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Share your favourite European authors

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🇫🇮Tove Jansson
🇫🇷 Eric L'Homme
🇫🇷 Pierre Bottero
🇧🇪 Emile Jadoul
🇧🇪 Mario Ramos
🇸🇪 Astrid Lindgren
🇩🇪Torben Kuhlmann
🇫🇷 Gilles Bachelet
🇮🇹 Geronimo Stilton's team
🇪🇸 Meritxell Marti
🇳🇱 Dick Bruna

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Andrey Kurkov (Death and the Penguin) Albert Camus Franz Kafka

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Poland:
Stanislaw Lem (Science Fiction)
Austria:
Wolf Haas (dark humour, detective stories)
Sweden:
stieg Larsson (crime fiction - he wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Astrid Lindgreen (children's books)
England:
Douglas Adams (science fiction, he wrote the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy)
Oscar Wilde
j.r.r. Tolkien - the lord of the rings , the hobbit
Agatha Christie - crime novels
Germany:
Walter Moers ( Fantasy but his own kind, not elves and orks)
Erich kästner (famous for his children's books that also are good reads for adults, famous for being present when the Nazis burned his books)
Michael Ende (the best childrens books, and some actually too deep for children, "Momo", "The Neverending Story" to name 2)
Herman Hesse (must read for people between 15-25)
- Nice list!
  I would only add England - Terry Pratchett (Fantasy, but in an ironic, funny, quirky way, in its own world....with lots of "real world" ironies and sarcasm)
  Then.... its perfect ;)
  
  I knew i forgot something. :D thanks.

🇵🇱 Stanisław Lem - sci-fi author, had some good predictions on future tech. There is a video game loosely based on one of his novels, "The Invincible"
🇵🇱 Andrzej Sapkowski - The Witcher series
🇬🇧 Dan Abnett - great Warhammer 40K books
- Fan of Lem's - didn't know about the game, cool!

🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Iain Banks
🇬🇧 China Mieville
🇬🇧 Charles Stross' Laundry Files
- Ooh, Iain Banks, good call.

🇬🇧 Ed Winters
🇬🇧 Mary Beard
🇬🇧 George Orwell

🇨🇿 Jiri Weil
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett
🇬🇧 Charles Williams
🇩🇪 Walter Moers

🇬🇧 Agathe Christie - the best selling author in the world, creator of Hercule Poirot and Ms. Marple as well as the best selling novel of all time: "And Then There Were None"
🇬🇧 P. G. Wodehouse - a wonderful wielder of words and the creator of Jeeves and Wooster (although I prefer the Blandings novels)
🇬🇧 Mick Herron - the best spy fiction author since John le Carré but with a lot more failure and stains
🇬🇧 Terry Pratchett - the Discworld creator and excellent satirist
Hmm, how dreadfully anglocentric of me. Hopefully this thread will give me some other ideas!

🇮🇪 Sally Rooney
🇦🇱 Ismail Kadere
🇩🇪 Hermann Hesse
🇮🇹 Elena Ferrante

Can we please mark/divide them in fiction vs non-fiction or, even better, give a professional title to the non-fiction ones?
I don't read fiction since 20 years now, but I am desperately looking for non-American takes on economy, technology and social issues.
- I am desperately looking for non-American takes on economy, technology and social issues.
  I suppose the modern go-to is Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.
  
  Very interesting, thanks! I am a Gary's Economics follower and reader, despite not living in the UK which is undoubtedly his focus, so this is really my kind of thing.
- Introduction to Econophysics, by R N Mantegna. Italian author published by Cambridge UK.
  Technofeudalism, by Y Varoufakis. Greek economist and former minister of finance of Greece.
  
  Technofeudalism, by Y Varoufakis. Greek economist and former minister of finance of Greece.
  His website draws together his articles and it is worth grabbing the RSS feed.
  
  Reading Technofeudalism right now. How approachable is the first title?
- but I am desperately looking for non-American takes on economy, technology and social issues.
  🇳🇱 Rutger Bregman comes to mind
  
  Yep, he is the first I ever added to this very short list of mine, and has been the only one for a while.

Hans Rosling 🇸🇪

Sorry if I don't abide by the format but:
From Spain: Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Marcos Ana. All three are amazing poets. All of them have the spanish civil war as an over arching theme in their works.
Julio Cortázar, wrote tales, nouvelles and novels. He was born in Switzerland, migrated to Argentina then spent his last years in France. His most acclaimed novel, Hopscotch, is a labyrinth of short stories that connect to create a greater narrative. Truly a work of art.
Hugo Pratt. A graphic novel writer, author of Corto Maltese, probably my favourite graphic novel of all times. It's a classic. He was born in... Crete I think? Began publishing in Italy, then migrated to Argentina where he made most of his carreer.
Neil Gaiman. Author of The Sandman, an all-time favourite of mine, Books Of Magic, famously the work which "inspired" J K Rowling... He is british, although he migrated to America. Sadly he has recently been known for his abusive practices towards his female employees.
Herman Hesse. Pretty sure he was german, awarded a novel prize. He was the go to author during my teenage years. His books are aimed to a young adult audience and are filled with existential and philosophical debates. My favourite book, The Glass Bead Game, was a turning point in my life.
- *~~abusive practices~~ just say rape, that's what it was. Neil Gaiman is a serial rapist. Also female employee = a homeless woman he and his wife "hired" (i.e. she didn't get paid until it was time to get rid of her when it looked like she was going to contact the police) and sexually and emotionally abused over the years.
  
  Oh wow. Sorry, I'm not from England, I didn't know it was this harsh. I vaguely read about it in the news.

🇮🇹 Alessandro Baricco
🇮🇹 Andrea de Carlo

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