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Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez brought family history and Latin American experience into fiction known for it...

20TH Century Magical Realism Latin American Colombian

9.25 Excellent

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Marcel Proust

Born in 1871, French novelist Marcel Proust built In Search of Lost Time around the changing relationship between memory...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

9.15 Excellent

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus was a 20th-century French-Algerian novelist and philosopher best known for his exploration of existential t...

20TH Century Absurdism Existential Nobel

9.15 Excellent

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett was a twentieth-century Irish novelist and dramatist whose work profoundly influenced literature. He is p...

20TH Century Experimental Absurdism Irish

9.05 Excellent

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Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann was a significant 20th-century German novelist known for exploring complex psychological themes within his w...

German Psychological 20TH Century Literary

9.00 Excellent

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Junichiro Tanizaki

Junichiro Tanizaki was a significant 20th-century Japanese novelist celebrated for his deeply psychological explorations...

Aesthetics Japanese Psychological 20TH Century

8.50 Great

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Günter Grass

Günter Grass was a prominent German novelist whose works explored themes of postwar Germany and its complex history. He...

German 20TH Century Postwar Literary

8.45 Great

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Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata was a prominent 20th-century Japanese novelist celebrated for his intensely lyrical style and explorat...

Japanese 20TH Century Lyrical Literary

8.30 Great

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Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was a prominent American novelist of the 20th century. He achieved international recognition for his complex...

American 20TH Century Literary Nobel

8.25 Great

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak was a prominent 20th-century Russian novelist and poet. He is best known for his novel Doctor Zhivago, w...

Russian 20TH Century Literary Soviet

8.20 Great

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Patrick White

Patrick White was a prominent 20th-century Australian novelist celebrated for his complex and deeply psychological narra...

Psychological Australian 20TH Century Literary

8.10 Great

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer was a prominent 20th-century novelist born in South Africa. Her work, particularly during and after the...

20TH Century Literary South African Nobel

8.10 Great

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Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig was an Austrian novelist and literary critic whose work explored psychological complexities within historic...

Austrian Psychological 20TH Century Historical

8.00 Great

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Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is a British novelist and short-story writer known for psychologically precise fiction that often examines gu...

Contemporary Psychological 20TH Century British

7.90 Good

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Kenzaburō Ōe

Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese novelist and essayist whose work confronts war, nuclear destruction, political responsibilit...

Japanese 20TH Century Literary Existential

7.85 Good

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Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai was a Hungarian writer, poet, and journalist whose career spanned several decades and multiple genres, thou...

Hungarian Psychological 20TH Century Historical

7.80 Good

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Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano is a French novelist and author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. His body of work...

French Contemporary Memory Literary

7.80 Good

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Anatole France

Anatole France was a French novelist, poet, critic, and essayist whose writing combined classical elegance with irony an...

French 19TH Century Literary Satirical

7.50 Good

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Claude Simon

Claude Simon (1913-2005) was a French novelist associated with the nouveau roman movement who was awarded the Nobel Priz...

French 20TH Century Experimental Nobel

7.40 Good

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Alain Robbe-Grillet

Alain Robbe-Grillet was a French writer and filmmaker who served as a leading figure and theorist of the Nouveau Roman l...

French 20TH Century Experimental Literary

7.25 Good