Post your country's most famous writer

Post your country's most famous writer.
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Very few poets can claim to dominate a language as much as he does. A person may not know who wrote the Meng or the Journey, but I challenge you to find a single Chinese-educated person who does not know who Li Bai is, arguably what Pushkin in poetry is to Russia

I just read "Easter". It felt pretty timeless.

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Du Fu is better tho

I'd say Wu Cheng'en, but then I'm not Chinese so wtf do I know.

On that note, what's the best adaptation of Journey to the West?

Naguib Mahfouz -Egypt

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I really don't know.
Dante ? Umberto Eco ? Manzoni ?
Is Leopardi even known out of Italy?

You tell me, which one is more famous ?

probably dante