Lit Net Top Author?

You can still vote.

There seems to be some confusion about whether the voting is closed or not - but here is goes anyway.

1) Jack London
2) John Steinbeck
3) Herman Hesse
4) Charles Dickens
5) Saul Bellow

Fictions and classics are dominating the vote.

-Thomas Hardy
- C.S. Lewis
- Umberto Eco
- Oscar Wilde
- Thorton Wilder

My nominations is now closed!

C.S. Lewis or G.K. Chesterton. Both are incredible--I can't believe how many genres they excelled in.

I'll vote for Faulkner

I can't go past Henrik Ibsen and, at the risk of seeming parochial, Patrick White. Followed by Dostoevsky, Emily Bronte and Shakespeare.

Camus
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Nabokov
Gogol

1. Dostoevksy
2. Turgenev
3. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
4. Kurt Vonnegut
5. J.D Salinger (So what if he hardly published anything.)

Virginia Woolf
Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth Gaskell
George Orwell
James Joyce

Cliche I know, but I guess you could say that the bigger writers are the most effective and influential ones and thus the better ones?

I will nominate the authors whose works I can read without any complaint:

Shaw
Faulkner
Steinbeck
Wilde

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

I will nominate the authors whose works I can read without any complaint:

Wilde

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:thumbs_up


Has anyone nominate Kafka?

Hello! Friends This is Shruti From India

1.Shakespeare (both for his sonnets and dramas)
2.Jane Austen
3.Bamkinchandra chatterjee(Bengali writer)
4.John keats
5.Amarnath (Maithili writer) Maithili is my regional language.



Being a lover of literature I very well know that literature is so must vast and varied that its creators cannot be confounded in a list.Here I am writings the name of those artists who have touched me beyond my soul.In English only from spenser ,shakespeare to shelly and wordsworth,from swift and pope to austen and eliot there is neverending series of writers . It is very difficult to judge and decide the best among them.I am here only giving name of those with whom I feel linked.
I am from India and in India there are a large number of language.And every language has its own literature.But most of the good works remains hidden.I feel that these writings are nice .They are interesting
and present the life and culture with beautiful craftmanship.But unfortunately most of the lovers of literature are unable to relish its taste .Anyway it is very nice writing to u guys.I feel u should also write me and advice me.

I vote for my personal beloved ones authors:

Brontes (I know I am cheating here ;), but if I had to choose Charlotte is my all time favorite author)
Steinbeck
Austen
Hardy
Marques

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Originally Posted by subterranean

Has anyone nominate Kafka?

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Ah! He slipped my mind.

Yes, Kafka is nominated.