/lit/ - Literature

I think Paul Zindel was from Staten Island...

I live in MA so I'm basically in the epitome of places for authors.

From a small eurofag country so no...

we don't have any good authors anyway

>>2804222
Which country might that be?

>>2804193

I'm from Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Roberto Arlt is from here, he wrote some great novels (The Mad Toy, The Flamethrowers, Seven Madmen)

Dylan Thomas is from a city not too far away. Visited his home and his famous writing shed.

I'm from MI. Annnd Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J from here, their lyrical content as well as the rest of Psychopathic Records is all literary gold. They are genuinely masters of the art

I work in a grocery shop in Bangor, Maine. I see Stephen King maybe once every couple of weeks. He's pretty asspie and always mutters to himself and apologises while he counts out the exact change

>>2804241
Get me an autograph please

>>2804245
My manager told me before I got the job not to treat him any differently or ask for autographs. One time I said "thanks Mr King" as he paid and he stood still and stared at me for like 5 seconds then walked out

>>2804225
Strindberg, Martinson, Lagerlöf, they guy who wrote girl with the dragon tatoo...

Seriously, I was forced to read most of them in school and they are all bleached versions of dostoyevskij, keats, etc

Only good book I read by a local author was "plus/minus/zero" by alexander skantze and I've never met anyone who have heard of him...

bro shot himself in claremont, ca
i'm from pomona (he taught at pomona college, pomona college is in claremont)

>>2804250
Hanged himself.

>>2804256
With his belt.

>>2804241
i met stephen king in maine when i was visting a friend in college. very eccentric but awesome guy!

Lynn.. Fredrick Douglass lived in my city for a while.

Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, basically formed her entire belief system while in my town and a neighboring town, Swampscott. There is a somewhat large congregation of Christian Scientists still in the neighborhood she lived in as well.

>>2804241

likewise. me and my friends have waved at him in the grocery stores a few times. i heard he got ran over by one of the bat buses in front of hanaford's once

Thomas Wolfe, Carl Sandburg (not technically "from" here), list could go on

Springfield, MA is the hometown of Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
FUN FACT: There is a street near his old house call "Mulberry Street".

Also, the founder of our city was William Pynchon, who is the ancestor of Thomas.

Also, DFW went to my school, and Robert Frost was an English professor there.

>>2804274
Oh, and I forgot that Emily Dickinson's house (now a museum) is literally a two minute walk from where I'm sitting right now.

>>2804265
Douglass visited my hometown to see the famous abolitionist John Brown. This was before John Brown lead an insurrection and took over the National Armory.

>>2804284
Was John Brown famous/well known before his attack? I thought he was just a small-time radical

>>2804285
I'm pretty sure he was one of the most vocal supporters of abolition at the time and had something published on it, but for the most part, yeah, he wasn't well known at the time. It wasn't that Douglass came to meet him, it's that they both came to Springfield around the same time and were interested in the same stuff, so they ended up meeting.

That would be difficult. You should have included the place of birth. Where I live now we have had Einhard (that Einhard) and the parents of Büchner (that Büchner). Where do I live?

stephen crane port jervis ny

Carson McCullers

>>2804285

Prior to Harper's Ferry incident, he took his sons to what is now Nebraska and killed some slavers during a skirmish. I believe he attained some fame from his time there.

Xalapa, Veracruz; Mexico. I think Sergio Galindo is the most famous one and I have no idea how well he's read abroad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born not far from me and went to my college.

George Steinbeck. Monterey reporting in

>>2804193

Pablo Neruda

Hemingway worked for the Kansas City Star which is pretty cool I guess.

>>2804617
Hemmingway.

It's spelled with two m's.

Melville lived in Troy, NY for awhile...

William Kennedy
James Fenimore Cooper lived a few hours away

Douglas Coupland, Will Gibson, Al Purdy

John Updike.

all the authors from melbourne, australia.

Asimov was born in Brooklyn. Didn't know that.

Anne Frank awwww yeah.

>>2805099

Anne Frank isn't a famous author, she's a famous victim.

"Lewis Carroll was a frequent visitor to the area. He wrote most of Jabberwocky at Whitburn as well as "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Some parts of the area are also widely believed to be the inspiration for his Alice in Wonderland stories, such as Hylton Castle and Backhouse Park"

He pops by a few times so we give him a fucking statue.

Also, the guy behind Horrible Histories. That's it. Culturally deprived shithole.

Cormac McCarthy moved to Knoxville as a child and a lot of his writing centers on Tennessee and the Appalachia region specifically.

>>2805096

lol same

>tfw nobody here will know him

You don't know where I live. You don't even know who this is.

>>2805125
That's because there are no Danish authors worth reading.

>>2805096

>>2805124


ps we dont have a single fucking great author from melbourne

fuck this city

>>2805130
>i am a faggot, please rape my face

>>2805141
Name any internationally known Danish author of literary worth.

Oh, that's right. You can't. All the noteworthy Scandinavian writers have been either Norwegians or Swedes.

>>2805144
H.C. Andersen?

>>2805144
>All the noteworthy Scandinavian writers have been either Norwegians or Swedes.

Please go fuck yourself with a sharp object. Then go read some Mika Waltari. Then you can come back and apologize.

>>2805149
YA author.

>>2805151
who?

>>2805151
Finland isn't in Scandinavia, you damn fool.

>>2805144
H. C. Andersen, Blixen, Brandes, Pontoppidan, Kierkegaard, Inger Christensen, to name a few.

Not that I give a fuck what foreigners deem worthy of inclusion to an international canon, as if it's an objective mark of quality or whatever. Danish literature is perfectly fine on its own and this insinuation that nothing outside of "hurr durr it's only worth reading if a Harvard professor said so" is load of shit. Please cease to exist, or better, try to broaden your mind and read some Danish authors so you can form your own opinion.

Also, inb4 greentext about H. C. Andersen

>>2805144
Kierkegaard, you stupid faggot.

as for OP´s question: Kundera.

Bray, Ireland. Ann Enright lives here at the minute. Joyce and Wilde lived here for a bit too.