Portal:Literature/Adil archive/February/17


 * 1752 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer born
 * 1836 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet born
 * 1856 – Heinrich Heine, German writer died
 * 1862 – Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet born
 * 1863 – Fyodor Sologub, Russian novelist and poet born
 * 1864 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet born
 * 1903 – Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer born
 * 1912 – Andre Norton, American author born
 * 1924 – Margaret Truman, American novelist born
 * 1930 – Ruth Rendell, English writer born
 * 1955 – Mo Yan, Chinese novelist born
 * 1970 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer died
 * 1996 – Hervé Bazin, French writer died
 * 2007 – Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer died