Anatole France was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters.

Premchand is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent, and is regarded as one of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century. A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the "Upanyas Samrat" ("Emperor among Novelists") by writers. His works include more than a dozen novels, around 300 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary works into Hindi. His novels include Godaan, Karmabhoomi, Rangabhoomi, Gaban, Nirmala and Seva Sadan. He published his first collection of five short stories in 1907 in a book called Soz-e Watan. Idgah, Kafan, Namak Ka Daroga, Bade Ghar ki Beti, Panch Parameshwar, Sawa Sher Genhu, Shatranj ke khiladi and other stories are published in Manasarovar in eight volumes.