Ismail Kadare

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1. Ismail Kadare

   Author of Broken April, The Concert, Doruntine

2. Orhan Pamuk

   Author of Snow, The White Castle, The new life

3. Imre Kertész

   Author of Fatelessness, Liquidation, Fiasco

4. Joseph Roth

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

5. Danilo Kiš

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

6. Bohumil Hrabal

   Author of I Served the King of England, Too Loud A Solitude, Closely Watched Trains

7. J. G. Farrell

   Author of The Siege of Krishnapur, Troubles, The Singapore Grip

8. Sándor Márai

   Author of Embers, Casanova in Bolzano, Esther's Inheritance

9. Mario Vargas Llosa

   Author of The War of the End of the World, Death in the Andes, The Green House

10. J. M. Coetzee

    Author of The Master of Petersburg, Age of Iron, Dusklands

11. José Saramago

    Author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, The Elephant's Journey

12. A. L. Kennedy

    Author of Everything You Need: A Novel, Looking for the Possible Dance

13. Roberto Bolaño

    Author of By Night in Chile, Amulet, The Skating Rink

14. Ivo Andrić

    Author of The Bridge on the Drina, Bosnian Chronicle

15. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

    Author of Petals of Blood, Matigari

16. W.G. Sebald

    Author of Austerlitz, The Emigrants, Vertigo

17. Alberto Moravia

    Author of Contempt, The Conformist

18. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova

    Author of Eigen heer en meester, De ontsnapping, De jacht op geld

19. Aleksandar Hemon

    Author of Nowhere Man: The Pronek Fantasies, The Question of Bruno: Stories

20. Witold Gombrowicz

    Author of Ferdydurke, Cosmos, De verhalen