Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997)

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1. Bohumil Hrabal

   Author of I Served the King of England, Closely Watched Trains, Total Fears Letters to Dubenka

2. Jeroen Brouwers

   Author of Sunken Red, Joris Ockeloen en het wachten : een lotgeval, De laatste deur : essays over zelfmoord in de Nederlandstalige letteren

3. Ivan Klima

   Author of Love and Garbage, Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, My First Loves

4. Danilo Kiš

   Author of A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, The Encyclopedia of the Dead, Garden, Ashes

5. Josef Škvorecký

   Author of The Cowards, The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka, Miss Silver's Past

6. Joseph Roth

   Author of The Radetzky March, The Tale of the 1002nd Night, Hotel Savoy

7. Raymond Queneau

   Author of Zazie dans le métro, We Always Treat Women Too Well (New York Review Books Classics), The Flight of Icarus

8. Thomas Bernhard

   Author of The Loser, Concrete, Gargoyles

9. Robert Walser

   Author of Jakob von Gunten, Selected Stories, The Robber

10. Mikhail Bulgakov

    Author of Heart of a Dog, The White Guard, A Theatrical Novel

11. Hermann Broch

    Author of The Death of Virgil, The Sleepwalkers, The Romantic

12. Italo Svevo

    Author of Confessions of Zeno, As a Man Grows Older, The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl

13. Elias Canetti

    Author of Auto-da-Fé, The Torch in My Ear, The Play of the Eyes

14. W.G. Sebald

    Author of Austerlitz, The Emigrants

15. Jaroslav Hasek

    Author of The Good Soldier Svejk

16. Claudio Magris

    Author of Danube, Microcosmi

17. Karel Čapek

    Author of War with the Newts, Apocryphal Tales, Resan till Norden

18. Milan Kundera

    Author of The Joke, The Art of the Novel

19. Witold Gombrowicz

    Author of Ferdydurke, Pornografia

20. Robert Musil

    Author of The Confusions of Young Törless, Drei Frauen, Brieven aan Anna