Leopoldo Alas Clarín
Spanish writer, his work is linked to the city of Oviedo. After his doctorate in law from 1871 to 1878, he returned to Asturias to occupy the chair of Roman law at the Un...
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was a prolific American writer. Daughter of an educator and philosopher, he grew up and lived in New England. His novel Mujercitas and his sequelas are ...
Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet, prominent member of the Generation of 27. Considered one of the great Spanish poets of the 20th century, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 197...
Hans Christian Andersen
He was a Danish writer and poet famous for his children's stories, among them The ugly duckhead, the sirenite, the emperor's new suit, and the queen of the snow.
Pío Baroja
Spanish writer of the 98 generation. He was doctorate in medicine, but ended up leaving the profession in favor of literature, an activity in which he cultivated the nove...
J.M. Barrie
He was a Scottish novelist and playwright. Although he wrote 20 novels and more than 30 plays, his fame is due especially to the creation of the character Peter Pan, larg...
Charles Baudelaire
French poet, one of the highest exponents of symbolism and considered the initiator of modern poetry.
Jacinto Benavente
He was a Spanish playwright, director, screenwriter and film producer. In 1922, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
He was a Spanish writer, journalist and politician who promoted naturalism and realism.
Enyd Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton Pollock Darrell Waters, born Enid Mary Blyton, was an English writer of children's literature who signed 762 youth works, both with his maiden name Enid ...
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine writer, known for his works of fiction and essays, including 'Ficciones' and 'El Aleph'.
Bertolt Brecht
He was a German playwright and poet, one of the most influential of the 20th century, creator of the epic theatre, also called dialectic theatre.
Pearl S. Buck
She was an American writer and novelist. As a daughter of missionaries in China, and then as a missionary, Buck spent most of his life before 1934 in Zhenjiang.
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known for his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an Anglican, logical, mathematician, photographer and British writer.
Rosa Chacel
Spanish writer of the Generation of 27. Born in a liberal family, the environment in which he was raised allowed him to cultivate an independent personality as well as ob...
Manuel Chaves Nogales
Sevillian journalist who developed his career between Seville and Madrid, reaching his highest prestige between 1927 and 1937 as a reporter and director of the newspaper ...
Anton Pavlovich Chejov
He was a Russian storyteller, playwright and doctor. In the literary currents of realism and naturalism, he was a master of short story, and is considered one of the most...
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a British Catholic writer, philosopher and journalist from the early 20th century. He cultivated, among other genres, the essay, the narratio...
Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, better known by the pseudonym of Agatha Christie, was a British writer and playwright specializing in police, for whose work she was internat...
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, better known as Colette, was a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, librettist and magazine artist and French cabaret. He acquired international...
Wilkie Collins
Born in London in 1824, he is recognized as one of the creators of the genre of the police novel. Author of "The Lady of White" and "The Moon Stone," his narrative is cha...
Carlo Collodi
He was an Italian journalist and writer, known mainly for his novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio.".
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and doctor, creator of the famous fiction detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific author whose work includes stories...
Joseph Conrad
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, better known as Joseph Conrad, was a Polish novelist who adopted English as a literary language.
Charles Darwin
He was an English naturalist, recognized as the most influential scientist of those who put forward the idea of biological evolution through natural selection.
Alphonse Daudet
Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet was a French writer, author of Tartarín de Tarascón and Cartas from my mill.
Edmondo De Amicis
He was an Italian writer, novelist, journalist and author of travel books. He is more remembered, above all, for his novel Heart: Diario de un niño, of 1886.
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and novelist, one of the best known in universal literature, and the most outstanding of the Victorian era.
Isak Dinesen
Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke, born Karen Christentze Dinesen, better known for her literary pseudonym Isak Dinesen, was a Danish writer.
John Dos Passos
New American journalist and journalist. Traveller, intellectual and artist cult of independent ideology close to socialism, is considered one of the essential members of ...
Fiodor Mijaïlovich Dostoevskiï
Fiodor Mijáilovich Dostoyevski was one of the leading writers of Tsarist Russia, whose literature explores human psychology in the complex political, social and spiritual...
Alexandre Dumas
Novelist and French playwright, creator of some of the best adventure novels in history. His son, Alexandre Dumas son, was also a known writer.
Alexandre Dumas (hijo)
He was a French writer and novelist, author of the well-known pink novel La dama de las camelias, adapted to the opera in La traviata de Giuseppe Verdi, as well as in num...
José de Espronceda
He was a Spanish writer from the time of Romanticism, considered the most representative poet of the first Romanticism in Spain.
William Faulkner
Narrator and American poet. In his works they highlight psychological drama and emotional depth, used a long and serpentinated prose, as well as a meticulous lexicon.
Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
Spanish writer and journalist, recognized for his acute irony and humorous style. Throughout his career, he wrote novels, stories, theatrical works and journalistic artic...
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American writer, widely known as one of the best American authors of the 20th century, whose work is paradigmatic of the jazz age.
E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster, OM, CH was an English novelist, essayist and libretor. His works address the class differences and hypocrisy of British society from the early 20th...
Rómulo Gallegos
Venezuelan novelist and politician, considered the most relevant Venezuelan novelist of the 20th century.
Federico García Lorca
Poet, playwright and Spanish prosist. Adkrit to the Generation of 27, he is the most influential and popular poet in Spanish literature of the 20th century.
Erle Stanley Gardner
He was an American lawyer and writer, better known for being the creator of the character Perry Mason. He published police novels under his own name and also using the ps...
Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often cited as Mrs. Gaskell, was a novelist and writer of English stories during the Victorian era.
Nikolaj Vasilevic Gogol
Russian writer, also known as a playwright, novelist and short story writer. His best known work is probably dead Souls, considered by many as the first modern Russian no...
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
He was a prolific Spanish avant-garde writer and journalist, generally attached to the generation of 1914 or novecentism, and promoter of the literary genre known as greg...
Edmond de Goncourt
He was a French writer whose family came from Goncourt in Haute-Marne. He wrote part of his work in collaboration with his brother, Jules de Goncourt. The works of the Go...
Robert Graves
Robert von Ranke Graves was a British writer and scholar, father of the writer and translator Lucía Graves.
H. Rider Haggard
Henry Rider Haggard was an English Victorian writer of adventure novels, initiator of the "lost world" subgender.
Dashiell Hammett
American writer of black novel, short stories and film scripts, as well as political activist. Among the most remembered characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese ...
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist, and one of the leading novelists and storytellers of the 20th century.
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse was a German writer, poet, novelist and painter, naturalized in May 1924.
Anthony Hope
He was a British writer famous for his adventure novels, among which the most recognized are The prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau, who are "minor classics" of Engl...
Victor Hugo
French Romantic poet, playwright, and writer, a leading reference in the French language. He was also a committed and influential politician and intellectual in his count...
Aldous Huxley
English novelist and essayist of encyclopedic and visionary prose. His most famous novel, "A Happy World," is a dystopia that explores the dangers of totalitarianism and ...
Henrik Ibsen
He was a Norwegian playwright and poet. He is considered the most important Norwegian playwright and one of the authors who have most influenced modern playwright, father...
James Joyce
Irish writer, recognized worldwide as one of the most important and influential of the 20th century. Joyce is acclaimed for his masterpiece, "Ulysses," and for his contro...
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a writer of Jewish origin born in Bohemia who wrote in German. His work is considered one of the most influential of universal literature.
Yasunari Kawabata
Japanese novelist, Nobel winner, known for "The House of the Beautiful Sleeping.".
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer, author of novels, stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, and literary reviews.
Jack London
He was an American writer, author of White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and other novels and stories.
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado Ruiz was a Spanish poet, the youngest representative of the 98 generation.
Thomas Mann
Featured German writer born in Lübeck, Germany, and deceased in Zurich, Switzerland. It is known for its deep and complex novels that explore philosophical, moral and soc...
José Martínez Ruiz (Azorín)
he was a Spanish writer from the 98 generation, who cultivated various literary genres: the novel, the essay, the journalistic chronicle and the literary criticism and, t...
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
He was a British writer and politician internationally recognized for his novel "The Four Pens"; originally published in London in 1902.
W. Somerset Maugham
British writer born in Paris, left medicine after the success of his first novel. Considered one of the most read narrators of the 20th century, he reached the top with O...
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American writer who, in addition to novel and story, wrote essay and poetry.
Margaret Mitchell
American journalist and writer. He was born in Atlanta, a city that influenced his only work What the wind took away, one of the most popular novels in the history of lit...
Vladimir Nabokov
He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but became internationally famous as a teacher of the novel with his work written in English, especially his novel Lolita (1...
Borís Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet and novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.
Edgar Allan Poe
Writer, poet, critic and romantic journalist - American, generally recognized as one of the universal teachers of the short story, of which he was one of the first practi...
Eça de Queirós
José Maria de Eça de Queirós was a Portuguese writer and diplomat, considered by many the best realist of his country in the 19th century. Among other novels of recognize...
Antoine Saint-Exupéry (de)
Antoine Marie Jean- Baptiste Roger, Count of Saint- Exupéry, known as Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, was a French aviator and writer, author of the famous work The Beginner.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
He was a Polish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905. It is the fifth Nobel Prize in the history of the award and the first in Eastern Europe.
Upton Sinclair
American writer, famous for "The Jungle," which exposes the conditions of the meat industry.
Betty Smith
American novelist, who achieved international fame and success with his 1943 best seller A tree grows in Brooklyn.
Johanna Spyri
She was a Swiss writer, known worldwide for her childhood story Heidi. From the Risueña and the old city of Maienfeld part a path that, between green fields and thick for...
Robert Louis Stevenson
He was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist. His legacy is a vast work that includes travel chronicles, adventure and historical novels, as well as lyrical and essays.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Writer, poet, philologist and British university professor, known mainly for being the author of the classic high-fantasy novels El hobbit and El Lord of the Rings.
Lev Tolstói
Count Lev Nikoláievich Tolstói (León Tolstói), a Russian novelist, is one of the most important writers of world literature. His works "War and Peace" and "Ana Karenina,"...
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Russian novelist, known as "Parents and Children," exploring nihilism and social change.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pseudonym Mark Twain, was a popular American writer, speaker and humorist.
Juan Valera
Juan Valera and Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish writer, diplomat and politician, whose most famous novel is Pepita Jiménez.
Jules Verne
He was a French writer, poet and playwright famous for his adventure novels and for his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Lewis Wallace
He was an American lawyer, military, political, diplomat and writer, known for being the author of Ben-Hur.
H.G. Wells
Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells (September 21, 1866 in Bromley, Kent - August 13, 1946 in London), 1 was a British writer, novelist, historian and philo...
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, single Edith Newbold Jones (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937), was an American writer and designer.
Walt Whitman
He was an American poet, volunteer nurse, essayist, journalist and humanist. His work is part of the transition between transcendentalism and philosophical realism, incor...
Virginia Woolf
She was a novelist, essayist, letter writer, editor, feminist and British story writer, considered one of the most prominent figures of literary modernism of the 20th cen...
Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola, better known as Émile Zola, was a French writer, considered the father and the largest representative of naturalism. He played a very ...
José Zorrilla
José Zorrilla and Moral was a Spanish poet and playwright, author of the romantic drama Don Juan Tenorio.