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Marcel Proust

French novelist (1871–1922) whose seven-volume 'In Search of Lost Time' (1913–1927) is among the longest and most celebr...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

9.2 Excellent

2

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

3

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

4

Kazuo Ishiguro

British novelist born in Japan who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature for works like The Remains of the Day.

Contemporary Memory Literary Nobel

8.9 Great

5

Alice Munro

Canadian short story writer widely considered a master of the form, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 201...

Contemporary Canadian Literary Short Story

8.9 Great

6

J.M. Coetzee

South African and Australian novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, recognized for intellectually rigor...

Contemporary Literary South African Postcolonial

8.8 Great

7

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali polymath and poet who reshaped Bengali literature and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Li...

19TH Century Philosophical Literary Nobel

8.8 Great

8

Elena Ferrante

Anonymous Italian novelist internationally famous for her acclaimed Neapolitan Novels series, beginning with *My Brillia...

Italian Contemporary Literary Feminist

8.8 Great

9

Salman Rushdie

British Indian novelist whose magical realist work Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize and sparked global literary...

Contemporary Magical Realism Literary Postmodern

8.6 Great

10

José Saramago

Portuguese novelist who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for his dystopian novel Blindness and unique prose...

Contemporary Literary Portuguese Nobel

8.6 Great

11

Haruki Murakami

Japanese novelist whose bestselling works, such as Norwegian Wood, blend magical realism with existential themes.

Contemporary Japanese Magical Realism Literary

8.5 Great

12

Günter Grass

German novelist and playwright awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, notably recognized for his influential debut...

German 20TH Century Postwar Literary

8.5 Great

13

W.G. Sebald

German academic and novelist known for his melancholic, photograph-laden works on memory and the Holocaust, such as 'Aus...

Contemporary Memory Historical Literary

8.5 Great

14

Orhan Pamuk

Turkish novelist awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, internationally recognized for his novel Snow and works on...

Contemporary Historical Literary Turkish

8.3 Great

15

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish novelist and the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Literature, acclaimed for her mythical and fragmented narrative style in...

Polish Contemporary Philosophical Literary

8.3 Great

16

Imre Kertész

Hungarian Holocaust survivor and novelist awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature for his semi-autobiographical novel...

Hungarian Contemporary Literary Holocaust

8.1 Great

17

André Gide

French novelist and 1947 Nobel Laureate celebrated for his exploration of morality and freedom in provocative works like...

French Psychological 20TH Century Literary

8.0 Great

18

Mo Yan

Chinese novelist and 2012 Nobel laureate in Literature renowned for his hallucinatory realist novels like *Red Sorghum*.

Contemporary Magical Realism Literary Chinese

8.0 Great

19

Michel Houellebecq

Controversial French novelist known for his provocative satires of modern society, most notably the 1998 bestseller 'The...

French Contemporary Controversial Literary

7.6 Good

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Anatole France

French novelist and poet awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for his ironic, skeptical novels like 'T...

French 19TH Century Literary Satirical

7.5 Good