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With this image, we celebrate Mexican surrealist painter and novelist Leonora Carrington. She was also one of the of the main figures of Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico.

Alexander Vvedensky (1904-1941) was a very influential avant-garde Russian poet and dramatist, a friend of Danniil Kharms and the founder of the OBERIU group.

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel.

With this image, we celebrate Icelandic writer Halldór Kiljan Laxness, the winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.

With this image, we celebrate American poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay, the winner of the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Why Kafka's appeal is so deep and lasting? Because he is like no-one else, and no-one else can be like him.

She was known as an eccentric and as a loner who was passionate about gardening. Thanks to her sister Lavinia, who published her poems posthumously, we now have a towering figure in American poetry.

With this design, we are honoring Ernest Hemingway and his true masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea.

With this image, we celebrate American poet and satirist Dorothy Parker.

In this series, we offer humorous takes on the classics of literature.

When Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, the novel did not receive the reviews he desired. That changed after his death in 1940. Today, The Great Gatsby is on everybody's list of the best achievements in American literature.

Marquis de Sade was a French nobleman, revolutionary, philosopher and writer.

John Cassavetes was an A-list actor, but he shined as a maverick-director and independent film pioneer. His films were revolutionary; they offered a truthful picture of reality executed in an anti-Holywood style. Many of his movies are world heritage, like Shadows, Faces, Opening Night, Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman Under Influence, or Love Streams.

Ernst Toller was the president of a short-lived state called the Bavarian Soviet Republic. His presidency lasted for only six days. During his five years in Prison, Toller started writing theater plays and became a highly recognized expressionist playwright. Some of his titles are Transformation and Hoppla - We are Alive. This is redisegned historical photograph of Ernst Toller, property of National Library of Israel, Schwadron collection. The picture is available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernst_Toller_-_Schwadron.jpg and it is altered by clors and geometrical shapes and what feels like a folk-pattern. CC BY 3.0 Deed Attribution 3.0 Unported

In the twentieth century, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges was one of the indisputable masters of the short story. He was obsessed with labyrinths and libraries.

With this image, we celebrate Dashiell Hammett, the father of a hard-boiled detective novel, the creator of Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon and and indirectly of the film-noir genre.

Russian writer and poet Varlam Shalamov spent the best years of his life imprisoned. At first, he spent two years in gulag and after serving it he became a published writer and journalist. Then he was arrested again and survived seventeen years of extreme labour camp. When he came back, his health was ruined, his family life destroyed. Kolyma Tales, collection of short stories about a labour camp, is considered a masterpiece. It is written in dry, almost numb documentary style. Shalamov also published books of poetry like Flint, Journey and Destiny, and Moscow Cloud.

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was born in Michigan and schooled in Sarnia, Ontario. She was a poet, an anarchist, and an early feminist.

With this image, we celebrate the giant of French Literature Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière.

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was one of the major Russian and Slavic poets of the twentieth century. As a young revolutionary, only sixteen years of age, he ended up in the Moscow Butyrka prison. It was in a solitary confinement cell that he wrote his first poems.

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was a German poet, writer, playwright, and philosopher. He is one of the key figures of German culture in general. In his writing, both artistic and philosophical, Schiller examines the great themes of love, freedom, and faith. Note: we redesigned an early nineteenth-century portrait of Schiller by Gerhard von Kügelgen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe shaped himself in a renaissance way, excelling in various fields: he was a statesman and scientist, a poet, a novelist, a painter! And he was very successful! His most significant contribution to humanity is in literature. At the age of 24, he became a literary celebrity, his autobiographical novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) is the world's first best-seller. It also sparked and influenced the Romantic movement in literature. The book had haunted Goethe throughout his life. As great men fight great battles, Goethe later faced the ultimate adversary - the Devil. In his play Faust, Goethe examines the human soul's corruption, gifting us a lasting metaphor.

he son of Irish immigrants, who went through rough times, rose to become one of the twentieth century's best American playwrights. Following the path of Chekhov and Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill chose realism as his way of expression. Long Day's Journey into the Night, his most famous play, is still performed worldwide. O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times, and in 1936 the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Thomas Mann was one of the most important writers of his time and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His major works are The Magic Mountain, Boodenbrooks, Lotte i Weimar, Death in Venice, Doctor Faustus.

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and on of the essential writers of Guatemala. Starting as a surrealist poet, he gained fame as a novelist. His best known works are novels El Señor Presidente and Men of Maize.

With this image, we celebrate American poet T.S. Eliot.

With this image, we celebrate Anne Bronte, the youngest of the three Bronte sisters.

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) was born in Michigan and schooled in Sarnia, Ontario. She was a poet, an anarchist, and an early feminist.

She was known as an eccentric and as a loner who was passionate about gardening. Thanks to her sister Lavinia, who published her poems posthumously, we now have a towering figure in American poetry.

James Joyce is the primary innovator in the prose of the twentieth century. Fellow artists quickly recognized this (Ezra Pound), and gates of glory widely opened to him. In a way, Joyce invented the twentieth century in literature.

With this image, we celebrate the giant of French Literature Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648 – 1695) was a colonial Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet of the Baroque period. She is one of the most important female authors of the Spanish literature.

Arguably, Poe is the most influential American writer of all time. You can find traces of his concepts everywhere: poetry, short story, horror, comic books, sci-fi, B-movies.

Sylvia Plath's confessional poems touched many, and her audience continues to grow, making her one of the most famous ladies of American literature.

A vibrant abstract composition features a series of stylized eyes set against a chaotic network of lines and shapes in shades of blue. Bright pink accents punctuate the cool blue background, creating a dynamic and playful visual tension.

A stylized stork stands prominently in front of a backdrop featuring a large purple and yellow sun setting or rising behind horizontal stripes. The image uses vivid colors and bold outlines to depict the stork and its environment with a blend of realism and abstraction.