Who are the best authors from your country?

1. Walt Whitman
2. Thomas Pynchon
3. Gertrude Stein
4. Emerson
5. Edith Wharton

José de Alencar
Machado de Assis
Nelson Rodrigues
Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Aluísio de Azevedo

Pretty personal, I'm not listing the most relevant ones or whatever.
No particular order, by the way.

>2. Twain

>no contemporary authors
Chico Buarque is surprisingly good as a writer, pretty sure as soon as he dies he'll get into the Brazilian canon

meant to quote

What country would that be?

Rushdie is Indian, Joyce is Irish, Shakespeare is English, and James is American.

you guys are thick, aren't you

Haven't read anything by him yet, it's on my list but some personal quagmires have postponed my reading.

British Empire?

None. Brazilian literature is terrible.

Lessing
Bernhard
Mann
Grillparzer
...
Die briefe vom wolferl san a echt geil

>British Empire?
Henry James was born in 1843, you dumbfuck.

That was quick.

literalmente abjeto

1. Jose Rizal
2. Nick Joaquin
...

You uncultured stray dog - if you haven't read any of the classics, canon or not, don't utter affirmatives of this sort. Brazil DO have literary geniuses, miracles one might say - like Guimarães Rosa - but are forgotten via a mentality that everything european/american/white is inherently best, the quintessential stray-dog-ideology that Latin America suffers repeatedly. Go fucking read our canon and compare with the others and manufacture your own critique instead of echoing discourses from other underlings.

Joyce
Yeats
Wilde
Beckett
Heaney
Swift
Lewis

How does Ireland do it? Is it something you put in the food or something?

that'll teach him homie

1. David Foster Wallace
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13. ← Bad Luck
14. David Foster Wallace
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19. David Foster Wallace
20. David Foster Wallace
21. David Foster Wallace
22. Corncob McCarthy
23. David Foster Wallace
24. David Foster Wallace
25. David Foster Wallace
26. David Foster Wallace
27. David Career Move Wallace
28. David Foster Wallace
29. David Foster Wallace
30. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon

1. Falkner
2. Pinecone
3. McCarthy
4. Melville
5. Whitman

>Rulfo
>Elizondo
>Paz
>Fuentes
>Sor Juana
>Owen
>Villaurrutia
>Gorostiza
>Ruíz de Alarcón
>Castellanos
>López Velarde

I've read most of both European and Brazilian canons, don't know why have you thought otherwise. Thanks for the advice though, huh.

Don't forget George Bernard Shaw, Laurence Sterne, Flann O’Brien, Oliver Goldsmith, Bram Stoker, and Dylan Thomas.

I'd move some stuff around, but mostly this looks good

William Gass
William Gaddis
John Hawkes
Joseph McElroy
John Barth
Robert Coover
Thomas Pynchon
Donald Barthelme
Alexander Theroux
Samuel Delany
Gene Wolfe
Gil Orlovitz
Don DeLillo
Herman Melville
William Faulkner
Thomas Wolfe
William Vollmann
Henry James
Cormac McCarthy
Gilbert Sorrentino

You surely have read at least three works of each of those authors.

for the friend above

1. Shakespeare
2. Milton
3. Chaucer
Pretty much writes itself
4. Spenser
5. Keats
Two more personal selections

1. Bolaño
2. Bolaño
3. Bolaño
4. Bolaño
5. Bolaño

You forgot José Vasconcelos and Alfonso Reyes. José Emilio Pacheco is another great writer and poet.

It's the fact that it's a country with oppression that's still more or less educated. They don't quite half the first world infrastructure but they're close, but the Catholicism angle and split from GB gives them heavy feels to write about

Plus the land is gorgeous

>Bram Stoker
uhhh

It sucks being a burger.

Your post gave el cancer

Mexicanfag... Good list

1. Cervantes
2. Benito Pérez-Galdós
3. Pío Baroja
4. Francisco de Quevedo
5. Camilo José Cela

1. Patrick White
2. Tim Winton
3. Shaun Tan
4. Bryce Courtney (though he's South African by birth)
Man we're shit

Melville is the best on that list lmao.

Joyce Carol Oates
L Ron Hubbard
Peter Sotos

Antal Szerb, Dezső Kosztolányi, Géza Gárdonyi

Tim Krabbé
Harry Mulisch
Marion Bloem
Multatuli
Saskia Noort lel

Buena lista. Aunque habría metido a Delibes en vez de a Cela.

Gilberto Owen

Mi compadre.

>Hawthorne
>Good Author

Kierkegaard
H.C. Andersen

Rest are pretty much irrelevant, but that's okay since Kierkegaard is the undisputed God of prose in Danish. His is among the very greatest prose I've ever read.

Eh.

Nescio
W.F. Hermans
F. Bordewijk
Gerard Reve
Cees Nooteboom

Where you from mate?

Madách Imre, Ady Endre és meg is van az öt.

faszért kell olyan képet berakni, ami nem lesz nagyobb, ha rákattintok

Edgar Allan Poe
H. P. Lovecraft
Colin Meloy
Twain

Ivan Cankar
Srečko Kosovel
Tomaž Šalamun
France Prešeren
Vladimir Bartol

How is school vacation week going?

>H.C. Andersen

Go die in a fire.

i liked him when i was a child though

you properly ate dirt as well as a child. It is time to grow up user And freaking read some more danish authors if Kierkegaard and HC Andersen are your only bids for best author - seriously that's embarrassing.

Shakespeare
Chaucer
Hardy
Milton
Keats

Gogol
Bulgakov
Anna Ahmatova
Stanislav Lem
and Isaak Babel

Idk which country it is ought to be but it's awesome to have a great author named Kancer.

What nonsense. I'm not a Dane but still I like H.C.Andersen, especially in llight of the attempts at edginess of those Bizarro Fiction freaks or other attempts at being edgy, gothic and extreme. Read the mermaid. You will like it a lot.

Es una pena que no sea tan conocido. Es uno de los mejores poetas mexicanos.

Ibsen
Hamsun
Askildsen
Knausgård
Vesaas

>tfw Canada doesn't have any good authors

Munro and Sinclair are bretty good, albeit the latter is a one-trick pony. Some may argue that Atwood is good but personally I don't find her enthralling. Too deliberate and ironic. Munro is more honest in her writing.

>no Holberg

fucking plebs i swear

this, mexican dfw is the only good spanish author

murka n englaland
West Spain n Braziu
Das Großdeutsche Reich?
Mexistan

Mate, Lem was pretty much Polish, and therefore should not be on your list (considering, that Gogol and Bulgakov are there).

As for my country:
1. Witold Gombrowicz
2. Bruno Schulz
3. Jan Potocki
4. Stanisław Lem
5. Stanisław Brzozowski

You forgot Zambra and Donoso.

1. Hermann Hesse
2. Max Frisch
3. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Wow, wanna medal?

Melville
Sinclair Lewis
Emerson
Nabokov
Bellow

Needs more 19th century writers.

Nincsen Krúdy, hogy lehettek ennyire kulturálatlanok?

why do people on this board hate on Twain so much. He is definitely in the top 10 american authors at the very least.

bellow is Canadian and Nabokov is Russian.

these same anglos that lay claim to any writer who walked on american soil conveniently don't consider Beckett a French author...

1. Faulkner
2. Melville

everybody else is tied for last

Väinö Linna. Should you ever get interested in Finland and it's history, I suggest you read The Unknown Soldier and Under the North Star. They're among the best books I've ever read.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_(novel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_North_Star_trilogy

>you uncultured stray dog
I'm going to use that some day

Spain. Why?

I agree.

What the fuck do you mean we don't have first world infrastructure?

That user is Slovenian and that writer is called Cankar, not Kancer.

that part is easy to tell, I think he meant where are you from in Spain tbqh
nice trips btw

he fell for the "Ireland is poor" meme

Yep, this dude gets it

>everything european/american/white

Then why are Indian and Japanese writers so praised?

>heaney
i haven't seen him on any of these lists, but his translation of beowulf and pic related are god-tier. any recommendations for his original work?

Nabokov
Tolstoy
Dostoevsky
Gogol
Chekhov
Lermontov
Turgenev

One of the very few upsides of being Russian is the fact that the literature is pretty great.

am i the only american who doesn't like faulkner?

>Nabokov
>Gogol
Great fucking meme my african american pal

Is there any other upsides?

Why don't you?

every day is an adventure