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Fyodor Dostoevsky. Fyodor[a] Mikhailovich Dostoevsky[b] (11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881 [3][c]), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Numerous literary critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, [4] as many of his works are ...
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo[ 1 ] (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les ...
Iván Mándy (1918–1995), author of children's novels. Sándor Márai (1900–1989) Ferenc Molnár (1878–1952), author of The Paul Street Boys. Ferenc Móra (1879–1934) Zsigmond Móricz (1879–1942), foremost novelist of the earlier 20th century. Kálmán Mikszáth (1847–1910) Terézia Mora (born 1971), writing in German.
Ayn Rand. m. Alice O'Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; [ c ] February 2 [ O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/ aɪn / EYEN), was a Russian-born American author and philosopher. [ 3 ] She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism.
Murakami was born in Kyoto, Japan, during the post-World War II baby boom and was raised in Nishinomiya, Ashiya and Kobe. [21][22] He is an only child. His father was the son of a Buddhist priest, [23] and his mother is the daughter of an Osaka merchant. [24] Both taught Japanese literature. [25] His father was involved in the Second Sino ...
Charles Higham (England/US, 1931–2012) – Errol Flynn, Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn. Thomas Jefferson Hogg (En, 1792–1862) – Percy Bysshe Shelley. Richard Holmes (England, born 1945) – Mary Shelley, Coleridge, The Age of Wonder. Michael Holroyd (En, born 1935) – Lytton Strachey.
Signature. Portrait of Anton Chekhov by Isaac Levitan (1886) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov[a] (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов[b], IPA: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕexəf]; 29 January 1860 [c] – 15 July 1904 [d]) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his best short ...
1. Yiddish. 1. 1 Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize in Literature 1913) wrote in Bengali and English, Samuel Beckett (Nobel Prize in Literature 1969) wrote in French and English and Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize in Literature 1987) wrote poetry in Russian and prose in English.