European authors

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Writers from Europe, or writers who are European by birth or citizenship.

The phrase typically appears in literary discussions, course titles, and reading lists that organize literature by geography: a survey of European authors from the Renaissance to the present, She specialized in European authors of the nineteenth century.

The category spans enormous diversity—from ancient Greek dramatists to contemporary Scandinavian novelists.

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