The Most Famous
WRITERS from Zambia
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Zambian Writers of all time. This list of famous Zambian Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Wilbur Smith (1933 - 2021)
With an HPI of 65.77, Wilbur Smith is the most famous Zambian Writer. His biography has been translated into 42 different languages on wikipedia.
Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries. He gained a film contract with his first published novel, When the Lion Feeds, which encouraged him to become a full-time writer. He went on to write three long chronicles of the South African experience, which became best-sellers. He acknowledged his publisher Charles Pick's advice to "write about what you know best"; his work focuses on southern African ways of life, with emphasis on hunting, mining, romance, and conflict. By the time of his death in 2021, he had published 49 books. They have sold at least 140 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy (by 2014).
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1933 and 1933. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased writers include Wilbur Smith.
