Share your favourite European authors

🇵🇱 Stanisław Lem - sci-fi author, had some good predictions on future tech. There is a video game loosely based on one of his novels, "The Invincible"

🇵🇱 Andrzej Sapkowski - The Witcher series

🇬🇧 Dan Abnett - great Warhammer 40K books

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)

• 🇬🇧 Ed Winters

• 🇬🇧 Mary Beard

• 🇬🇧 George Orwell

🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Iain Banks

🇬🇧 China Mieville

🇬🇧 Charles Stross' Laundry Files

🇬🇧 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!

🇨🇿 Jiri Weil

🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett

🇬🇧 Charles Williams

🇩🇪 Walter Moers

🇮🇪 Sally Rooney

🇦🇱 Ismail Kadere

🇩🇪 Hermann Hesse

🇮🇹 Elena Ferrante

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.

Hans Rosling 🇸🇪

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