Can you name the 100 most influential literary writers of all time? by johnlk

Language (Nationality)	Author	Type of Writing
English		Dramatist, Poet
Italian		Poet
Greek		Poet
Russian		Novelist
English		Poet
English		Novelist
English (Irish)		Novelist
English		Poet
Latin		Poet
German		Novelist, Poet, Dramatist
Spanish		Novelist
Japanese		Novelist
Greek		Dramatist
English (American)		Novelist
Russian		Novelist
English (American)		Poet
French		Novelist
English		Novelist
English		Novelist
English (Irish)		Poet
Russian		Poet
Greek		Dramatist
English		Poet
English (American)		Novelist
English		Poet
Latin		Poet
Chinese		Poet
English		Poet
Greek		Dramatist
French		Novelist
German (Czech)		Novelist
French		Dramatist
English		Poet
Greek		Dramatist

Language (Nationality)	Author	Type of Writing
German		Novelist
Norwegian		Dramatist
Russian		Dramatist, Short story writer
English (American)		Novelist
Russian, English (Russian)		Novelist
English (American)		Poet
French		Novelist
English (Irish)		Satirist
French		Novelist
English		Novelist, Poet
English (Irish)		Dramatist
English (American)		Novelist
English		Novelist
French		Poet
English, French (Irish)		Dramatist, Novelist
English		Novelist
English		Poet
French		Satirist/Novelist
Italian		Poet
English (American)		Poet
English (American)		Short story writer, poet
English		Novelist
English (Polish)		Novelist
English		Poet
French		Novelist, Dramatist
English		Novelist
English		Novelist
French		Dramatist
English (American)		Novelist, Satirist
Swedish		Dramatist
French		Novelist
Spanish (Argentinian)		Short story writer
Chinese		Novelist
Italian		Short story writer

Language (Nationality)	Author	Type of Writing
French		Satirist, Dramatist
English (Irish)		Novelist
English		Novelist
English		Poet
English (American)		Dramatist
English (American)		Poet
English		Poet
Spanish (Colombian)		Novelist
English (Scottish)		Novelist
Spanish (Chilean)		Poet
German (Austrian)		Novelist
English		Poet
English (American)		Novelist
Latin		Poet
Spanish		Dramatist, Poet
English (American)		Novelist
English (American)		Novelist
English (American)		Novelist
English		Novelist
English (American)		Novelist
French		Novelist
Bengali (Indian)		Poet
English		Novelist
German		Novelist
Chinese		Short story writer, essayist
English		Novelist
Yiddish (Polish/American)		Novelist
Japanese		Novelist
English (American)		Novelist
English (American)		Poet, Novelist
Japanese		Dramatist
English (Irish)		Dramatist, Poet

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	RebeccaAMax:	Nov 9th, 2009 at 02:30 GMT		1 point
	Pls. acccept spelling "Du Fu."

	johnlk:	Nov 9th, 2009 at 02:35 GMT		2 points
	Of course you're right - will do.

	johnlk:	Nov 9th, 2009 at 17:44 GMT		1 point
	BTW, I'd be interested to hear what people think are the most glaring omissions. The one that really stands out for me is Schiller, who is really second only to Goethe in German literature. Is Richard Wright really more influential than him? Obviously, the list is really Anglocentric, in terms of focusing on English language literature, but what else is missing?

	dtro:	Nov 9th, 2009 at 18:03 GMT		5 points
	No Orwell surprised me.

	Dmitri:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 12:13 GMT		4 points
	Wordsworth, but no Coleridge?

	orbit:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 15:00 GMT		5 points
	Might be nice to list one work or maybe the birth and death dates to narrow it down a bit further.

	RS89:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 17:17 GMT		-4 points
	You misspelled Dostoyevsky.

	Gareth:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 23:06 GMT		4 points
	No Gogol? Turgenev? Lermontov? Wells? Verne? Asimov?

	johnlk:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 00:51 GMT		3 points
	@orbit - I only get two pieces of information I can give you. I think language is the most important. I'd be open to putting in a sample work instead of the "type of writing", but I fear that would make it too easy. @rs89 - I did not misspell Dostoevsky, which is a name in Cyrillic that can be transliterated in various ways. "Dostoyevsky" is accepted, though.

	Handrejka:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 18:08 GMT		1 point
	The lack of Brecht surprised me.

	anarresti:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 16:23 GMT		2 points
	Enjoyed this quiz: 72% on first attempt. Would it help to include year of birth in each case, or group them by century? It gives rather a lot of english novelists / poets without further clues otherwise

	micah:	Dec 15th, 2009 at 08:31 GMT		-1 points
	Calling Chaucer a poet is a tad misleading, though I'm not sure if there are any better labels you could add. (Short story writer, maybe?)

	lwboe1:	Jan 18th, 2010 at 16:29 GMT		2 points
	how do you judge who they are?

	johnlk:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 13:34 GMT		2 points
	It's from a book.

	dollymix:	Sep 10th, 2010 at 17:27 GMT		1 point
	I was surprised not to see Gogol, Steinbeck, or Borges. Also some more popular-during-their-time authors like Conan Doyle, Verne, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

	dollymix:	Sep 10th, 2010 at 17:30 GMT		1 point
	Oops, Borges is on there.

	Csquared08:	Dec 18th, 2010 at 01:10 GMT		1 point
	I'm curious as to how the likes of Dickinson and Melville are more influential than Emerson and Thoreau for American authors. I'd say Plato and Aristotle of the Greeks are easily worthy of this list. Machiavelli (sp?) seems worthy of the list as well. Sun Tzu is a possibility, but I understand him being left off.

	Almasa:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 01:04 GMT		2 points
	I missed Gabriel Garcia Marquez because I assumed you had accepted the last typed answer, then typed "marquez" and it was not accepted.... I'd suggest allowing it, so that credit is given. I always resort to only doing the least amount of typing possible in 100 answer quizzes :)

	armillariella:	Apr 20th, 2012 at 09:19 GMT		1 point
	Could you accept Petrarca for Petrarch? It's his original Italian name.

	johnlk:	Dec 16th, 2012 at 07:35 GMT		1 point
	Csquared - the list is of literary writers, by which Burt means writers of fiction, drama, or poetry. Philosophical writing isn't considered.