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This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
The list was compiled by a team of critics and editors at The New York Times and, with the input of 503 writers and academics, assessed the books based on their impact, originality, and lasting influence. The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging ...
Bestsellers; Biographers; Buddhism; Business theorists; Catholicism; Children's literature; Christian fiction; Crime; Detective fiction; Drama; Essays; Fantasy; History
This is a partial list of 21st-century writers. This list includes notable authors, poets, playwrights, philosophers, artists, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letters) is the art of written works.
Compton Crook Award – best first time novel in genre in a year, since 1983; Janusz A. Zajdel Award (Poland) – since 1984; Writers of the Future – contest for new authors, since 1985; Tähtivaeltaja Award (Finland) – since 1986; Arthur C. Clarke Award – since 1987; Japan Fantasy Novel Award – since 1989; Sir Julius Vogel Award (New ...
"author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization" [109] novel, short story, essay, translation 2009: Herta Müller (b. 1953) Germany Romania: German "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" [110]
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
The most notable Spanish authors are: Enrique Gil y Carrasco 1815–1846, the author of El señor de Bembibre, the best Spanish historical novel, written in imitation of Scott; Francisco Navarro Villoslada (1818–1895), who wrote a series of historical novels when the romantic genre was in decline and Realism was coming to be at its height ...