Nominate your best authors by language
English: Shakespeare, bar none. Although Milton was darn good, as was Chaucer.
King Lear or Henry the Eighth.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, the best short story of all time.
French: Victo Hugo, Les Mis, nothing even close.
German: Goethe, Schilling or Lessing. Faust or Nathan the Wise.
Chinese: don't read it well enough to opine though there are many classics.
Japanese: same as above.
Russian: Doystoyevski, or Tolstoi. I liked Anna Karenina or Brothers Karamosov.
Spanish: not certain, still deciding. Cervantes, but a long read.
Italian: oh geeze, the levels of heaven and hell, his name, or crimeny.
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