Share your favourite European authors

🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Iain Banks

🇬🇧 China Mieville

🇬🇧 Charles Stross' Laundry Files

Poland:

• Stanislaw Lem (Science Fiction)

Austria:

• Wolf Haas (dark humour, detective stories)

Sweden:

• stieg Larsson (crime fiction - he wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
• Astrid Lindgreen (children's books)

England:

• Douglas Adams (science fiction, he wrote the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)
• Oscar Wilde
• j.r.r. Tolkien - the lord of the rings , the hobbit
• Agatha Christie - crime novels

Germany:

• Walter Moers ( Fantasy but his own kind, not elves and orks)
• Erich kästner (famous for his children's books that also are good reads for adults, famous for being present when the Nazis burned his books)
• Michael Ende (the best childrens books, and some actually too deep for children, "Momo", "The Neverending Story" to name 2)
• Herman Hesse (must read for people between 15-25)

🇮🇪 Sally Rooney

🇦🇱 Ismail Kadere

🇩🇪 Hermann Hesse

🇮🇹 Elena Ferrante

Hans Rosling 🇸🇪

Can we please mark/divide them in fiction vs non-fiction or, even better, give a professional title to the non-fiction ones?

I don't read fiction since 20 years now, but I am desperately looking for non-American takes on economy, technology and social issues.

Sorry if I don't abide by the format but:

• From Spain: Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Marcos Ana. All three are amazing poets. All of them have the spanish civil war as an over arching theme in their works.

• Julio Cortázar, wrote tales, nouvelles and novels. He was born in Switzerland, migrated to Argentina then spent his last years in France. His most acclaimed novel, Hopscotch, is a labyrinth of short stories that connect to create a greater narrative. Truly a work of art.

• Hugo Pratt. A graphic novel writer, author of Corto Maltese, probably my favourite graphic novel of all times. It's a classic. He was born in... Crete I think? Began publishing in Italy, then migrated to Argentina where he made most of his carreer.

• Neil Gaiman. Author of The Sandman, an all-time favourite of mine, Books Of Magic, famously the work which "inspired" J K Rowling... He is british, although he migrated to America. Sadly he has recently been known for his abusive practices towards his female employees.

• Herman Hesse. Pretty sure he was german, awarded a novel prize. He was the go to author during my teenage years. His books are aimed to a young adult audience and are filled with existential and philosophical debates. My favourite book, The Glass Bead Game, was a turning point in my life.

🇮🇹 Alessandro Baricco

🇮🇹 Andrea de Carlo

• 🇬🇧 Ed Winters

• 🇬🇧 Mary Beard

• 🇬🇧 George Orwell

🇬🇧 Agathe Christie - the best selling author in the world, creator of Hercule Poirot and Ms. Marple as well as the best selling novel of all time: "And Then There Were None"
🇬🇧 P. G. Wodehouse - a wonderful wielder of words and the creator of Jeeves and Wooster (although I prefer the Blandings novels)
🇬🇧 Mick Herron - the best spy fiction author since John le Carré but with a lot more failure and stains
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett - the Discworld creator and excellent satirist

Hmm, how dreadfully anglocentric of me. Hopefully this thread will give me some other ideas!

Andrey Kurkov (Death and the Penguin) Albert Camus Franz Kafka

• 🇸🇪 Karin Tidbeck