Authors of literature by period:
Realism / Naturalism / Parnassianism (19th century)
Machado de Assis (Dom Casmurro) – Brazil
Eça de Queirós (Cousin Basil) – Portugal
Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary) – France
Lima Barreto (The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma) – Brazil
Olavo Bilac – Parnassian poetry – Brazil
Émile Zola – French naturalism
Modernism (20th century – until 1945)
James Joyce (Ulysses) – Ireland
Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway) – England
Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis) – Czechoslovakia
Mário de Andrade (Macunaíma) – Brazil
Oswald de Andrade (Anthropophagic Manifesto) – Brazil
Carlos Drummond de Andrade – Modern poetry – Brazil
Contemporary (post-1945 to present)
Clarice Lispector (The Hour of the Star) – Brazil
Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) – Colombia
José Saramago (Blindness) – Portugal
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Nigeria, post-colonial literature
Haruki Murakami – Japan, modern surrealism
Conceição Evaristo – Brazil, Afro-Brazilian literature
Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale) – Canada
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