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edit Amin Maalouf

is a magical storyteller. His mastery over the art of writing a novel is breathtaking.

edit J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter has swept the world. Her own rags to riches story is amazing too.

edit Paulo Coelho

Takes you on spiritual journeys to worlds within yourself.

edit JRR Tolkien

Created a new genre of fantasy fiction

edit Terry Pratchett

Wonderfully imaginative fantasy/fiction; do give it a shot if you're into dark British humour, satire, sarcasm and hilariously witty lines. (work under progress.)

edit Bertolt Brecht

A die-hard revolutionary, Brecht is a writer of "avoidable" tragedies - suffering that's there not because it's inevitable but because of "corrigible wrongs" in the society. The purpose of art, to him is not catharsis, but analysis. So, instead of making his audience emotionally involved in what's going on the stage, he deliberately produces the alienation effect (hanging stage lights, placards, actors themselves changing the settings of the stage, during the acts etc), because his aim is not to make his audience think "Oh...This is exactly what happens in real life", shed tears and return home, emotionally relieved, but rather to say "this is exactly what shouldn't happen in real life", and return home filled with anger against the actual state of affairs.

Read an extract from Brecht's poem

edit Samuel Beckett

The writer of nothingness and absurdity, of the ultimate and irredeemable meaninglessness of human life - he makes you see shit in every little hole you could hide yourself in.

See Samuel Beckett quotes here...

edit Chinua Achebe

"Until the lions have their own historians," Chinua Achebe says, "the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." Achebe is the historian of the hunted. Colonization and racism are recurring themes in his work.

edit Saadat Hasan Manto

A progressive South Asian writer whose short stories like "Mozail" and "Thanda Gosht" amongst many others, hold up a mirror to the stark bitter reality of a morally defunct society.

edit Harold Pinter

"The Caretaker","The Birthday Party","Ashes to Ashes" are amongst his most famous plays. The confounding thought processes punctuated by the famous 'Pinter Pause' (a term coined as a result of his works) reflect a fragmentary, isolated view of human nature.