Authors and their works on postage stamps from around the world.











Index by Author's Name

See also: Index by Author's Nationality and Index by Country of Issuance.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

Abasiyanik, Sait Faik
Ahmet Rasim
Ahmet Vefik Pasha
Alcott, Louisa May
Aleichem, Sholom
Andersen, Hans Christian
Andersen Nexø, Martin
Ariosto, Ludovico
Asturias, Miguel Ángel
Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe
Austen, Jane
Azuela, Mariano

B

Bart-Cisinski, Jakub
Basho
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne
Blake, William
Blicher, Steen Steensen
Blok, Aleksandr
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Botev, Christo
Brandes, Georg
Brecht, Bertolt
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily
Büchner, Georg
Bunin, Ivan
Burns, Robert
Byron, George Gordon Lord

C

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
Camões, Luís de
Camus, Albert
Capek, Karel
Caragiale, Ion Luca
Carroll, Lewis
Cather, Willa
Cela, Camilo José
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chateaubriand, François-René
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chavchavadze, Ilia
Chekhov, Anton
Chesterton, G. K.
Cicero
Clarke, Marcus
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Colette
Conan, Laure
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore
Corneille, Pierre

D

D'Annunzio, Gabriele
Dante
Daudet, Alphonse
Defoe, Daniel
Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline
Descartes, René
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Emily
Dinesen, Isak
Dostoevsky, Feodor
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Droste-Hülshoff, Annette von
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Dumas, Alexandre
Dunbar, Paul Laurence

E

Eichendorff, Joseph von
Eliot, George
Eliot, T. S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Eminescu, Mihail
Eucken, Rudolf
Euripides

F

Falkberget, Johan
Faulkner, William
Ferber, Edna
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, Gustave
Fontane, Theodor
Foscolo, Ugo
France, Anatole
Fréchette, Louis-Honoré
Frost, Robert

G

Gaskell, Elizabeth
Gide, André
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Gogol, Nikolai
Gordimer, Nadine
Gordon, Lindsay
Gorky, Maxim
Gray, Thomas
Grimm, Brothers
Grove, Frederick Philip
Grundtvig, Nicolai
Guèvremont, Germaine
Güntekin, Resat Nuri
Gürpinar, Hüseyin Rahmi

H

Hamsun, Knut
Hardy, Thomas
Harris, Joel Chandler
Hasek, Jaroslav
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Havel, Vaclav
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Heine, Heinrich
Hemingway, Ernest
Hémon, Louis
Hesse, Hermann
Hölderlin, Friedrich
Homer
Horace
Howe, Julia Ward
Hughes, Langston
Hugo, Victor

I

Ibsen, Henrik
Irving, Washington
Isahakyan, Avetik

J

Jeffers, Robinson
Jensen, Johannes V.
Jiménez, Juan Ramón
Joyce, James
József, Attila

K

Kafka, Franz
Kawabata, Yasunari
Keats, John
Kielland, Alexander
Kipling, Rudyard
Kleist, Heinrich von
Koidula, Lydia

L

Lagerlöf, Selma
Lamartine, Alphonse de
Lampman, Archibald
Lanier, Sidney
Lasker-Schüler, Else
Laxness, Halidór
Lear, Edward
Leopardi, Giacomo
Lermontov, Mikhail
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, Sinclair
Lie, Jonas
London, Jack
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Lowell, James Russell

M

Mácha, Karel Hynek
Machado, Antonio
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Mann, Heinrich
Mann, Thomas
Mansfield, Katherine
Marshak, Samuel
Masters, Edgar Lee
Melville, Herman
Mérimée, Prosper
Mickiewicz, Adam
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Milosz, Czeslaw
Mitchell, Margaret
Molière
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Mörike, Eduard

N

Nelligan, Émile
Neruda, Pablo
Nietzsche, Friedrich

O

O'Casey, Sean
Oehlenschläger, Adam
Omer Seyfeddin
O'Neill, Eugene
Ørjasæter, Tore

P

Pasternak, Boris
Paterson, A. B. 'Banjo'
Petrarch
Pirandello, Luigi
Poe, Edgar Allan
Pratt, E. J.
Proust, Marcel
Prudhomme, Sully
Pushkin, Alexander

Q

R

Rabelais, François
Racine, Jean
Recaizade Mahmut Ekrem
Richardson, Henry Handel
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rolland, Romain
Roswitha von Gandersheim
Roth, Joseph
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

S

Sachs, Hans
Sachs, Nelly
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
Saint-Pierre, Jean-Henri Bernardin de
Sandburg, Carl
Sappho
Saroyan, William
Schiller, Friedrich von
Scott, Sir Walter
Seferis, George
Seneca
Service, Robert
Shaginyan, Marietta
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Sholokhov, Mikhail
Sienkiewicz, Henryk
Smirnenski, Christo
Snorri Sturluson
Sophocles
Staël, Madame de
Steinbeck, John
Stendhal
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stifter, Adalbert
Stoker, Bram
Storm, Theodor
Strindberg, August
Sundoukian, Gabriel
Swift, Jonathan
Synge, John Millington

T

Tagore, Rabindranath
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Tevfik Fikret
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thoreau, Henry David
Thurber, James
Tieck, Ludwig
Tolkein, J. R. R.
Tolstoy, Leo
Turgenev, Ivan
Twain, Mark

U

Unamuno, Miguel de
Usakligil, Halit Ziya

V

Vega, Lope de
Verga, Giovanni
Verne, Jules
Virgil
Voltaire

W

Wells, H. G.
Wharton, Edith
White, Patrick
Whitman, Walt
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wordsworth, William

X

Y

Yasawi, Khodja Akhmed
Yeats, William Butler
Yesenin, Sergei

Z

Zola, Émile
Zweig, Arnold


Top Authors

Greatest number of stamps in our online collection

Charles Dickens (20)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (16)
William Shakespeare (16)
Friedrich Schiller (14)
Dante (12)
Hans Christian Andersen (10)
Homer (10)

Featured by the greatest number of countries

William Shakespeare (9)
Jules Verne (6)
Miguel de Cervantes (5)
Charles Dickens (5)
Dante (5)
Victor Hugo (5)
Lord Byron (4)
Friedrich Schiller (4)

All of the stamps pictured on this site are from my personal collection.