Orhan Pamuk male

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul) is a Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist. Pamuk is often regarded as a post-modern writer. As...

Naguib Mahfouz male, deceased

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...

Doris Lessing female

Doris Lessing CH (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia on October 22, 1919) is a British writer.

Arundhati Arundhati Roy female

Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel,...

Milan Kundera male

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...

Haruki Murakami male

is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. His work has been described by the "Virginia Quarterly Review" as "easily accessible, yet...

Mario Vargas Llosa male

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...

Miguel de Cervantes male, deceased (Spain)

a. The most reliable and accurate portrait of the writer to date is that provided by Cervantes himself in the "Exemplary Novels" (translated by...

Hans Christian Andersen male, deceased

Hans Christian Andersen or simply H.C. Andersen was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Among his best-known stories are...

Italo Calvino male, deceased

Italo Calvino (October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985) (pronounced) was an Italian writer and novelist. His best known works include the "Our...