Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist, known for "Everything crumbles," a fundamental work of African literature.
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Douglas Adams
English writer and humorist, known mainly for his comic science fiction novel "The Guide to Galactic Self-Stopist." Adams also worked as a television and radio screenwrit...
Rafael Alberti
Spanish writer, especially recognized as a poet and member of the generation of 27. It is considered one of the greatest literates of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish ...
Sherman Alexie
Novelist, poet and native American filmmaker, known for "The completely true newspaper of a part-time Indian.".
Isabel Allende
She is a Chilean writer, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2004. He won the National Prize for Literature in his country in 2010.
James Altucher
Author, podcaster and American entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded more than 20 companies. He has published 20 books and is a collaborator of publications such as ...
Kiko Amat
Kiko Amat (Barcelona, 1971) es un escritor y periodista español. Creció en Sant Boi de Llobregat y desde joven estuvo vinculado a la cultura musical alternativa, especial...
Eric Ambler
British author of suspended novels, especially spy novels, which introduced a new realism in the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter and used the pseudonym Eliot Reed...
V. C. Andrews
American writer famous for her novel Flores in the attic. He worked as a commercial artist while publishing several short novels and stories in different magazines until ...
Elisabeth Anglarill
Elisabeth Anglarill, nacida en Barcelona, es escritora, periodista y guionista. Tras varias obras de no ficción, Los malos muertos es su estreno como novelista.
Fernando Aramburu
Born in San Sebastián, a graduate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza (1982). It promoted culture from literary journals until it moved to Germany in 19...
Cristina Araujo Gámir
Spanish writer and philologist Cristina Araújo Gámir was born in Madrid in 1980.
Víctor Arbol (del)
It was released in 2008, after being finalist of the Fernando Lara Prize with the novel "The Abyss of Dreams." In 2018 Del Tree was named Knight of the Letters and Arts o...
Juan Luis Arsuaga
Spanish paleontologist of international reputation, co-director of the Atapuerca (World Heritage) and professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. Specialist in hum...
Matilde Asensi
Spanish journalist and writer, who is mainly devoted to the historical and adventure novel. He has won several awards and awards throughout his career.
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was a writer and biochemist of Russian origin, American nationalized, known as a prolific author of science fiction, history and scientific dissemination.
Max Aub
Spanish writer of French origin. His whole work is written in Spanish, cultivating different genres: narrative, theatre and poetry.
Anselm Audley
He is a fantastic literature writer from the UK. He studied ancient and modern history, and while he was in secondary education he began writing the epic fantasy books of...
Jean M. Auel
Known for its saga The children of the earth, a series of novels that pass in prehistoric Europe in which it explores the possible interaction between the men of Cromañón...
Victoria Aveyard
Born and raised in a small town in Western Massachusetts, she has a BFA in Writing for Film & Television from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic ...
Francisco Ayala
Narrator and Spanish critic. Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, he obtained the Cervantes Prize in 1991 and the Prince of Asturias of the Letters in 1998.
Rafael Azcona
Spanish writer and novelist. The film of Azcona is linked to four directors in four stages of his work: Marco Ferrero, Luís García Berlanga, Carlos Saura and José Luís Ga...
Albert Cornelis Baantjer
He was a Dutch author of police fiction, who worked as a police officer in the city of Amsterdam. He wrote a long series of police novels that revolve around Police Inspe...
Fredrik Backman
Swedish writer and columnist. His novels have been published in more than 40 countries.
Christina Baker Kline
She's an American novelist. He is the author of seven novels, including Orphan Train, and is a co-author or editor of five non-fiction books.
Elia Barceló
Spanish writer recognized for her versatility and contributions in various literary genres, including science fiction, fantastic literature, black novel and youth literat...
Mary Beard
English academic specializing in classical studies. He is a professor at the University of Cambridge, and a professor of ancient literature at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Simone de Beauvoir
Author, teacher and French philosopher. Beauvoir was a precursor to feminism. He shared life with also writer Jean- Paul Sartre.
Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti Farrugia was a writer, poet, playwright and Uruguayan journalist, a member of the Generation of 45, to which the writers Idea Vilariño and Juan Carlos One...
J. J. Benítez
Juan José Benítez López, better known as J. J. Benítez, is a Spanish journalist and writer, known for his work on ufology. In his novelistic saga, Trojan Horse reports an...
Ingmar Bergman
Swedish film and theatre director, considered one of the key film directors of the second half of the 20th century.
Lucia Berlin
American writer known for her short stories that explore everyday life, women's experience and her own personal life. Although he did not reach great notoriety during his...
Louis Berniéres (de)
Graduated at Victoria University in Manchester, he became famous for his novel "The Mandolin of Captain Corelli," with which he won the Commonwealth Writers Price.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Figura clave de la narrativa fantástica en lengua española. Novelista, cuentista y ensayista, destacó por un estilo elegante, irónico y preciso, donde lo fantástico apare...
Roberto Bolaño
Chilean writer and poet, author of more than two dozen books, including his novels "The Wild Detectives," winner of the Herralde Prize in 1998 and the Rómulo Gallegos Pri...
Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American writer of fantastic gender mystery, terror and science fiction. Mainly known for his work Martian Chronicles and the dystopic novel F...
Caridad Bravo Adams
Prominent Mexican writer and the world-renowned author of soap opera. He lived in Cuba and Mexico, where he wrote his most famous work: the Wild Heart.
Antonio Buero Vallejo
He was a Spanish playwright, winner of the Lope de Vega Prize in 1949 and the Cervantes Prize in 1986
Anthony Burgess
He was a British writer and composer, who performed a prolific literary and musical work, being generally known for the novel A Clockwork Orange in 1962, which became fam...
Edgar Rice Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs was an American novelist, visual artist, essayist and social critic. Renovator of narrative language and one of the main figures of the Beat Gene...
Jaume Cabré
Spanish philologist and writer. Led in Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona, he is a professor of secondary education in excess and a professor at the Unive...
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
He was a Cuban writer and writer, who after exiled from his country obtained British citizenship. He won the 1997 Cervantes Award.
Andrea Camilleri
Italian writer, theatrical and television director and novelist. In 1994, the first novel in the series starring Commissioner Montalbano was published, making him one of ...
Ana Campoy
Writer and cultural journalist. Led in Audiovisual Communication by the UCM, he studied script and dubbing before he devoted himself completely to literature.
Albert Camus
He was a French novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher and journalist born in Algeria. In his varied work he developed a thought based on the awareness of the absurd...
Francisco Candel
Francisco Candel Tortajada, also known as Paco Candel, was a Spanish novelist and journalist.
Truman Capote
Truman Streckfus Persons, better known as Truman Capote, was an American journalist and writer, mainly known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and his novel- document In Cold Bl...
Luis Carandell
He was a Spanish journalist, writer and presenter of television programs such as the TVE Telediary.
Orson Scott Card
American writer, writes science fiction and other literary genres (fantasy). His best known work is Ender's game.
Alejo Carpentier
He was a Cuban and French writer who had a significant influence on Latin American literature during his boom period.
Javier Castillo
Javier Castillo studied business and wrote his work as a corporate consultant in a large company with writing.
Camilo José Cela
Camilo José de Cela and Tulock, I Marquis de Iria Flavia, was a Spanish writer. A prolific author, he was an academic of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and awarde...
Javier Cercas
He is a Spanish writer, who also works as a columnist in El País. He worked for years as a university teacher in philology.
Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda Bidou or Bidon was a prominent Spanish poet and literary critic, a member of the 27 Generation.
Michael Chabon
Novelista, guionista y ensayista estadounidense considerado una de las voces más destacadas de la literatura contemporánea en lengua inglesa. Su obra combina imaginación ...
Stephen Chbosky
He is an American writer, writer and director, known mainly for being the author of the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, as well as for writing and later directing ...
Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier is a successful writer of historical novels. His career began with the book "The Blue of the Virgin" but he reached fame with his novel The young pearl, a...
Lee Child
Lee Child, pseudonym for Jim Grant, is a British thriller writer. The protagonist of his novels is Jack Reacher, a former U.S. military police officer who, after leaving ...
Tom Clancy
He was an American writer, known for his novels of espionage and military intelligence set in the Cold War and later times.
Mary Higgins Clark
She was an American mystery novel writer. Each of his mystery novels has become a sales success in the United States and in several European countries and continue in pri...
Arthur Charles Clarke
British writer and scientist. Author of scientific and science fiction outreach works, such as the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Sentinel or Rama Cita.
Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel is a French writer and filmmaker. Led in modern letters and passionate for literature and cinema.
Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins is an American writer and writer, creator of the famous trilogy of The Hunger Games.
Robin Cook
Robin Cook is an American doctor and novelist who writes about medicine and issues that affect public health. It is well known for combining medical writing with the thri...
Louise Cooper
Louise Cooper was a British writer of fantastic literature, recognized for her imaginative and poetic style, as well as her ability to create worlds of great symbolic and...
Bernard Cornwell
Novelist and English journalist, born in London in 1944, son of a Canadian aviator and a component of the Women's Assistant Air Force of Great Britain. After a season as ...
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell, born Patricia Carroll Daniels, is an American mystery writer, known mainly for her series of novels starring forensic doctor Kay Scarpetta.
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator. Without renouncing his Argentine nationality, he chose French in 1981 to protest against the military dictatorship in his country, which ...
Roald Dahl
Novelist and author of British stories of Norwegian descent, famous as a writer for children and adults. Author of jewels such as "Charlie and the chocolate factory," "Ma...
Jim Davis
James Robert Davis, better known as Jim Davis, is an American comic artist, renowned for being the creator of Garfield.
Lindsey Davis
He studied English literature at Oxford. Fascinated by archaeology, he is the author of the political-historical novels, set in ancient Rome, starring Marco Didio Flaco a...
Juan Del Val
Juan Ángel del Val is a Spanish writer. He has worked as a screenwriter, director, presenter and as a radio and television producer.
Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist and member of the Royal Spanish Academy from 1975 until his death, occupying the chair "e.".
Patrick Dennis
Seudonym used by writer and humorist Edward Everett Tanner III, an American author known for his most famous work, "Auntie Mame." He wrote several comic novels and was al...
Philip K. Dick
He was an American science fiction writer. He wrote 44 novels and about 121 stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his life
Joël Dicker
Young Swiss writer who has written several mystery novels that have achieved great international internal success
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is an American writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 with the light you can't see.
Paul C. Doherty
He was born in 1946 in Middlesbrough, England. He studied history at the universities of Liverpool and Oxford where he obtained a PhD with a thesis on Edward II and Eliza...
Margaret Doody
He graduated from English Literature at Oxford University. He has been a teacher at several universities, running comparative literature courses at the University of Vand...
Daphne Du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier was a British writer famous for novels such as Rebeca and My cousin Raquel, both taken to the movies. The films Jamaica Inn and The Birds of Alfred Hitc...
María Dueñas
María Dueñas is a professor of English language and literature at the University of Murcia. It became famous in 2009, with its first novel, "The time between seams.".
Robin I.M. Dunbar
He is a British anthropologist, psychologist and evolutionary biologist, specialized in the study of primate behavior.
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras, a pseudonym for Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, was a French novelist, screenwriter and film director.
Ralph Ellison
Bellow, Ellison is considered one of the most influential American novelists of the post-war, especially in the work of Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, am...
James Ellroy
American writer, author of the novels on which the L.A. Confidential and La Dalia Negra film successes are based.
Tatsuya Endō
Japanese Mangaka known for its Spy × Family manga series. Endō had previous success with titles such as TISTA and Gekka Bijin, but not on the same scale as Spy × Family, ...
Mariana Enríquez
Argentine writer, journalist and teacher. It is part of the group of writers known as "new Argentine narrative," in the genus of terror called by some "the queen of terro...
Nora Ephron
Writer, film director, producer, journalist, novelist, essayist and American playwright.
Annie Ernaux
She's a French-language woman, a literature teacher. His literary work, essentially autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.
Juan Eslava Galán
He is a Spanish writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He has published some novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Wilcox.
Ramón de España
He is a Spanish comic, music and television critic, comic and film writer and novelist.
Salomé Esper
Featured Argentine writer and editor. He has published two poetry books: "Above all" (Intravenosa, 2010) and "Landscape" (Three-thirds, 2014) and a novel, "The Second Com...
Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is an American writer. He began his career writing short romantic stories under the artistic name Steffie Hall, but obtained recognition in writing Stepha...
Idelfonso Falcones
He is a Spanish lawyer and writer, known as The Cathedral of the Sea (2006). His work became the most read novel of 2007 in Spain.
Oriana Fallaci
Italian journalist, activist and writer. She was the first Italian woman war correspondent. As a writer, he sold 20 million copies around the world; as a journalist he wo...
M. J. Fernández
Prominent writer of a police novel known to have exercised medicine for more than thirty years before becoming a writer. Her parents emigrated from Spain many years ago, ...
Elena Ferrante
It is a pseudonym with which great literary successes have been signed in Italy, then translated into languages from all over the world.
Jean-Yves Ferri
French cartoonist and screenwriter, elected in 2011 writer of the series Astérix el Galo created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. He was personally advised by Uderzo. ...
Ken Follet
Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales, on June 5, 1949 and is the author of a great many successful novels. His greatest success was the novel "The pillars of the earth,...
Frederick Forsyth
He's a British writer. It is mainly known by suspended novels such as The Day of the Jackal, The Dogs of War, The Odessa File, Icon, The Fist of God and The List. The aut...
Anna Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was one of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, sadly famous after the discovery of the newspaper he wrote while living in hiding in Amsterdam...
Diana Gabaldon
American writer known for the novel saga "Forestera" ("Outlander"). His books mix several styles: historical fiction, romantic novel, mystery and adventure.
Luz Gabás
Led in English Philology, for many years he has shared his teaching with the translation, publication of articles, literary and linguistic research.
Antonio Gala
Antonio Gala Velasco was a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist, writer and articulist of high human quality and sensitivity.
Kami García
Kami Garcia studied at George Washington University, where he graduated in Education. He is a teacher and organizes reading groups for children and young people. He start...
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian writer and journalist was one of the main exponents of magic realism. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
Spanish novelist. Planeta 2020 Award with the novel "Aquitaine" and author of the phenomena of the "Kraken Series" and the "Trilogy of the Longevos.".
Francesca Giannone
He graduated in communication science and studied at the CSC in Rome, the oldest film school in Europe. He has published several short stories in literary journals and hi...
Natalia Ginzburg
Escritora, ensayista y editora italiana, una de las voces más importantes de la literatura italiana del siglo XX. Hija de una familia intelectual antifascista, vivió de c...
José María Gironella
He was a Spanish writer, winner of the Nadal Prize, the Planet, the National of Literature and the Ateneo of Seville. He was very famous for his trilogy about the Spanish...
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE was a British novelist and poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1983, especially known for his work El señor de las moscas.
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Journalist and author of several very successful novels, translated into forty languages. "Red Queen," "Black Loba" and "White King" have become a sales phenomenon and ha...
Belén Gopegui
Novelist and Spanish screenwriter, awarded by her opera "The Scale of Maps" in 1993. His work "The conquest of air," was adapted to the cinema by Gerardo Herrero. Describ...
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. His books deal with inter-ethnic conflicts and apartheid.
René Goscinny
He was a screenwriter and comic book editor. Mainly famous for being the co-author of the adventures of Asterix.
Juan Goytisolo
Spanish writer and intellectual. Considered as the most important narrator of the Generation of the half century, and even the best Spanish novelist of the early 21st cen...
Luis Goytisolo
He is a Spanish novelist, known mainly for his tetralogy Antagony. In 2013 he was awarded the National Prize for Spanish Letters. 1
Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton is an American writer, author of detective novels. His best known work is the series of chronological mystery novels. They are known as "the novels of ...
Almudena Grandes
It was released in 1989 with the ages of Lulu, the 11th Vertical Smile Award. His novels I will call you Friday, Malena is a name of tango, Atlas of human geography, The ...
John Green
John Michael Green is an American writer of youth literature and vlogger on YouTube. He was mostly recognized for his book under the same star.
Graham Greene
He was a British writer, writer and literary critic, whose work explored the confusion of modern man and dealt with issues about politics or morally ambiguous in a contem...
Maria Gripe
Maria Gripe, born Maria Walter, was a Swedish writer of children's and youth literature, awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Prize and translated into dozens of languages...
Giovanni Guareschi
He was an Italian writer and journalist. His father had a small shop and his mother was a teacher; he had a happy childhood until his family was affected by the economic ...
Mark Haddon
He has written numerous books for children and a poemary. He worked for a while with people with physical and mental deficiencies, which helped him create his first novel...
Matt Haig
He's an English novelist and journalist. He has written fiction and non-fiction for children and adults, often in the genre of speculative fiction.
Helene Hanff
Helene Hanff was an American writer; she is known for being the author of the book 84 Charing Cross Road, on which was based a play, an episode of a television series and...
Yuval Noah Harari
He is an Israeli historian and writer, professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among his works are Sapiens: From animals to gods, Homo Deus: Brief history of tom...
Samantha Harvey
British novelist formed in philosophy and creative writing whose lyrical prose explores memory and human condition; after debuting with The Wilderness (2009) - Betty Tras...
Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a British journalist and writer, also wrote under the pseudonym Amy Silver, she is the author of the novels "The Girl of the Train," "Written in the Wate...
Arthur Herzog
Arthur Herzog III was a novelist, non-fiction writer and American journalist, known for his science fiction works and books on real crimes.
Thomas Hettche
He studied Germanistics and Philosophy and lives in Frankfurt. So far, he has published, among other works, Ludwig moss sterben (1989), for which he received the Robert W...
Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer was an English writer of romantic and police historical novels. His literary career began in 1921, when he turned a story written for his younger brother ...
Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal
He is a Spanish writer of novel, poetry and essay. He has worked as a Professor of Secondary Education in language and literature.
Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb is the second pseudonym of the novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden whose work focuses mainly on contemporary and medieval fantasy. It also uses the name Me...
Gail Honeyman
Escritora escocesa que alcanzó reconocimiento internacional con su primera novela, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, una obra aclamada por la crítica y el público que ...
Michel Houellebecq
He is a French poet, novelist and essayist. His novels Extending the battlefield, Elementary particles and Platform became milestones of the new French narrative for his ...
Francisco Ibáñez
Creator of a multitude of humorous series, including Mortadelo and Philemon, an essential icon of several generations. Many other later comic artists recognize their grea...
Jorge Ibargüengoitia
New Mexican playwright and playwright who achieved great popular success with his satire, three of which have been translated into English: The Dead, Two Crimes and The L...
John Irving
John Winslow Irving is an American writer, author of numerous bestsellers and screenwriter who won an Oscar.
Holly Jackson
Holly Jackson writes from a very young age, so much, that she finished her first, and bad, novel at age 15. He lives in London and, in addition to reading and writing, li...
Christian Jacq
Christian Jacq is an Egyptian and a French fiction writer. Doctorate in Egyptian in La Sorbonne, he is a great expert in the time of Pharaoh Ramses II, and founded the in...
P.D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective no...
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Spanish writer and playwright. His work, related to the theatre of the absurdity, moved away from the traditional humour by approaching another more intellectual, unlikel...
Taylor Jenkins Reid
American television producer and screenwriter. He writes mainly romance and his most outstanding works are the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo and everyone wants Daisy Jone...
Jonas Jonasson
Per Ola Jonasson, better known as Jonas Jonasson, is a Swedish journalist and writer.
Hillary Jordan
He grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma, and lives in Brooklyn. He obtained a degree at Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Scripture from Columbia University. H...
Robert Jordan
James Oliver Rigney, Jr., better known by the pseudonym Robert Jordan, was an American writer, famous for being the author of the "The Wheel of Time" fantasy saga.
Jack Kerouac
A novelist and American poet who is part of the Beat Generation. He is considered one of the most important American authors of the 20th century; the beat community recog...
Lily King
Lily King creció en Massachusetts y se licenció en Literatura Inglesa por la University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Más tarde cursó un máster en Escritura Creativa ...
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American writer known for his horror novels. King's books have been very often on the supersales lists.
Jeff Kinney
Jeffrey Patrick Kinney, better known as Jeff Kinney, is an American designer, shoe designer, producer, writer and actor, as well as head of the Poptropic website.
T.J. Klune
Travis John Klune is an American author of romantic fantasy and fiction who features gay characters and LGBTQ +.
Florence Knapp
Escritora británica residente en las afueras de Londres. Su debut novelístico, The Names, explora con sensibilidad y ambición cómo decisiones aparentemente pequeñas puede...
Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Kostova is an American writer, author of the novel La historiadora, a historic adventure that narrates the search for Vlad Draculea, El Empalador, throughout th...
Agota Kristof
Agota Kristof was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote her works in French.
Rebecca F. Kuang
Recognized author and translator, supersales of the New York Times and internationally awarded. He was born in China and moved as a child to the United States, where he g...
Andrei Kurkov
Andrei Yuyevich Kurkov was born on April 23 in Leningrad. Son of a test pilot and a doctor, he began writing at age seven when two of his three hamsters died and decided ...
Camilla Lackberg
Popular Swedish writer of police novels. His books are in Fjällbanka, a small city on the western Swedish coast, and his protagonists are the Patrik Hedström police and t...
Carmen Laforet
She was a Spanish writer. His best known work is the novel Nada, winner of the 1944 Nadal Prize.
David Lagercrantz
Swedish journalist known mainly for the biography of Zlatan Ibrahimović and most recently for writing the fourth delivery of the Millenium saga, initiated by Stieg Larsso...
Dominique Lapierre
French writer, author of several bestsellers, some of them in collaboration with Larry Collins. Between 1954 and 1967 he was a reporter for the magazine Paris Match.
Stieg Larsson
Swedish journalist and writer who jumped to fame after his death, with the publication of the Millennium trilogy.
Ursula K Le Guin
New American science fiction writer and writer, known for "The Left Hand of Darkness.".
Harper Lee
Nelle Harper Lee is an American writer known for her novel Killing a Nightingale, a Pulitzer Prize-winning work the following year.
Pierre Lemaitre
French writer and screenwriter, winner of the 2013 Goncourt Award with his novel "See you up there.".
Donna Leon
Professor and writer, he is known for his novels starring Venetian Commissioner Guido Brunetti, a central character of his entire work and which Donna Leon created in the...
Allen Levi
Escritor, músico y antiguo abogado estadounidense, originario de Columbus, en el estado de Georgia. Su trayectoria profesional no ha ido evolucionando a lo largo de varia...
Astrid Lindgren
Astrid Anna Emilia Ericsson, literally known as Astrid Lindgren, was a Swedish writer who created the literary character Pippi Calzaslong.
Elvira Lindo
She is a Spanish writer and journalist, known mainly as the creator of Manolito Gafotas.
Jeff Lindsay
Lindsay is married to the niece of Ernest Hemingway, also writer Hilary Hemingway, with whom she has co-written many of her works. He is worldwide known for being the cre...
Clarice Lispector
She was a journalist, reporter, translator and writer of novels, stories, children's books and Ukrainian-Brazilian poems of Jewish origin.
Jonathan Littell
French-American writer. Her novel "Las bendivolas" ("Les bienveillantes") was awarded the 2006 Goncourt Prize and the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française of the s...
Torcuato Luca de Tena Brunet
He was an active playwright and diplomat and belonged to the Royal Spanish Academy between 1946 and 1974.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Valerio Massimo Manfredi is an Italian archaeologist and writer, known mainly for his historical novels about the ancient world.
Javier Marías
A long-standing Madrid writer and member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupies the "R" chair.
Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé Carbó ("Juan Marsé Carbó") was a Spanish novelist from the so-called 50 generation, specifically from the so-called School of Barcelona, which involved his fri...
Yann Martel
Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain. Son of Nicole Perron and Emile Martel, French-Canadian. His father was appointed as a diplomat by the Canadian ...
Pedro Martí
Diplomado en Magisterio especializado en inglés. Autor de las novelas protagonizadas por el inspector Giralt: La pieza invisible y Donde lloran los demonios (Ediciones Do...
George R.R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin, known as George R. R. Martin, is an American writer and writer of fantastic literature, science fiction and terror.
Ibon Martín
Spanish journalist, studied Communication and Journalism at the University of the Basque Country. After graduating, he went on to work for various local media, which he c...
Carmen Martín Gaite
Born in Salamanca, it belonged to the so-called Generation of the Post-War, along with Ignacio Aldecoa and Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio. With Entre visillos, he won the Nadal ...
Layla Martínez
Layla Martínez is a Spanish writer and columnist known for her horror novel "Carcoma," as well as her essay "Utopia is not an island.".
Alejandro Martínez Gallo
He is a Bachelor of Philosophy, Political Sciences and Education Sciences. He was an officer of the Army and head of the local police of Astorga (León) and Langreo (Astur...
Ana María Matute
Spanish novelist and member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Member of the Hispanic Society of America, in 2007 she was awarded the National Prize of Letters for the whole o...
Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourt was an American Irish novelist and professor. He was known mainly for being the author of Angela's ashes, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Pr...
Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough was an Australian writer of romantic and historical novels. He was famous for his 1977 novel The Thorn Birds, taken to television with the title of The...
Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell, a prolific horror writer, highlighted with novels such as "The Amulet," on a supernatural pendant; "Cold Moon Over Babylon," a spectral revenge; and "Th...
Freida Mcfadden
Freida McFadden is an American writer and doctor who specializes in brain injuries. He is the author of several supersales books, psychological thrillers and works set up...
Stephenie Meyer
Stephanie Meyer is a writing of fiction books for young people, well known for the romantic saga of love among Twilight vampires.
Juan José Millás
Recognized Spanish writer and journalist born January 31, 1946 in Valencia, Spain. It is known for its ability to merge reality and fantasy in its works, as well as its l...
Carmen Mola
Carmen Mola is the pseudonym used by three Spanish writers, who came out of anonymity in 2021 when receiving the Planet price.
Rosa Montero
Novelist and Spanish journalist, known by 'La hija del cannibal' and his series on the android "Bruna Husky.".
Alan Moore
Alan Moore is a British writer and writer of comics; in that last work he has highlighted for his works recognized for critical and popularly acclaimed as Watchmen, V of ...
Víctor Mora
Victor Mora Pujadas was a Spanish comic writer and novelist, creator of The Captain Thunder, among many other works.
Liane Moriarty
Liane Moriarty is an Australian author. He has written nine novels, including the best sellers of the New York Times Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, which wer...
Maurice de Bévère Morris
Maurice de Bévère, known as Morris, was a Belgian comic artist. Morris is considered one of the most notable Belgian historians of the 20th century.
Toni Morrison
American writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. In his works, Morrison talks about the lives of people of color, especial...
Fernando J. Muñez
He began his literary career in 2002 in the world of children's and youth literature, where he has a wide career. In 2019 she published her first adult novel, The cook of...
Alice Munro
Canadian narrator, especially of stories. It is considered one of the most prominent writers in English today. In 2013 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer and translator, author of novels, stories and essays. His books have generated positive reviews and received numerous awards. His work has been translated...
Sayaka Murata
Japanese writer. She has been awarded the Gunzo Awards for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face and the Akutagawa Award for "The Dependent.".
Guillaume Musso
He is one of the most read authors in France with almost twenty titles behind his back.
Sōsuke Natsukawa
Doctor and writer, awarded the Japan Booklets Award and the Shogakukan Fiction Award. Author of the bestseller "The cat who loved books.".
Jo Nesbo
Norwegian writer and musician. Leader and singer of the Norwegian rock band Di Derre and author of the novels starring Harry Hole.
Katherine Neville
Katherine Neville (born April 4, 1945) is an American writer, known mainly for her novel El Ocho, which was a world-wide sales success, later ratified by the novel El Cir...
Maggie O’Farrell
North Irish writer recognized for her highly sensitive and prose-lyrical novels. His most famous work, Hamnet (2020), inspired by the death of Shakespeare's son, won the ...
María Oruña
She was a law degree for ten years as a labour and commercial lawyer. In 2015, Ediciones Destino published his first black novel, Puerto escuchando, which was translated ...
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blai, better known by the pseudonym George Orwell, was a British writer and journalist. In his work they highlight the essential "Rebellion on the farm" and "...
Richard Osman
Richard Thomas Osman is a comedian, producer, television presenter, English writer and the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One Pointless TV show.
Raquel Palacio
She is an American writer who is a descendant of Colombians. He is the author of youth novels, including The August Lesson (Wonder), on which is based the homonymous film...
Louise Penny
Canadian writer, author of the saga of which Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is the protagonist, set in the Québec.
Arturo Pérez Reverte
Spanish writer and journalist, member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2003. Former RTVE correspondent and a prominent reporter in various armed conflicts and wars, he ...
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Mertz was an American author who wrote under her own name and with the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels.
Rafael Pinedo
Rafael Pinedo was an Argentine writer and computer. "His work is characterized by a simple and poetic prose," with post-apocalyptic patterns of intense crudeness.
Claudia Piñeiro
Recognized Argentine writer and writer, born August 15, 1960 in Buenos Aires. It has been highlighted mainly in the genre of the black novel.
Alejandra Pizarnik
Fue una de las voces más intensas y singulares de la poesía argentina del siglo XX. Hija de inmigrantes judíos de Europa del Este, estudió filosofía y letras y se vinculó...
Santiago Posteguillo
Santiago Posteguillo Gómez is a Spanish writer. He has reached fame for several novels whose plot is in ancient Rome. On October 16, 2018, he was awarded the Planet Award...
Terry Pratchett
Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE was a British writer of fantasy and science fiction, creator of the hilarious Discomundo.
Julia Quinn
She is an American writer, author of American historical romance. His novels based on the Bridgerton family have reached great popularity.
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a British writer of police novel. His best known works are those starring Inspector John Rebus.
Óscar Reboiras
Oscar Reboiras is a Galician writer. He studied Journalism at the University of Santiago de Compostela and works professionally in the field of digital marketing and corp...
Dolores Redondo
Dolores Redondo is the author of the Baztan Trilogy, the most important literary phenomenon in Spanish in recent years. The three deliveries, The invisible guardian, Lega...
Georges Prosper Remi (Hergé)
Belgian historian, better known by the pseudonym Hergé. Creator of "The Adventures of Tintín" in 1929.
Mike Resnick
Michael "Mike" Diamond Resnick "was an American writer, specialized in science fiction. He was executive editor of Jim Baen's Universe magazine.
M.L. Rio
American writer, has a master's degree in Shakespeare studies awarded by King's College in London.
Rick Riordan
American writer, best known for being the author of the Percy Jackson saga and the Olymo gods, Olymo Heroes.
Alexandra Ripley
She was an American writer better known as Scarlett's author (1991), written as a sequel to What the wind took away
Cristina Rivera Garza
Escritora mexicana que vive desde 1989 en los Estados Unidos. Es profesora distinguida en el departamento de Estudios Hispánicos de la Universidad de Houston.
Patrick Rothfuss
Patrick James Rothfuss is an American fantasy writer and assistant professor of English literature and philology at the University of Wisconsin.
J.K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling was born in July 1965 at the Yate General Hospital (England) and grew up in Chepstow (Gwent), where he studied at the Wyedean Comprehensive.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
He was a Spanish writer, author of several supersales books, including the shadow of the wind.
Juan Rulfo
Mexican writer, writer and photographer, belonging to the Generation of the 52. He is considered one of the most important Spanish-American writers of the 20th century.
Eduardo Sacheri
Argentine writer, writer, historian and teacher. He became known to the public for his novel "The Question of His Eyes," on which the film by Juan José Campanella was bas...
David Safier
David Safier is a German writer and novelist. Safier studied journalism and trained professionally on radio and television. From 1996 onwards he began to develop his face...
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Santiago de Compostela, 1968) es licenciada en Ciencias de la Información y en Derecho. Es escritora, colaboradora de la prensa y crítica litera...
Paloma Sánchez-Garnica
Led in Law and Geography and History, she was awarded the Planet Award for her novel "Victoria.".
Parinoush Saniee
Iranian sociologist, psychologist and novelist. His novel "The Book of My Destiny" (2003) inspired by the history of the women who lived in the Iranian Revolution during ...
Andrzej Sapkowski
Andrzej Sapkowski is a Polish heroic fantasy writer. His works are strongly influenced by Slavic culture and mythology, as well as traditional narrations.
José Saramago
Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. The Swedish Academy highlighted its ability to "make a fleeing reality understandable, with parables sust...
Steven Saylor
American writer of historical novel. He graduated from the University of Texas in Austin, where he studied history and classics.
Beatriz Serrano
Bachelor of Journalism, Complutense University. He has developed his career in digital journalism, specializing in new narratives.
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American writer. His best known work is Hyperion, winner of the Hugo and Locus science fiction awards.
Art Spiegelman
From the underground, he became in the early 1980s one of the most influential alternative historians in his country, both for his own work ("Maus") and for his work as e...
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of well-known novels such as Mice and Men, The grapes of anger and East ...
Elizabeth Strout
She's an American fiction writer. In 2009 he won the Pulitzer Fiction Award for his novel Olive Kitteridge, a collection of stories about a woman, her immediate family an...
Pierre Szalowski
Pierre Szalowski is a Canadian writer and novelist. In 2009 he won the Grand Prix of the Relève littéraire Archambault.
Antonio Tabucchi
Italian writer and scholar who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena in Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and t...
Yuzo Takada
It is a Japanese mangaka recognized for its works of supernatural themes 3x3 Eyes and Blue Seed, including the series La invincible Nuku Nuku of humorous theme.
Susanna Tamaro
She is an Italian novelist who has also served as a scientific documentalist and as an assistant in film management.
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is a renowned American writer, known for her well-developed novels and her distinctive literary style.
Amor Towles
Novelista estadounidense conocido por sus elegantes novelas históricas y su estilo narrativo refinado. Estudió en la Universidad de Yale y posteriormente obtuvo un máster...
C. J. Tudor
C.J. Tudor is a British author whose books include The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place. He was born in Salisbury, England, but grew up in Nottingham, where he still lives.
Albert Uderzo
He is a French cartoonist and screenwriter. Its most famous series is Asterix, whose first edition was created in 1959 with the writer René Goscinny.
Mario Vargas Llosa
He is one of the most important contemporary novelists and essayists, he has won numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias of the 1986 Letters and the Nobel of Li...
Aurora Venturini
Writer, teacher and translator. Friend of Jean- Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco and Juliette Gréco, wrote more than thirty books.
Kurt Vonnegut
American writer, famous for "Matadero 5," known for his satirical style and science fiction.
Irving Wallace
In addition to his journalistic works and his screenplays for film and television, the works that gave Irving Wallace the most fame have been his novels, all translated i...
Gabriela Wiener
Peruvian writer and journalist who belongs to the group of new Latin American chronists. It has been in Spain since 2003. ♪ In 2018 he was recognized with the Peruvian Na...
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III was an American playwright. The name "Tennessee" was given to him by his schoolmates because of his Southern accent.
Edward O. Wilson
Entomologist and American biologist known for his work in evolution and sociology, being considered the most important and prominent biologist in the world in his time.
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the Maisie Dobbs series, of which several titles have been bestsellers of the New York Times.
Tom Wolfe
American journalist and writer, father of the so-called New Journalism, a revolutionary trend in the press field, which was born in the United States in the 1960s.
Rebecca Yarros
American writer, author of more than 20 novels. His most famous series brings together romance and adventures.
Abraham B. Yehoshua
He is an Israeli writer who, in addition to the novel, cultivates the story, the theatre and the essay.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Cleenewerck of Crayencour, known as Marguerite Yourcena, was a novelist, poet, playwright and national French translator in 1947.
Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak, born June 23, 1975 in Sydney, is an Australian writer known internationally for his literary novels, Cross Letters and Book Thief, among other works.