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Top 10+ Writers
This Category contains the Top 10 Writers Worldwide. The Top is based on visitors VOTES. You can VOTE or Suggest your favorite Writer Worldwide.
1. Charles Dickens
Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.
His novels include : Great Expectations, David Copperfield, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short stories and articles before his death on June 9, 1870. He wished to be buried in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner, read more...
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2. Alexandre Dumas
Famous French writer Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie popularly known as Alexandre Dumas père was born on July 24th in the year 1802. Alexandre Dumas received widespread acclaim for his high adventure historical novels. One among the highest read French writers, Alexandre Dumas is remembered for his classics like The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and The Vicomte de Bragelonne.
He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. read more...
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3. William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".
Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, read more...
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4. Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France.
His legacy contains masterpieces such as : The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Misérables, Cromwell, Lucretia Borgia, Toilers of the Sea. read more...
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5. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881) was a Russian fiction writer, essayist, and philosopher whose works include Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society.
Dostoyevsky was arrested and imprisoned on April 23, 1849 for being a part of the liberal intellectual group, the Petrashevsky Circle. He was released from prison in 1854, and was required to serve in the Siberian Regiment.
Dostoyevsky's experiences in prison and the army resulted in major changes in his political and religious read more...
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6. Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Also called the "Father of the Science-Fiction" he wrote about flying, diving before there were any submarines or space ships.
Jules Verne died on March 24, 1905 and was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery in Amiens. There are recently (2008) initiated efforts to have him reburied in the Panthéon, alongside France's other literary giants. read more...
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7. Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9 1828 – November 20 1910), was a Russian writer widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time. His masterpieces, "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", represent the peak of realist fiction in their scope, breadth and vivid depiction of 19th-century Russian life and mind.
Tolstoi once said, "The one thing that is necessary, in life as in art, is to tell the truth." read more...
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8. Honore de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. read more...
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9. Dante Aligheri
Durante degli Alighieri (May/June 1265 – September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio hence Divina Commedia), is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italian he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta). Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio are also known as "the three fountains" or "the three crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian language". read more...
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10. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
One of Russia's greatest writers, Chekhov began his career writing jokes and anecdotes for popular magazines to support himself while he studied to become a doctor. Between 1888 and his death he single-handedly revolutionized both the drama and the short story. Near the end of his life he married an actress, Olga Knipper. He died from tuberculosis in 1904, age 44.
His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently read more...
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