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- Architecture
- The literary canon and its making
- Chivalry
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- Commedia dell'arte
- Dada
- Education
- Evolution
- Exile
- Elena Ferrante (dates unknown), pseudonymous Italian novelist
- Fin-de-siècle
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- Gender and sexuality
- The Holocaust
- History of ideas
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- Law and society
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- Medicine and the body
- Mythology
- National and cultural identity
- Opera
- Orientalism
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- The French Revolution
- Hagiography
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- Survey works
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- Textual scholarship
- Trauma
- The City
- Utopian thought
- Verse and metre
- The Victorian Age
- War
- Homer (c. 850 BCE?), Greek poet
- The Psalms
- Euripides (c.480-406 BCE), Athenian playwright
- Aristophanes (c.446-386 BCE), Athenian playwright
- Xenophon (430 BC-354 BCE), Athenian historian
- Plato (c.428-348 BCE), Athenian philosopher
- Epicurus (341-270 BCE), Athenian philosopher
- Virgil (70-19 BCE), Roman poet
- Seneca (1 BCE–65 CE), Roman writer
- 'Ovid', Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BCE-17 CE), Roman poet
- 'Lucan', Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (39-65), Roman poet
- Plutarch (46-120), Greek essayist
- Boethius (480–524), Roman philosopher
- Anonymous literature of the Middle Ages
- Jehan de Journi (13th century), French knight
- Der Stricker (13th century), German poet
- Alain de Lille (1128-1203), French theologian
- Gonzalo de Berceo (c.1190-1264), Spanish poet
- Alfonso X El Sabio (1221-84), Castilian king
- Rustico Filippi (1230-99), Italian poet
- Guittone d'Arezzo (1235-94), Italian poet
- Cecco Angiolieri (c.1260-1312), Italian poet
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet
- 'Petrarch', Francesco Petrarca (1304-74), Italian poet
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75), Italian poet
- Gasparino Barzizza (1360-1431), Italian critic
- Christine de Pizan (1364-1430), French writer
- Robert Ciboule (1404-58), French theologian
- Gómez Manrique (1412-90), Spanish poet
- Thomas Chaundler (1418-90), English playwright
- François Villon (c.1431-63), French poet
- Matteo Maria Boiardo (1434-94), Italian poet
- Gil Vicente (c.1465-1536), Portuguese playwright
- 'Erasmus', Desiderius Roterodamus (1466-1536), Dutch theologian
- Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Italian poet
- Gavin Douglas (1474-1522), Scottish bishop and translator
- Sir Thomas Elyot (c.1490-1546), English diplomat
- Francesco Berni (1497-1535), Italian poet
- Juan de Valdés (1500-41), Spanish writer
- Maurice Scève (1500-64), French poet
- Angelo Beolco (1502-42), Italian playwright
- Lodovico Dolce (1508-68), Italian art critic
- Luigi Tansillo (1510-68), Italian poet
- Teresa of Avila (1515-82), Spanish mystic
- William Barker (1520-80), English translator
- John Jewel (1522-71), English bishop
- Pierre de Ronsard (1524-85), French poet
- Luís Vaz de Camões (1524?-80), Portuguese poet
- Humphrey Llwyd (1527-68), Welsh antiquary
- Lady Anne Cooke Bacon (1527-1610), English translator
- Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-88), Spanish physician
- Jan Kochanowski (1530-84), Polish poet
- Agostino Valier (1531-1606), Italian bishop
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), French essayist
- Arthur Golding (1536-1606), English translator
- Jane Lumley, Baroness Lumley (1537-78), English translator
- Gian Paolo Lomazzo (1538-92), Italian painter
- Giovanni Battista Guarini (1538-1612), Italian playwright
- Margaret Tyler (1540-90), English translator
- William Webbe (1540?–1595?), English critic
- Thomas Newton (1542?–1607), English poet and translator
- Robert Garnier (1544-90), French poet
- Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas (1544-90), French poet
- Torquato Tasso (1544-95), Italian poet
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish novelist
- Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian natural philosopher
- Richard Carew (1555-1620), English antiquary
- Thomas Kyd (1558-94), English playwright
- Thomas Lodge (1558–1625), English poet
- George Chapman (1559-1634), English playwright
- Abraham Fraunce (1560?-1593?), English poet
- Anthony Munday (1560-1633), English playwright
- Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621), English poet
- Luis de Góngora (1561-1627), Spanish poet
- Michael Drayton (1563-1631), English poet
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright
- Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), Italian painter
- James Mabbe or Mab (1572–1642), English translator
- Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), Spanish poet
- Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634), German general
- Claude Favre de Vaugelas (1585-1650), French grammarian
- María de Zayas y Sotomayor (1590-1647), Spanish novelist
- Thomas May (1594-1650), English poet
- Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (1594-1661), French poet
- Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640), Polish poet
- Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (1597-1639), German poet
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-81), Spanish playwright
- Claude Gellée, 'le Lorrain' (1600-82), French painter
- Comte d'Ételan (1605-44), French poet
- Hernando Domínguez Camargo (1606-59), Colombian poet
- Pierre Corneille (1606-84), French playwright
- Antonio Malatesti (1610-72), Italian poet
- Richard Crashaw (c.1613-49), English poet
- Charles de Saint-Evremond (1614-1703), French critic
- Nicolas Fouquet (1615-80), French politician
- Furetière (1619-1688), French novelist
- Louis II de Bourbon (1621-86), French general
- 'Molière', Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-73), French playwright
- Blaise Pascal (1623-62), French philosopher
- Anne-Marie-Louise, duchesse de Montpensier (1627-93), French memoirist
- Madame de Lafayette (1634-93), French novelist
- Nicolas Boileau (1636-1711), French playwright
- Jean Donneau de Visé (1638-1710), French playwright
- Jean Racine (1639-99), French playwright
- Aphra Behn (1640-89), English playwright
- The 'Miliade', anonymous satire
- Richard Robinson (?-1648), English actor
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-95), Mexican playwright
- Michel Baron (1653-1729), French playwright
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), English satirist
- 'Président' Charles-Jean-François Hénault (1685-1770), French historian
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet
- Pierre de Marivaux (1688-1763), French novelist
- Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), English novelist
- Alexis Piron (1689-1773), French playwright
- Eliza Haywood (1693-1756), English writer
- 'Voltaire', François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), French writer and philosopher
- Françoise de Graffigny (1695-1758), French novelist
- Fougeret de Monbron (1706-1760), French writer
- Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707-77), French novelist
- François-Gabriel Coyer (1707-82), French writer
- Carlo Goldoni (1707-93), Italian playwright
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), French philosopher
- Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (1713-62), German writer
- Laurence Sterne (1713-69), English novelist
- Denis Diderot (1713-84), French philosopher
- Baculard d'Arnaud (1718-1805), French playwright
- Edward Kimber (1719-69), English novelist
- Michel-Jean Sedaine (1719-97), French playwright
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78), Italian artist
- Jean-François Marmontel (1723-99), French historian and playwright
- Pierre-Laurent De Belloy (1727-75), French playwright
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), German writer and philosopher
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730-88), German philosopher
- Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813), German poet
- Rétif de la Bretonne (1734-1806), French novelist
- James Beattie (1735-1803), Scottish philosopher
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814), French novelist
- Jean-François de La Harpe (1739-1803), French playwright
- Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814), French playwright
- Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), French novelist
- Jean-Baptiste-Claude Delisle de Sales (1741-1816), French writer
- Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), German philosopher and poet
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), French naturalist
- 'Monvel', Jacques Marie Boutet (1745-1812), French playwright
- Stéphanie de Genlis (1746-1830), French novelist
- Olympe de Gouges (1748-93), French playwright
- Gottfried August Bürger (1748-94), German poet
- 'Mirabeau', Honoré Gabriel Riqueti (1749-91), French politician
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer
- Joséphine de Monbart (1750-1829), French writer
- Evariste-Désiré de Parny (1753-1814), French poet
- William Blake (1757-1827), English poet and artist
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet
- Charles-Albert Demoustier (1760-1801), French poet and playwright
- Jean-Louis Laya (1761-1833), French playwright
- Madame de Souza (1761-1836), French novelist
- André Chénier (1762-1794), French poet
- Gabriel-Marie Legouvé (1764-1812), French playwright
- Benedikte Naubert (1765-1819), German novelist
- Madame de Staël (1766-1817), French novelist
- Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), Swiss novelist
- August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845), German poet
- Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German scientist
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
- J. C. F. Hölderlin (1770-1843), German poet
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Scottish novelist
- Népomucène Louis Lemercier (1771-1840), French playwright
- Novalis (1772-1801), German poet and philosopher
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), English poet
- Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840), French writer and politician
- François Vidocq (1775-1857), French detective
- Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867), English diarist
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822), German novelist and composer
- Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827), Italian/Greek poet and revolutionary
- Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806), German poet
- 'Stendhal', Marie-Henri Beyle (1783-1842), French novelist
- Charles Etienne Boniface (1787-1853), South African writer
- Lord Byron (1788-1824), English poet
- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857), German poet/novelist
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher
- Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian playwright
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet
- Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold (1797-1851), German writer
- Mary Shelley (1797-1851), English novelist
- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), Italian poet
- Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), French artist
- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist
- Francisca de Assis Martins Wood (1802-1900), Portuguese novelist
- Victor Hugo (1802-85), French writer
- Eugène Sue (1804-57), French novelist
- George Sand (1804-76), French novelist
- Adalbert Stifter (1805-68), Austrian writer
- Aloysius Bertrand (1807-41), French poet
- Gérard de Nerval (1808-55), French poet
- Charles Darwin (1809-82), English naturalist
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-63), English novelist
- Théophile Gautier (1811-72), French poet
- Charles Dickens (1812-70), English novelist
- Robert Browning (1812-89), English poet
- Georg Büchner (1813-37), German playwright and poet
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813-51), Montenegran poet and philosopher
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Danish philosopher
- Gustav Freytag (1816-1895), German novelist and playwright
- Theodor Storm (1817-88), German writer
- Louise von François (1817-93), German writer
- 'Albert' François-Siméon Aubert (1819-47), French spiritualist
- Ernest Charles Jones (1819-69), English poet and Chartist
- George Eliot (1819-80), English novelist
- Gottfried Keller (1819-90, Zurich), Swiss novelist
- Narcisse Berchère (1819-91), French painter
- Theodor Fontane (1819-98), German novelist/poet
- John Ruskin (1819-1900), English critic
- Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), French poet
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-80), French novelist
- Fedor Dostoevskii (1821-81), Russian novelist
- Matthew Arnold (1822-88), English poet
- Théodore de Banville (1823-1891), French poet
- Hippolyte Taine (1828-93), French critic
- Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist
- Lev Tolstoi (1828-1910), Russian novelist
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916), Austrian writer
- Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910), German novelist
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902), English novelist
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), English poet
- Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919), French swimming instructor
- Walter Pater (1839-94), English critic
- Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), Brazilian novelist
- Luigi Capuana (1839-1915), Italian novelist and playwright
- Émile Zola (1840-1902), French novelist
- Odilon Redon (1840-1916), French painter
- Giovanni Verga (1840-1922), Italian novelist
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist
- Mathilde Blind (1841-96), German/English writer
- Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98), French poet
- Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914), Czech/Austrian pacifist
- Henry James (1843-1916), American novelist
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher
- Júlio Ribeiro (1845-1890), Portuguese novelist
- 'Michael Field', Katharine Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Cooper (1862-1913), English poets
- Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French painter
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), French novelist
- August Strindberg (1848-1912), Swedish playwright
- Guy de Maupassant (1850-93), French novelist
- Paul Bourget (1852-1935), French critic
- George Moore (1852-1933), Irish novelist
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), French poet
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), English writer
- Matilde Serao (1856-1927), Italian writer
- 'Vernon Lee', Violet Paget (1856-1935), English writer
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychotherapist
- Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857–1932), English novelist
- Marie Bashkirtseff (1858-84), Ukrainian/French diarist
- Maud Beerbohm Tree (1858-1937), English actress
- Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), Russian playwright and novelist
- Maria Janitschek (1859-1927), Austrian writer
- Jules Laforgue (1860-87), French poet
- Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), Austrian journalist
- Italo Svevo (1861-1928), Italian novelist
- Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Italian poet
- Arthur Machen (1863-1947), Welsh mystic
- B. Franklin Wedekind (1864-1918), German playwright
- Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), Spanish novelist
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet
- Arthur Symons (1865-1945), English critic
- Ramón Maria del Valle-Inclán (1866–1936), Spanish playwright and novelist
- Léon Chestov (1866-1938), Ukrainian/French writer
- Lionel Johnson (1867-1902), English poet and critic
- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928), Spanish novelist
- Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Italian playwright
- Anna Franchi (1867-1954), Italian novelist
- Gaston Leroux (1868-1927), French journalist and novelist
- Stefan George (1868-1933), German poet
- Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), German diplomat and patron
- André Gide (1869-1951), French novelist
- Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-96), English writer
- Marcelle Tinayre (1870-1948), French novelist
- Leonid Andreev (1871-1919), Russian writer
- Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist
- Georg Hermann (1871-1943), German novelist
- Paul Valéry (1871-1945), French poet
- Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98), English artist/writer
- Pío Baroja (1872-1956), Spanish novelist
- Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966), English actor/director
- Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), French writer
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954), French novelist
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1925), Austrian writer
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), German poet
- Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German novelist
- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Italian poet
- Max Jacob (1876-1944), French philosopher
- Gertrud von le Fort (1876-1971), German poet and novelist
- Victor Segalen (1878-1919), French poet
- Carl Sternheim (1878-1942), German playwright
- Georg Kaiser (1878-1945), German playwright
- Alfred Döblin (1878-1957), German writer
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), French poet
- Reginald Farrer (1880-1920), English writer and garden designer
- Robert Musil (1880-1942), German novelist
- Sholem Asch (1880-1957), Polish/American novelist
- Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), American novelist
- James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish novelist
- Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), English writer and painter
- Julio Camba (1882-1962), Spanish travel writer
- 'L. Onerva', Hilja Onerva Lehtinen (1882–1972), Finnish novelist
- Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), Italian novelist
- Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech/German novelist
- Luis de Oteyza (1883-1961), Spanish novelist
- Evgenii Zamiatin (1884-1937), Russian novelist
- Der Nister (1884-1950), Russian poet/novelist
- David Bergelson (1884-1952), Russian novelist
- Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958), German writer
- Jean Paulhan (1884-1968), French editor
- Rómulo Gallegos (1884-1969), Venezuelan writer and politician
- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist
- Céline Arnauld (1885-1952), French/Romanian poet
- Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), Danish novelist
- Ezra Pound (1885-1972), American poet
- Aldo Palazzeschi (1885-1974), Italian writer
- Joseph Opatoshu (1886-1954), Russian/American novelist
- Diego Rivera (1886-1957), Mexican painter
- Georg Trakl (1887-1914), German poet
- José Moreno Villa (1887-1955), Spanish poet
- Marc Chagall (1887-1985), French artist
- Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Portuguese poet
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), English/American poet
- Paul Nash (1889-1946), British artist
- Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957), Chilean poet
- Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), French philosophy
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), German philosopher
- Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935), German journalist
- Mikhaíl Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940), Russian writer
- Yvan Goll (1891-1950), German/French writer
- Teresa de Escoriaza (1891-1968), Spanish journalist
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), German philosopher
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), Russian poet
- Rebecca West (1892-1983), English journalist
- Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), Russian poet and playwright
- Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973), Italian novelist
- Viktor Shklovskii (1893-1984), Russian critic
- Yannis Skarimbas (1893-1984), Greek novelist
- Joseph Roth (1894-1939), German novelist
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961), French novelist
- Peretz Markish (1895-1952), Russian poet
- Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), Russian critic
- José Bergamín Gutiérrez (1895-1983), Spanish writer
- Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), French playwright and poet
- Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), French poet
- André Breton (1896-1966), French poet
- Eugenio Montale (1896-1981), Italian poet
- Georges Bataille (1897-1962), French critic
- Rosa Chacel (1898-1994), Spanish novelist
- Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Spanish poet
- Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944), Romanian/French poet
- Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German playwright
- René Magritte (1898-1967), Belgian artist
- Jean Grenier (1898-1971), French philosopher
- Andrey Platonov (1899-1951), Russian novelist
- Edgar Neville (1899-1967), Spanish playwright and director
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974), Guatemalan writer
- Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), Russian/American writer
- Henri Michaux (1899-1984), Belgian poet
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), Argentinian writer
- Francis Ponge (1899-1988), French poet
- Karel Teige (1900-1951), Czech art theorist
- Edgar Wind (1900-71), German/English art historian
- Eduardo De Filippo (1900-84), Italian playwright
- Gilberto Freyre (1900-87), Brazilian sociologist
- Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99), French novelist
- Antal Szerb (1901-45), Hungarian critic
- Cecília Meireles (1901-64), Brazilian poet
- Alberto Giacometti (1901-66), Swiss sculptor
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-74), German poet
- Michel Leiris (1901-90), French writer
- Robert Bresson (1901-99), French director
- Luis Cernuda (1902-63), Spanish poet
- Adrian Stokes (1902-72), English critic
- Leo Ferrero (1903-33), Italian writer
- Raymond Queneau (1903-76), French novelist
- Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87), French novelist
- David Fram (1903-88), Lithuanian/South African poet
- Georges Simenon (1903-89), Belgian novelist
- José Maria Hinojosa (1904-36), Spanish poet
- Alejo Carpentier (1904-80), Cuban writer
- María Zambrano (1904-91), Spanish philosopher/writer
- Miguel Mihura (1905-77), Spanish playwright
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80), French philosopher
- Elias Canetti (1905-94), Bulgarian/German novelist
- Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001), French writer
- Samuel Beckett (1906-89), Irish playwright
- Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95), French/Lithuanian philosopher
- Violette Leduc (1907-72), French novelist
- Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), French philosopher
- René Daumal (1908-44), French poet
- Cesare Pavese (1908-50), Italian novelist
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61), French philosopher
- Elio Vittorini (1908-66), Italian novelist
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86), French philosopher
- Jean Genet (1910-86), French novelist/playwright
- H. G. Adler (1910-88), Czech/German/English writer
- Stratis Tsirkas (1911-80), Greek novelist
- Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), French artist
- Elsa Morante (1912-85), Italian novelist
- Edmond Jabès (1912-91), French/Egyptian poet
- Philip Guston (1913-80), American artist
- Aimé Césaire (1913-2008), Martinican poet and politician
- Julio Cortázar (1914-84), Argentinian writer
- Marguerite Duras (1914-96), French novelist
- Octavio Paz (1914-1998), Mexican poet
- Roland Barthes (1915-80), French critic
- Saul Bellow (1915-2000), Canadian/American novelist
- Aldo Moro (1916-78), Italian politician
- Natalia Ginzburg (1916-91), Italian novelist
- Louis-René des Forêts (1916–2000), French writer
- Juan Rulfo (1917-86), Mexican writer
- Robert Antelme (1917-90), French Holocaust survivor
- Primo Levi (1919-87), Italian writer
- Iris Murdoch (1919-99), English novelist
- Paul Celan (1920-70), Romanian/German/French poet
- Clarice Lispector (1920-77), Brazilian novelist
- João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920-99), Brazilian poet/diplomat
- Georges Brassens (1921-81), French songwriter
- Leonardo Sciascia (1921-89), Italian writer
- Augusto Monterroso (1921-2003), Guatemalan writer
- Carmen Laforet (1921-2004), Spanish novelist
- Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75), Italian poet and director
- José Saramago (1922-2010), Portuguese novelist
- Alain Resnais (1922-2014), French director
- Carlos Maggi (1922-2015), Uruguayan playwright
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-), French novelist
- Italo Calvino (1923-85), Italian novelist
- Jorge Semprún (1923-2011), Spanish writer and politician
- Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012), Catalan artist
- Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), French poet
- Masud Khan (1924-89), Indian/English psychoanalyst
- Goliarda Sapienza (1924–96), Italian novelist
- André du Bouchet (1924–2001), French poet
- Barbara Hardy (1924-), English critic
- Francisco Morales Nieva (1924-2016), Spanish playwright
- Frantz Fanon (1925-61), Martinician philosopher
- Rosario Castellanos (1925-74), Mexican poet
- Gilles Deleuze (1925-95), French philosopher
- Roger Laporte (1925-2001), French critic
- Andrea Camilleri (1925-2019), Italian novelist
- Nikos Kachtitsis (1926-70), Greek novelist
- Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73), German novelist
- Michel Foucault (1926-84), French philosopher
- Luís de Sttau Monteiro (1926-93), Portuguese novelist
- Michel Butor (1926-), French novelist
- René Depestre (1926-), Haitian poet
- Corín Tellado (1927-2009), Spanish novelist
- Günter Grass (1927-2015), German novelist
- Francesca Sanvitale (1928-2011), Italian novelist
- Griselda Gambaro (1928-), Argentinian novelist
- Agnès Varda (1928-), French director/artist
- José Ángel Valente (1929-2000), Spanish poet
- Christa Wolf (1929-2011), German novelist
- Milan Kundera (1929-), Czech novelist
- Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), French philosopher
- Harold Pinter (1930-2008), English playwright
- Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010), Italian writer and theorist
- Jean-Luc Godard (1930-), French/Swiss director
- Luce Irigaray (1930-), Belgian philosopher
- Maryse Condé (1930-), Guadeloupean novelist
- Toni Morrison (1931-), American novelist
- R. B. Kitaj (1932-2007), American/English artist
- John Updike (1932-2009), American novelist
- Jean-Marie Straub (1933-), French film-maker
- Uwe Johnson (1934-84), German writer
- Fulvio Tomizza (1935-1999), Italian novelist
- Georges Perec (1936-82), French novelist
- Stephen Medcalf (1936-2007), English critic
- Assia Djebar (1936-2015), Algerian novelist and director
- Danièle Huillet (1936-2006), French film-maker
- Ismail Kadare (1936-), Albanian novelist
- Silviano Santiago (1936-), Brazilian novelist
- Bessie Head (1937-86), Botswanan novelist
- Valentin Rasputin (1937-2015), Russian novelist
- Hélène Cixous (1937-), French novelist
- Giorgio Pressburger (1937-), Italian novelist
- Terence Cave (1938-), English critic
- Giuliana Morandini (1938-), Italian novelist
- Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Irish poet
- Albalucía Ángel (1939-), Colombian novelist
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940-2007), French philosopher
- Annie Ernaux (1940-), French novelist
- Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-), French philosopher
- 'Pepetela', Artur Carlos dos Santos (1941-), Angolan novelist
- Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-96), Polish director
- Cristina Peri Rossi (1941-), Uruguayan novelist
- Juan Luis Martínez (1942-1993), Chilean poet
- Malcolm Bowie (1943-2007), English critic
- Irina Liebmann (1943-), German novelist and poet
- Marilynne Robinson (1943-), American novelist
- Sasha Sokolov (1943-), Russian novelist and poet
- Viktor Krivulin (1944-2001), Russian poet
- W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), German/English novelist
- Sergei Stratanovskii (1944-), Russian poet
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-82), German writer and director
- Jeanne Hyvrard (1945-), French novelist
- Adam Zagajewski (1945-), Polish poet
- Elfriede Jelinek (1946-), Austrian novelist
- Gérard Macé (1946-), French writer
- Jean-François Vilar (1947-2014), French novelist
- Jean Echenoz (1947-), French novelist
- Cecilia Vicuña (1947-), Chilean poet
- Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-96), Brazilian novelist
- Elena Shvarts (1948-2010), Russian poet
- Claire Denis (1948-), French director
- Pascal Quignard (1948-), French writer
- Rodrigo Lira (1949-1981), Chilean poet
- Pedro Almodóvar (1949-), Spanish director
- Noëlle Renaude (1949-), French playwright
- Chantal Akerman (1950-2015), Belgian film-maker
- Laura Esquivel (1950-), Mexican novelist
- Maria-Mercè Marçal (1952-98), Spanish poet
- Quim Monzó (1952-), Catalan writer
- Patrick Chamoiseau (1953-), French (Martinique) novelist
- Ángela Hernández Núñez (1954-), Dominican writer
- Christoph Ransmayr (1954-), Austrian writer
- Hervé Guibert (1955-91), French writer/photographer
- Jamie McKendrick (1955-), English poet and translator
- Antonio Muñoz Molina (1956-), Spanish novelist
- Olivier Cadiot (1956-), French poet
- Alessandro Baricco (1958-), Italian novelist
- Dominique Fourcade (1958-), French poet
- Raquel Diana (1960-), Uruguayan playwright
- Christian Petzold (1960-), German director
- Yoko Tawada (1960-), Japanese/German poet
- Ana Clavel (1961-), Mexican multimedia writer
- Ying Chen (1961-), Chinese/Canadian novelist
- Olga Tokarczuk (1962-), Polish writer
- Christophe Tarkos (1963-2004), French poet
- Pierre Alferi (1963-), French poet
- Flavia Company (1963-), Argentinian novelist
- E. L. James (1963-), English novelist
- Estela Golovchenko (1963-), Uruguayan playwright
- Luisa Castro (1966-), Spanish poet/novelist
- Jenny Erpenbeck (1967-), German novelist and opera director
- Maya Goded (1967-), Mexican photographer
- Marie NDiaye (1967-), French novelist
- Teresa Moure (1969-), Spanish novelist
- Marta Rivera de la Cruz (1970-), Spanish novelist
- Abbas Khider (1973-), Iraqi writer
- Pablo Messiez (1974-), Argentinean playwright