Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu pronunciation: [ᵑɡoɣe wá ðiɔŋɔ]; born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan author and academic who writes primarily in Gikuyu and who formerly wrote in English. He has been described as having been "considered East Africa’s leading novelist". His work includes novels,…
Emil Gârleanu ( 4/5 January 1878 – 2 July 1914) was a Romanian prose writer.
Emil Gârleanu (n. 5 ianuarie 1878, Iași, România – d. 2 iulie 1914, Câmpulung, Muscel, România) a fost un prozator, regizor, scenarist de film și jurnalist român.
Sophie Elkan née Salomon (3 January 1853, Gothenburg –5 April 1921, Gothenburg), was a Swedish writer and translator.
Sophie Elkan, född Salomon 3 januari 1853 i Göteborgs mosaiska församling i Göteborg, död 5 april 1921 i Göteborgs Vasa församling i Göteborg, var en svensk författare och…
Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. He promoted the avant-garde literary movement in Chile and was the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism").
Vicente…
Mariano Azuela González (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican author and physician, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced…
André Savignon (1 January 1878 – 10 January 1947) was a French author.
André Savignon, né le 1er janvier 1878 à Tarbes et mort le 10 janvier 1947 à Londres, est un journaliste et un écrivain français.
Machi Tawara (俵 万智, Tawara Machi, born December 31, 1962) is a contemporary Japanese writer, translator and poet.
Tawara is most famous as a contemporary poet. She is credited with revitalizing the tanka for modern Japanese audiences. Her skill as a translator consist of translating classical…
José María Gironella Pous, known in Catalan as Josep Maria Gironella i Pous (31 December 1917 in Darnius – 3 January 2003 in Arenys de Mar) was a Catalonian Spanish author best known for his fictional work The Cypresses Believe in God (Los cipreses creen en Dios), which was published in Spain in…
Marcus Malte, pseudonyme de Marc Martiniani, né le 30 décembre 1967 à La Seyne-sur-Mer, est un romancier et nouvelliste français, auteur de plusieurs romans policiers et ouvrages de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse.
Mary Wesley was the pen name of Mary Aline Siepmann CBE (24 June 1912 – 30 December 2002), an English novelist. During her career, she was one of Britain's most successful novelists, selling three million copies of her books, including ten bestsellers in the last twenty years of her life.