Encyclopedia of world writers, 1800 to the present / Marie Josephine Diamond, general editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diamond, Marie Josephine, editor.

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Facts on File library of world literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors--20th century--Bio-bibliography--Encyclopedias.

Authors.

Authors--19th century--Bio-bibliography--Encyclopedias.

Authors--21st century--Bio-bibliography--Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Facts on File, [2021]

Contents:

Abbas, Khawaja Ahmad

Abe Kobo

Aboriginal literature and culture

Abrahams, Peter Henry

Achebe, Chinua

Acmeism

Adiga, Aravind

Adonis

Agnon, Samuel Joseph

Aichinger, Ilse

Aidoo, Ama Ata

Akhmadulina, Izabella Akhatovna

Akhmatova, Anna

Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Al-Jayyusi, Salma al-Khadra

Albahari, David

Alberti, Rafael

Aleichem, Shalom

Alencar, José Martiniano de

Allende, Isabel

Allfrey, Phyllis

Amado, Jorge

Amalrik, Andrey

Amichai, Yehuda

Anand, Mulk Raj

Andersen, Hans Christian

Andrić, Ivo

Anouilh, Jean

Anyidoho, Kofi

Apollinaire, Guillaume

Appelfeld, Aharon

Aragon, Louis

Arenas, Reinaldo

Arghezi, Tudor

Arnim, Bettina von

Arp, Hans

Arrabal, Fernando

Artaud, Antonin

Astley, Thea

Atwood, Margaret

Auslānder, Rose

Ba Jin

Bā, Mariama

Babel, Isaac

Bachmann, Ingeborg

Balzac, Honoré de

Bama

Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules-Amédée

Baroja y Nessi, Pío

Bassani, Giorgio

Bataille, Georges

Baudelaire, Charles

Beauvoir, Simone de

Becher, Johannes Robert

Beckett, Samuel

Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo

Bei Dao

Bely, Andrey

Benn, Gottfried

Bennett, Louise

Bernhard, Thomas

Bhatt, Sujata

Bing Xin

Bitton, Erez

Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne

Blasco Ibán̄ez, Vicente

Bolan̄o, Roberto

Böll, Heinrich

Bonnefoy, Yves

Borges, Jorge Luis

Brasch, Charles

Braschi, Giannina

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau

Braun, Volker

Brecht, Bertolt

Breton, André

Breytenbach, Breyten

Brink, André

Brinkmann, Rolf Dieter

Broch, Hermann

Bryusov, Valery

Büchner, Georg

Bulgakov, Mikhail

Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich

Burkart, Erika

Busia, Abena

Cabrera Infante, Guillermo

Calvino, Italo

Camus, Albert

Canetti, Elias

Capécia, Mayotte

Carey, Peter

Carpentier, Alejo

Castellanos, Rosario

Castro, Rosalía de

Cattopadhyay, Bankim-Chandra

Cavafy, Constantine P.

Cela, Camilo José

Celan, Paul

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

Césaire, Aimé

Chamoiseau, Patrick

Char, René

Chateaubriand, François-René de

Chatterjee, Upamanyu

Chatterji, Sarat Chandra

Chekhov, Anton

Chen Yuan-tsung

Chernyshevsky, Nikolay

Chughtai, Ismat

Cixous, Hélène

Classicism

Claudel, Paul

Cliff, Michelle

Cocteau, Jean

Coetzee, J. M.

Colette

Collymore, Frank

Condé, Maryse

Constant, Benjamin

Cortázar, Julio

Costumbrismo

Cronin, Jeremy

Curnow, Allen

Dada

Daglarca, Fazil Hüsnü

Dalit literature

D'Annunzio, Gabriele

Darío, Rubén

Darwish, Mahmud

Davies, Robertson

De Kok, Ingrid

Decadence

Dépestre, Ren

Desai, Anita

Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline

Devi, Mahasweta

Dhammachoti, Ussiri

Dhasal, Namdeo

Dinesen, Isak

Ding Ling

Diop, Birago

Diop, David

Djebar, Assia

Döblin, Alfred

Donoso, José

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Dudintsev, Vladimir Dmitrievich

Duras, Claire de

Duras, Marguerite

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich

Eco, Umberto

Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigoryevich

Eich, Günter

Éluard, Paul

Elytis, Odysseus

Emecheta, Buchi

Enchi Fumiko

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

Espinet, Ramabai

Espronceda y Delgado, José de

Esterházy, Péter

Existentialism

Expressionism

Fadeyev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich

Faiz, Faiz Ahmed4

Falkner, Gerhard

Fallaci, Oriana

Farah, Nuruddin

Feminism

Feng Zhi

Ferré, Rosario

Fin de siècle

Fischer, Caroline Auguste

Flanagan, Richard

Flaubert, Gustave

Fo, Dario

Fontane, Theodor

Foscolo, Ugo

Fraire, Isabel

Frame, Janet

Freud, Sigmund

Freyre, Gilberto de Mello

Fried, Erich

Frisch, Max

Fuentes, Carlos

Futurism

Gandhi, Mohandas

Gao Xingjian

García Lorca, Federico

Garca̕ Márquez, Gabriel

Gary, Romain

Gautier, Thēophile

Generation of 1898

Genet, Jean

George, Stefan

Ghālib, Mirzā

Ghosh, Amitav

Gide, André

Ginzburg, Natalia

Giraudoux, Jean

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gogol, Nikolai

Gombrowicz, Witold

Gomringer, Eugen

Gonçalves Dias, Antōnio

Goncharov, Ivan

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules

Goodison, Lorna

Goodyear, Sara Suleri

Gordimer, Nadine

Gorky, Maxim

Grass, Günter

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm

Grossman, David

Grünbein, Durs

Grünzweig, Dorothea

Gruppe 47

Guillén, Jorge

Guillén, Nicolás

Gumilev, Nikolay

Gunesekera, Romesh

Gunnarsson, Gunnar

Haasse, Hella S.

Habibi, Emile

Hagiwara Sakutaro

Hamsun, Knut

Han Yongun

Handke, Peter

Harris, Wilson

Hašek, Jaroslav

Hasluck, Nicholas

Hauptmann, Gerhart

Havel, Václav

Hayashi Fumiko

Hayashi Kyoko

Hayslip, Le Ly

Head, Bessie

Hébert, Anne

Heine, Heinrich

Herzen, Aleksandr Ivanovich

Hesse, Hermann

Higuchi Ichiyo

Hikmet, Nazim

Ho Xuan Huong

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

Hölderlin, Friedrich

Höllerer, Walter

Hosseini, Khaled

Houellebecq, Michel

Hu Shih

Huang Chunming

Huchel, Peter

Hugo, Victor

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Hwang Sun-won

Hwang Tonggyu

Hyder, Qurratulain

Ibsen, Henrik

Idris, Yusuf

Indianism

Ionesco, Eugéne

Ipellie, Alootook

Iqbal, Muhammad

Ishigaki Rin

Jaccottet, Philippe

James, C. L. R.

Jarry, Alfred

Jelinek, Elfriede

Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

Jiménez, Juan Ramón

Johnson, Pauline

Johnson, Uwe

Jünger, Ernst

Kabbani, Nizar

Kafka, Franz

Kanik, Orhan Veli

Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich

Karnad, Girish

Kaschnitz, Marie Luise

Kauraka Kauraka

Kawabata Yasunari

Kazantzakis, Nikos

Kemal, Yasar

Keneally, Thomas

Kertséz, Imre

Kincaid, Jamaica

Kirsch, Sarah

Kiš, Danilo

Kogawa, Joy

Köhler, Barbara

Kokoschka, Oskar

Kundera, Milan

Kunene, Mazisi

Kunert, Günter

Kurahashi Yumiko

La Guma, Alex

Lagerkvist, Pär

Lagerlöf, Selma

Laing, B. Kojo

Laird, Christopher

Lamartine, Alphonse de

Lamming, George

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi di

Langgässer, Elisabeth

Lao She

Larsson, Karl Stig-Erland

Lasker-Schüler, Else

Laurence, Margaret

Lautréamont, comte de

Lawson, Henry

Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave

Leiris, Michel

Leopardi, Giacomo

Lermontov, Mikhail

Levi, Carlo

Levi, Primo

Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin

Lispector, Clarice

Liu E

Lu Xun

Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria

Machado y Ruiz, Antonio

Machado y Ruiz, Manuel

Madariaga, Salvador de

Maeterlinck, Maurice

Magic realism

Mahfouz, Naguib

Maillet, Antonine

Mala'ika, Nazik al-

Malange, Nise

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Malouf, David

Malraux, André

Mandelstam, Osip Yemilyevich

Mann, Heinrich

Mann, Thomas

Mansfield, Katherine

Manzoni, Alessandro

Marcel Pagnol

Maron, Monika

Maupassant, Guy de

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Meeks, Brian

Mehta, Gita

Memmi, Albert

Menchú, Rigoberta

Michaux, Henri

Mickiewicz, Adam

Milosz, Czeslaw

Miron, Gaston

Mishima Yukio

Mistral, Gabriela

Mistry, Rohinton

Mo Yan

Montale, Eugenio

Mootoo, Shani

Morante, Elsa

Mori Ogai

Mrozek, Slawomir

Müller, Heiner

Müller, Herta

Munonye, John

Munro, Alice

Murakami Haruki

Musil, Robert

Musset, Alfred de

Nabokov, Vladimir

Naidu, Sarojini

Naipaul, V. S.

Narayan, R. K.

Natsume Soseki

Naturalism

Naubert, Benedikte

Ndebele, Njabulo

Negritude

Neruda, Pablo

Nerval, Gérard de

Neto, António Agostinho

New novel

NgũgĨ wa Thiong'o

Nguyen Du

Nichol, bp

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nkosi, Lewis

Nobre, António

Nooteboom, Cees

Nortje, Arthur

Nwapa, Flora

Ōba Minako

Ōe Kenzaburō

Ogot, Grace

Okara, Gabriel

Ondaatje, Michael

Onetti, Juan Carlos

Ortega y Gasset, José

Ostrovsky, Nikolai

Oz, Amos

Pagis, Dan

Pak Mogwol

Pamuk, Orhan

Pardo Bazán, Emilia de

Pasolini, Pier Paolo

Pasternak, Boris

Paton, Alan

Pavese, Cesare

Pavlova, Karolina Karlovna

Paz, Octavio

p'Bitek, Okot

Perec, Georges

Peretz, Isaac Lieb

Pérez Galdós, Benito

Perse, Saint-John

Pirandello, Luigi

Poetic realism

Ponge, Francis

Popa, Vasko

Postcolonialism

Postmodernism

Premchand, Munshi

Proust, Marcel

Pushkin, Alexander

Quasimodo, Salvatore

Queirós, José María de

Queiróz, Raquel de

Queneau, Raymond

Quental, Antero Tarqunio de

Rabéarivelo, Jean-Joseph

Ravikovitch, Dahlia

Realism

Remarque, Erich Maria

Rhys, Jean

Richler, Mordecai

Rifaat, Alifa

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Rimbaud, Arthur

Rinser, Luise

Robbe-Grillet, Alain

Roberts, Charles

Romanticism

Rosas, Oscar

Roy, Arundhati

Rushdie, Salman

S. Ansky

Sachs, Nelly Leonie

Sadawi, Nawal

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

Saleh, Tayyib

Samman, Ghada

San Juan, Epifanio

Sand, George

Saramago, José

Sargeson, Frank

Sarraute, Nathalie

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Satyanarayana, Visvanatha

scapigliatura

Schiller, Friedrich von

Schulz, Bruno

Schwarz-Bart, Simone

Sebald, W. G.

Seferis, George

Seifert, Jaroslav

Sembène, Ousmane

Senghor, Léopold Sédar

Sereny, Gitta

Serote, Mongane Wally

Seth, Vikram

Shalamov, Varlam

Shields, Carol

Shiga Naoya

Sholokhov, Mikhail

Shute, Nevil

Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Simenon, Georges

Simon, Claude

Singer, Isaac Bashevis

Škvorecký, Josef

So Chöng-ju

Socialist realism

Södergran, Edith

Solovyov, Vladimir

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

Souza, Eunice de

Soyinka, Wole

Sri Sri

Staël, Germaine de

Stead, Christina

Stendhal

Storni, Alfonsina

Strindberg, August

Svevo, Italo

Symbolists

Szymborska, Wislawa

Tabucchi, Antonio

Tagore, Rabindranath

Takamura Kōtarō

Tanikawa Shuntaro

Tanizaki Jun'ichiro

Theater of the absurd

Tian Jian

Toer, Pramoedya Ananta

Tolstoy, Leo

Torres Bodet, Jaime

Trakl, Georg

Tsushima Yūko

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Turgenev, Ivan

Tuwim, Julian

Tzara, Tristan

Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de

Undset, Sigrid

Ungaretti, Giuseppe

Valéry, Paul

Vallejo, César

Vargas Llosa, Mario

Vassilikos, Vassilis

Verga, Giovanni

Verismo

Verlaine, Paul

Vigny, Alfred de

Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Auguste

Voinovich, Vladimir

Walcott, Derek

White, Patrick

Wicomb, Zoë

Wiesel, Elie

Wittig, Monique

Wolf, Christa

World modernism

Wright, Judith

Yacine, Kateb

Yamada Eimi

Yáñez, Mirta

Yathay Pin

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Yosano Akiko

Yourcenar, Marguerite

Yu Guangzhong

Yun Tongju

Zagajewski, Adam

Zamyatin, Yevgeny

Zola, Émile.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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