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Voltaire is one of the greatest French Writers.
Some of his famous quotations are:

- ''I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.''

- “Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

- “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

Source: Britannica & Goodreads

Ezra Pound, in full Ezra Loomis Pound, (born October 30, 1885, Hailey, Idaho, U.S.—died November 1, 1972, Venice, Italy), American poet and critic, a supremely discerning and energetic entrepreneur of the arts who did more than any other single figure to advance a “modern” movement in English and American literature.
His notable works are:
- A Lume Spento
- Personae
- Exultations
- The Spirit of Romance
Source: Britannica.com and Biography.com

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965):
He was a novelist and short story writer.
Works:
- The Sacred Flame (1928)
- Cakes and Ale (1930)
- The Razor's Edge (1944)
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman

William Golding, in full Sir William Gerald Golding, English novelist who in 1983 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his parables of the human condition. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was published in 1954.
Other works:
- The Inheritors (novel) 1955
- Pincher Martin (novel) 1956
- The Brass Butterfly (play) 1958
- Free Fall (novel) 1959
- The Spire (novel) 1964
Source: NoblePrize.org and britannica

Victor Hugo, in full Victor-Marie Hugo, (born February 26, 1802, Besançon, France—died May 22, 1885, Paris), poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers.
Though regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).
Source: britannica

Toni Morrison, original name Chloe Anthony Wofford, (born February 18, 1931, Lorain, Ohio, U.S.—died August 5, 2019, Bronx, New York), American writer noted for her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Works:
- The Bluest Eye
- beloved
Source: britannica

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936):
Works:
-The Jungle Book (1894)
-Departmental Ditties (1886)
-Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)
-Soldiers Three (1890)
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman

Pearl S. Buck, née Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, pseudonym John Sedges, (born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.—died March 6, 1973, Danby, Vermont), American author noted for her novels of life in China. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
- Sons
- A House Divided
- East Wind, West Wind
- The Good Earth
Source: Britannica and biography.com

O. Henry, pseudonym of William Sydney Porter, original name William Sidney Porter, (born September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.—died June 5, 1910, New York, New York), American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City.
Works:
- The Gift of the Magi
- Cabbages and Kings
- The Four Million
- Heart of the West
- The Trimmed Lamp
- The Gentle Grafter
- The Voice of the City
- Whirligigs
- Strictly Business
Source: britannica and biography.com

Maxim Gorky, also spelled Maksim Gorky, pseudonym of Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, (born March 16 [March 28, New Style], 1868, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia—died June 14, 1936), Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, including his famous The Lower Depths.
Source: britannica

Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (born November 30, 1835, Florida, Missouri, U.S.—died April 21, 1910, Redding, Connecticut), American humorist, journalist, lecturer, and novelist who acquired international fame for his travel narratives, especially The Innocents Abroad (1869), Roughing It (1872), and Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
Source: britannica

Jules Verne, (born February 8, 1828, Nantes, France—died March 24, 1905, Amiens), prolific French author whose writings laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction.
Works:
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- From the Earth to the Moon
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Broken Straws
- The 1857 Salon
- Backwards to Britain
- Five Weeks in a Balloon
- The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
- Paris in the Twentieth Century
Source: britannica and biography.com

Aldous Huxley, in full Aldous Leonard Huxley, (born July 26, 1894, Godalming, Surrey, England—died November 22, 1963, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), English novelist and critic gifted with an acute and far-ranging intelligence whose works are notable for their wit and pessimistic satire. He remains best known for one novel, Brave New World (1932), a model for much dystopian science fiction that followed.
Source: britannica

Alexandre Dumas, père, (born July 24, 1802, Villers-Cotterêts, Aisne, France—died December 5, 1870, Puys, near Dieppe), one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century. Without ever attaining indisputable literary merit, Dumas succeeded in gaining a great reputation first as a dramatist and then as a historical novelist, especially for such works as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Source: britannica

Alice Munro, original name Alice Ann Laidlaw, (born July 10, 1931, Wingham, Ontario, Canada), Canadian short-story writer who gained international recognition with her exquisitely drawn narratives. The Swedish Academy dubbed her a “master of the contemporary short story” when it awarded her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.
Source: NobelPrize.org

Gabriel García Márquez, (born March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia—died April 17, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico), Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude). He was the fourth Latin American to be so honoured, having been preceded by Chilean poets Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971 and by Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias in 1967.
Source: NobelPrize.org

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924):
Works:
- The Nigger of the Narcissus, published in the previous age in 1898
- Lord Jim (1900)
- Heart of Darkness (1902)
- The End of the Tether (1902)
- Typhoon (1903)
- Nostromo (1904)
- The Mirror of the Sea (1906)
- The Secret Agent (1907)
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman

J.M. Synge, in full John Millington Synge, (born April 16, 1871, Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ireland—died March 24, 1909, Dublin), leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance, a poetic dramatist of great power who portrayed the harsh rural conditions of the Aran Islands and the western Irish seaboard with sophisticated craftsmanship.
Works:
- Riders to the Sea
- In the Shadow of the Glen
- The Tinker’s Wedding
- The Aran Islands
Source: britannica and poetry foundation

James Joyce, in full James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, (born February 2, 1882, Dublin, Ireland—died January 13, 1941, Zürich, Switzerland), Irish novelist noted for his experimental use of language and exploration of new literary methods in such large works of fiction as Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Source: britannica

J.K. Rowling, in full Joanne Kathleen Rowling, pen name of Joanne Rowling, (born July 31, 1965, Yate, near Bristol, England), British author, creator of the popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter series, about a young sorcerer in training.
Source: Britannica

Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 28, 1916, London, England), American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen from 1915, a great figure in transatlantic culture. His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in clash with the corruption and wisdom of the Old, as illustrated in such works as Daisy Miller (1879), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), and The Ambassadors (1903).
Source: britannica

H.G. Wells, in full Herbert George Wells, (born September 21, 1866, Bromley, Kent, England—died August 13, 1946, London), English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as 'The Time Machine' and 'The War of the Worlds' and such comic novels as 'Tono-Bungay' and 'The History of Mr. Polly'.
Source: britannica