Authors by Region / Ethnicity
UK & Ireland
- Aiken, Joan
- Aickman, Robert
- Alcock, Vivien
- Archer, Jeffrey
- Ballard, J. G.
- Bates, H. E.
- Beckett, Samuel (Ireland)
- Beerbohm, Max
- Blackwood, Algernon
- Blyton, Enid
- Bowen, Elizabeth (Ireland)
- Burke, Norah
- Carter, Angela
- Christie, Agatha
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Coleridge, Mary
- Collier, John
- Cooper, Susan
- Coppard, A. E.
- Dahl, Roald
- Davies, Peter Ho
- Devlin, Anne
- Dickens, Charles
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- du Maurier, Daphne
- Eliot, George
- Fitzpatrick, Marie-Louise (Ireland)
- Forster, E. M.
- Gaiman, Neil
- Galsworthy, John
- Gaskell, Elizabeth
- Grahame, Kenneth
- Greene, Graham
- Huxley, Aldous
- Jacobs, W. W.
- James M. R.
- Joyce, James (Ireland)
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Lavin, Mary (Ireland)
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Le Fanu, Sheridan
- Lessing, Doris
- Lively, Penelope
- Maugham, W. Somerset
- McGahern, John (Ireland)
- O’Connor, Frank (Ireland)
- O’Flaherty, Liam (Ireland)
- Orwell, George
- Quiller-Couch, Arthur
- Roy, Anita
- Saki
- Sayers, Dorothy
- Scott, Walter
- Spark, Muriel
- Stevenson, R. L.
- Trevor, William (Ireland)
- Wells, H. G.
- Wilde, Oscar (Ireland)
- Williams, Margery
- Wodehouse, P. G.
- Woolf, Virginia
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Europe
- Aichinger, Ilse (Austria)
- Andersen, H. C. (Denmark)
- Andrić, Ivo (Yugoslavia)
- Balzac, Honore de (France)
- Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Martinius (Norway)
- Böll, Heinrich (Germany)
- Borowski, Tadeusz (Poland)
- Buzzati, Dino (Italy)
- Calvino, Italo (Italy)
- Camus, Albert (France)
- Colette (France)
- Conrad, Joseph (Poland)
- Daudet, Alphonse (France)
- Dinesen, Isak (Denmark)
- Flaubert, Gustave (France)
- Gustafsson, Lars (Sweden)
- Hemon, Aleksandar (Bosnia)
- Heym, Georg (Germany)
- Høeg, Peter (Denmark)
- Kafka, Franz (Czech Republic)
- Kis, Danilo (Yugoslavia)
- Kundera, Milan (Czech Republic / France)
- Lagerlöf, Selma (Sweden))
- Mann, Thomas (Germany)
- Maupassant, Guy de (France)
- Mérimée, Prosper (France)
- Minco, Marga (France)
- Mosca, Giovanni (Italy)
- Perrault, Charles (France)
- Proust, Marcel (France)
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain (France)
- Saramago, José (Portugal)
- Sartre, Jean Paul (France)
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis (Poland)
- Toudouze, George (France)
- Unamuno, Miguel De (Spain
- Vivante, Arturo (Italy)
- Wolf, Christa (Germany)
- Zweig, Stefan (Austria)
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Middle East & Central Asia
- Abasıyanık, Sait Faik (Turkey)
- Appelfeld, Aharon (Israel)
- Azzam, Samira (Palestine)
- El-Bisatie, Mohamed (Egypt)
- Farizan, Sara (Iran)
- Hendel, Yehudit (Israel)
- Keret, Edgar (Israel)
- Mahfouz, Naguib (Egypt)
- Nayeri, Dina (Iran)
- Salih, Tayeb (Sudan)
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Africa
- Achebe, Chinua (Nigeria)
- Adichie, Chimamandra (Nigeria)
- Agualusa, José Eduardo (Angola)
- Aidoo, Ama Ata (Ghana)
- Arimah, Lesley nneka (Nigeria)
- Bosman, Herman (South Africa)
- Bulawayo, NoViolet (Zimbabwe)
- Jacobson, Dan (South Africa)
- Kohler, Sheila
- Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
- Head, Bessie (Botswana)
- Marechera, Dambudzo, Chinua (Zimbabwe)
- Mphalhlele, Es’kia (South Africa)
- Ogot, Grace (Kenya)
- Okri, Ben (Nigeria)
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Russia
- Aksyonov, Vasily
- Averchenko, Arkady
- Babel, Isaac
- Bunin, Ivan
- Chekhov, Anton
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Pushkin, Alexander
- Solzhenitsyn, Alexandr
- Tolstaya, Tatyana
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Turgenev, Ivan
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East Asia
- Akutagawa, Ryunosuke (Japan)
- Bandi (North Korea)
- Bei Dao (China)
- Feng, Jicai (China)
- Ha Jin (China)
- Hoshi, Shinichi (Japan)
- Ishiguro, Kazuo (Japan)
- Jie, Zhang (China)
- Kawabata, Yasunari (Japan)
- Li, Yiyun (China)
- Lee, Krys (South Korea)
- Mishima, Yukio (Japan)
- Murakami, Haruki (Japan)
- Naoya, Shiga (Japan)
- Sui Sin Far
- Sun-won, Hwang (South Korea)
- Waters, Mary Yukari (Japan)
- Yoshimoto, Mahoko (Japan)
- Xun, Lu (China)
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Indian Subcontinent
- Abbas, Ghulam
- Abbas, K. A.
- Ambai
- Anand, Mulk Raj
- Appachana, Anjana
- Banaphool
- Basheer, Vaikom Muhammad
- Bedi, Rajinder Singh.
- Bond, Ruskin
- Chandra, Vikram
- Chughtai, Ismat
- Das, Kamala
- Das, Manoj
- Desai, Anita
- Divakaruni, Chitra
- Khan, Anwar
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Manto, Saadat Hasan (Pakistan)
- Mistry, Rohinton
- Mukherjee, Bharati
- Narayan, R. K.
- Premchand, Munshi
- Rao, Raja
- Roy, Anita
- Rushdie, Salman
- Sharma, Akhil
- Singh, Khushwant
- Tagore, Rabindranath
- Upadhyay, Samrat (Nepal)
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South East Asia
- Alfon, Estrella D. (Philippines)
- Arguilla, Manuel E. (Philippines)
- Atmowiloto, Arswendo (Indonesia)
- Benitez, Paz Marquez (Philippines)
- Brillantes, Gregorio C. (Philippines)
- Bulosan, Carlos (Philippines)
- Che Husna Azhari (Malaysia)
- Chiangkun, Witthayakon (Thailand)
- Chong, Mary Frances (Malaysia)
- Daguio, Amador T. (Philippines)
- Dalisay, Jose Y. Jr. (Philippines)
- Diaz, Rony V. (Philippines)
- Gatbonton, Juan T. (Philippines)
- Gonzales, N. V. M. (Philippines)
- Hap, Lim Beng (Malaysia)
- Joaquin, Nick (Philippines)
- Khamhom, Lao (Thailand)
- Mahapaoraya, Dhep (Thailand)
- Khin Mya (Myanmar)
- Kukrit Pramoj (Thailand)
- Lim, Catherine (Singapore)
- Moe Moe (Myanmar)
- Nyi Pu Lay (Myanmar)
- Quan, Minh (Vietnam)
- Rajaratnam, S. (Singapore)
- Rangkuti, Hamsad (Indonesia)
- Reyes, Narcisco G. (Philippines)
- Rivera Vicente (Philippines)
- Rivera-Ford, Aida (Philippines)
- Rotor, Arturo B. (Philippines)
- Santos, Bienvenido (Philippines)
- Shanmughalingam, M. (Malaysia)
- Surangkhanang, K. (Thailand)
- Tien, Nhat (Vietnam)
- Toer, Pramoedya Ananta (Indonesia)
- Villa, José García (Philippines)
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Oceania
- Aichinger, Ilse (Australia)
- Astley, Thea (Australia)
- Astley, William (Australia)
- Barnard, Marjorie (Australia)
- Baynton, Barbara (Australia)
- Brett, Lily (Australia)
- Cary, Peter (Australia)
- Finlayson, Roderick (New Zealand)
- Grace, Patricia (New Zealand)
- Ihimaera, Witi (New Zealand)
- Jennings, Paul (Australia)
- Lang, John (Australia)
- Lawson, Henry (Australia)
- Malouf, David (Australia)
- Mansfield, Katherine (New Zealand)
- Murnane, Gerald (Australia)
- Paterson, A. B. (Australia)
- Sargeson, Frank (New Zealand)
- White, Patrick (Australia)
- Winton, Tim (Australia)
- Wright, Judith (Australia)
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South America
- Allende, Isabel (Chile)
- Benedetti, Mario (Uruguay)
- Bolano, Roberto (Chile)
- Borges, Jorge (Argentina)
- Cortázar, Juilio (Argentina)
- Enriquez, Mariana (Argentina)
- Gorodischer, Angélica (Argentina)
- Heker, Liliana (Argentina)
- Lispector, Clarice (Brazil)
- Lobato, Bruna Dantas (Brazil)
- Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria (Brazil)
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia (Columbia)
- Ocampo, Silvina (Argentina)
- Quiroga, Horacio (Uruguay)
- Rojas, Manuel (Chile)
- Sorrentino, Fernando (Argentina)
- Tellez, Hernando (Columbia)
- Valenzuela, Luisa (Argentina)
- Vargas, Llosa Mario
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Middle America
- Alvarez, Julia (Dominica)
- Anaya, Rudolfo (Mexico)
- Arreola, Juan José (Mexico)
- Diaz, Junot (Dominica)
- Estrada, Josefina (Mexico)
- Fuentes, Gregorio Lopez (Mexico)
- Hopkinson, Nalo (Jamaica)
- Jiménez, Francisco (Mexico)
- Kincaid, Jamaica (Antigua)
- Llana, Maria Elana (Cuba)
- Paz, Octavio (Mexico)
- Rivera, Beatriz (Cuba)
- Rulfo, Juan (Mexico)
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Northern America
- Acker, Camille
- Adams, Alice
- Agüeros, Jack
- Aiken, Conrad
- Alden, R. M.
- Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
- Alexander, Lloyd
- Alexander, Sue
- Alexie, Sherman
- Allen, Woody
- Alvarez, Julia
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Asimov, Isaac
- Atwood, Margaret (Canada)
- Avi
- Bagdasarian, Adam
- Baida, Peter
- Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
- Baldwin, James 1841-1925
- Baldwin, James 1925-1987
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Barrett, Andrea
- Barthelme, Donald
- Bauer, Joan
- Baum, L. Frank
- Beattie, Ann
- Beaumont, Charles
- Bellow, Saul (Canada)
- Bender, Aimee
- Benét, Stephen Vincent
- Berlin, Lucia
- Berriault, Gina
- Bethancourt, T. Ernesto
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Birch, Rebecca
- Bisson, Terry
- Block, Francesca Lia
- Bloom, Amy
- Bowles, Jane
- Bowles, Paul
- Boyle, Kay
- Boyle, T. C.
- Bradbury, Ray
- Broun, Heywood
- Brown, Fredric
- Brown, Jason
- Buck, Pearl
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Butler, Robert Olen
- Callaghan, Morley (Canada)
- Capote, Truman
- Carlson, Ron
- Carver, Raymond
- Cather, Willa
- Cavanaugh, Arthur
- Cheever, John
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddel
- Chin, Frank
- Chopin, Kate
- Cinsneros, Sandra
- Cofer, Judith Ortiz
- Collier, Eugenis
- Connell, Richard
- Cormier, Robert
- Crane, Stephen
- Crutcher, Chris
- Davis, Lydia
- Davis, Rebessca Harding
- Day, Price
- De Mille, William
- De Vet, Charles
- Diaz, Junot
- Dick, Philip
- Doerr, Anthony
- Dubus, Andre
- Dunbar, Paul
- Dybek, Stuart
- Edwards, Kim
- Eisenberg, Deborah
- Ellis, Elizabeth
- Ellison, Harlan
- Ellison, Ralph
- Erdrich, Louise
- Faulkner, William
- Ferrell, Carolyn
- Finney, Jack
- Fish, Charlie
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Foer, Jonathan
- Fox, John Jr
- Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
- Gaines, Ernest J.
- Gaitskill, Mary
- Gallant, Mavis (Canada)
- Gardner, John
- Gardner, Mona
- Gibson, William
- Gilchrist, Ellen
- Gilman, Charlotte
- Glasgow, Ellen
- Glaspell, Susan
- Hamilton, Virginia
- Harrison, Harry
- Harte, Bret
- Haslett, Adam
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Heinlein, Robert A.
- Helmer, Marilyn
- Helprin, Mark
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Hempel, Amy
- Hoch, Edward
- Hopkinson, Nalo (Canada)
- Howells, W. D.
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurst, James
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Irving, Washington
- Jackson, Shirley
- James, Henry
- Jen, Gish
- Jewett, Sarah
- Johnson, Charles
- Johnson, Dana
- Johnson, Denis
- Johnston, Tony
- Jones, Raymond
- Jones, Thom
- Kantor, MacKinlay
- Keyes, Daniel
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- King, Steven
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Lardner, Ring
- Le Guin, Ursula
- Leacock, Stephen (Canada)
- Lee, Don
- Lee, Krys
- Leffland, Ella
- Lewis, Sinclair
- Liu, Ken
- Linn, J. W.
- London, Jack
- Long, Julius
- Lovecraft, Howard
- Malamud, Bernard
- Marshall, Paule
- Mason, Bobbie Ann
- Matheson, Richard
- Mazer, Norma Fox
- McCracken, Elizabeth
- McCorkle, Jill
- McCullers, Carson
- McPherson, James Alan
- Meinke, Peter
- Melville, Herman
- Lahiri, Jhumpa
- Moore, Lorrie
- Morrell, Christyne
- Morrison, Toni
- Mukherjee, Bharati (Canada)
- Munro, Alice (Canada)
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Namioka, Lensey
- Nayeri, Dina
- Newman, Lesléa
- Ng, Celeste
- Northcutt, Nancy Jean
- Nye, Naomi Shihab
- O. Henry
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- O’Brien, Tim
- O’Connor, Flannery
- Ochsner, Gina
- Olsen, Tillie
- Orringer, Julie
- Ortiz, Simon J.
- Ozick, Cynthia
- Packer, ZZ
- Paley, Grace
- Parker, Dorothy
- Paulsen, Gary
- Peck, Richard
- Phillips, Jayne Anne
- Plath, Sylvia
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Potok, Chiam
- Powell, Padgett
- Proulx, Annie
- Pyle, Howard
- Reynolds, Jason
- Richards, Laura
- Rivera, Beatriz
- Rivera, Tomás
- Roth, Philip
- Rylant, Cynthia
- Pyle, Howard
- Salinas, Marta
- Salinger, J. D.
- Salter, James
- Saroyan, William
- Saunders, George
- Sher, Ira
- Silko, Leslie Marmon
- Silver, Marisa
- Silverstein, Shel
- Sleator, William
- Slesar, Henry
- Smiley, Jane
- Sneve, Virginia Driving hawk
- Soto, Gary
- Sperry, Armstrong
- Stafford, Jean
- Stanton, Will
- Steinbeck, John
- Stern, Philip Van Doren
- Stewart, Tracy
- Stockton, Frank
- Strasser, Todd
- Sui Sin Far
- Tan, Amy
- Tan, Lucy
- Taylor, Peter
- Thomas, Piri
- Thurber, James
- Toomer, Jean
- Twain, Mark
- Tyler, Anne
- Uchida, Yoshiko
- Updike, John
- Valgardson, W. D. (Canada)
- Vedol, Sharona F.
- Villanueva, Alma Luz
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Walker, Alice
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Waters, Mary Yukari
- Weber, Katherine
- Weir, Andy
- Welty, Eudora
- Wetherell, W. D.
- Wharton, Edith
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Wilkinson, Brenda
- Williams, Joy
- Wilson, Budge (Canada)
- Wolfe, Thomas
- Wolff, Tobias
- Wright, Richard
- Yamamoto, Hisaye
- Yates, Richard
- Yep, Laurence
- Yezierska, Anzi
- Yolen, Jane
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