Chinua Achebe's such a big deal that people often call him the "father of modern African literature." He was a Nigerian writer who was one of the first to write a postcolonial novel that said, basi...

Remember that writer who had a fatwa issued against him by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini? Yup, that's the Indian-English writer Salman Rushdie.In case you were wondering, a fatwa is a religious ed...

Jean Rhys is an unusual postcolonial writer. She was a woman of (mostly) European ancestry born on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. People like her were, at the time, called (white) Creoles...

Here's a Colombian novelist who's considered to be among the greatest of South American writers. Any book you pick up by Márquez will teach you a whole lot about Colombia's—and South America'sâ€...

The second Nobel winner on our list, Walcott's a poet who comes from a teeny-tiny island nation in the Caribbean called St. Lucia (it's really tiny). He's one of the most important writers to engag...