List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth

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Dramatists listed in chronological order by country and language:

[edit] Albania

See also: List of Albanian writers

(1850–1904) Sami Frashëri [Albania—Turkey] (Albanian language and Turkish language)

[edit] Assyria

See also: List of Assyrian writers

(born 1965) Rosie Malek-Yonan
(born 1969) Monica Malek-Yonan

[edit] Australia

(1912–1988) Kylie Tennant
(1916–1999) Morris West
(1917–2000) Jack Davis
(born 1921) Ray Lawler
(1923–2002) Dorothy Hewett
(born 1927) Alan Seymour
(born 1933) Wendy Richardson
(born 1941) Kenneth G. Ross
(born 1942) David Williamson
(1944–2006) Alex Buzo
(1948–1997) Roger Bennett
(born 1948) Jimmy Chi
(1950–2003) Nick Enright
(born 1950) Louis Nowra
(born 1953) Justin Fleming
(born 1955) Michael Gow
(born 1959) Richard Frankland
(born 1960) Jane Harrison
(1964–1989) Bill Neskovski [Macedonia—Australia] (Macedonian language and English language)
(born 1969) Wesley Enoch
(born 1978) Van Badham
(born 1978) Tom Taylor

[edit] Austria

(1791–1872) Franz Grillparzer
(1801–1862) Johann Nestroy
(1814–1874) Friedrich Kaiser
(1839–1889) Ludwig Anzengruber
(1863–1934) Hermann Bahr
(1866–1945) Richard Beer-Hofmann
(1874–1929) Hugo von Hofmannsthal
(1874–1936) Karl Kraus
(1880–1942) Robert Musil
(1882–1971) Max Mell
(1885–1969) Franz Theodor Csokor
(1886–1980) Oskar Kokoschka [Austria—England—Switzerland]
(1891–1958) Ferdinand Bruckner
(1893–1965) Richard Billinger
(1895–1959) Arnolt Bronnen
(1897–1930) Hans Chlumberg
(1897–1976) Alexander Lernet-Holenia
(1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth [Hungary—Germany—Austria]
(1911–1986) Fritz Hochwälder [Austria—Switzerland]
(born 1920) Kurt Besci
(1921–1988) Erich Fried [Austria—England] (German language and English language)
(1941–2005) Wolfgang Bauer
(born 1942) Peter Handke
(born 1944) Peter Turrini

[edit] Bangladesh

[edit] Belarus

(1880–1948) Peretz Hirschbein [Belarus—Russia—United States] (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1888–1962) H. Leivick [Belarus—Russia—United States] (Yiddish language)

[edit] Belgium

(1862–1949) Maurice Maeterlinck [Belgium—France] (French language)
(1885–1970) Fernand Crommelynck [Belgium—France] (French language)
(1898–1962) Michel de Ghelderode (French language)
(born 1913) Félicien Marceau [Belgium—France] (French language)

[edit] Bosnia and Herzegovina

(born 1944) Abdulah Sidran
(born 1950) Safet Plakalo
(born 1962) Nenad Veličković
(born 1971) Almir Imširević

[edit] Brazil

(1815–1848) Martins Pena
(1831–1852) Álvares de Azevedo
(1839–1908) Machado de Assis
(1857–1913) Aluísio Azevedo
(1912–1980) Nelson Rodrigues
(born 1923) Millôr Fernandes
(born 1927) Ariano Suassuna
(1931–2009) Augusto Boal
(1948–1996) Caio Fernando Abreu

[edit] Canada

(1893–1975) Merrill Denison (English language)
(1909–1999) Gratien Gélinas (French language)
(1913–1995) Robertson Davies (English language)
(born 1930) Marcel Dubé (French language)
(born 1959) Zillur Rahman John (English language)
(born 1961) Vittorio Rossi (English language)
(born 1964) David Gow (English language)

[edit] Czech Republic

See also: List of Czech writers

(1884–1968) Max Brod [Czech Republic—Israel] (German language)
(1889–1942) Paul Kornfeld [Czech Republic—Germany] (German language)
(1890–1938) Karel Čapek
(1936–2011) Václav Havel

[edit] Denmark

See also: List of Danish authors

(1684–1754) Ludvig Holberg [Norway—Denmark]
(1779–1850) Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
(1791–1860) Johan Ludvig Heiberg
(1797–1870) Henrik Hertz
(1898–1944) Kaj Munk
(1901–1961) Kjeld Abell

[edit] Egypt

(1835–1902) Abu Khalil Qabbani [Syria—Egypt]

[edit] Estonia

(1751–1792) Jakob Lenz [Latvia—Estonia—Germany—Russia] (German language)

[edit] France

(died ca. 1210) Jean Bodel
(ca. 1237–ca. 1288) Adam de la Halle
(ca. 1460/70–ca. 1515) Andrieu de La Vigne
(ca. 1470/80–ca. 1538/39) Pierre Gringoire
(1532–1573) Étienne Jodelle
(ca. 1535–ca. 1607) Jean de La Taille
(1540–1619) Pierre de Larivey
(1542–1562) Jacques de La Taille
(1544–1590) Robert Garnier
(c. 1570 – 1632) Alexandre Hardy
(1595–1676) Jean Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin
(1601–1667) Georges de Scudéry
(1604–1686) Jean Mairet
(1606–1658) Pierre Du Ryer
(1606–1684) Pierre Corneille
(1622–1673) Molière
(1625–1709) Thomas Corneille
(1635–1688) Philippe Quinault
(1638–1701) Edme Boursault
(1639–1699) Jean Racine
(1640–1723) David-Augustin de Brueys
(1650–1721) Jean Palaprat
(1653–1708) Antoine d'Aubigny de La Fosse
(1654–1724) Charles Rivière Dufresny
(1659–1741) Augustin Nadal
(1661–1725) Florent Carton Dancourt
(1668–1747) Alain-René Lesage
(1674–1762) Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
(1680–1754) Philippe Néricault Destouches
(1688–1763) Pierre Carlet de Marivaux
(1692–1754) Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée
(1694–1778) Voltaire
(1709–1777) Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset
(1713–1784) Denis Diderot
(1732–1799) Pierre de Beaumarchais
(1740–1814) Louis-Sébastien Mercier
(1750–1794) Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine
(1793–1843) Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne
(1798–1855) Adam Mickiewicz [Poland—France] (Polish language and French language)
(1799–1850) Honoré de Balzac
(1802–1870) Alexandre Dumas, père
(1802–1885) Victor Hugo
(1804–1876) George Sand
(1805–1882) Henri Auguste Barbier
(1810–1857) Alfred de Musset
(1811–1899) Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery
(1812–1859) Zygmunt Krasiński [France—Poland] (Polish language)
(1815–1888) Eugène Marin Labiche
(1820–1889) Émile Augier
(1823–1891) Théodore de Banville
(1824–1895) Alexandre Dumas, fils
(1831–1897) Henri Meilhac
(1834–1908) Ludovic Halévy
(1837–1899) Henry Becque
(1840–1897) Alphonse Daudet
(1842–1908) François Coppée
(1848–1912) Alexandre Bisson
(1848–1917) Octave Mirbeau
(1848–1918) Georges Ohnet
(1853–1914) Jules Lemaître
(1854–1928) François de Curel
(1857–1915) Paul Hervieu
(1858–1922) Alfred Capus
(1858–1929) Georges Courteline
(1858–1932) Eugène Brieux
(1859–1940) Henri Lavedan
(1859–1945) Maurice Donnay
(1861–1949) Lucien Descaves
(1862–1921) Georges Feydeau
(1862–1949) Maurice Maeterlinck [Belgium—France]
(1866–1947) Tristan Bernard
(1867–1942) Georges Berr
(1868–1918) Edmond Rostand
(1868–1952) Romain Coolus
(1868–1955) Paul Claudel
(1869–1915) Gaston de Caillavet
(1869–1955) Émile Fabre
(1872–1922) Henri Bataille
(1872–1927) Robert de Flers
(1872–1955) Lucien Besnard
(1873–1907) Alfred Jarry
(1874–1931) Fernand Nozière
(1875–1937) Henri Duvernois
(1875–1944) Henri Ghéon
(1876–1953) Henri Bernstein
(1877–1937) Francis de Croisset
(1879–1949) Jacques Copeau
(1880–1918) Guillaume Apollinaire [Italy—France]
(1881–1958) Roger Martin du Gard
(1882–1941) James Joyce [Ireland—France—Switzerland] (English language)
(1882–1944) Jean Giraudoux
(1882–1951) Henri-René Lenormand
(1882–1962) René Fauchois
(1884–1973) Alexandre Arnoux
(1884–1975) Émile Mazaud
(1884–1977) Denys Amiel
(1885–1957) Sacha Guitry
(1885–1970) François Mauriac
(1885–1983) Paul Géraldy
(1886–1970) Fernand Crommelynck [Belgium—France]
(1887–1945) Édouard Bourdet
(1887–1961) Simon Gantillon
(1888–1972) Jean-Jacques Bernard
(1889–1958) Paul Nivoix
(1889–1963) Jean Cocteau
(1889–1973) Gabriel Marcel
(1890–1974) André Birabeau
(1891–1952) Léopold Marchand
(1892–1975) André Obey
(1893–1986) André Lang
(1894–1972) Jacques Deval
(1895–1970) Jean Giono
(1896–1948) Antonin Artaud
(1896–1972) Henry de Montherlant
(1899–1965) Jacques Audiberti
(1899–1974) Marcel Achard
(1900–1982) Georges Neveux
(1900–1998) Julien Green [France—United States] (French language and English language)
(1902–1967) Marcel Aymé
(1905–1980) Jean Paul Sartre
(1906–1989) Samuel Beckett [Ireland—France] (English language and French language)
(1908–1970) Arthur Adamov
(1909–1985) Jean Bernard-Luc
(1909–1988) Thierry Maulnier
(1909–1994) Eugene Ionesco [Romania—France] (French language and Romanian language)
(1910–1986) Jean Genet
(1910–1987) Jean Anouilh
(1912–1978) Albert Husson
(1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy [Haiti—France—Ghana—Senegal—United States] (French language and Creole language)
(1913–1960) Albert Camus
(born 1913) Félicien Marceau [Belgium—France]
(1914–1996) Marguerite Duras
(1917–1987) Georges Arnaud
(born January 1920) Jean Dutourd
(born August 1920) Jean-Pierre Grédy
(born 1923) Pierre Barillet
(born 1924) Armand Gatti
(1927–1991) François Billetdoux
(born 1930) Sławomir Mrożek [Poland—France] (Polish language)
(born 1960) Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt‎

[edit] Georgia

See also: List of Georgian writers

(1802–1869) Alexander Orbeliani
(1813–1864) Giorgi Eristavi
(1824–1901) Raphael Eristavi
(1862–1931) David Kldiashvili
(1882–1962) Grigol Robakidze
(1904–1938) Gerzel Baazov
(born 1977) Lasha Bugadze
(born 1980) Nestan Kvinikadze

[edit] Germany

(1616–1664) Andreas Gryphius [Poland—Germany] (Latin language and German language)
(1700–1766) Johann Christoph Gottsched
(1724–1803) Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
(1729–1781) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(1737–1823) Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
(1749–1825) Maler Müller
(1749–1832) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1751–1792) Jakob Lenz [Latvia—Estonia—Germany—Russia]
(1752–1806) Johann Anton Leisewitz
(1752–1831) Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger [Germany—Russia]
(1759–1805) Friedrich Schiller
(1759–1814) August Wilhelm Iffland
(1761–1819) August von Kotzebue
(1770–1843) Friedrich Hölderlin
(1774–1829) Amandus Gottfried Adolf Müllner
(1777–1811) Heinrich von Kleist
(1788–1857) Baron Joseph von Eichendorff
(1796–1840) Karl Lebrecht Immermann
(1801–1836) Christian Dietrich Grabbe
(1806–1884) Heinrich Laube
(1811–1878) Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
(1813–1837) Georg Büchner
(1813–1863) Friedrich Hebbel
(1813–1865) Otto Ludwig
(1816–1895) Gustav Freytag
(1858–1921) Carl Hauptmann
(1862–1946) Gerhart Hauptmann
(1865–1944) Max Halbe
(1866–1933) Paul Ernst
(1870–1938) Ernst Barlach
(1873–1942) Georg Hirschfeld
(1876–1947) Ernst Hardt
(1878–1945) Georg Kaiser
(1882–1961) Leonhard Frank [Germany—United States]
(1884–1958) Lion Feuchtwanger
(1886–1969) Johannes von Guenther
(1887–1936) Reinhard Goering
(1887–1945) Bruno Frank
(1888–1960) Curt Goetz
(1889–1942) Paul Kornfeld [Czech Republic—Germany]
(1890–1940) Walter Hasenclever
(1891–1944) Max Mohr
(1892–1986) Friedrich Michael
(1894–1959) Hans Henny Jahnn
(1895–1952) Alfred Neumann [Germany—United States] (German language and English language)
(1895–1958) Friedrich Forster
(1898–1956) Bertolt Brecht
(1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth [Hungary—Germany—Austria]
(1906–1970) Stefan Andres
(1906–1972) Eberhard Wolfgang Möller
(1910–1990) Ulrich Becher
(1916–1991) Wolfgang Hildesheimer
(1920–1994) Hans Günter Michelsen
(1921–1947) Wolfgang Borchert
(1922–1982) Heinar Kipphardt
(born 1925) Tankred Dorst
(1926–1998) Gerd Oelschlegel
(born January 1927) Leopold Ahlsen
(born October 1927) Günter Grass
(1928–2003) Peter Hacks
(born 1931) Rolf Hochhuth

[edit] Ghana

(1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy [Haiti—France—Ghana—Senegal—United States] (French language and Creole language)
(1924–1978) Joe de Graft

[edit] Greece

See also: List of Greek artists

(ca. 525 BC–ca. 456 BC) Aeschylus
(ca. 495 BC–ca. 406 BC) Sophocles
(ca. 485 BC–ca. 406 BC) Euripides
(ca. 448 BC–ca. 400 BC) Agathon
(ca. 445 BC–ca. 385 BC) Aristophanes
(ca. 343 BC–ca. 290 BC) Menander

[edit] Haiti

(1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy [Haiti—France—Ghana—Senegal—United States] (French language and Creole language)

[edit] Hungary

See also: List of Hungarian writers

(1788–1830) Károly Kisfaludy
(1791–1830) József Katona
(1823–1864) Imre Madách
(1842–1891) Gergely Csíky
(1878–1952) Ferenc Molnár [Hungary—United States]
(1901–1938) Ödön von Horváth [Hungary—Germany—Austria] (German language)
(1901–1975) László Németh
(1902–1983) Gyula Illyés

[edit] Iran

(born 1938) Bahram Bayzai
(1939–2007) Akbar Radi
(born 1952) Rosie Malek-Yonan [Assyria—Iran]
(born 1954) Monica Malek-Yonan [Assyria—Iran]

[edit] Iraq

(1867–1950) Pîremêrd [Kurdistan—Iraq—Turkey] (Kurdish language and Turkish language)

[edit] Ireland

(1728–1774) Oliver Goldsmith [Ireland–England]
(1735–1812) Isaac Bickerstaffe
(1784–1862) James Sheridan Knowles {Ireland—England}
(c. 1820 – 1890) Dion Boucicault [Ireland—United States]
(1853–1923) William Boyle
(1859–1923) Edward Martyn
(1877–1963) George Fitzmaurice
(1878–1957) Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany {Lord Dunsany} [England—Ireland]
(1880–1964) Sean O'Casey [Ireland–England]
(1881–1972) Padraic Colum [Ireland—United States]
(1882–1941) James Joyce [Ireland—France—Switzerland]
(1883–1971) St. John Ervine [Ireland—England]
(1889–1973) C. K. Munro [Ireland—England]
(1890–1963) Brinsley MacNamara
(1899–1978) Micheál MacLíammóir [England—Ireland] (English language and Irish language)
(1900–1968) Paul Vincent Carroll [Ireland—Scotland]
(1901–1984) Denis Johnston [Ireland—England—United States]
(1902–1961) Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford [England—Ireland]
(1906–1989) Samuel Beckett [Ireland—France] (English language and French language)
(1910–2001) Joseph O'Conor [Ireland—England]
(1912–1968) Donagh MacDonagh
(1923–1964) Brendan Behan
(born 1929) Brian Friel
(born 1906; died 1989) Samuel Beckett

[edit] Israel

(1884–1968) Max Brod [Czech Republic—Israel] (German language)
(1900–1973) Avraham Shlonsky [Ukraine—Israel]
(1910–1970) Nathan Alterman
(1924–2005) Ephraim Kishon
(1926–1998) Nisim Aloni
(born 1935) Dan Almagor
(born 1936) A. B. Yehoshua
(born 1939) Yehoshua Sobol
(1943–1999) Hanoch Levin
(born 1954) Shmuel Hasfari

[edit] Italy

See also: List of Italian writers

(c. 1230 – 1306) Jacopone da Todi
(1261–1329) Albertino Mussato (Latin language)
(1410–1484) Feo Belcari
(1469–1527) Niccolò Machiavelli
(1470–1520) Bernardo Dovizio da Bibbiena
(1474–1533) Ludovico Ariosto
(before 1480–after 1505) Publio Filippo Mantovano
(1492–1556) Pietro Aretino
(1492–1573) Donato Giannotti
(ca. 1500–ca. 1550) Gigio Artemio Giancarli
(1503–1531) Lodovico Martelli
(1503–1584) Anton Francesco Grazzini {Il Lasca [The Roach]}
(1504–1573) Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio
(1507–1566) Annibale Caro
(1508–ca. 1568) Ludovico Dolce
(1518–1587) Giovan Maria Cecchi
(ca. 1525–ca. 1586) Giovanni Battista Cini
(1532–1619) Vincenzo Giusti
(1535–1607) Muzio Manfredi
(1535–1615) Giambattista Della Porta
(1537–1586) Girolamo Bargagli
(1538–1612) Gian Battista Guarini
(1541–1585) Luigi Groto
(1548–1600) Giordano Bruno
(c. 1560 – 1628) Federico Della Valle
(1568–1642) Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Younger
(1675–1755) Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei
(1698–1782) Pietro Metastasio
(1707–1793) Carlo Goldoni
(1720–1806) Carlo Gozzi
(1728–1787) Ferdinando Galiani
(1749–1803) Vittorio Alfieri
(1754–1828) Vincenzo Monti
(1776–1834) Giovanni Giraud
(1778–1827) Ugo Foscolo
(1782–1861) Gian Battista Niccolini
(1785–1873) Alessandro Manzoni
(1788–1858) Francesco Augusto Bon
(1800–1846) Carlo Marenco
(1816–1882) Paolo Giacometti
(1822–1889) Paolo Ferrari
(1830–1881) Pietro Cossa
(1839–1915) Luigi Capuana
(1842–1911) Antonio Fogazzaro
(1847–1906) Giuseppe Giacosa
(1852–1909) Alfredo Oriani
(1852–1927) Giuseppe Baffico
(1857–1934) Camillo Antona-Traversi
(1860–1934) Salvatore Di Giacomo
(1860–1939) Giannino Antona-Traversi
(1861–1943) Roberto Bracco
(1863–1938) Gabriele D'Annunzio
(1867–1927) Augusto Novelli
(1867–1936) Luigi Pirandello
(1867–1951) Sabatino Lopez
(1868–1912) Enrico Annibale Butti
(1870–1916) Carlo Bertolazzi
(1874–1934) Dario Niccodemi
(1876–1944) Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
(1877–1949) Sem Benelli
(1878–1960) Massimo Bontempelli
(1880–1918) Guillaume Apollinaire [Italy—France] (French language)
(1880–1947) Luigi Chiarelli
(1882–1921) Ercole Luigi Morselli
(1882–1942) Luigi Antonelli
(1885–1954) Enrico Cavacchioli
(1891–1949) Gherardo Gherardi
(1891–1957) Alberto Casella
(1892–1953) Ugo Betti
(1898–1992) Valentino Bompiani
(1899–1999) Enrico Bassano
(1900–1984) Eduardo De Filippo
(1901–1959) Silvio Giovaninetti
(1903–1933) Leo Ferrero
(1907–1954) Vitaliano Brancati
(1911–1980) Diego Fabbri
(1911–2007) Gian Carlo Menotti [Italy—United States] (Italian language and English language)

[edit] Japan

See also: List of Japanese writers

(1363–1443) Seami Motokiyo {Zeami}
(1653–1725) Chikamatsu Monzaemon

[edit] Kurdistan

(1867–1950) Pîremêrd [Kurdistan—Iraq—Turkey] (Kurdish language and Turkish language)

[edit] Latvia

(1751–1792) Jakob Lenz [Latvia—Estonia—Germany—Russia] (German language)

[edit] Lithuania

(1910–1961) Antanas Škėma [Lithuania—United States]

[edit] Macedonia

(1964–1989) Blagoje "Bill" Neskovski [Macedonia—Australia] (Macedonian language and English language)

[edit] Morocco

See also: List of Moroccan writers

(born 1938) Abdelkebir Khatibi
(born 1938) Tayeb Seddiki (Arabic language and French language)
(born 1953) Abdallah Zrika

[edit] Netherlands

(1864–1924) Herman Heijermans

[edit] Nigeria

(born 1934) Wole Soyinka [Nigeria—England—United States]
(1941–1995) Ken Saro-Wiwa

[edit] Norway

See also: List of Norwegian writers

(1684–1754) Ludvig Holberg [Norway—Denmark]
(1828–1906) Henrik Ibsen
(1832–1910) Bjornstjerne Bjornson
(1857–1929) Gunnar Heiberg
(1889–1962) Helge Krog
(1902–1943) Nordahl Grieg

[edit] Pakistan

See also: List of Pakistani writers

(born 1941) Haseena Moin

[edit] Poland

(1616–1664) Andreas Gryphius [Poland—Germany] (Latin language and German language)
(1793–1876) Aleksander Fredro
(1798–1855) Adam Mickiewicz [Poland—France] (Polish language and French language)
(ca. 1800–ca. 1855) Solomon Ettinger (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1809–1849) Juliusz Słowacki [Poland—France]
(1811–1899) Abraham Dov Ber Gotlober {ABG} {Abag} {Mahalalel} [Ukraine—Poland] (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1812–1859) Zygmunt Krasiński [France—Poland]
(1820–1869) Apollo Korzeniowski
(1860–1921) Gabriela Zapolska
(1868–1927) Stanisław Przybyszewski (Polish language and German language)
(1869–1907) Stanisław Wyspiański
(1874–1915) Jerzy Żuławski
(1880–1957) Sholem Asch [Poland—United States] (Yiddish language)
(1885–1939) Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz {Witkacy}
(1904–1969) Witold Gombrowicz [Poland—Argentina]
(1920–2005) Karol Wojtyła {Pope John Paul II} [Poland—Vatican]
(born 1930) Sławomir Mrożek [Poland—France]
(born 1938) Janusz Głowacki [Poland—United States] (Polish language and English language)

[edit] Portugal

(1465–1536) Gil Vicente
(1799–1854) João Batista de Almeida Garrett
(1906–1997) António Gedeão
(born 1922) José Saramago

[edit] Romania

See also: List of Romanian writers

(1821–1890) Vasile Alecsandri
(1840–1908) Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden [Ukraine—Romania—United States] (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1852–1912) Ion Luca Caragiale
(1858–1918) Barbu Delavrancea
(1909–1994) Eugene Ionesco [Romania—France] (French language and Romanian language)
(1917–1983) Horia Lovinescu

[edit] Russia

(c. 1745 – 1792) Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin
(1751–1792) Jakob Lenz [Latvia—Estonia—Germany—Russia] (German language)
(1752–1831) Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger [Germany—Russia] (German language)
(1795–1829) Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov
(1809–1852) Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol
(1814–1841) Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
(1823–1886) Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky
(1856–1909) Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky
(1860–1904) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
(1863–1920) S. Anski (Russian language and Yiddish language)
(1868–1936) Maxim Gorky
(1871–1919) Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
(1880–1921) Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
(1880–1948) Peretz Hirschbein [Belarus—Russia—United States] (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1888–1962) H. Leivick [Belarus—Russia—United States] (Yiddish language)
(1891–1940) Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov
(1893–1930) Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
(1894–1941) Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel
(1895–1963) Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov
(1897–1986) Valentin Petrovich Katayev
(1899–1994) Leonid Maksimovich Leonov
(1904–1941) Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afinogenov
(1905–1942) Aleksandr Preis
(1908–1986) Aleksey Nikolayevich Arbuzov

[edit] Senegal

(1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy [Haiti—France—Ghana—Senegal—United States] (French language and Creole language)

[edit] Slovenia

(1831–1887) Fran Levstik
(1871–1962) Fran Saleški Finžgar
(1876–1918) Ivan Cankar
(1878–1949) Oton Župančič
(1901–1949) Slavko Grum
(1930–1987) Gregor Strniša
(born 1948) Drago Jančar

[edit] Spain

(c. 1469 – 1530) Juan del Encina
(1474–1542) Lucas Fernández
(1547–1616) Miguel de Cervantes
(c. 1550 – 1610) Juan de la Cueva
(1562–1635) Lope de Vega
(1569–1631) Guillén de Castro y Bellvís
(c. 1574 – 1644) Antonio Mira de Amescua
(c. 1575 – 1648) Tirso de Molina
(1587–1650) Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez
(1596–1661) Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón
(1600–1681) Pedro Calderón de la Barca
(1611–1652) Antonio Coello y Ochoa
(1618–1669) Agustín Moreto y Cabaña
(1622–1714) Juan Claudio de la Hoz y Mota
(1625–1687) Juan Bautista Diamante
(1662–1704) Francisco Antonio Bances y López-Candamo
(1676–1750) José de Cañizares
(1731–1794) Ramón de la Cruz
(1734–1787) Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta
(1737–1780) Nicolás Fernández de Moratín
(1760–1828) Leandro Fernández de Moratín
(1787–1862) Francisco Martínez de la Rosa
(1793–1861) Antonio Gil y Zárate
(1796–1873) Manuel Bretón de los Herreros
(1806–1880) Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch y Martínez
(1809–1837) Mariano José de Larra y Sánchez de Castro
(1813–1884) Antonio García Gutiérrez
(1828–1879) Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera
(1832–1916) José Echegaray
(1834–1903) Gaspar Núñez de Arce
(1863–1917) Joaquín Dicenta y Benedicto
(1866–1936) Ramón del Valle-Inclán
(1866–1938) Manuel Linares Rivas y Astray-Caneda
(1866–1943) Carlos Arniches y Barrera
(1866–1954) Jacinto Benavente
(1871–1938) Serafín Álvarez Quintero
(1873–1944) Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
(1874–1947) Manuel Machado
(1875–1939) Antonio Machado
(1877–1958) Jacinto Grau Delgado
(1879–1946) Eduardo Marquina
(1881–1936) Pedro Muñoz Seca
(1881–1947) Gregorio Martínez Sierra
(1891–1962) Luis Fernández Ardavín
(1897–1975) Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena
(1898–1936) Federico García Lorca
(1899–1967) Edgar Neville [Spain—United States] (Spanish language and English language)
(1901–1952) Enrique Jardiel Poncela
(1902–1999) Rafael Alberti
(1903–1965) Alejandro Casona
(1903–1996) José López Rubio
(1905–1977) Miguel Mihura Santos
(1905–1993) Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo
(1912–1985) José Antonio Giménez Arnau y Gran
(1916–2000) Antonio Buero Vallejo
(born 1917) Juan Antonio de Laiglesia
(1922–1981) Álvaro de Laiglesia González Labarga
(1922–1994) Lauro Olmo
(born 1932) Fernando Arrabal
(born 1943) Alfonso Vallejo

[edit] Catalonia

(1845–1924) Àngel Guimerà

[edit] Sweden

(1883–1931) Hjalmar Bergman
(1891–1974) Pär Lagerkvist
(1918–1997) Werner Aspenström
(1923–1954) Stig Dagerman
(born 1928) Lars Forssell

[edit] Switzerland

(1882–1941) James Joyce [Ireland—France—Switzerland] (English language)
(1886–1980) Oskar Kokoschka [Austria—England—Switzerland] (German language)
(1911–1986) Fritz Hochwälder [Austria—Switzerland] (German language)
(1911–1991) Max Frisch (German language)
(1921–1990) Friedrich Dürrenmatt (German language)

[edit] Syria

(1835–1902) Abu Khalil Qabbani [Syria—Egypt]

[edit] Turkey

(1850–1904) Sami Frashëri [Albania—Turkey] (Albanian language and Turkish language)
(1867–1950) Pîremêrd [Kurdistan—Iraq—Turkey] (Kurdish language and Turkish language)
(1986–-) Hayati Citaklar [America—Turkey] (Turkish language and English language)

[edit] Ukraine

(1811–1899) Abraham Dov Ber Gotlober {ABG} {Abag} {Mahalalel} [Ukraine—Poland] (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1840–1908) Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden [Ukraine—Romania—United States] (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1853–1909) Jacob Gordin {Yan} [Ukraine—United States] (Russian language and Yiddish language)
(1871–1913) Lesya Ukrainka

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] England

(c. 1460 – 1502) Henry Medwall
(1495–1563) John Bale
(ca. 1497–ca. 1585) John Heywood
(1532–1584) Thomas Norton
(1535–1577) George Gascoigne
(c. 1553 – 1606) John Lyly
(1558–1592) Robert Greene
(1558–1594) Thomas Kyd
(c. 1560 – 1634) George Chapman
(1563–1631) Michael Drayton
(1564–1593) Christopher Marlowe
(1564–1616) William Shakespeare
(c. 1570 – 1641) Thomas Heywood
(c. 1572 – 1632) Thomas Dekker
(1572–1637) Ben Jonson
(1576–1634) John Marston
(1579–1625) John Fletcher
(1580–1627) Thomas Middleton [Wales–England]
(1583–1640) Philip Massinger
(c. 1585 – 1616) Francis Beaumont
(ca. 1585–after 1639) John Ford
(ca. 1590–ca. 1653) Richard Brome
(1606–1668) William Davenant
(1631–1700) John Dryden
(c. 1635 – 1691) George Etherege
(1640–1689) Aphra Behn
(ca. 1640–ca. 1703) John Crowne
(1652–1685) Thomas Otway
(c. 1653 – 1692) Nathaniel Lee
(c. 1667 – 1723) Susannah Centlivre
(1670–1729) William Congreve
(1671–1757) Colley Cibber
(1672–1719) Joseph Addison
(c. 1678 – 1707) George Farquhar
(1685–1732) John Gay
(1693–1739) George Lillo
(c. 1700 – 1766) William Rufus Chetwood
(1707–1754) Henry Fielding
(1717–1779) David Garrick
(1720–1777) Samuel Foote
(1728–1774) Oliver Goldsmith [Ireland–England]
(1732–1794) George Colman the Elder
(1732–1811) Richard Cumberland
(1784–1862) James Sheridan Knowles {Ireland—England}
(1788–1824) George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron {Lord Byron}
(1792–1847) Richard Brinsley Peake
(1803–1857) Douglas William Jerrold
(1803–1873) Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
(before 1810–after 1838) Elizabeth Polack
(1817–1880) Tom Taylor
(1812–1889) Robert Browning
(1836–1911) W. S. Gilbert
(1843–1916) Henry James [United States—England]
(1848–1914) Sydney Grundy
(1851–1929) Henry Arthur Jones
(1852–1932) Lady Augusta Gregory {Lady Gregory}
(1853–1931) Hall Caine
(1856–1950) George Bernard Shaw [Ireland—England]
(1859–1927) Jerome K. Jerome
(1860–1937) Sir James Matthew Barrie [Scotland—England]
(1865–1948) Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
(1865–1959) Laurence Housman
(1867–1931) Arnold Bennett
(1867–1933) John Galsworthy
(1869–1909) St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
(1877–1946) Harley Granville-Barker
(1878–1942) Rudolph Besier
(1878–1957) Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany {Lord Dunsany} [England—Ireland]
(1878–1967) John Masefield
(1880–1964) Sean O'Casey [Ireland–England]
(1881–1913) William Stanley Houghton
(1881–1954) Frederick Lonsdale
(1882–1937) John Drinkwater
(1882–1956) A. A. Milne
(1882–1958) Harold Brighouse
(1883–1971) St. John Ervine [Ireland—England]
(1884–1915) James Elroy Flecker
(1886–1962) Clifford Bax
(1886–1980) Oskar Kokoschka [Austria—England—Switzerland] (German language)
(February 1888–1965) Clemence Dane
(September 1888–1965) T. S. Eliot [United States—England]
(1889–1946) John Colton [United States—England]
(1889–1973) C. K. Munro [Ireland—England]
(1890–1976) Agatha Christie
(1893–1951) Ivor Novello [Wales—England]
(1893–1964) Will Scott
(1896–1967) Margaret Kennedy
(1896–1975) R. C. Sherriff
(1899–1973) Noel Coward
(1899–1978) Micheál MacLíammóir [England—Ireland] (English language and Irish language)
(1900–1973) Benn W. Levy
(1901–1984) Denis Johnston [Ireland—England—United States]
(1902–1961) Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford [England—Ireland]
(1904–1986) Christopher Isherwood [England—United States]
(1904–1991) Graham Greene
(1907–1973) W. H. Auden [England—United States]
(1907–2005) Christopher Fry
(1910–2001) Joseph O'Conor [Ireland—England]
(1921–1988) Erich Fried [Austria—England] (German language and English language)
(1923–2009) John Mortimer
(1924–1995) Robert Bolt
(born 1924) David Campton
(1925–1994) Alun Owen [Wales—England]
(1926–1999) Jim Allen
(1926–2001) Anthony Shaffer
(born 1926) Peter Shaffer
(born 15 July 1927) Ann Jellicoe
(born 31 July 1927) Peter Nichols
(born 1928) Frank Marcus
(1929–1994) John Osborne
(1929–1998) Henry Livings
(1930–2008) Harold Pinter
(born 1930) John Arden
(1933–1967) Joe Orton
(born 1933) Michael Frayn
(born 1934) Wole Soyinka [Nigeria—England—United States]
(born 1937) Tom Stoppard
(born 1949) ( Paul Howard Surridge)
(born 1939) Shelagh Delaney
(born 1957) Sue Lenier
(born 1969) Arthur M. Jolly [England—United States]
(1971–1999) Sarah Kane
(born 1974) Leo Butler
(born 1976) Paul Vincent Randall

[edit] Scotland

See also: List of Scottish writers

(ca. 1490–ca. 1555) David Lyndsay
(1860–1937) J. M. Barrie [Scotland—England]
(1888–1951) James Bridie
(1900–1968) Paul Vincent Carroll [Ireland—Scotland]
(born 1951) Peter May
(1912–2006) Ena Lamont Stewart
(1918–1978) Joan Ure

[edit] Wales

See also: List of Welsh writers

(1893–1951) Ivor Novello [Wales—England]
(1925–1994) Alun Owen [Wales—England]
(1893–1985) Saunders Lewis [Wales—England]

[edit] United States

(1766–1839) William Dunlap
(1784–1842) Samuel Woodworth
(1784–1858) James Nelson Barker
(1806–1854) Robert Montgomery Bird
(1810–1858) Robert Taylor Conrad
(1819–1870) Anna Cora Mowatt
(c. 1820 – 1890) Dion Boucicault [Ireland—United States]
(1823–1890) George H. Boker
(1830–1876) George Aiken
(1837–1920) William Dean Howells
(1838–1899) Augustin Daly
(1839–1901) James A. Herne
(1840–1908) Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden [Ukraine—Romania—United States] (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1842–1894) Steele MacKaye
(1842–1908) Bronson Howard
(1843–1916) Henry James [United States—England]
(1845–1911) Edward Harrigan
(1853–1909) Jacob Gordin {Yan} [Ukraine—United States] (Russian language and Yiddish language)
(1853–1931) David Belasco
(1855–1937) William Gillette
(1862–1935) Langdon Mitchell
(1865–1909) Clyde Fitch
(1866–1935) George Pierce Baker
(1866–1944) George Ade
(1869–1910) William Vaughn Moody
(1874–1938) Zona Gale
(1874–1956) Owen Davis
(1874–1965) W. Somerset Maugham
(1875–1956) Percy MacKaye
(1876–1962) Jules Eckert Goodman
(1878–1942) George M. Cohan
(1878–1952) Ferenc Molnár [Hungary—United States] (Hungarian language)
(1878–1958) Rachel Crothers
(1880–1948) Peretz Hirschbein [Belarus—Russia—United States] (Hebrew language and Yiddish language)
(1880–1957) Sholem Asch [Poland—United States] (Yiddish language)
(1881–1972) Padraic Colum [Ireland—United States]
(1882–1928) Avery Hopwood
(1882–1948) Susan Glaspell
(1882–1961) Leonhard Frank [Germany—United States]
(1883–1967) Martin Flavin
(1885–1940) DuBose Heyward
(1886–1958) Zoë Akins
(1887–1961) George S. Kaufman
(1887–1962) Robinson Jeffers
(1887–1968) Edna Ferber
(1887–1974) George Kelly
(1887–1995) George Abbott
(1888–1953) Eugene O'Neill
(1888–1959) Maxwell Anderson
(1888–1962) H. Leivick [Belarus—Russia—United States] (Yiddish language)
(1888–1965) T. S. Eliot [United States—England)
(1889–1946) John Colton (United States—England]
(1889–1954) John L. Balderston
(1889–1968) Howard Lindsay
(1890–1980) Marc Connelly
(1890–1984) Frances Goodrich
(1891–1939) Sidney Howard
(1891–1957) Philip Dunning
(1891–1966) Anne Nichols
(1892–1950) Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892–1982) Archibald MacLeish
(1893–1966) Russel Crouse
(1893–1973) S. N. Behrman
(1894–1962) E. E. Cummings
(1894–1964) Ben Hecht
(1894–1977) John Howard Lawson
(1894–1981) Paul Green
(1895–1943) Lorenz Hart
(1895–1952) Alfred Neumann [Germany—United States] (German language and English language)
(1895–1956) Charles MacArthur
(1895–1960) Oscar Hammerstein, II
(1895–1966) Joseph Fields
(1896–1949) Philip Barry
(1896–1960) Edwin Justus Mayer
(1896–1974) Lawrence Riley
(1897–1958) F. Hugh Herbert
(1899–1967) Edgar Neville [Spain—United States] (Spanish language and English language)
(1899–1980) Elliott Nugent
(1900–1998) Julien Green [France—United States] (French language and English language)
(1901–1969) Jack Kirkland
(1901–1984) Denis Johnston [Ireland—England—United States]
(1901–1988) Paul Osborn
(February 1902–1967) Langston Hughes
(June 1902–1967) Joseph Kesselring
(1903–1987) Clare Boothe
(1904–1961) Moss Hart
(1904–1972) Arthur Arent
(1904–1986) Christopher Isherwood [England—United States]
(1905–1964) Marc Blitzstein
(1905–1984) Lillian Hellman
(1906–1963) Clifford Odets
(1906–1995) Sidney Kingsley
(1907–1973) W. H. Auden [England—United States]
(1907–1981) Mary Coyle Chase
(1908–1981) William Saroyan
(1909–1981) Ketti Frings
(1909–1984) Norman Krasna
(1910–1961) Antanas Škėma [Lithuania—United States] (Lithuanian language)
(1911–1983) Tennessee Williams
(1911–2004) Jerome Chodorov
(1911–2007) Gian Carlo Menotti [Italy—United States] (Italian language and English language)
(1912–1998) Félix Morisseau-Leroy [Haiti—France—Ghana—Senegal—United States] (French language and Creole language)
(1912–1999) Garson Kanin
(1913–1973) William Inge
(1913–2000) N. Richard Nash
(1914–2008) William Gibson
(1915–2005) Arthur Miller
(1914–1956) John La Touche
(1917–1970) William Archibald
(1917–1967) Carson McCullers
(1917–2009) Robert Anderson
(1918–1993) Louis O. Coxe
(born 1918) Arthur Laurents
(1919–1949) Thomas Heggen
(1922–1999) William Alfred
(1922–2003) George Axelrod
(1922–2006) Jay Presson Allen
(1922–2008) Tad Mosel
(1923–1981) Paddy Chayefsky
(1923–1995) Michael V. Gazzo
(1924–1987) James Baldwin
(1925–1995) Charles Gordone
(born 1925) Frank D. Gilroy
(1927–1998) James Goldman
(born 1927) Neil Simon
(born March 1928) Edward Albee
(born April 1928) George Herman
(born 1929) Jules Feiffer
(1930–1965) Lorraine Hansberry
(born 1930) Bruce Jay Friedman
(1932–2003) Jack Gelber
(born July 1934) Wole Soyinka [Nigeria—England—United States]
(born October 1934) Imamu Amiri Baraka {LeRoi Jones}
(born 1935) Mart Crowley
(born 1937) Arthur Kopit
(born 1937) Tina Howe
(born February 1938) John Guare
(born August 1938) Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
(born September 1938) Janusz Głowacki [Poland—United States] (Polish language and English language)
(born 1939) Terrence McNally
(1943–1987) Charles Ludlam
(born 1945) Mac Wellman
(born 1947) David Mamet
(born 1956) Tony Kushner
(born 1958) Jane Shepard
(born 1961) CJ Hopkins
(born 1962) Michael Hollinger

[edit] Puerto Rico

(1783–1873) María Bibiana Benítez
(1876–1944) Luis Lloréns Torres
(1919–1979) René Marqués
(born 1936) Luis Rafael Sánchez
(1944–2004) Pedro Pietri (English language)
(1946–1988) Miguel Piñero (English language)
(born 1955) José Rivera (English language)

List of playwrights by nationality and year of birth

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