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J.K. Rowling

Novelist, Screenwriter

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Haruki Murakami

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Poet, Writer, Journalist

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Hermann Hesse

Writer, Essayist, Poet

German-Swiss novelist

Franz Kafka

Writer, Novelist

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Ernest Hemingway

Novelist, Journalist

American novelist and journalist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist, Philosopher, Journalist

Psychological fiction novelist

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Russian realist writer

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Literary Critic, Academic, Journalist, Novelist, Philosopher

Italian novelist and semiotician

William Shakespeare

Poet

Playwright and poet

George Orwell

Novelist, Journalist, Critic

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Novelist, Writer, Poet

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Toni Morrison

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Gabriel García Márquez

Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter

Magical realism novelist

Mark Twain

Writer

American humorist and novelist

Virginia Woolf

Novelist

Modernist English writer

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Classic Literature Authors

J.K. Rowling

Haruki Murakami

Sabahattin Ali

Hermann Hesse

Franz Kafka

Ernest Hemingway

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Leo Tolstoy

Umberto Eco

William Shakespeare

George Orwell

James Joyce

Jane Austen

Jorge Luis Borges

Toni Morrison

Gabriel García Márquez

Mark Twain