World Literature
Egyptian Novelist
First Arab to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988
Wrote the Cario Trilogy
Who is Naguib Mahfouz
Italian
Author of The Name of the Rose, and Foucault's Pendulum
Who is Umberto Eco
British
Cleric of the Church of England
Author of Death Not be Proud and A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Who is John Donne
American
Modernist Poet
He wrote "Anecdote of the Jar", "The Man with the Blue Guitar", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Of Modern Poetry", and "Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction"
Won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955
Who is Wallace Stevens
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991
Wrote "Burger's Daughter' and 'July's People'
Who is Nadine Gordimer
Italian
Wrote works inspired by imaginative fiction inspired by folk tales and oral tradition
Wrote Our Ancestors trilogy, Cosmicomics collection of short stories, Invisible Cities, and If on a winter's night a traveler
Who is Italo Calvino
British
Wrote Middle March
Used a pseudonym because she felt women weren't taken as seriously
Who is George Eliot
American
Wrote The Road, No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses
Who is Cormac McCarthy
Japanese
Wrote 'Norwegian Wood' 'Kafka on the Shore'
Who is Haruki Murakami
German
Author of Mother Courage and Her Children
Who is Bertolt Brecht
English
Founder of Romantic Movement
Wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and "Kubla Khan"
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge
American
Wrote Infinite Jest
Committed Suicide
David Foster Wallace
Japanese
Author of Confessions of a Mask, The Sea of Fertility Trilogy, and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, as well as the play Madame de Sade
Who is Yukio Mishima
Austro-German
Wrote Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Who is Rainer Maria Rilke
English
Known for Lyrical Ballads
Often had trachoma
Wrote
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ...
To the Skylark. ...
from Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.
Who is William Wordsworth
American
Won the Pulitzer Prize
Wrote Portnoy's Complaint
Who is Philip Roth
Japanese
First Japanese to win the Nobel Prize in 1968.
Wrote Snow Country, Beauty and Sadness, and A Thousand Cranes
Who is Yasunari Kawabata
Romanian-French
Contributed to the Theater of the Absurd
Father of the Theater of Absurd
Wrote The Rhinoceros
Who is Eugene Ionesco
English
Wrote Dover Beach
Who is Matthew Arnold
American
Won the Pulizer Prize for Poetry 3 times
Wrote Richard Cory
Who is Edwin Arlington Robinson