Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born in British Hampshire, and only fifteen years old when she starte...

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797-1848) was a German poet, writer and composer of classical music...

James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish writer, poet and literary critic, known for his experimental...

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is considered as one of the greatest writers in the English language d...

Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) is considered a titan of Swedish literature. She is best known as a w...

Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a German-speaking Czech-Austrian author, regarded as one of the most ...

Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was a Polish born-German socialist, Marxist philosopher, and anti-war ...

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to an alderman and a su...

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was a French writer, social theorist, existential philosopher, and...

Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is one of the most celebrated authors in the world. Her novels have ear...

Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940) was a Swedish writer and first female recipient of the Nobel Prize for...

Fjodor Dostojevskij (1821-1881), famous for his complex novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot an...