| CAPEK | Karel -, Czech novelist and dramatist |
| HASEK | Czech novelist and short-story writer |
| TRAXLER | Karel , Czech chess master and composer of chess problems (7) |
| KUNDERA | Czech novelist who wrote The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (7) |
| KAFKA | Czech novelist who wrote novels in German including The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle (5) |
| FRANKKAFKA | Czech novelist who wrote The Trial and The Castle (5,5) |
| KAFKAESQUE | Fake quakes, awfully reminiscent of a Czech novelist (10) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul ___, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist whose works include Being and Nothingness and Nausea |
| JMBARRIE | Scottish novelist and dramatist who introduced the world to Wendy Darling and Peter Pan (1,1,6) |
| HUGO | Victor ___, French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| VICTORHUGO | French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| BARRIE | J. M. --, novelist and dramatist (6) |
| GOGOL | Nikolai ---, 19th Century Russian novelist and dramatist (5) |
| ISHERWOOD | Christopher -, novelist and dramatist |
| DAVIES | Canadian novelist and dramatist |
| GREENE | Graham --, 1904-91, English novelist and dramatist (6) |
| GOETHE | German poet, novelist and dramatist (6) |
| GENET | Jean --, French novelist and dramatist (5) |
| COCTEAU | French poet. novelist and dramatist, Jean (1889-1963) |
| TURGENEV | Russian novelist and dramatist |