Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide / edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [549]-561) and index.

Chinua Achebe -- André Aciman -- Vassilis Alexakis -- Isabel Allende -- Katerina Anhgelaki-Rooke -- W.H. Auden -- Paul Auster -- Ba Jin -- Ingeborg Bachmann -- Samuel Beckett -- Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Isaiah Berlin -- Yves Bonnefoy -- Pierre Boulle -- Paul Bowles -- Joseph Brodsky -- Pearl S. Buck -- Ivan Bunin -- Guillermao Cabrera Infante -- Albert Camus -- Elias Canetti -- Truman Capote -- Paul Celan -- Patrick Chamoiseau -- Andrée Chedid -- J.M. Coetzee -- Maryse Condé -- Jorge de Sena -- Marguerite Duras -- Lawrence Durrell -- Umberto Eco -- Gunnar Ekelöf -- Mircea Eliade -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger-- Oriana Fallaci -- Frantz Fanon -- John Fowles -- Max Frisch -- Gao Xingjian -- Édouard Glissant -- Michel Goeldlin -- Juan Goytisolo -- Jorie Graham -- Günter Grass -- Romesh Gunesekera -- Stratis Haviaras -- Bessie Head -- Georges Henein -- Eugène Ionesco -- Paula Jacques -- Nikos Kazantzakis -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Arthur Koestler -- Milan Kundera -- Hanif Kureishi -- Linde Lê -- Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio -- Doris Lessing -- Carlo Levi -- Primo Levi -- Artur Lundkvist -- Andrei Makine -- Claire Messud -- Marco Micone -- Czesław Miłosz -- Vilhelm Moberg -- Henry de Montherlant -- Vladimir Nabokov -- V.S. Naipaul -- Pablo Neruda -- Eugène Nicole -- Ben Okri -- Michael Ondaatje -- Iris Origo -- Octavio Paz -- Pepetela -- Elisabeth Plessen -- Jean Rhys -- Ri Kaisei -- Salman Rushdie -- Carl Sagan -- Said -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Georges Schehadé -- W.G. Sebald -- Luis Sepúveda -- Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn -- Muriel Spark -- Suga Atsuko -- Antonio Tabucchi -- Tawada Yōko -- Tzvetan Todorov -- Tatyana Tolstaya -- Leon (Marcus) Uris -- Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich -- Derek Walcott -- Wang Meng -- Elie Wiesel -- Yi Munyŏl -- Marguerite Yourcenar -- Alexander Zinoviev

"The political circumstances following World War II exposed many people to other cultures. This reference discusses the experiences of writers active since 1945 who were shaped by cultures other than their own." "Included are alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 writers, including Chinua Achebe, W. H. Auden, Mircea Eliade, Jamaica Kincaid, Salman Rushdie, and Elie Wiesel. The profiled authors either lived in another culture voluntarily or were wrenched from one culture into another. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes in the writer's works, a review of criticism, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. The reference demonstrates the value of multicultural experiences in the lives of writers around the world and fosters a greater appreciation of cultural diversity."--BOOK JACKET.