There are many, but these are the dearest authors at the moment.

• Haruki Murakami
• José Saramago
• Gabriel Garcia Marques
• Anna Gavalda
• Banana Yoshimoto
• Orhan Pamuk
• Fred Vargas
• Paul Auster

And some of the all time favourites:

• Michael Cunningham
• Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Albert Camus
• Herman Hesse
• Franz Kafka
• Fedor Dostojevski