The names of the most important literary writers?

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The names of the most important literary writers?

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It depends on how "most important" is defined. Do you mean in the world, in the US, living, modern, classical, of all time, in English, in any language, any category of writing, etc?

My candidate for most important of all time in any language is the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

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