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Italo Calvino
Albert Camus
Jose Luis Borges
Guenter Grass
Herman Hesse
Thomas Mann
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
V.S. Naipaul
Jose Saramago
George Bernard Shaw
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My favorite from the list (of those I've read). For anyone who hasn't read him - there's a great book of his
collected fictions that I'd recommend as a starting point.
edit - those of you that like Calvino, what should I start with?