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Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
James Joyce
Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
Maxim Gorky
Russian and Soviet writer (1868–1936)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
Hermann Hesse
Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962)
William Faulkner
American writer (1897-1962)
André Gide
French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
Boris Pasternak
Russian writer (1890–1960)
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
Knut Hamsun
Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)
Luigi Pirandello
Italian dramatist, novelist, short story writer, and poet, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate (1867-1936)
Joseph Conrad
Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
Lu Xun
Chinese novelist and essayist (1881–1936)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer (1896–1940)
Mikhail Bulgakov
Russian author (1891–1940)
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Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)
Karel Čapek
Czech writer (1890–1938)
D. H. Lawrence
English writer and poet (1885–1930)
Guillaume Apollinaire
French poet (1880–1918)
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer (1894–1961)
Jaroslav Hašek
Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist (1883-1923)
Miguel de Unamuno
Spanish poet (1864–1936)
Primo Levi
Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer (1919–1987)
André Breton
French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)
Robert Musil
Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)
E. M. Forster
English novelist (1879-1970)
Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
Jorge Amado
Brazilian writer (1912-2001)
Dylan Thomas
Welsh poet and writer (1914–1953)
Osip Mandelstam
Russian poet and essayist (1891-1938)
Katherine Mansfield
New Zealand author (1888–1923)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement (1876-1944)
William Carlos Williams
American poet (1883-1963)
John Dos Passos
American novelist (1896–1970)
E. E. Cummings
American author (1894–1962)
Alfred Döblin
German expressionist novelist (1878–1957)
Italo Svevo
Italian writer (1861-1928)
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Polish writer (1904–1969)
Andrei Bely
Russian poet, writer and critic (1880–1934)
Andrei Platonov
Russian author (1899–1951)
Ivan Cankar
Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet and political activist (1876-1918)
Sadegh Hedayat
Iranian writer
Gottfried Benn
German novelist, poet (1886–1956)
Daniil Kharms
Russian writer (1905–1942)
Robert Walser
Swiss writer (1878–1956)
Katherine Anne Porter
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist (1890–1980)
Miroslav Krleža
Croatian writer (1893–1981)
Jean Rhys
British novelist (1890–1979)
Malcolm Lowry
British writer (1909–1957)
Hermann Broch
Austrian writer (1886-1951)
Ford Madox Ford
English writer and publisher (1873-1939)
Carlo Emilio Gadda
Italian writer (1893-1973)
Nathanael West
American writer and screenwriter (1903–1940)
Victor Serge
Russian revolutionary and writer (1890-1947)