Also, who is your favourite writer in your language? I'm brazilian and my favourite writer is Saramago
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Latvian
Good ol Rainis for me
Irish
Beckett
Germany. There are no good arabic writers.
Kek'd
I'm argentinian, favourite writer is Borges
I'm a citizen of the world.
My favorite literature is spongebob memes from twitter.
america and pic related
Filipino
God no, I hate our literature.
Canadian.
Canadian literature is horribly boring and even at its best is lacking. Everything I have done, including trying to live a ridiculous and controversial life, has been in-part done to try and become a 'larger-than-life' literary figure that we lack.
Woah, hey I want to read something Filipino. There must be something you can recommend?
>Be Britbong
>Be living in America
>Hemmingway
His write is uncluttered and lean. Is there any other writers with a style similar to his?
English but living in NZ
Don't have a favourite writer or favourite book, they always change
Bob Ong is the only notable at the moment.
The rest are meant for the creepy masochistic folks that we are.
In my language, my favorite writer is probably Faulkner or Joyce.
What about cortázar?
Not the same user.
The best cortazar is the worst borges.
No but really, cortazar is reeally great but borges is far better
NZ
William Faulkner
Sweden
Tranströmer
>defining yourself with spooks
> Everything I have done, including trying to live a ridiculous and controversial life, has been in-part done to try and become a 'larger-than-life' literary figure that we lack.
are u me?? xD
Switzerland
Goethe
Veeky Forumshuanian.
I don't read Lithuanian authors.
Mums normālu prozaiķu vispār ir? Cik esmu dzirdējis tad literatūrā klibojam (neko latvisku kopš pamatskolas beigu klasēm neesmu lasījis); rakstnieku ar filozofiskām nosliecēm ir tuvu nullei un ja atrodas kāds kas cilā vai iztirzā kaut ko filozofisku tad gaužām virspusēji.
Steinbeck?
Serbian
I don't know, I haven't read jack shit by Serbian authors. Danilo Kiš, I guess. If he counts, because he's half Jewish.
Romanian
Emil Cioran
México
Sabato, Rulfo, or Sor Juana.
Hungarian
Krasznahorkai I guess right now but I haven't read too many of our authors desu.
Salinger
Russian
Tolstoy & Chekhov
Kako te nije sramota?
Ireland
>English
Joyce 2bh
>Irish
Brian Merriman 2bh
You actually read Leabhar as Gaeilge?
Britfag here.
All the myriad faggots who wrote the Bible, and then all the myriad faggots who translated it into KJV. I'm Jewish, so I can jack off to both.
Nonsense! You have Atwood, don't you? She's one of the best science fiction writers there is!
Italy
Calvino
Finland
Volter Kilpi
Hungarian
Frigyes Karinthy
Germany
Rilke or Hölderlin (poets, but who cares?)
Mostly poetry
Croatian.
Ivan Gundulic is probably our best, Dante tier epics and all.
Studiram engleski, zato uglavnom čitam njihova sranja. Biće vremena i za naše, samo da se otarasim faksa.
Stop speaking Turkroach on my board.
Hung Aryan
me
How retarded do you have to be to mix up Slavic and Turkic?
Epic knowledge of language, mate.
You're retarded if you think the language of a people ruled by Turks for hundreds of years WASN'T made more Turkish.
At this point, Serbian's practically a dialect.
There were no Turkic words in any of those posts, though.
And most words of Turkic origin are now considered archaic in Serbo-Croatian. Like German words are archaic in northern parts of the region.
Dumbass.
French
Flaubert
Sta se cita na faksu?
Australian
GRRM
Svašta, zavisi od predmeta. Mada modernije književnosti ima malo više od klasične. 20. vek uglavnom sad, s postmodernizmom u fokusu.
Not that user, but try F. Sionil Jose's Rosales Saga (that's five books, but each stands out on it's own) or anything by Nick Joaquin. They're English-language works anyway.
F. Sionil Jose's books are in the realm of social novels, think Graham Greene-esque stuff. Nick Joaquin I think is a more well-rounded writer. Both tackle issues in Filipino nationhood in their novels.
way to fucking debase yourself you fucking faggot. bob ong only made one good book and it's fucking mediocre at best just because of all the nostalgia it contains. Stop being a fucking poser and educate yourself before making generalizations you fucking mong
Cortazar is inferior to borges, the only people that prefer him (here at least) are leftwinged trustfund kids and hipsters
Belgium
Hermans I guess
Butthurt Turkroach detected.
I understand why you want to leave your heritage behind.
French
Céline I guess
why is Aspazija so highly regarded in Latvian literature?
I suppose you haven't read Thoreau, have you?
I suppose you haven't read Thoreau, have you?
shieeet, why did I think that he was Canadian
>Butthurt Turkroach detected
>implying
French
Boileau probably
New Zealand
Jesus
I didn't know either I was just shitposting :3
Indian
Khushwant Singh
labas vakaras mielieji. nustokit pyktis del literaturos, tai nieko gera neduos.
Argentine
my favorite writer in Spanish is Ruben Darío
true tumblrina.
damn, he looks like an irl friend of mine in that pic, spooky
Portuguese
Probably Pessoa or Almeida Faria...
just learn latvian žydrūnas
Greek.
Probably C.P. Cavafy.
USA
Mark Twain
>brazilian
>Tolkien
Belgian, probably Verhulst or Verhelst. Can't pick one of them.
As in Stefaan Hermans?
>libya
>green flag
only in our dreams, comrade
Plenty. Just started reading Breece D'J Pancake. Y'ell love him. Jack London, too, is like a proto-Hem.
Richler my dude.
S'il vous plaît, monsieur
>svq il ne voulait même pas traduire lui-même
LMAO, so many arabs in Germany right? hahaha fucking mudslims LOOOL
Croat
Antun Gustav Matoš and Josip Pupačić
με πρόλαβες
Tātad ka Latvijas iedzīvotāju skaitlis krīt, man tiešam nav pārsteigums ka tādi prozaiķu tik daudz nav. Es uzaugu ASV, tamdeļ es tikai zinu par vecmodīgie rakstnieki, jo ir tikai tādi rakstnieki kuri mani vecāki un vecvecāki ir lasījusi
Portuguese.
Eça.
Japanese.
Kenji Miyazawa and Yasutaka Tsutsui.
But I like Vonnegut most.
it's spelled "italo"
Willem Frederik Hermans?
Serbian, Milorad Pavić. a very weird dude.
USA
James Joyce
>Es uzaugu ASV
Kāda iemesla pēc vispār pārvācies uz LV? Such a downgrade :^)
>es tikai zinu par vecmodīgie rakstnieki
Izņemot Raini ko minēji iepriekš, ir kāds vai kāda kuru esi lasījis no šī saraksta?
lv.wikipedia.org
Pyktis yra gerai, mano lietuvių brolis
Armenia, favorite author is probably Kafka.
Mexico
Roberto Bolaño
Portuguese
Eça
Uruguay
García Márquez
u wot m8
>Canada
>anti Caadian lit
You know what? Just name an author who writes in English or French if you're going to post
This is the biggest meme among Canadians, and it's the best indicator that they don't read fuckall but high school lit and canon.
Hugh Maclennan, Bliss Carman, Anne Carson, George Bowering, Al Purdy, Gilles Henault, Marian Engel, Graeme Gibson. There are plenty of great Canadian writers, it's just that you're mostly idiot children who don't read for any reason except to check famous names off of your Veeky Forums essentials list.