List of European Authors by Country of Birth

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List of European Authors by Country of Birth

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1Samantha_kathy
Edited: Jan 30, 2012, 5:44 pm

This list is a list of European authors who write fiction books. There can be a lot of debate about what the nationality of an author is, therefore I am going by the country of birth. I’ve looked around a bit in order to make this list, but I’m sure I missed a lot of authors and made some mistakes. If you spot a mistake - like an author listed under the wrong country? Please let me know!

Rules of the list:

*Author belongs to a country if he was born there.

*Only authors who have written fiction are allowed. Preferably translated to English.

*For difficult countries I will also accept authors of poetry. If there is truly no-one who wrote fiction or poetry in that country, I will take narrative non-fiction as well.

*Suggest an author by commenting on this thread. Please note the name and country of birth. Do you have an author for a country/region in Europe not on the list? Suggest away! But please do not ask me to put a country/region on the list if you do not have an author suggestion to go with it.

2Samantha_kathy
Edited: Mar 3, 2012, 10:26 am

Albania:

Ornela Vorpsi
Ismail Kadare

Andorra:

Armenia:

Austria:

Elfriede Jelinek

Azerbaijan:

3Samantha_kathy
Jan 30, 2012, 5:36 pm

Belarus:

Belgium:

Hugo Claus
Dmitri Verhulst
Peter Terrin

Bosnia and Herzegovina:

Saša Stanišic

Bulgaria:

4Samantha_kathy
Jan 30, 2012, 5:36 pm

Channel Islands:

Croatia:

Miroslav Krleža

Cyprus:

Czech Republic:

Ivan Klima

8Samantha_kathy
Jan 30, 2012, 5:37 pm

Kosovo:

Latvia:

Lichtenstein:

Lithuania:

Luxembourg:

9Samantha_kathy
Jan 30, 2012, 5:37 pm

Macedonia:

Malta:

Moldova:

Monaco:

Montenegro:

12Samantha_kathy
Jan 30, 2012, 5:38 pm

Turkey:

UK: England:

UK: Northern Ireland:

UK: Scotland:

UK: Shetland Islands

UK: Wales:

Ken Follett

Ukraine:

Vatican City:

13Samantha_kathy
Jan 30, 2012, 5:39 pm

Thread is not open for suggestions and additions!

14Samantha_kathy
Feb 24, 2012, 4:04 pm

Added Frode Grytten to Norway and Aleksandar Tisma to Serbia.

15Samantha_kathy
Mar 3, 2012, 10:27 am

Added:

Imre Kertesz (Hungary)
Halldor Laxness (Iceland)
Peter Hoeg (Denmark)
Aleksis Kivi (Finland)
Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)

16Samantha_kathy
May 13, 2012, 2:12 pm

Added: Miguel de Cerventes (Spain) and Katarina Mazetti (Sweden)