Prose Writer

This page lists 1,413 biographies of prose writers, covering lives from 585 BC to 2001. Featuring A. S. Byatt, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Alexander Serafimovich. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

María Rita de Barrenechea y Morante

1757 – 1795

Takeshi Kaikō

1930 – 1989

Aram Haigaz

1900 – 1986

Armen Shekoyan

1953 – 2021

Voula Damianakou

1922 – 2016

Séamus Ó Grianna

1889 – 1969

Fedor Samokhin

1918 – 1992

Marina Fedorovna Karyagina

b. 1969

Levan Gotua

1905 – 1973

Hakob Karapents

1925 – 1994

Mikheil Javakhishvili

1880 – 1937

Hamastegh

1895 – 1966

Aram Pachyan

b. 1983

Nodar Dumbadze

1928 – 1984

Georgina Hammick

1939 – 2023

Smbat Byurat

1862 – 1915

Henryk Grynberg

b. 1936

Leonid Yandakov

1933 – 2025

Natalia Utina

1841 – 1913

Narine Abgaryan

b. 1971

Zaruhi Bahri

1880 – 1958

Yuno Semyonov

1899 – 1961

Vakhenak Bekaryan

1891 – 1975

Anna Langfus

1920 – 1966

Anatoly Chernousov

1937 – 2000

Yury Kazakov

1927 – 1982

Vladimir Bakhmetyev

1885 – 1963

Alfred Andersch

1914 – 1980

Egnate Ninoshvili

1859 – 1894

Sergey Dmitriev

b. 1959

Vinka Sazdova

b. 1956

Meruzhan Ter-Gulanyan

b. 1948

Vadim Levental

b. 1981

Sasha Filipenko

b. 1984

Anahit Sahinyan

1917 – 2010

Anush Aslibekyan

b. 1981

Levon Pashalian

1868 – 1943

Hovhannes Hisarian

1827 – 1916

Sargis Abrahamyan

1915 – 1969

Axel Bakunts

1899 – 1937

Sergei Sergeyev-Tsensky

1875 – 1958

Volodymyr Melnykov

b. 1951

Miki Liukkonen

1989 – 2023

Vardges Petrosyan

1932 – 1994

Natascha Wodin

b. 1945

Sarah Jio

b. 1978

Vera Mutafchieva

1929 – 2009

Artashes Kalantarian

1931 – 1991

Ewa Felińska

1793 – 1859

Maria Reva

b. 1989

Antoni Kucharczyk

1874 – 1944

Pedro de Oraá

1931 – 2020

Phillip Mann

1942 – 2022

Carl Tighe

1950 – 2020

Anna De Weert

1867 – 1950

Alexander Senkevich

b. 1941

Dante Alighieri

1265 – 1321

Li Kuei-Hsien

1937 – 2025

Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic

1461 – 1510

Mikhail Alekseyev

1918 – 2007

Nora Adamjan

1910 – 1992

Dimitris Stefanakis

b. 1961

Mickey Spillane

1918 – 2006

Alexandrine von Hutten-Czapska

1854 – 1941

Avrom Reyzen

1876 – 1953

I. C. Vissarion

1879 – 1951

Mehdi Huseyn

1909 – 1965

Jürgen Becker

1932 – 2024

Álvaro Bisama

b. 1975

Panagiotis Soutsos

1806 – 1868

Anatoly Marienhof

1897 – 1962

Margarita Karapanou

1946 – 2008

Kočo Racin

1908 – 1943

Felix Gras

1844 – 1901

Georges-Emmanuel Clancier

1914 – 2018

Oya Baydar

b. 1940

Mati Sirkel

b. 1949

Menelaos Lountemis

1912 – 1977

Honoré de Balzac

1799 – 1850

Lucien Solvay

1851 – 1950

Rob Epstein

b. 1955

Dara Korniy

b. 1970

Yuriko Miyamoto

1899 – 1951

Gregory David Roberts

b. 1952

Daniel Valchev

b. 1962

Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky

1874 – 1943

Gérald Leblanc

1945 – 2005

Franciszak Umiastouski

1882 – 1940

Yuri Nikitin

1939 – 2025

Tȯlepbergen Qaĭypbergenov

1929 – 2010

Géza Ottlik

1912 – 1990

Roman Karl Scholz

1912 – 1944

Leelo Tungal

b. 1947

Ljubomir Micić

1895 – 1971

Kris Saknussemm

b. 1961

Urmuz

1883 – 1923

Daniil Kharms

1905 – 1942

Lê Minh Khuê

b. 1949

Gong Sun-ok

b. 1963

Börries von Münchhausen

1874 – 1945