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Author entities gather every writer whose life and work this atlas documents, spanning every literary tradition, era and language from antiquity to the present. Placement follows the SubLabel convention recorded in this atlas's own DataBrief: each author carries the national or language literary tradition they actually wrote in, one of thirteen traditions running from Ancient and Classical Literature through Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature. Where an author's philosophical or religious facet matters more than their writing, that facet is a seam to a sibling atlas by same-as proposal rather than a duplicate entry here.

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Naguib Mahfouz

Middle Eastern, Persian and Hebrew Literature

Namiki Senryu

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Nathaniel Hawthorne

American Literature

Natsume Sōseki

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Natsuo Kirino

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Nawal El Saadawi

Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Nezahualcoyotl

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Nguyễn Du

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Niccolò Machiavelli

Italian Literature

Nikolai Gogol

Russian and Slavic Literature

Nikolai Leskov

Russian and Slavic Literature

O. Henry

American Literature

Octavia E. Butler

American Literature

Octavio Paz

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Okakura Kakuzo

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Omar Khayyam

Middle Eastern, Persian and Hebrew Literature

Orhan Pamuk

Middle Eastern, Persian and Hebrew Literature

Oscar Wilde

British and Irish Literature

Ovid

Ancient and Classical Literature

Pablo Neruda

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Patricia Highsmith

American Literature

Paulo Coelho

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Per Wahlöö

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Peter George

British and Irish Literature

Peter Hoeg

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Petrarch

Italian Literature

Petronius

Ancient and Classical Literature

Philip K. Dick

American Literature

Pierre Corneille

French Literature

Pindar

Ancient and Classical Literature

Pope Pius II

Italian Literature

Primo Levi

Italian Literature

Qiu Xiaolong

American Literature

Qu Yuan

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Rabindranath Tagore

South Asian Literature

Rachel Carson

American Literature

Rafael Sabatini

British and Irish Literature

Rainer Maria Rilke

German-Language Literature

Ralph Ellison

American Literature

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Literature

Ray Bradbury

American Literature

Raymond Chandler

American Literature

Richard Adams

British and Irish Literature

Richard Condon

American Literature

Robert Graves

British and Irish Literature

Roderick Thorp

American Literature

Rómulo Gallegos

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Rudolf Erich Raspe

German-Language Literature

Rumi

Middle Eastern, Persian and Hebrew Literature

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

East and Southeast Asian Literature

S. An-sky

Russian and Slavic Literature

Saadi

Middle Eastern, Persian and Hebrew Literature

Salman Rushdie

South Asian Literature

Samuel Beckett

British and Irish Literature

Samuel Butler

British and Irish Literature

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British and Irish Literature

Sappho

Ancient and Classical Literature

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

South Asian Literature

Sayaka Murata

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Sei Shonagon

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Selma Lagerlöf

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Shaaban Robert

Postcolonial African, Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Shi Nai'an

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Shi Yukun

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Shigeru Kayama

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Shirley Jackson

American Literature

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Middle Eastern, Persian and Hebrew Literature

Sholem Aleichem

Russian and Slavic Literature

Sigmund Freud

German-Language Literature

Sigrid Undset

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Simone de Beauvoir

French Literature

Sir Thomas More

British and Irish Literature

Sir Thomas Wyatt

British and Irish Literature

Somadeva

South Asian Literature

Song Yu

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Sophocles

Ancient and Classical Literature

Stanisław Lem

Russian and Slavic Literature

Stendhal

French Literature

Stephen King

American Literature

Stephenie Meyer

American Literature

Stieg Larsson

Scandinavian and Nordic Literature

Susan Sontag

American Literature

Suzanne Collins

American Literature

Sylvia Plath

American Literature

T. S. Eliot

American Literature

Takeda Izumo II

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Tang Xianzu

East and Southeast Asian Literature

Tayeb Salih

Postcolonial African Caribbean and Pacific Literature

Ted Chiang

American Literature

Tennessee Williams

American Literature

Thea von Harbou

German-Language Literature

Theocritus

Ancient and Classical Literature

Theodore Sturgeon

American Literature

Thiruvalluvar

South Asian Literature

Thomas Carlyle

British and Irish Literature

Thomas Harris

American Literature

Thomas Malory

British and Irish Literature

Thomas Mann

German-Language Literature
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