Authors and their works on postage stamps from around the world.
Index by Author's Nationality
See also: Index by Author's Name and Index by Country of Issuance.
Armenia - Asia, Medieval - Australia - Austria - Belgium - Brazil - Bulgaria - Canada - Chile - Czech Republic - Denmark - England - Estonia - France - Georgia - Germany - Greece, Ancient - Greece, Modern - Guatemala - Hungary - Iceland - India - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Japan - Lithuania - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Rome, Ancient - Russia - Scotland - South Africa - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - Ukraine - United States
Note: Authors who changed nationality are listed under both countries unless the change came after their writing career.
Armenia
Isahakyan, Avetik
Sundoukian, Gabriel
Asia, Medieval
Australia
Clarke, Marcus
Gordon, Lindsay
Paterson, A. B. 'Banjo'
Richardson, Henry Handel
White, Patrick
Austria
Roth, Joseph
Stifter, Adalbert
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Botev, Christo
Smirnenski, Christo
Canada
Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe
Conan, Laure
Fréchette, Louis-Honoré
Grove, Frederick Philip
Guèvremont, Germaine
Hémon, Louis
Lampman, Archibald
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Nelligan, Émile
Pratt, E. J.
Service, Robert
Chile
Czech Republic
Capek, Karel
Hasek, Jaroslav
Havel, Vaclav
Kafka, Franz
Mácha, Karel Hynek
Denmark
Andersen Nexø, Martin
Andersen, Hans Christian
Blicher, Steen Steensen
Brandes, Georg
Dinesen, Isak
Grundtvig, Nicolai
Jensen, Johannes V.
Oehlenschläger, Adam
England
Austen, Jane
Blake, William
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily
Byron, George Gordon Lord
Carroll, Lewis
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chesterton, G. K.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Conrad, Joseph
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Gaskell, Elizabeth
Gray, Thomas
Hardy, Thomas
Keats, John
Kipling, Rudyard
Lear, Edward
Lewis, C. S.
Richardson, Henry Handel
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Tolkein, J. R. R.
Wells, H. G.
Wordsworth, William
Estonia
France
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
Camus, Albert
Chateaubriand, François-René
Colette
Corneille, Pierre
Daudet, Alphonse
Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline
Descartes, René
Dumas, Alexandre
Flaubert, Gustave
France, Anatole
Gide, André
Hugo, Victor
Lamartine, Alphonse de
Mérimée, Prosper
Molière
Proust, Marcel
Prudhomme, Sully
Rabelais, François
Racine, Jean
Rolland, Romain
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Saint-Pierre, Jean-Henri Bernardin de
Stendhal
Verne, Jules
Voltaire
Zola, Émile
Georgia
Germany
Bart-Cisinski, Jakub
Brecht, Bertolt
Büchner, Georg
Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von
Eichendorff, Joseph von
Eucken, Rudolf
Fontane, Theodor
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Grimm, Brothers
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Heine, Heinrich
Hesse, Hermann
Hölderlin, Friedrich
Kleist, Heinrich von
Lasker-Schüler, Else
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Mann, Heinrich
Mann, Thomas
Mörike, Eduard
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Roswitha von Gandersheim
Sachs, Hans
Sachs, Nelly
Schiller, Friedrich von
Storm, Theodor
Tieck, Ludwig
Zweig, Arnold
Greece, Ancient
Euripides
Homer
Sappho
Sophocles
Greece, Modern
Guatemala
Hungary
Iceland
Laxness, Halidór
Snorri Sturluson
India
Ireland
Joyce, James
Lewis, C. S.
O'Casey, Sean
Shaw, George Bernard
Stoker, Bram
Swift, Jonathan
Synge, John Millington
Yeats, William Butler
Israel
Italy
Ariosto, Ludovico
Boccaccio, Giovanni
D'Annunzio, Gabriele
Dante
Foscolo, Ugo
Leopardi, Giacomo
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Petrarch
Pirandello, Luigi
Verga, Giovanni
Japan
Lithuania
Mickiewicz, Adam
Milosz, Czeslaw
Mexico
New Zealand
Norway
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
Falkberget, Johan
Hamsun, Knut
Ibsen, Henrik
Kielland, Alexander
Lie, Jonas
Ørjasæter, Tore
Poland
Conrad, Joseph
Mickiewicz, Adam
Milosz, Czeslaw
Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Portugal
Romania
Caragiale, Ion Luca
Eminescu, Mihail
Rome, Ancient
Russia
Blok, Aleksandr
Bunin, Ivan
Chekhov, Anton
Dostoevsky, Feodor
Gogol, Nikolai
Gorky, Maxim
Lermontov, Mikhail
Marshak, Samuel
Pasternak, Boris
Pushkin, Alexander
Shaginyan, Marietta
Sholokhov, Mikhail
Tolstoy, Leo
Turgenev, Ivan
Yesenin, Sergei
Scotland
Burns, Robert
Scott, Sir Walter
Stevenson, Robert Louis
South Africa
Gordimer, Nadine
Tolkein, J. R. R.
Spain
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Cela, Camilo José
Cervantes, Miguel de
Jiménez, Juan Ramón
Machado, Antonio
Unamuno, Miguel de
Vega, Lope de
Sweden
Lagerlöf, Selma
Strindberg, August
Switzerland
Hesse, Hermann
Lasker-Schüler, Else
Staël, Madame de
Turkey
Abasiyanik, Sait Faik
Ahmet Rasim
Ahmet Vefik Pasha
Güntekin, Resat Nuri
Gürpinar, Hüseyin Rahmi
Omer Seyfeddin
Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem
Tevfik Fikret
Usakligil, Halit Ziya
Ukraine
United States
Alcott, Louisa May
Cather, Willa
Cooper, James Fenimore
Dickinson, Emily
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Eliot, T. S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Faulkner, William
Ferber, Edna
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Frost, Robert
Harris, Joel Chandler
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hemingway, Ernest
Howe, Julia Ward
Hughes, Langston
Irving, Washington
Jeffers, Robinson
Lanier, Sidney
Lewis, Sinclair
London, Jack
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lowell, James Russell
Masters, Edgar Lee
Melville, Herman
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Milosz, Czeslaw
Mitchell, Margaret
O'Neill, Eugene
Poe, Edgar Allan
Sandburg, Carl
Saroyan, William
Steinbeck, John
Thoreau, Henry David
Thurber, James
Twain, Mark
Wharton, Edith
Whitman, Walt
Whittier, John Greenleaf
