Here is my list of the greatest writers of all times:
My all time best list:
VKN(Vadakke Koottale Narayanankutty Nair)(1932)Shakespeare (1564)
Goethe (1749)
Dostoevskij (1821)
Balzac (1799)
James (1843)
Mann (1875)
T.S. Eliot (1888)
Kafka (1883)
Milton (1608)
Dante (1265)
Rabelais (1494)
Cervantes (1547)
Joyce (1882)
Moliere (1622)
Chaucer (1340)
Brecht (1898)
Cechov (1860)
Ibsen (1828)
Pirandello (1867)
Baudelaire (1821)
Tolstoj (1828)
Faulkner (1897)
Strindberg (1849)
Rilke (1875)
Pessoa (1888)
Valery (1871)
Montale (1896)
Garcia Lorca (1898)
Pynchon (1937)
Borges (1899)
Dickens (1812)
Nabokov (1899)
Gogol (1809)
Conrad (1857)
Witkiewicz (1885)
Bulgakov (1891)
Yeats (1865)
Pound (1885)
Jimenez (1881)
Schiller (1759)
Stendhal (1783)
Flaubert (1821)
Zola (1840)
Blake (1757)
Proust (1871)
Donne (1572)
Beckett (1906)
Hugo (1802)
Marquez (1928)
Boccaccio (1313)
Wordsworth (770)
Tagore (1861)
Rimbaud (1854)
Lope de Vega (1562)
Gide (1869)
Calderon (1600)
Leopardi (1798)
Chretien (11xx)
Calvino (1923)
Perez Galdos (1843)
Kumaran Asan (1873)
Vallathol (1878)
Kunjan Nambyar (1704)
Rushdie (1947)
Pasternak (1890)
Bellow (1915)
Machado (1875)
G. Eliot (1819)
Woolf (1882)
Neruda (1904)
Changambuzha(1911)
Goldoni (1707)
Quevedo (1580)
Petrarca (1304)
Camus (1913)
Villon (1431)
Mallarme` (1842)
Sartre (1905)
Kleist (1771)
Kundera (1929)
Walcott (1930)
Holderlin (1770)
Novalis (1772)
Cocteau (1889)
Ariosto (1474)
Celine (1894)
Heine (1797)
Hoffmann (1809)
Buchner (1813)
Wedekind (864)
Hesse (1877)
Musil (1880)
Trakl (1887)
Ezhuthachan(16th Century)
Bernhard (1931)
Spenser (1552)
Marlowe (1564)
DeFoe (1660)
Swift (1667)
Fielding (1707)
Scott (1771)
Bronte (1818)
Pascoli (1855)
Hopkins (1844)
Shaw (1856)
Forster (1879)
Voltaire (1694)
Huxley (1894)
Greene (1904)
Auden (1907)
Goldman (1911)
Burgess (1917)
Pinter (1930)
Melville (1819)
Stevens (1879)
Fitzgerald (1896)
Svevo (1861)
Barth (1930)
Morrison (1942)
Seferis (1900)
Carpentier (1904)
Cortazar (1914)
Puig (1932)
Vargas Llosa (36)
Assis (1839)
Queiros (1845)
Amado (1912)
Gadda (1893)
Ritsos (1909)
Elitis (1911)
Pushkin (1799)
Turgenev (1818)
Gorkij (1868)
Blok (1880)
Achmatova (1889)
Mandelstam (1891)
Majakovskij (1893)
Evtusenko (1933)
Brodskij (1940)
Norwid (1821)
Gombrowicz (1904)
Milosz (1911)
Lem (1921)
Holan (1905)
Lagerlof (1858)
White (1912)
Soyinka (1934)
Zanzotto (1921)
Singer (1904)
Oz (1939)
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Last Updated: December 11, 1998