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Classic Literature Authors

Toni Morrison

Novelist, Professor

American novelist and Nobel laureate

Ernest Hemingway

Novelist, Journalist

American novelist and journalist

Franz Kafka

Writer, Novelist

Existentialist novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist, Philosopher, Journalist

Psychological fiction novelist

Gabriel García Márquez

Novelist, Journalist, Screenwriter

Magical realism novelist

George Orwell

Novelist, Journalist, Critic

Political novelist and essayist

Haruki Murakami

Novelist, Writer

Japanese novelist and essayist

Hermann Hesse

Writer, Essayist, Poet

German-Swiss novelist

James Joyce

Novelist, Writer, Poet

Modernist Irish novelist

Jane Austen

Novelist

English novelist of social realism

J.K. Rowling

Novelist, Screenwriter

Author of the Harry Potter series

Jorge Luis Borges

Writer, Essayist, Poet

Argentine writer and philosopher

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

Russian realist writer

Mark Twain

Writer

American humorist and novelist

Sabahattin Ali

Poet, Writer, Journalist

Turkish novelist and poet

Umberto Eco

Literary Critic, Academic, Journalist, Novelist, Philosopher

Italian novelist and semiotician

Virginia Woolf

Novelist

Modernist English writer

William Shakespeare

Poet

Playwright and poet