Favorite uthor from your country

Tell us where your from by sharing your countries personal favorite author. I'll start:

Erich Maria Remark

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>unironically
>liking
>Remarque

Hermann Hesse, if you count him as Swiss

I've read Im Westen nichts Neues and I absolutely hated it desu.

I don't agree with you but I forgive you

Hab noch nie was von Grass gelesen.
Welches würdest du vorschlagen?

>Ist schon Grass oder?

Juan Rulfo

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Is it true that Ukrainian towns once were incredibly beautiful with roofs of Gold and enormous cathedrals and halls but with the rise of the sovietunion and then the destruction world war 2 brought it was nearly all lost?