What is your nationality and one of your nations writers??

[Can]

I think of myself as Scottish rather than British so that rules out Philip Larkin, I'm afraid.
My favourite Scottish writer would be Iain Crichton Smith who wrote in English and Gaelic so beautifully. Cannae resist giving you an example:

TWO GIRLS SINGING


It neither was the words nor yet the tune
Any tune would have done and any words.
Any listener at all.

As nightingales in rocks or a child crooning
in its own world of strange awakening
or larks for no reason but themselves.

So on the bus through late November running
by yellow lights tormented, darkness falling,
the two girls sang for miles and miles together

and it wasn't the words or the tune. It was the singing.
It was the human sweetness in that yellow,
the unpredicted voices of our kind.

ı like it

[RicMisc]

I'm Dutch and probably the most respected Dutch authors are:
- Harry Mulisch
- W.F. Hermans
- Gerard 't Reve
- Hella S. Haasse

Though I am not a big fan of Dutch literature these are the authors known as 'The Great Four' in The Netherlands. Some of their books are definitely worth a read though.

[AlysonofBathe]

Another Canuck here - I'll throw Alice Munro and Michael Ondaatje into the mix.

[Saladin]

Norwegian. Henrik Ibsen - the One and Only!

[crusoe]

German. E.T.A. Hoffmann...Gespenster-Hoffmann

[revi]

I am an Indian, and as you know, India is a Babel! I am from the southern state of Kerala and here we speak Malayalam, of the Dravidian family. Thunchath Ezhuthachan, Kumaran Asan and O V Vijayan are some of the important writers.

[hannah_arendt]

I am german. There are quite some authors both contemporary and past. Heinrich Böll, Bertold Brecht, Heinrich Kleist, Günther Grass, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse, to name a few. Not so good with women – Julia Franck, Christa Wolf, Sibylle Lewitscharoff ...

My favourite ones have always been: Heinrich Böll, Thomas Mann and Herta Muller.

I was born in Poland but I my grandpa was British. If it comes to polish literature: Szymborska, Miłosz, Schulz, Gombrowicz.