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This list contains the names of persons (of any ethnicity or nationality) who wrote fiction, essays, or plays in the German language. It includes both living and deceased writers. Most of the medieval authors are alphabetized by their first name, not by their sobriquet
Franz Kafka (1883–1924), lived in Prague during Austria-Hungary and Czechoslovakia; German language writer; see also German literature; Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) Milan Kundera (born 1929), born in Czechoslovakia, but moved to France. Multi-language writer. Salman Rushdie (born 1947), born in India, but moved abroad later.
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to German language authors fourteen times (as of 2023), or the third most often, behind only French language authors (with 16 laureates) and English language authors (with 32 laureates) with winners including Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Günter Grass, and Peter Handke.
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
This is a list of European literatures.. The literatures of Europe are compiled in many languages; among the most important of the modern written works are those in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Czech, Russian, Macedonian, the Scandinavian languages, Gaelic and Turkish.
Dramatic genres; Comedy; Libretto; Play. historical; moral; Satire; Script; Tragedy; Tragicomedy; History; Ancient; Classical; Medieval; Modernist; Postmodern; Lists ...
Since the vast majority of German writers and Austrian writers write in German (although not all in either case) they should not be placed in this category. Only authors of other than these two nationalities who wrote in the German language should be put in this category.
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