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
  • Flubo@feddit.orgDeutsch
    4·
    3 days ago

    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)
    • vormadikter@startrek.website
      1·
      3 days ago

      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 ;)

  • RandomPrivacyGuy@lemm.ee
    3·
    3 days ago

    🇵🇱 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

  • Shaper@lemm.ee
    3·
    3 days ago

    Sorry if I don’t abide by the format but:

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    🇬🇧 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 satirist

    Hmm, how dreadfully anglocentric of me. Hopefully this thread will give me some other ideas!