20th-century German novelists

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, and sculptor (1927-2015)

German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)

German-born novelist (1898–1970)

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)

German writer (1917–1985)

German writer (1830–1914)

German writer (1871–1950)

German children's writer (1899–1974)

German author (1842–1912)

German writer and screenwriter

German novelist and essayist (1929–2011)

German expressionist novelist (1878–1957)

German writer (1884-1958)

German writer (1900–1983)

German author (1926-2014)

German writer

German writer and editor (1929–2022)

German writer (1893–1947)

German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)

German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists (1886–1927)

German writer (1887-1968)

German writer and academic (1944-2001)

German writer (1864–1947)

German writer (1873-1934)

German writer (1927–2023)

German-language novelist (born 1975)

German writer (1887-1912)

German writer (1881-1948)

German actress and writer (1905-1969)

German writer and activist (1924-2014)

German dramatist and novelist (1857–1928)

prosaist, short story writer, publisher, and radio editor (1914-1980)

German writer (1913-2001)

German poet (1914–1979)

German author (1879-1951)

German writer and activist (1894-1967)

German novelist (1901-1974)

German writer, painter and filmmaker (1938–2022)

German playwright, novelist, and essayist

German actor and writer (1871–1943)

German writer (1909–2006)

German writer, film-author and GDR dissident

German writer

German writer (1929-2019)

German writer (1880–1952)

German writer (1888-1953)

German writer (1892–1964)

German writer (1921–1999)

German lawyer, writer and historian (1834–1912)

German writer and translator (1940–2019)

German writer and poet (1865–1910)

thumb|Emil Orlik: The poet Klabund, Lithography from 1915

German writer (1887-1950)

German author, poet, dramatist, and humanist (1887–1945)

German actor and writer (1934–2017)

German art historian (1885-1940)

German writer (1926–1997)

German writer (1932-2014)