José Saramago

male, 86 years old
Portuguese, Nobel Prize winner, Magicrealismwriter, Portuguese Communist Party member, Nobel Prize for Literature, pessimist…writer
José de Sousa Saramago, <small>GColSE</small&gt; is a Nobel-laureate Portuguese writer, playwright and journalist. His works commonly present s...
Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

male, 73 years old
Peruvian democracy activist, Magicrealismwriter, Essayist, peruvian, Premio Cervantes winner, writer…Tune in Tomorrow.. writer
Mario Vargas Llosa (birth name: Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa) (born in Arequipa, March 28, 1936) is a Peruvian writer who is one of Latin...
Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

male, 60 years old
novelist, writer, Translator, Short story writer, English-Japanese translator, Japanese…Magicrealismwriter
is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" as "easily accessible, yet...
Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris

female, 45 years old
Wakefield Girls High School, Magicrealismwriter, Academic of the University of Sheffield, The Times, Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, St Catharine's College, Cambridge…Food writer
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, born 3 July, 1964 in Barnsley, Yorkshire is a British author. Born to a French mother and an English father in her g...
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

male, deceased (1991)
nobel prize in literature, yiddish, death by stroke, Nobel laureate in Literature, Magicrealismwriter, American…Short story writer, writer, Yiddish-language writer
Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 (see notes below) – July 24, 1991) was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish born American writer of both short st...
Janet Frame

Janet Frame

female, deceased (2004)
more magical style, Nene Janet Paterson Clutha, Women short story writer, New Zealand women writer, lobotomy, Women novelist…Magicrealismwriter, magic realism, Short story writer
Janet Paterson Frame ONZ, CBE, (August 28, 1924 - January 29, 2004), a New Zealand author, wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories,...
Kenzaburo Oe

Kenzaburo Oe

male, 74 years old
Magicrealismwriter, novelist, University of Tokyo alumni, Nobel laureate in Literature, Japanese, existentialism
is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage...
Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

male, 80 years old
die unertraegliche leichtigkeitdes seins, novelist, Czech language, expatriate, brno, Charles University alumni…Magicrealismwriter, writer, The Unbearable Lightness of Being writer
Milan Kundera (born April 1, 1929 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czech-born writer who has written books in both Czech and...
Kobo Abe

Kobo Abe

male, deceased (1993)
Magicrealismwriter, From Tokyo, science fiction writer, Playwright, Japanese writer, Japanese literature…Short story writer
Kobo Abe (安部公房 "Abe Kōbō", pseudonym of Kimifusa Abe) was a Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor. His name is romanized as "Kobo A...
Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

male, deceased (1986)
writer, blind, El Aleph, H.G. Wells, Légion d'honneur recipient, Magicrealismwriter…Short story writer, science fiction writer
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a...