Germany
See also: German literature- Heinrich Böll (1917–1985)
- Alfred Döblin (1878–1957), author of Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Hans Fallada (1893–1947)
- Theodor Fontane (1819–1898)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), polymath.
- Günter Grass (born 1927), Nobel Prize for Literature (1999)
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991)
- Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), Nobel Prize for Literature (1946)
- Uwe Johnson (1934–1984)
- Ernst Jünger (1895–1998)
- Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–974)
- Daniel Kehlmann (born 1975)
- Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811)
- Siegfried Lenz (born 1926)
- Andreas Mand (born 1959)
- Heinrich Mann (1871–1950)
- Thomas Mann (1875–1955), Nobel Prize for Literature (1929)
- Sten Nadolny, (born 1942), author of The Discovery of Slowness
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970), author of Im Westen nichts Neues, or All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- Bernhard Schlink (born 1944)
- W. G. Sebald (1944–2001)
- Anna Seghers (1900–1983)
- Patrick Süskind (born 1949), author of Perfume
- Martin Walser (born 1927)
- Peter Weiss (1916–1982)
- Christa Wolf (1929–2011)
- Arnold Zweig (1887–1968)
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