I intend to make a series of posts on my favorite authors here in the blog.
This blog post series will be divided into Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Young Adult and Children’s books. I hope with this to call attention to authors outside the media hyped and most talked about, although some hyped authors will also be listed.
I will also include Brazilian authors and other non-English speaking authors who are sometimes translated and sometimes, unfortunately, not available in English. Perhaps someone will in the future see my message in a bottle and consider translating them. I’m sure their books would be a contribution to the world and deserve to be read not only in Portuguese or their original language but in many other languages. So, regardless of their nationality or language, authors who impressed me with their writing style and awesome stories will be listed here.
I also didn’t list the authors here with a ranking. I like all authors in different ways, and would be hardly pressed to choose among them as my most/least favorite author.
So, without further considerations, here are my favorite authors on
Literary Fiction
1 and 2. Emily Brontë and Jane Austen
If you ask me to name one the two books: Wuthering Heights or Pride and Prejudice, as the best, I would be as paralized as a robot ordered to break one of the laws of robotics. Both books are masterpieces, even if very different from each other. Wuthering Heights has passion and tragedy. Pride and Prejudice has wit, female wisdom and feminism, written in a time probably no one though of it. Both books are must reads. I repeat: Must. Reads.
3. And 4. Charlotte and Anne Brontë
I wished I had three daughters and they would be as talented and leave such legacy to the world as the three Brontë sisters. Probably this would be too much to ask of girls or boys in any case.
Jane Eyre is Gothic and it shows the true importance of female grit in an oppressive society. Let’s reinforce this, Jane Eyre’s bravery and strength of character is a lesson to every girl/woman out there.
The other books of Charlotte and Anne Brontë are also classics, talking about female issues in a time women had no voice. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë for example, talks about a disastrous marriage and all the problems a woman had to go through at that time when she choose to leave her husband. This makes this book important.
5. And 6. Machado de Assis and Gabriel García Marquez
The Goodreads description of Machado de Assis says he is “widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature” and “the supreme black literary artist to date”. With plenty of reason, I would say. My favorite book from him, Dom Casmurro, was the first one that impressed me first due to its outstanding writing style. In the same way, the writing style of Gabriel García Marquez is so immersive it can transport you into a daydreaming state while reading it. My favorite book from him is Love in the Time of Cholera.
7. And 8. Federico Garcia Lorca and Victor Hugo
My favorite poet and my favorite French author have a theme in common in my favorite books by them: Gypsies. The Romancero gitano and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame are masterpieces with, as Lorca says, a lot of “Duende”.
The theory of “Duende” is in any case interesting . I understand it as the search for that quintessential wild magic capable ot turning artistic work into an immortal masterpiece, like the Opera Carmen, for example.
So here they are, my favorite literary authors. I’m sure I’ve left a lot of awesome authors out of this post, a commented list with 100 or more being too long to be manageable. Besides, I haven’t read everything out there yet even if I did read my share of classic and adult books.
My next posts will continue with my most favorite authors in other genres.
And you? Which are your favorite authors, those you would recommend anyone without blinking?
Let me know in the comments.
