I. Homer
II. Virgil
III. Ovid
IV. Tu-Fu
V. Murasaki Shikibu
VI. Dante Alighieri
VII. Francesco Petrarca
VIII. Miguel De Cervantes
IX. William Shakespeare
X. John Milton
XI. Moliere
XII. Voltaire
XIII. Alexander Pushkin
XIV. Charles Dickens
XV. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
XVI. Jane Austen
XVII. Victor Hugo
XVIII. Feodor Dostoevsky
XIX. Herman Melville
XX. Gustave Flaubert
XXI. Charles Baudelaire
XXII. Leo Tolstoy
XXIII. Emily Dickinson
XXIV. Mark Twain
XXV. Emile Zola
XXVI. Henry James
XXVII. Arthur Conan Doyle
XXVIII. Anton Chekhov
XXIX. Thomas Mann
XXX. Franz Kafka
XXXI. Robert Musil
XXXII. Federico Garcia Lorca
XXXIII. Ernest Hemingway
XXXIV. Jorge Luis Borges
XXXV. Pablo Neruda
XXXVI. Gertrude Stein
XXXVII. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I think that’s a very good list. 🙂
Thank you Richard!
Welcome 🙂
I would humbly suggest J. R. R. Tolkien, George Orwell, Eugene Ionesco just to name a few…:-)
As always you are right my friend…
I would also suggest Joyce and Wilde to the list, however, it is a very good list. 🙂
My friend…great suggestions!! Thank you…
You should add Li Po to that list since you have Tu Fu. They are considered the two greatest Chinese poets and are often spoken of in the same breath, And Ezra Pound for the influence he had on some many of his contemporaries. Also William Faulkner. But you have a good list here.
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Excellent suggestions! Thank you…
These are all great! Most of my favorites on here. I also think Mary Shelley was pretty influential.
Yasmin you are right!
I would add the following American writers Frank Norris for the The Pit, Theodore Dreiser for Sister Carrie and John Steinbeck for Grapes of Wrath
Great choices!
for me it is günter grass
gerhard1953
Thank you…a master!