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French writer Stendhal, born Marie-Henri Beyle, was one of the early champions of realism. His novel The Red and the Black is one of the timeless classics of literature.

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek is the most translated novel of Czech literature. Considering that Czheks gave us such great writers as Milan Kundera or Josef Škvorecký, this is a significant achievement. A simple-minded soldier Švejk is so enthusiastic about serving the Austro-Hungarian Empire that you cannot be sure if he is committing a diversion. The book's appeal is in its typically Czech humor, known to be light but deep.

With this image, we are honoring american writer Ernest Hemingway.

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian, Ukrainian-born writer of Jewish background. She was recognized for her short stories and novels, which frequently employed the stream-of-consciousness style.

With this image, we celebrate Serbian romantic poet Branko Radičević.

With this image, we celebrate French philosopher, activist and mystic Simone Weil.

A tough and traumatic childhood didn't stop Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) from becoming one of the essential modernist writers. She was a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Her most famous works are the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927).

With this image, we celebrate Serbian avant-garde painter Leonid Sheyka.

With this painting, we celebrate Ukrainian and Soviet film director Larisa Shepitho (1938-1979).

With this image, we celebrate Serbian avant-garde painter Leonid Sheyka.

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) is one of the most significant Spanish poets of the twentieth century and perhaps the most famous internationally.

With this image, we celebrate Serbian avant-garde painter Leonid Sheyka.

With this image, we celebrate Serbian avant-garde painter Leonid Sheyka.

With this image, we celebrate Serbian avant-garde painter Leonid Sheyka.

Mikhail Bulgakov was a recognized writer and playwright of the USSR, but he was labeled as counter-revolutionary. That usually meant exile, labor camps, and death. Bulgakov lived, but his best work remained unpublished for many years. Novel The Master and Margarita combines narratives from the New Testament with the contemporary Soviet Union, the Devil himself walks the streets of Moscow. The book was finally published in 1966, twenty-six years after the writer's death. It is one of the masterpieces of the twentieth century.

Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer, a master of pataphysics, and a forefather of Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism. He is best known for his play Ubu Roi which is still performed around the world.

This image is about French poet who wrote under the pen-name Comte de Lautreamont and who died at 24. His two books did not make any impact. Almost half a century later, he was discovered by surrealists and praised for his innovations. The legend continues.

Aleph is one of the best stories by Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges, one of the best writers of short stories of the twentieth century.

With this image, we celebrate Argentinian poet Alfonsina Storni (1892-1936).

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 Russian film director Elem Klimov whose film Come and See is considered one of the best movies in the history of cinema.

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

With this image, we celebrate Serbian avant-garde painter Leonid Sheyka.

His fame was established in theatre, where he sparked lots of innovation and avant-garde quests, especially by defining the Theatre of Cruelty. He influenced Genet and Beckett and was involved in many actions that would determine the twentieth century in art. Artaud was a part of the surrealist movement, wrote poetry, acted in films, directed and produced theatre plays, wrote a script for the first surrealist film that influenced Bunuel and Dali, etc. He was everywhere, and he left a deep mark in our culture.

With this picture, we celebrate Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.

With this image, we celebrate American author and disability rights activist Helen Keller ( 1880-1968).

Poet Marina Tsvetaeva is one of the leading figures of the Russian literature of the twentieth century. Her poetry is lyrical and profound, her life full of hardships and tragedy. Great Rainer Maria Rilke admired her work.

This is a portrait of Jack Kerouac, the writer of the cult novel On the Road. His favorite themes were rambling, drinking, and all that jazz.

With this image, we celebrate Allen Ginsberg, who is still an icon of the counter-culture.

With this image we celebrate one of the greatest writers of world literature Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Uh-oh! Note: The last name of the writer is spelled both as Dostoyevsky and Dostoevsky.

With this image, we celebrate American film director and producer George Cukor.

With this image, we celebrate American rock musician Frank Zappa.

With this image, we celebrate African-American writer, statesman and abolitionist Frederick Douglas.

With this image, we celebrate German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche (1844-1900).

With this image, we celebrate American poet Ezra Pound.

Paul Éluard was one of the best surrealist poets. Like his mates, he fought in World War One, survived it, and left us books that changed the twentieth century's poetry.