More modern writers living on or writing about Öland include novelist Margit Friberg ( 1904 – 1997 ), poet Anna Rydstedt ( 1928 – 1994 ), novelist Birgitta Trotzig ( 1929-2011 ), poet Lennart Sjögren ( 1930 -), children novelist Eva Bexell ( 1945 -), poet Tom Hedlund ( 1945 -), novelist Johan Theorin ( 1963 -), poet and novelist Magnus Utvik ( 1964 -) and novelist Per Planhammar ( 1965 -).

In his recent ( 2010, Harvill Secker ) novel I Curse the River of Time ( translated into English by Charlotte Barslund, with the author ), award-winning Norwegian novelist Per Petterson describes a small ferry sailing between Norway and Denmark with the name Holger Danske ; one of the main characters-a dying Danish woman going home-feels accepted and understood by its crew.

The Swedish novelist Per Wästberg has written a biographical novel about Sparrman which was published in English in 2010, under the title as The Journey of Anders Sparrman.

* Anders Nilsen ( contemporary ), American artist and novelist

* 2005 – David Westheimer, American novelist ( b. 1917 )

* 1917 – Louis Auchincloss, American novelist ( d. 2010 )

* 1917 – Han Suyin, Chinese-Eurasian novelist

* February 16 – Octave Mirbeau, French art critic and novelist ( d. 1917 )

* Octave Mirbeau ( 1848 – 1917 ), anarchist, art critic, and novelist

Octave Mirbeau ( 16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917 ) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.

After a long affair with the romance novelist Elinor Glyn, Curzon married in 1917 the former Grace Elvina Hinds, the wealthy Alabama-born widow of Alfred Hubert Duggan ; in later years wags joked that despite his political disappointments Curzon still enjoyed " the means of Grace ".

* February 16-Octave Mirbeau, novelist (+ 1917 )

* M. K. Indira ( born 1917 ), Kannada novelist

One of its most noted members was the novelist Charles Williams who was a member from 1917 to at least 1928 and possibly later.

* Joseph Ashby-Sterry ( c. 1837 – 1917 ), English poet and novelist

The novelist and composer Anthony Burgess ( 1917 – 93 ), author of The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy, was a master at MCKK.

* Louis Laffitte, pseudonym of French novelist Jean-Louis Curtis ( 1917 – 1995 )

As a novelist, Swinnerton achieved critical and commercial success with Nocturne in 1917, and remained a successful writer for the rest of his life.

* The novelist Booth Tarkington, in Seventeen ( 1917 ), gives this example of baby talk, in this case, from a pet owner speaking to her dog:

D ' Arcy Francis Niland ( 20 October 1917 – 29 March 1967 ) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, best known for The Shiralee.

* Carlo Cassola ( 1917 – 1987 ), novelist

* Harry Brown ( writer ) ( 1917 – 1986 ), American screenwriter and novelist

* April 26-Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan novelist ( born 1917 )

* Jean-Louis Curtis ( 1917 – 1995 ): novelist

Harry Peter McNab Brown, Jr. ( April 30, 1917 – November 2, 1986 ) was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter.

* 1820 – Nadar, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist ( d. 1910 )

* 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet ( d. 1951 )

* 1883 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech novelist ( d. 1923 )

* 1963 – Stefan Kisyov, Bulgarian novelist

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1959 – Jeanette Winterson, English novelist

* 1941 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist

* 1961 – Tom Perrotta, American novelist

* 1970 – Will Clarke, American novelist

* 1884 – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 46th President of Venezuela ( d. 1969 )

* 1985 – Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright ( b. 1920 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1920 – P. D. James, English novelist

* 1924 – Leon Uris, American novelist ( d. 2003 )

* 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist ( b. 1763 )

* 1857 – Eugène Sue, French novelist ( b. 1804 )

* 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist ( d. 1892 )

* 1930 – Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter ( d. 1997 )

* 1893 – Germaine Guèvremont, Canadian novelist ( d. 1968 )