Short Fiction

is a collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges

Brazilian novellas; 1970s novellas

Novella

a 1952 novella by the American author Ernest Hemingway

was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist

Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in 1940

was an Indian novelist and short story writer in the Bengali language

He is also an essayist, as well as having written poetry, short stories, and books for children.

He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories.

is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing

Among her later story collections are Winter's Tales (1942)

the short-story collection Life Ceremony

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His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan.

29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1860-15 July [O.S. 2 July] 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809-4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

"Diary of a Madman", also translated as "A Madman's Diary" (Chinese: 狂人日記; pinyin: Kuángrén Rìjì) is a short story by the Chinese writer Lu Xun, published in 1918.

Tevye the Dairyman, also translated as Tevye the Milkman (Yiddish: טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, Tevye der milkhiker [ˈtɛvjə ˌdɛr ˈmilxikər]), is the fictional narrator and protagonist of a series of short stories by Sholem Aleichem, and their various adaptations, the most famous being the musical Fiddler on the Roof, which premiered on Broadway in 1964, and its 1971 film adaptation.

He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel Pedro Páramo, and the collection of short stories El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plain, 1953).

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃɔɾot̪t͡ʃɔnd̪ɾo t͡ʃɔʈːopad̪ʱːae̯]; 15 September 1876-16 January 1938) was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון \ שְׁמוּאֵל יוֹסֵף עַגְנוֹן shmuél yoséf agnón; August 8, 1887, February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

"Diary of a Madman" (Russian: Записки сумасшедшего, Zapiski sumasshedshevo) is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol first published in 1835.

"Rashōmon (羅生門)" is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa based on tales from the Konjaku Monogatarishū.

"Gimpel the Fool" (1953) is a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated into English by Saul Bellow in 1953.

"The Overcoat" (Russian: Шине́ль, romanized: Shinél; also translated as "The Cloak" or "The Mantle") is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1843.

"The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948.

A Story") is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.

"The Dunwich Horror" is a cosmic horror short story by American writer H.

La Damigella di Scalot is a thirteenth-century Italian romance novellina, i.e. a very short story, included in the collection Il Novellino: Le ciento novelle antiche (Novellino.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890-12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel debut being The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920), Tommy and Tuppence (with the novel debut being The Secret Adversary in 1922), and Miss Marple (with the novel debut being The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930).

One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels (including 192 under his own name), 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel ( man-TEL; born Thompson; 6 July 1952-22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903, July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States.

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese: 石黒 一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo; ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer.

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1831-5 March [O.S. 21 February] 1895) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M.

He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels, and two scripts for Star Trek: The Original Series.

William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874-16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels, and short stories.

He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called Soz-e-Watan (Sorrow of the Nation).

Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and for their analysis of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune.

Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 1925-25 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku.

His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty years; further works have been published since his death.

He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges ( BOR-hess; Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ; 24 August 1899-14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875-12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Italo Calvino (, also US: ; Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923-19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer.

Clarice Lispector (Portuguese: [klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ]; née Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920 - December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ maˈɾiɐ maˈʃadu d͡ʒ(i) aˈsis]), sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839-29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.

Cesare Pavese (UK: pav-AY-zay, -⁠zee, Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare paˈveːze, ˈtʃɛː-, -eːse]; 9 September 1908-27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist.

Abdullah Hussain (Urdu: عبداللہ حسین), (14 August 1931-4 July 2015) was an Urdu novelist and short story writer from Gujrat.

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (UK: , US: ; French: [ɡi d(ə) mopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850-6 July 1893) was a 19th-century French author, celebrated as a master of the short story and associated with the naturalist literary school of thought, depicting human lives, destinies, and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Russian: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда, Ledi Makbet Mtsenskogo uyezda) is an 1865 novella by Nikolai Leskov.

The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection The Better Sort.

The Prisoner of the Caucasus (or A Prisoner in the Caucasus; Russian: Кавказский пленник, romanized: Kavkazsky plennik) is an 1872 novella written by Leo Tolstoy for his ABC book.

"Viy" (Russian: Вий, IPA: [ˈvʲij]; pronounced in English), also translated as "The Viy", is a horror novella by the writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in volume 2 of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod (1835).

The Queen of Spades (Russian: «Пиковая дама», romanized: Pikovaya dama) is an 1834 novella with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin, about human avarice.

The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year.

The Virgin and the Gipsy is a 1930 novella by English author D.

"Dolan's Cadillac" is a novella by Stephen King.