and is considered the father of modern Portuguese historiography.
Alexandre O'Neill
Alexandre O'Neill (1924–1986) was a Portuguese poet, born and died in Lisbon, who co-founded the Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa in 1947 and later wrote satirical poetry marked by wordplay and irony.
Alexandrian Pleiad
The Alexandrian Pleiad, also called the Pleias, was a group of seven tragic poets active in Ptolemaic Alexandria, named for the seven-star Pleiades; none of their tragedies survives except Lycophron's Alexandra.
Alexandros Papadiamantis
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης, 1851–1911) was a Greek short-story writer and translator who lived in poverty in Athens and wrote about the poor of Skiathos, his masterpiece being The Murderess of 1903.
Alexandru Odobescu
Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895) was a Romanian writer and archaeologist, a founder of Romanian archaeology and author of the historical novellas Mihnea Vodă cel Rău and Doamna Chiajna.
Alexandru Vlahuță
Alexandru Vlahuță (1858–1919) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, and publicist, best known for the travel volume România pitorească (1901) and a monograph on painter Nicolae Grigorescu.
Alexei Remizov
Alexei Mikhailovich Remizov (Алексей Михайлович Ремизов, 1877–1957) was a Russian Silver Age prose writer known for ornate, folklore-based prose who published 83 books and left Paris after emigrating in 1921.
Alexey Pisemsky
Alexey Pisemsky (Алексей Феофилактович Писемский, 1821–1881) was a Russian realist novelist and dramatist best known for the novel A Thousand Souls (1858) and the peasant drama A Bitter Fate.
Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright, born 1950, is an Indigenous Australian writer of the Waanyi nation whose novels blend Aboriginal storytelling with the European novel form; she won the Miles Franklin Award twice.
Alf Larsen
Alf Larsen (1885–1967) was a Norwegian poet, essayist, and cultural debater who edited the journal Janus from 1933 to 1941 and whose posthumous papers documented antisemitism.
Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas
Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas, real surname Čipkus (1919–2015), was a Lithuanian émigré poet, translator, and literary critic who left Lithuania in 1944 and is regarded as one of the most prominent modern Lithuanian poets.
Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni (1892–1938) was an Argentine poet and journalist, born in Switzerland, whose defiant, feminist verse made her a pioneer of female eroticism in Spanish-language poetry alongside Gabriela Mistral.
Alfonso Reyes
Alfonso Reyes, also known as Alfonso Reyes Ochoa, was a Mexican essayist, poet, and diplomat (1889–1959) known for Visión de Anáhuac and for founding El Colegio de México.
Alfred Andersch
Alfred Andersch (1914–1980) was a German writer, editor, and radio journalist who co-founded the writers' association Gruppe 47 and became known for novels including Sansibar oder der letzte Grund.
Alfred de Musset
Alfred de Musset (1810–1857) was a French Romantic poet and playwright known for Les Nuits and Lorenzaccio, and elected to the Académie française in 1852.
Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin (also Linke Poot), 1878–1957, German physician and Expressionist modernist writer; author of the montage novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929); exiled 1933, converted to Catholicism 1941, died in Emmendingen.
Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was an American literary critic, memoirist, and editor who came of age in the 1930s, known for On Native Grounds and memoirs of Brooklyn.
Alfred Lichtenstein
Alfred Lichtenstein (1889 to 1914) was a German expressionist poet and narrator whose poem Die Dämmerung (1911) made his name; he fell in World War I in 1914.
Alfred Mendes
Alfred Hubert Mendes (1897–1991), Trinidadian novelist and short-story writer of the Beacon group; author of Pitch Lake (1934) and Black Fauns (1935), pioneer of barrack-yard fiction, WWI veteran, and grandfather of director Sam Mendes.
Alfred Noyes
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) was an English poet, critic, and biographer, famed for "The Highwayman" and Drake, professor at Princeton, a Catholic convert from 1927, and the most commercially popular poet of his day.
Alfred Polgar
Alfred Polgar, born Alfred Polak (1873–1955), was an Austrian critic and feuilletonist, a leading figure of Viennese coffeehouse literature whose essay "Theorie des 'Café Central'" (1926) remains widely quoted.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), Victorian England's most popular poet and longest-serving Poet Laureate from 1850; wrote In Memoriam A.H.H., The Charge of the Light Brigade, and Idylls of the King; first British writer ennobled as a peer.
Alfredo Bosi
Alfredo Bosi (1936–2021) was a Brazilian literary critic, essayist, and professor of Brazilian literature at the University of São Paulo, and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Alfredo Bryce Echenique (1939–2026) was a Peruvian novelist and chronicler, best known for Un mundo para Julius (1970), and a leading figure of Latin America's post-boom generation.
Alfredo Chavero
Alfredo Chavero (1841–1906) was a Mexican lawyer, playwright, poet, historian, and archaeologist who wrote the first volume of the national history México a través de los siglos.