1.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
2.
Homer, c. 750(?) B.C.
3.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
4.
Feodor Dostoevsky, 1821-1881
5.
Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910
6.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616
7.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832
8.
Franz Kafka, 1883-1924
9.
Honore de Balzac, 1799-1850
10.
James Joyce, 1882-1941
11.
Sophocles, 496-406 B.C.
12.
William Faulkner, 1897-1962
13.
Marcel Proust, 1871-1922
14.
Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904
15.
Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880
16.
Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
17.
Virgil, 70-19 B.C.
18. Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867
19. Moliere, 1622-1673
20. Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906
21.
Stendhal, 1783-1842
22. Euripides, c. 480-406 B.C.
23. Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989
24. Henry James, 1843-1916
25. Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
26. Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375
27. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014
28. Albert Camus, 1913-1960
29. Arthur Rimbaud, 1854–1891
30. George Eliot, 1819-1880
31. Francois Rabelais, 1494-1553
32. Omar Khayyam, 1048-1131
33. Jane Austen, 1775-1817
34. Thomas Mann, 1875-1955
35. Rumi, 1207-1273
36. Tu Fu, 712-770
37.
Emile Zola, 1840-1902
38. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1340-1400
39.
Murasaki Shikibu, 978-1030
40. T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965
41.
Aeschylus, c. 525-456 B.C.
42.
Nikolai Gogol, 1809-1852
43.
Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986
44.
Robert Musil, 1880-1942
45.
Basho, 1644-1694
46.
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849
47.
William Blake, 1757-1827
48.
Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D.
49.
August Strindberg, 1849-1912
50.
Victor Hugo, 1802-1885
51.
Hafez, 1325/26–1389/90
52.
Alexander Pushkin, 1799-1837
53.
Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924
54.
John Keats, 1795-1821
55.
Vyasa, 3rd millennium BCE
56.
Federico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936
57.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1822
58.
Ferdowsi, 935-1025
59.
Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956
60.
Pablo Neruda, 1904-1973
61.
Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926
62.
Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731
63.
Walt Whitman, 1819-1892
64.
Aesop, c. 620-564 BCE
65.
John Milton, 1608-1674
66.
Herman Melville, 1819-1891
67.
Italo Calvino, 1923-1985
68.
William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939
69.
Aristophanes, c. 450-c. 385 B.C.
70.
Francesco Petrarch, 1304-1374
71.
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886
72.
John Donne, 1572-1631
73.
Saadi Shirazi, 1210–1292
74.
Henry Fielding, 1707-1754
75.
Laurence Sterne, 1713-1768
76.
Jean Racine, 1639-1699
77.
Lord Byron, 1788-1824
78.
Horace, 65 BC-8 BC
79.
Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745
80.
Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977
81. Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935
82.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
83.
Giacomo Leopardi, 1798-1837
84.
Knut Hamsun, 1859-1952
85.
Machado de Assis, 1839-1908
86.
D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930
87.
Cao Xueqin, 1715-1763
88.
Emily Bronte, 1818-1848
89.
Georg Büchner, 1813-1837
90.
Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900
91.
Paul Verlaine, 1844-1896
92.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850
93.
Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893
94.
Mark Twain, 1835-1910
95.
Mario Vargas Llosa, 1936-
96.
Friedrich Schiller, 1759-1805
97. Zeami Motokiyo, 1363-1443
98.
Catullus, c. 84-c. 54 B.C.
99.
Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012
100. Heinrich von Kleist, 1777-1811
