European writers
Old World scribes
Writers from Europe, or writers working within European literary traditions.
The phrase typically appears in academic or cultural contexts discussing literature by geography or tradition: a survey course on European writers from the Romantic period, She specializes in twentieth-century European writers.
The category spans enormous diversity—from ancient Greek dramatists to contemporary Scandinavian novelists—and is often contrasted with American, African, or Asian literary traditions.
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- fictionImagined narrative work
- French literatureWritten works from France
- German literatureBooks from Deutschland
- existentialismPhilosophy stressing self-created meaning
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