Aleksis Kivi
1834 in Nurmijärvi, Russian Finland (now Finland)
Aleksis Kivi Day, Finnish Literature Day
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
1870 in Voronezh, Russia
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1933
Louise Mack
1870 in Hobart, Tasmania
Ivo Andric
1892 in Dolac, near Travnik, Bosnia
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1961
Lin Yutang
1895 in Longxi, Fujian province, China
R. K. Narayan
1906 in Madras, India
Mercè Rodoreda
1908 in Barcelona, Spain
Claude Simon
1913 in Tananarive (now Antananarivo), Madagascar
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1985
James Clavell
1924 in Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
Mustafa Zaidi
1930 in llahabad, India
Harold Pinter
1930 in London, England
The Official Harold Pinter Website
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005
Lily Tuck
1938 in Paris, France
Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
1941 in Bori, near Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Frederick Barthelme
1943 in Houston, Texas, USA
Robert D. San Souci
1946 in San Francisco, California, USA
Nora Roberts
1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Daniel Pearl
1963 in Princeton, New Jersey
Jonathan Littell
1967 in New York, New York, USA
Jun Lana
1972 in Makati City, Phillippines