Discover the very best authors by country with our top 10 lists.
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For a country with such a small population Scotland has produced a surprising number of world class creative writers. Many of the best Scottish writers have, like Irish writers such as Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Swift, and others, become regarded by the outside world as great “English” writers.
For a small country with only 400 years of European influence, South Africa has a rich literary identity. Curating the ten best South African authors is hard, but here’s our take.
Latin America has produced some of the most important writers of the past century and a half. Not only are the works of the best Latin American writers exceptional literary works, but also good sellers.
It’s a challenging exercise to select writers to represent our pick of the 10 best Russian authors, in part because of the richness of the Russian literary landscape.
The best French authors have made a significant contribution to world literature down the years. Europe, a continent rich in its variety of languages, has had thousands of great writers, many of which were French.
Who are the best English writers of all time? Such a list is inevitably subjective given the huge number of great English writers, but we’ve given it a go none-the-less.
