Great Writers from Earth...

Chinua Achebe – Nigeria novelist, essayist, poet (A Man of the People)

Richard Adams—England novelist (Watership Down)

Aravind Adiga—India novelist (White Tiger)

Isabella Allende – Chile novelist (House of Spirits)

Margaret Atwood – Canada novelist, poet (Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye)

Jane Austen—England novelist (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility)

John Banville – Ireland novelist (Eclipse; Shroud; The Sea)

Sebastian Barry—Ireland novelist (A Long Long Way)

Charles Baudelaire – France poet (The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen)

Ishmael Beah – Sierra Leone autobiographer (A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier)

Samuel Beckett – Ireland dramatist, poet (Waiting for Godot)

Heinrich Boll – Germany short stories

Jorge Luis Borges – Argentina short stories

Bertolt Brecht — Germany poet, playwright (The Threepenny Opera)

Andre Breton—France poet

Charlotte Bronte—England novelist (Jane Eyre)

Emily Bronte—England novelist (Wuthering Heights)

John Buchan—Scotland novelist (Greenmantle)

Dino Buzzati – Italy short stories

Italo Calvino – Italy novelist, short stories (Barron in the Trees)

Albert Camus—France novelist (The Plague)

Lan Cao—Vietnam novelist (Monkey Bridge)

Arthur C. Clarke—England novelist, essayist (Childhood’s End)

J.M. Coetze—South Africa novelist (Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace)

Julio Cortazar – Argentina short stories

Mahmoud Darwish—Palestine poet

Charles Dickens—England novelist (Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities)

Isak Dinesen – Denmark novelist, short stories (Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales)

Alfred Doblin—Germany novelist (Berlin Alexanderplatz)

Fyodor Dostoevsky – Russia novelist (Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment)

Roddy Doyle—Ireland novelist (Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha)

Umberto Eco—Italy novelist (The Name of the Rose)

George Eliot—England novelist (Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss)

Shusaku Endo—Japan novelist (The Samurai; Deep River)

Andreas Eschbach—Germany novelist (The Carpet Makers)

Laura Esquivel – Mexico novelist (Like Water For Chocolate)

Gustave Flaubert – France short stories (A Simple Soul), novelist (Madame Bovary)

Dario Fo – Italy playwright (Mistero Buffo)

E.M. Forster — England novelist (Howards End; A Room With a View)

John Fowles—England novelist (The French Lieutenant's Woman)

Carlos Fuentes – Mexico novelist, essayist (Gringo Viejo)

Neil Gaiman—England novelist (Neverwhere, American Gods)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Germany novelist, poet (Faust)

Nikolai Gogol – Russia playwright, novelist, poet (The Inspector General)

Nadine Gordimer – S.Africa novelist, activist (July's People)

Günter Grass – Germany poet, novelist, playwright (The Tin Drum)

Graham Greene – England novelist (The Heart of the Matter, Power and the Glory)

Mark Haddon—England novelist (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)

Knut Hamsun—Norway novelist (Hunger)

Daoud Hari—Sudan memoirist (The Translator)

Jaroslav Hasek—Czech Republic novelist (The Good Soldier Svejk)

Seamus Heaney—Ireland poet

James Herriott—England autobiographer (All Creatures Great and Small)

Herman Hesse—Germany novelist (Siddhartha; Steppenwolf)

Nick Hornby – English novelist (About a Boy; How To Be Good)

Khaled Hosseini – Afghanistan novelist (A Thousand Splendid Suns; The Kite Runner)

Yu Hua—China novelist (Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, To Live)

Victor Hugo—France novelist (Les Miserables)

Keri Hulme—New Zealand novelist (The Bone People)

Henrik Ibsen – Norway playwright (Peer Gynt, A Doll House, Hedda Gabler)

Eugene Ioneso—Romania playwright (The Bald Soprano)

Kazuo Ishiguro—England novelist ( Remains of the Day)

Ismail Kadare—Albania novelist, poet (The General of the Dead Army)

Nikos Kazantzakis – Greece novelist, philosopher (Zorba the Greek)

John Keats—England poet

Thomas Keneally—Australia novelist (Schindler’s List)

Imre Kertesz—Hungary novelist (Fateless)

Søren Kierkegaard – Denmark philosophy, psychology, religion (Fear and Trembling)

Natsuo Kirino—Japan novelist (Out)

Milan Kundera—Czechoslovakia novelist (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

Par Lagerkvist – Sweden playwright, poet, novelist (The Dwarf, The Hangman)

D.H. Lawrence – England poet, novelist, short stories (Sons and Lovers)

Halldor Laxness — Iceland novelist (Independent People)

Nam Le—Vietnam novelist (The Boat)

John Le Carre— England novelist (The Constant Gardner; Tinker, Tailor…)

Stanislaw Lem—Poland novelist (Solaris)

Doris Lessing—Britain novelist (The Golden Notebook)

C.S. Lewis—Britain novelist, essayist (The Screwtape Letters)

Mario Vargos Llosa--Peru novelist (Feast of the Goat, Who Killed Palamino Molera)

Federico García Lorca—Spain poet, playwright (Blood Wedding)

Naguib Mahfouz—Egypt novelist, playwright, short stories (The Cairo Trilogy)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez--Columbia novelist, short stories (Innocent Erindida, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera)

Yann Martel—Canada novelist (Life of Pi)

Jose Marti—Cuba poet, essayist

W. Somerset Maugham—England novelist, playwright, short stories (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, The Razor’s Edge)

Ian McEwan—England novelist (Atonement)

Czeslaw Milosz—Poland. poet

Gabriela Mistral—Chile poet

Rohinton Mistry—India novelist (A Fine Balance)

Eugenio Montale--Italy poet, essayist, short stories

Alice Munro – Canada novelist, short stories (The Beggar Maid, Dance of the Happy Shades)

Haruki Murakami—Japan novelist (Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles)

V.S. Naipaul—Trinidad novelist (Bend in the River)

R.K. Narayan – India novelist, short stories (Swami and Friends)

Pablo Neruda--Chile poet

Friedrich Nietzsche—Germany philosopher, poet (Thus Spake Zarathustra)

Bao Ninh—Vietnam novelist (The Sorrow of War)

Frank O’Connor--Ireland short stories

Kenzabura Oe—Japan novelist, essayist, short stories (A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry)

Wilfred Owen—England poet

Orhan Pamuk—Turkey novelist (My Name is Red, Snow)

Boris Pasternak—Russia poet, essayist, novelist (Doctor Zhivago)

Alan Paton—South Africa novelist (Cry, the Beloved Country)

Octavio Paz—Mexico poet, short stories

Per Petterson—Norway novelist (Out Stealing Horses)

Harold Pinter—England playwright (The Birthday Party)

Luigi Pirandello—Italy novelist, playwright, short stories (Six Characters in Search of an Author)

Terry Pratchett—England novelist (Small Gods, The Fifth Elephant, The Color of Magic)

Maria Ranier Rilke—Germany poet

Arthur Rimbaud—France poet

Arundhati Roy—India novelist (The God of Small Things)

Salman Rushdie—India novelist (Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses)

Sappho—Greece poet

Jose Saramago—Portugal novelist (Blindness)

Jean-Paul Sartre—France novelist, playwright, philosopher (Being and Nothingness; Nausea)

Siegfried Sassoon—England poet (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer)

Dorothy Sayers—England novelist, short stories (The Nine Tailors, Murder Must Advertise)

Bernhard Schlink—Switzerland novelist (The Reader)

William Shakespeare—England playwright (Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing)

Akhil Sharma—India novelist (An Obedient Father)

Lao She—China playwright, novelist (Rickshaw Boy, Teahouse)

Nevil Shute—Norway novelist (On The Beach)

Dai Sijie--China novelist (Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress)

Isaac Bashevis Singer – Poland novelist, short story writer; (Gimpel The Fool)

Wole Soyinka - Nigeria playwright (The Lion and the Jewel)

August Strindberg—Sweden playwright, novelist, short stories (Miss Julie)

Patrick Suskind—Germany novelist (Perfume)

Wislawa Szymborska—Poland poet

Rabindranath Tagore—India novelist, poet, short stories (The Hungry Stones and Other Stories)

Colm Tóibín—Ireland short stories, novelist (The Master)

Leo Tolstoi—Russia novelist, short stories (Anna Karenina and War and Peace)

Guiseppe Tomasi—Italy novelist (The Leopard)

Su Tong—China novelist (Wives and Concubines, The Boat to Redemption)

Anthony Trolloppe—England novelist (The Way We Live Now)

Evelyn Waugh—Britain novelist (Brideshead Revisited)

Gao Xingjian—China novelist, playwright (Soul Mountain)

Lu Xun – China short stories

Luisa Valenzuela – Argentina novelist, short stories (Strange Things Happen Here)

Paul Verlaine – France poet

Mo Yan—China novelist (Red Sorghum)

W.B. Yeats—Ireland poet, playwright

S. Yizhar—Israel novelist (Days of Ziklag)

Kawabata Yasunari—Japan short stories (The Master of Go)

Cao Yu—China playwright (Thunderstorm, Sunrise, Peking Man)

Yevgeny Zamyatin—Russia novelist (We)