Across
- 1. Creator of The 'Lord of the Rings'
- 4. English playwright who wrote 'Hamlet' and 'Romeo and Juliet'
- 6. Wrote '1984' and 'Animal Farm'
- 9. Brazilian author of 'The Alchemist'
- 10. French author of 'The Stranger', key figure in existentialism
- 12. American Nobel laureate, wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'
- 14. American humorist and author of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'
- 15. Chilean poet and Nobel laureate known for 'Twenty Love Poems'
Down
- 1. First Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
- 2. Victorian novelist who created 'Oliver Twist' and 'Scrooge'
- 3. Queen of crime fiction; creator of Hercule Poirot
- 5. Author of 'Pride and Prejudice'
- 7. Author of 'Midnight's Children' and 'The Satanic Verses'
- 8. Indian author of 'The Shadow Lines' and 'Sea of Poppies'
- 11. American author of 'Beloved', Nobel Prize winner
- 13. British author of the 'Harry Potter' series