William Faulkner

William Faulkner

male, deceased (1962)
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most...
T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

male, deceased (1965)
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Li...
Albert Camus

Albert Camus

male, deceased (1960)
Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960) was a French author and philosopher. Although he is often associated with existentialism, Camus...
John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

male, deceased (1968)
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A...
Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda

male, deceased (1973)
Pablo Neruda was the penname and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Having h...
Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

male, deceased (2006)
Naguib Mahfouz (December 11 1911 – August 30 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature who managed to modernize Ar...
Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

male, deceased (1955)
Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 - August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929...
Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

female, 63 years old
Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian feminist playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004,...
Dario Fo

Dario Fo

male, 83 years old
Dario Fo (born March 24, 1926) is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for...
Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

male, 79 years old
Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes mainly in English. Born in...