Literary Atlas
Authors on the Atlas
The writers behind the books, placed where they were born.
- Farid ud-Din Attar c. 1145 – c. 1221
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1900 – 1944
- Anton Chekhov 1860 – 1904
- Gabriel García Márquez 1927 – 2014
- Rumi 1207 – 1273
- François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
- Albert Camus 1913 – 1960
- Sei Shōnagon 966 – 1025
- Murasaki Shikibu 978 – 1014
- various authors
- Anonymous (Epic of Gilgamesh)
- Chinua Achebe 1930 – 2013
- William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
- Miguel de Cervantes 1547 – 1616
- Aesop 620 BC – 564 BC
- Henrik Ibsen 1828 – 1906
- George Orwell 1903 – 1950
- Anonymous (Popol Vuh)
- Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
- Cao Xueqin 1724 – 1763
- Ferdowsi 940 – 1020
- Geoffrey Chaucer 1343 – 1400
- Molière 1622 – 1673
- Herman Melville 1819 – 1891
- Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
- Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
- Homer 900 BC – 800 BC
- Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 – 1375
- Luo Guanzhong 1334 – 1400
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
- Luís de Camões 1524 – 1580
- Alexander Pushkin 1799 – 1837
- George Eliot 1819 – 1880
- Bram Stoker 1847 – 1912
- Charlotte Brontë 1816 – 1855
- Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
- Dante Alighieri 1265 – 1321
- Laozi 604 BC – 500 BC
- Emily Brontë 1818 – 1848
- C. Rajagopalachari 1878 – 1972
- Virginia Woolf 1882 – 1941
- Anonymous (Beowulf)
- Ovid 43 BC – 17
- Omar Khayyám 1048 – 1131
- Veda Vyasa
- Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885
- James Joyce 1882 – 1941
- Walt Whitman 1819 – 1892
- anonymous
- Sophocles 496 BC – 406 BC
- Euripides 480 BC – 406 BC
- Mark Twain 1835 – 1910
- John Milton 1608 – 1674
- F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896 – 1940
- Leo Tolstoy 1828 – 1910
- Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
- Oscar Wilde 1854 – 1900
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 – 1881
- Charles Dickens 1812 – 1870
- Gustave Flaubert 1821 – 1880
- Wu Cheng'en 1500 – 1582
- Daniel Defoe 1660 – 1731
- Virgil 70 BC – 19 BC
- Rabindranath Tagore 1861 – 1941
- Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
- Joseph Conrad 1857 – 1924
- Franz Kafka 1883 – 1924
- Charles Baudelaire 1821 – 1867
- Voltaire 1694 – 1778
Illustrations are created with AI assistance. Summaries are written with AI and reviewed by the editor. Book metadata comes from Wikidata and Open Library.