Famous writers of World

Name	Period	Details / Famous Works
Aesop	620–560 BC	Greek dramatist. Famous works: The Tortoise and the Hare, Fox and the Grapes.
Al-Biruni	11th Century	Arab scholar. Famous book on India: Tahqiq-e-Hind.
Amaruka	7th Century AD	Sanskrit poet. Famous work: Amaruka Sataka.
Aristotle	384–322 BC	Greek philosopher. Works: Ethics, Politics.
Asvaghosha	1st Century AD	Sanskrit poet. Wrote Buddhacharita.
Bana	7th Century AD	Sanskrit writer. Works: Kadambari, Harshacharita.
Bharavi	6th Century AD	Sanskrit poet. Wrote Kiratarjuniya.
Bhatti	7th Century AD	Sanskrit poet. Wrote Bhattikavya.
Bhartruhari	7th Century AD	Works: Bhaktishataka, Nitishataka, Shringarashataka.
Bhasa	5th Century AD	Playwright. Works: Charudatta, Swapna Vasavadatta.
Bhavabhuti	8th Century AD	Dramatist. Works: Uttararamacharita, Malatimadhava.
Bilhana	12th Century AD	Works: Chaurapanchasika, Vikramankadevacharita.
John Bunyan	1628–1688	Wrote Pilgrim's Progress.
Lord Byron	1788–1824	Works: Prisoner of Chillon, Don Juan.
Chaucer	1340–1400	Father of English poetry. Work: Canterbury Tales.
Samuel T. Coleridge	1772–1834	Works: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan.
Dante	1265–1321	Italian poet. Work: Divine Comedy.
Dandin	7th Century AD	Wrote Dasakumara Charita.
Diogenes	342–270 BC	Greek philosopher. Founder of Cynic School.
George Eliot	1819–1880	Works: Middlemarch, Silas Marner.
Firdausi	930–1020	Persian poet. Wrote Shahanama.
Goethe	1749–1832	German poet. Works: Faust, Wilhelm Meister.
Homer	700 BC	Greek epic poet. Wrote Iliad and Odyssey.
Kalidasa	5th Century AD	Works: Abhijnana Sakuntalam, Raghuvamsa, Meghadutam.
Kautilya (Chanakya)	4th Century BC	Wrote Arthashastra.
Karl Marx	1818–1883	Works: Communist Manifesto, Das Capital.
John Milton	1608–1674	Works: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained.
Omar Khayyam	1050–1132	Wrote Rubaiyat.
Panini	4th Century BC	Grammarian. Wrote Ashtadhyayi.
Plato	427–347 BC	Works: The Republic.
Shakespeare	1564–1616	Works: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar.
Tolstoy	1828–1910	Works: War and Peace, Anna Karenina.
Vatsyayana	5th Century BC	Wrote Kamasutra.
Vishnu Sharma	300 AD	Wrote Panchatantra.