Small list to start
- 🇫🇮Tove Jansson
- 🇫🇷 Eric L’Homme
- 🇫🇷 Pierre Bottero
- 🇧🇪 Emile Jadoul
- 🇧🇪 Mario Ramos
- 🇸🇪 Astrid Lindgren
- 🇩🇪Torben Kuhlmann
- 🇫🇷 Gilles Bachelet
- 🇮🇹 Geronimo Stilton’s team
- 🇪🇸 Meritxell Marti
- 🇳🇱 Dick Bruna
🇨🇿 Jiri Weil
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett
🇬🇧 Charles Williams
🇩🇪 Walter Moers
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett
🏴 Iain Banks
🇬🇧 China Mieville
🇬🇧 Charles Stross’ Laundry Files
Ooh, Iain Banks, good call.
- 🇸🇪 Karin Tidbeck
🇮🇪 Sally Rooney
🇦🇱 Ismail Kadere
🇩🇪 Hermann Hesse
🇮🇹 Elena Ferrante
Poland:
- Stanislaw Lem (Science Fiction)
Austria:
- Wolf Haas (dark humour, detective stories)
Sweden:
- stieg Larsson (crime fiction - he wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
- Astrid Lindgreen (children’s books)
England:
- Douglas Adams (science fiction, he wrote the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)
- Oscar Wilde
- j.r.r. Tolkien - the lord of the rings , the hobbit
- Agatha Christie - crime novels
Germany:
- Walter Moers ( Fantasy but his own kind, not elves and orks)
- Erich kästner (famous for his children’s books that also are good reads for adults, famous for being present when the Nazis burned his books)
- Michael Ende (the best childrens books, and some actually too deep for children, “Momo”, “The Neverending Story” to name 2)
- Herman Hesse (must read for people between 15-25)
Nice list!
I would only add England - Terry Pratchett (Fantasy, but in an ironic, funny, quirky way, in its own world…with lots of “real world” ironies and sarcasm)
Then… its perfect ;)
I knew i forgot something. :D thanks.
🇵🇱 Stanisław Lem - sci-fi author, had some good predictions on future tech. There is a video game loosely based on one of his novels, “The Invincible”
🇵🇱 Andrzej Sapkowski - The Witcher series
🇬🇧 Dan Abnett - great Warhammer 40K books
Sorry if I don’t abide by the format but:
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From Spain: Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Marcos Ana. All three are amazing poets. All of them have the spanish civil war as an over arching theme in their works.
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Julio Cortázar, wrote tales, nouvelles and novels. He was born in Switzerland, migrated to Argentina then spent his last years in France. His most acclaimed novel, Hopscotch, is a labyrinth of short stories that connect to create a greater narrative. Truly a work of art.
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Hugo Pratt. A graphic novel writer, author of Corto Maltese, probably my favourite graphic novel of all times. It’s a classic. He was born in… Crete I think? Began publishing in Italy, then migrated to Argentina where he made most of his carreer.
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Neil Gaiman. Author of The Sandman, an all-time favourite of mine, Books Of Magic, famously the work which “inspired” J K Rowling… He is british, although he migrated to America. Sadly he has recently been known for his abusive practices towards his female employees.
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Herman Hesse. Pretty sure he was german, awarded a novel prize. He was the go to author during my teenage years. His books are aimed to a young adult audience and are filled with existential and philosophical debates. My favourite book, The Glass Bead Game, was a turning point in my life.
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🇮🇹 Alessandro Baricco
🇮🇹 Andrea de Carlo
Hans Rosling 🇸🇪
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🇬🇧 Ed Winters
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🇬🇧 Mary Beard
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🇬🇧 George Orwell
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🇬🇧 Agathe Christie - the best selling author in the world, creator of Hercule Poirot and Ms. Marple as well as the best selling novel of all time: “And Then There Were None”
🇬🇧 P. G. Wodehouse - a wonderful wielder of words and the creator of Jeeves and Wooster (although I prefer the Blandings novels)
🇬🇧 Mick Herron - the best spy fiction author since John le Carré but with a lot more failure and stains
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett - the Discworld creator and excellent satiristHmm, how dreadfully anglocentric of me. Hopefully this thread will give me some other ideas!
Andrey Kurkov (Death and the Penguin) Albert Camus Franz Kafka