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Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian novelist (1927–2014) and Nobel laureate (1982) who pioneered magical realism with 'One Hundred Years of Solitu...

20TH Century Magical Realism Latin American Colombian

9.3 Excellent

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George Orwell

British novelist and essayist (1903–1950) best known for the dystopian 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949) and the allegorical...

Satire 20TH Century Dystopian British

9.2 Excellent

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Cormac McCarthy

American novelist celebrated for his bleak, violent themes and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road.

American 20TH Century Dark Literary

9.1 Excellent

4

Thomas Mann

German novelist who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature for his epic, symbol-laden masterpiece The Magic Mountain.

German Psychological 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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Ralph Ellison

American writer whose sole published novel during his lifetime, *Invisible Man* (1952), won the National Book Award and...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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James Baldwin

American novelist and essayist whose works, including *Go Tell It on the Mountain* (1953), profoundly explored racial, c...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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Roberto Bolaño

Chilean author regarded as the most significant Latin American literary voice of his generation, famous for his epic 199...

Contemporary Dark Literary Latin American

9.0 Excellent

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Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist whose 1958 debut novel Things Fall Apart is a foundational text of modern African literature.

20TH Century Literary African Nigerian

8.9 Great

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Russian novelist who exposed the brutality of the Soviet Gulag system in The Gulag Archipelago and won the 1970 Nobel Pr...

Russian 20TH Century Political Nobel

8.8 Great

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Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet and Nobel laureate who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature for his passionate, surrealist-inspired poetr...

20TH Century Latin American Chilean Nobel

8.8 Great

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Jean-Paul Sartre

French existentialist novelist and philosopher who famously declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for his n...

French Philosophical 20TH Century Political

8.7 Great

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Lu Xun

Chinese writer of the early 20th century, celebrated as the founder of modern Chinese literature for his biting social c...

20TH Century Literary Chinese Modernism

8.6 Great

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Maya Angelou

American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 autobiography *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sin...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

8.5 Great

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Clarice Lispector

Brazilian novelist celebrated for her modernist, introspective works and her dense, existential 1964 masterpiece *The Pa...

20TH Century Experimental Literary Feminist

8.5 Great

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Junichiro Tanizaki

Prominent Japanese author whose novels, including "The Makioka Sisters," masterfully explore the clash between tradition...

Aesthetics Japanese Psychological 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Peruvian novelist who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature for his prolific explorations of Latin American politics.

20TH Century Political Peruvian Latin American

8.4 Great

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Octavio Paz

Mexican poet and essayist who won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature for his profound philosophical reflections on Mexic...

20TH Century Mexican Latin American Nobel

8.2 Great

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Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Indonesian author celebrated for his anti-colonial themes and his epic historical fiction quartet, the *Buru Quartet*.

20TH Century Political Literary Indonesian

8.2 Great

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Christa Wolf

East German novelist renowned for her innovative, subjective prose, particularly in 'The Quest for Christa T.,' examinin...

German 20TH Century Political Literary

7.5 Good

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Mulk Raj Anand

Indian writer regarded as a pioneer of Indo-Anglian fiction, renowned for his 1935 novel *Untouchable*, which exposed th...

Indian 20TH Century Political Literary

7.0 Good