Post the greatest writer from your country.

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>>8325115
I personally favor this guy right here.

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>>8325115
Do British citizens born in Ireland during the existence of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland count as British?

If not, then pic related.

>>8325162
Can you imagine the warmth of her bosomskin. Damn.

>>8325162
Lmao that guy has such a tiny hand

>>8325169
Imagine getting to plough her every night like an unharvested field of ripe crops?

I think it's the feminist aspect that turns me on, the idea of thoroughly dominating a woman who is held up as a great artist of sorts, and just bonking her brains out as she writhes in sheer ecstasy.

She can have all the material success in the world, but in that moment she is mine and I am free to cum a lightning bolt on her forehead if I so choose.

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>>8325178
Nope, she just has such a wonderous rack that it makes a full grown adult hand look like a little retard baby claw.

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Pretty obvious tbqh famalam.

>>8325115
>>8325148
ITT: thirdworldfags reveal what embarassingly shitty country they're posting from

>>8325188
Zjbs

>>8325200
He's a hard second. Also a handsome man.

>>8325210
My country of origin is something out of my control.

>>8325148
José de Alencar is awful. I can't believe you enjoy reading him, let alone think he is our best writer.

>>8325200
I read Hunger should I read something else by him?

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>>8325220
>

>>8325219

Who would be first if Hamsun isn't?

I'm not too familiar with Norwegian literature, but I've been on a Hamsun binge this summer, and he seems hard to top for such a small country.

>>8325219
>He's a hard second

Who is the first?

>>8325231

Mysteries, Pan*, Victoria, Growth of the Soil*, On Overgrown Paths

* for GOAT contenders.

>>8325148
Not Mário de Andrade nor Guimarães Rosa. Pleb.

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Seamus Heaney for Northern Ireland
James Joyce for Ireland
I firmly believe William Blake for the UK desu

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the number of latino expats is too damn high.

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>>8325115
In terms of pure influence, it would be this stud, but, influence aside, a good case could be made for Melville, Faulkner, Hawkes, Pynchon, or Gass.

>>8325233
>>8325234
Do you mother fuckers even live in Norway. Shit.

>>8325376
I do, and off the top of my head, I can't really think of anyone *as* good as him, but I know plenty of decent Norwegian writers.

The question is who you consider number 1, if not him.

>>8325382
Fucking Ibsen, man.

>>8325390
Fair enough. A good answer I guess.

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Or Elizondo, or Fuentes, or Paz, or Sor Juana.

>>8325318
>I firmly believe William Blake for the UK desu

lel, Blake

England has no good writers, it is known.

>>8325200

You read Kjell Askildsen? He's one of my favourite writers, can only get a handful of his stories in English tho.

>>8325583
Who are the biggest names of modern poetry in Mexico? I've know a few, Paz, Tablada, Reyes, Pacheco, Zaid, Sabines, Gorostiza, Pellicer etc, but I mean, who are the REALLY worthwhile poets? I've a anthology of mexican poetry here with me (Poesía en Movimiento) but it's difficult to discern by just reading a few poems. Help me here, amigo.

>>8325211

Did he drop his cigarre on the jacket or is it a bullet hole?

>>8325897
I haven't read Tablada and I despise Sabines, but the rest of them are most certainlt worthwhile.

You should also read Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Gilberto Owen. The first one is known as the Tenth Muse (and for good reason), and the second one was a contemporary of Villaurrutia and Gorostiza who is, I think, the better of the three.

Or you can really read and study them and find out for yourself.

>>8325318
NI here too lad! Ever read Forrest Reid? Also...which county?

>>8325162
No.

>>8325353
Upvote

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A feminist and a cunt, but still a good writer.

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This handsome man.

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>>8326349
U wot mate

>>8326344
that's not Maurice Shadbolt

>>8325583
Definitely Paz for me.

>>8325353
>pure influence
>exceeding Melville
You done fucked up. Also, the obvious answer is Whitman. Melville is probably second. Dickinson or Emerson after that. Then comes Faulkner. Gaddis is way down there.

>>8325655
underrated post

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hue intensifies

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rulfo is the only acceptable answer

>>8325211
That free-masonic scum. He's surely enjoying hell right now.

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>>8326331

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Based

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No surprise here.

>>8325232
this for deutschland

>>8325382
>>8325390
Even though Hamsun is my favourite norwegian author, you still have to acknowledge Ibsen tops the ranks

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Probably Hugo

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>>8325115
Banjo ain't shit

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>>8326750
cuck

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eh

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Not sure if we get to claim Hesse, so here's Frisch.

>>8326759
>>8326750
Banjo Paterson a shit

Dumb romanticism to helplessly glorify a shithole.

>>8326856
>not robert walser
ok kidd

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probably him

>>8326861
Retard. Peter Carey is a better writer than either of them.

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He pretty much pioneered modern literature and standardised the Spanish language (although someone wrote a Grammar some decades before him). Perhaps after him would be Calderón de la Barca.

>>8326881
>Peter Carey
>Not Patrick White
>Not Clive James

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>>8326856
This one is good too

>>8326892
>jensits vom röstigrabe

>>8326910
Et oui mon petit vieux, il existe un monde en dehors de Zurich

>>8326344
A woman who is a feminist, now that's a shocker.

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Let other poets raise a fracas
"Bout vines, an' wines, an' drucken Bacchus,
An' crabbit names an'stories wrack us,
An' grate our lug:
I sing the juice Scotch bear can mak us,
In glass or jug.

>>8326386
I'm talking novelists, son, and ain't no postmodern novel worth the paper it's printed on hasn't been influenced by Gaddis.

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pessoa and saramago fags need not apply

>>8326004
>Forrest Reid
Can't say I have. Also Antrim

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>>8327492
Yeah, I can get behind that. Parallel to him I'd put Carlyle, though, since Burns' prose always drew short against his poetry, and Carlyle still wields some influence over the post-modern scene. Both big characters.

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>>8326939

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The greatest novelist, at least.

>>8325188
>Geismo gyvatė Kada bučiuoju nugarą ir petį, O ji man šnabžda: „Jaudini mane!“, Žinau, kad geismas žadina gyvatę, Kuri jau kelia galvą po suknia. Melsva suknia, o gal tik taip atrodo, Balti pečiai ir kojos tamsoje, Išlakūs klubai... Mano tie aruodai, Bet ką daryt, ką man daryt su ja, Geisminga gyvate, kuri išbudo Ir reikalauja aukuro liepsnos? Žinau, kad mes aukosime abudu Ir nebeliks vietelės nė vienos, Kuri nebūtų dailiai suarta: Krūtinė, lūpos, aišku, ir p... a.
>didelis skirtumas tarp eilinio sestoko rasancio nesamones gale sasiuvinio ir gedos

>>8325225
It was obviously implied that we're not talking about philosophers, and many people wrote better than Kierkegaard

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>>8325324
Magic Realism man

>>8328071
you're the type of dude who thinks being called a broke dick dog is an insult.

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we have so many great writers, but pic related is my favorite one

>>8328142
You and every other young austrian.

I live in Canada and have never read a good book from here.

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Most of our writers are shit. This one is probably the most tolerable one.

>>8328111
I'm right on both

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Though I haven't read any of his stuff yet

>>8327747
Reve is inderdaad ook geweldig. Ik kon eigenlijk niet kiezen tussen de twee

>>8328360
I'd say you're stupid both ways. In that way, you're right.

Joyce Carol Oates, obv.

>>8325331
>first American is Thoreau
I think I'm going to puke.

>>8325655
i lol'd at the filename

>>8328530
wow this guy looks like a serious faggot. I bet he was a liberal

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>>8326877
Absolutely not.

>>8325398
>>8326459
>>8325115
>>8325148
Hue.

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Well, that was easy.

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>>8330116
>>8325398
>>8326459
>>8325115 (OP)
>>8325148

Machado is great, but here comes the king of hueland

>>8328727
Stupid is believing Kierkegaard was the best writer Denmark ever produced

>>8328071

>Implying Kierkegaard's work cannot be read literarily
>Implying there's a danish writer that tops him

>>8330421

Tell me who is better.

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Not too bad

>>8330464
Fr. Paludan-Moller, Gustav Wied, J.P. Jacobsen, even Jens Baggesen
Kierkegaard wrote well and his texts are less laborious than Nietzsche, for example, but you have to be either a philosophy major or in high school to believe Kierkegaard had the literary merit to surpass anyone of the above

>>8330518
Also H.C. Andersen, obviously, an internationally renowned genius

Are there even any good Canadian writers?

>>8330521
Ah, so you're going by a list.

>>8331929
Harold Bloom says:

Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano
Robertson Davies
The Deptford Trilogy
The Rebel Angels
Alice Munro
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Northrop Frye
Fables of Identity
Anne Hébert
Selected Poems
Jay Macpherson
Poems Twice Told
Margaret Atwood
Surfacing
Daryl Hine
Selected Poems

I have read none of this.

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>>8331940
Why? Because you remember some of them from your folkeskole curriculum and Kierkegaard is the only one you've read since that your teacher didn't tell you to? I've re-read all the authors I mentioned williingly and they're all on my shelf except for Jacobsen, my favourite is Paludan-Moller's Adam Homo, I honestly just can't understand how anyone can think Kierkegaard would be ranked #1 if we're talking writers in the sense of belletrists

Tl;dr:
>philosophers
>writers

Whitman

>>8330338
>>8330116
>>8325398
>>8326459
>>8325115
>>8325148

what do you guys think of Ignácio de Loyola Brandão?

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>>8330338
>>8326459
>>8325398
>>8325148
>>8325115
And here the Hue ends.

>>8325115
Sorry anon I can't post a picture of myself on 4chan

>>8325916
TLST? literally who??

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The greatest novelist.

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Writer of the book Friends 4 Ever, the most important book written in bikini bottom

This is patrick

>>8330273
Heeeejjj kurwa
sami swoi

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>>8331988

> No Gaston Miron
> No Émile Nelligan (Objectively the best Canadian poet)
> No Mordecai Richler

Harold Bloom confirmed pleb.


pic related is based

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
If you haven't read anyone but Orhan Pamuk from Turkish lit, Tanpınar is way better than Pamuk.

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>>8326519
>>8325324
I love Bolaño but come on, guys.

>>8328142
Should I read Der Untergeher?

>>8333902
Just no.

>giving personal info on 4Chan!

Dave Foster Wallace

>>8328296
Mijn neger

Well, Stig Larsson (not Stieg Larsson) wrote a book called The Autists, so I guess /lit/ would like him the most. He has also stated that you can taste the age of a girl based on the pH level of her cunt juice. I read the Autists and it was one of those books that I didn't like but couldn't stop reading. So I guess I liked it after all.

Contenders for GOAT Swedish writers are Strindberg, Moberg, Bergman and Lagerlöf, depending on whether you want upheaval, proletarians, burghers or feels.

Then again, since Strindberg gives you all four, he is probably the greatest.

>>8330327
Indeed, easy.

>>8326794
The only right answer is Goethe. Note the word 'greatest,' not 'best' or anything.

>>8326349
Probably correct.

>>8326883
Yes.

>Memado de Assis
>good

>>8328496
I read Zorba the Greek, it's great

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>>8325188
Donelaitis, Sruoga arba Škėma drįstų pasiginčyt.

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Probably this guy right? Or any of the other required high school reading authors like
>Melville
>Hemingway
>Whitman
No not you Fitzgerald. Fuck you.

>>8335323
What a rare sight.

>>8327632
resposta certa

>>8334570
you sound really stupid

>reading Machado de Assis
>not in high school
pick one

>>8335796
Seek help.

>>8326877
NO

God wrote the bible, none other come close. Also even if I'm American I can still claim him, because he lives here and loves us the most.

>>8325115
>MUH purple prose
>MUH Bildungsroman

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>>8335796
This, LITERALLY facebook-tier writing

>>8325324
No helicopter rides for him.

>>8325115
Faulkner then Melville then everybody else tied for last place.

>>8326505
???

>>8333893
??????

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>>8334142
>>8327811
Good contenders, but I have to give to the one and only

>>8325162
>>8325199
Post more JK Rowling

>>8326349
>Flowbert

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>>8325115

>>8325115
New zealand. Pic related

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Portugal

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>>8336454
>>8327811
>>8334142
Surprising amount of Finns here

Also
>Runeberg
>Wrote in swedish
>Greatest 'finnish' writer
Get your shit together

>>8335323
Tegul gincyjasi, Geda vistiek, in the end, nugaletu.

Tokio kalibro kureja turejom tik viena. Ziauriai gaila, kad anksciau laiko isejo.

>>8328014
Gedos atveju reikia matyti big picture ka jis norejo padaryti savo darbu. Nuo pradzios iki pabaigos. Jis labiau menininkas, dirbantis su kalba, zodziais, nei rasytojas, ar poetas.

>>8326505
Swedish free-masonry is pretty alright though

>>8338120
Swedish is a more patrician language

>>8338179
t. Kaj-Göran Pettersson från Ankdammen, Östersundom

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>>8338179

Finnish:

Mieleni minun tekevi
aivoni ajattelevi
lähteäni laulamahan,
saa'ani sanelemahan,
sukuvirttä suoltamahan,
lajivirttä laulamahan.
Sanat suussani sulavat,
puhe'et putoelevat,
kielelleni kerkiävät,
hampahilleni hajoovat.
Veli kulta, veikkoseni,
kaunis kasvinkumppalini!
Lähe nyt kanssa laulamahan,
saa kera sanelemahan
yhtehen yhyttyämme,
kahta'alta käytyämme!
Harvoin yhtehen yhymme,
saamme toinen toisihimme
näillä raukoilla rajoilla,
poloisilla Pohjan mailla.

Swedish:
Jak er pöök

>implying anyone here reads Bulgarian writers

>>8338261
>>8338296
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw3e64sosEg

Stay buttmad psuedo-swedes

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>>8338313
>Defends swedes by posting finnish comedy mocking swedes

The swedish cuckolds self-hatred can go only so deep

>>8338318
This is why no one likes you Finland. You completely lack self-distance.

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>>8325115

glorious Ann

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>>8338322
B-but everyone l-loves Finland, r-right?

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>>8338326
I love you, friend.

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>>8338334
I love you too, brother.

Runeberg is also pretty cool in the end

>>8325211

lol i like his writing but he looks like someone i would not want to talk to if i met them today

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>>8338326
>B-but everyone l-loves Finland, r-right?

Finland is our friend.

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>>8338377
Say that to my face not online

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>>8338386
Norgebros are always bros, even more so if you give that piece of Halti to us for our birthday :)

Also, that voluteer list is god-tier, the whole Scandi-Uralic family of ours in one effort :-)

>>8338437
The part I love so much about Finland is your language. Such a beautiful language, and as someone who has studied linguistics it's really gives me a special perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YV0rgHhGn4

>>8338472
I agree, I think the finnic and samic languages are the most beautiful languages I've ever heard, with romance languages coming after.
Have you learned finnish and what linguistics in special have you studied?

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Easy

>>8339745
Dantefag is best fag

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Alice Munro is a very close second

>>8333880
>>8330338
>>8330116
>>8326459
What do you guys think of concrete poetry?

David Foster Wallace

>be a Pole
>?

>>8341853
>Pole
Two poets Nobel Laureats isn't good enough for you?

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>>8341853
come on you know the answer

>>8341861
>Two poets Nobel Laureats isn't good enough for you?

>Nobel prize
>100 years ago
Are you serious?
They were entertainment-tier reads which lost their appeal over time. Also deceitfut and ignorant as fuk.
>>8341853
>filename.jpg
>come on you know the answer
Right, he's kinda keky.

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>>8341861

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>>8325115

>>8341873
top kek x2
or even x3
desu I'm the greatest polish writer, but some of the post-war guys were pretty decent.

>>8341886
gombrowicz is a third-tier satire writer, not to be taken seriously.

>>8334073
Seba?

>>8341886
>>8342156
for christ sake dont you read poetry
herbert is the man youre looking for

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>>8341853
>be a Pole
>demand own state
>?

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I bet none of you plebs know who this based man is

>>8342163
Herbert is indeed pretty good, but the title of the greatest writer is something pretty big for him don't you think

>>8342196
C'mon, everyone knows who Robakidze is

>>8342202
name one poet better than him

>>8325655
>filename

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>>8341853

>>8331929
Leonard Cohen

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Yes, there are writers more translated then him. But he is the GOAT

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me on right

>>8342439
name one poet worse than him
>protip:
>you can't

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Stefanie Sargnagel

>>8342791
Any randomly chosen slam poet