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Günter Grass

A recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born Great American Novelist. His career as a serial prize-winner was crowned in 1976 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina.

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Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature.

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Ludmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is an internationally acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short story writer

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Dubravka Ugrešić

Dubravka Ugrešić was the author of several novels and volumes of essays that have been translated into over 30 languages

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Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who published her first book in 1963 and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry and non-fiction

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Arnošt Lustig

Arnošt Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works often involved the Holocaust