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- Adams, Alice
- Aichinger, Ilse
- Alfau, Felipe
- Algren, Nelson
- Anderson, Sherwood
- Azorin
- Babel, Isaac
- Bachmann, Ingeborg
- Ballard, J. G.
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Banks, Russell
- Barnes, Djuna
- Barrett, William E.
- Barsony, Etienne
- Barth, John
- Barthelme, Donald
- Bates, H.E.
- Bausch, Richard
- Beckett, Samuel
- Bellow, Saul
- Benedetti, Mario
- Berriault, Gina
- Bidpai
- Birrell, Heather
- Bjornson, Bjornstjerne
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Bolaño, Roberto
- Boll, Heinrich
- Borchert, Wolfgang
- Borges, Jorge Luis
- Bowles, Jane
- Bowles, Paul
- Bradbury, Ray
- Brautigan, Richard
- Brentano, Clemens
- Breton, Andre
- Buckler, Ernest
- Bunin, Ivan
- Buzzati, Dino
- Calderon, Ventura Garcia
- Callaghan, Morley
- Calvino, Italo
- Capote, Truman
- Carter, Angela
- Carver, Raymond
- Chekhov, Anton
- Chester, Alfred
- Chopin, Kate
- Chugtai, Ismat
- Cocteau, Jean
- Collier, John
- Cortazar, Julio
- Creeley, Robert
- Curley, Daniel
- Daitch, Susan
- Daudet, Alphonse
- Davenport, Guy
- Davies, Rhys
- Dawson, Fielding
- De La Mare, Walter
- Dennis, Nigel
- Dick, Philip K.
- Dinesen, Isak
- Disch, Thomas
- Dorman, Sonya
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Du Maurier, Daphne
- Dunbar, Alice
- Dunsany, Lord
- Elkin, Stanley
- Elliott, George P.
- Emshwiller, Carol
- Essop, Ahmed
- Fahey, John
- Fante, John
- Faulkner, William
- Ferber, Edna
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Ford, Jesse Hill
- Forster, E.M.
- Frame, Janet
- France, Anatole
- Gallant, Mavis
- Gass, William H.
- Gill, Brendan
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Gissing, George
- Glynn, Thomas
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Goldstein, Michael
- Goldstone, Herbert
- Gombrowicz, Witold
- Goodman, Paul
- Gorky, Maxim
- Gorodischer, Angelica
- Greene, Graham
- Greenman, Ben
- Hanley, James
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hearn, Lafcadio
- Hecht, Ben
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Hesse, Hermann
- Hildesheimer, Wolfgang
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von
- Holst, Spencer
- Hurst, James
- Huxley, Aldous
- Ilf and Petrov
- Ioannides, Panos
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Jackson, Shirley
- Jansson, Tove
- Jarry, Alfred
- Jerome, Jerome K.
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kavan, Anna
- Kerouac, Jack
- Kharms, Daniil
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Kleist, Heinrich von
- Krampf, Carl
- Kundera, Milan
- Lagerkvist, Per
- Landolfi, Tommaso
- Lawrence, D.H.
- Leftwich, Edmund H.
- LeGuin, Ursula K.
- Leiber, Fritz
- Lem, Stanislaw
- Link, Kelly
- Lispector, Clarice
- London, Jack
- Lynch, Benito
- MacLeod, Alistair
- Mahfouz, Naguib
- Malamud, Bernard
- Maloney, Russell
- Mann, Thomas
- Mansfield, Katherine
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
- Matthews, Jack
- Maugham, William Somerset
- Maupassant, Guy de
- Mérimée, Prosper
- McCarthy, Mary
- McCullers, Carson
- McDermott, Alice
- Merritt, A.
- Michaels, Leonard
- Midwood, Barton
- Millet, Lydia
- Minor, Kyle
- Mishima, Yukio
- Molnar, Ferenc
- Moravia, Alberto
- Murdoch, Iris
- Musil, Robert
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- O'Connor, Flannery
- O'Connor, Frank
- O'Faolain, Sean
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Olesha, Yuri
- Olsen, Tillie
- Orwell, George
- Paley, Grace
- Palma, Ricardo
- Pancake, Breece D'J
- Parker, Dorothy
- Perec, Georges
- Pessoa, Fernando
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Porter, Katherine Ann
- Powers, J.F.
- Queneau, Raymond
- Quiller-Couch, Arthur
- Quiroga, Horacio
- Renard, Jules
- Rhys, Jean
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Robbe-Grillet, Alain
- Rodoreda, Mercè
- Roethke, Theodore
- Rosenblatt, Benjamin
- Rowe, Christopher
- Rulfo, Juan
- Saki
- Salih, Tayeb
- Sansom, William
- Saroyan, William
- Sarraute, Nathalie
- Sayles, John
- Söderberg, Hjalmar
- Schulz, Bruno
- Schwartz, Delmore
- Sheckley, Robert
- Shepard, Sam
- Shields, Carol
- Singleton, George
- Spark, Muriel
- Spencer, Elizabeth
- Stafford, Jean
- Stapledon, Olaf
- Steegmuller, Francis
- Steinbeck, John
- Stevenson, Robert Louis
- Strindberg, August
- Sturgeon, Theodore
- Thomas, Dylan
- Turgenev, Ivan
- Twain, Mark
- Ungeheuer, K.
- Unknown / Anon.
- Valenzuela, Luisa
- Vian, Boris
- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Walker, Alice
- Wallace, David Foster
- Walser, Robert
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Weidman, Jerome
- Wells, H. G.
- Wharton, Edith
- White, E.B.
- Wilbur, Richard
- Wilde, Oscar
- Willeford, Charles
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Wood, Monica
- Woolf, Virginia
- Woolrich, Cornell
- Xun, Lu
- Yates, Richard
- Zoshchenko, Mikhail
- Zukofsky, Louis
- Zweig, Arnold
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