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The Great Writer is a civilian unit in Civilization VI, a Great Person Great Person Great Person who creates Great Work of Writing Great Works of Writing. It appears once enough Great Writer Great Writer points are earned (and can be rushed with Gold Gold or Faith Faith through Patronage).

Each Great Writer may create up to two Great Works of Writing.

Great Writers

Name Era Great Works of Writing
Homer Classical Odyssey, Iliad
Bhasa Classical The Madhyama Vyayoga, Pratima-nataka
Qu Yuan Classical Chu Ci, Lament for Ying
Ovid Classical Metamorphoses, Heroides
Geoffrey Chaucer Medieval The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde
Li Bai Medieval Drinking Alone by Moonlight, In the Mountains on a Summer Day
Murasaki Shikibu Medieval The Diary of Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
Miguel de Cervantes Renaissance Don Quixote, Novelas Ejemplares (Exemplary Novels)
William Shakespeare Renaissance Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet
Niccolò Machiavelli Renaissance Discourses on Livy, The Prince
Margaret Cavendish Renaissance The Blazing World, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy Renaissance Fair Goldilocks, The Dolphin
Jane Austen Industrial Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Edgar Allen Poe Industrial The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven
Alexander Pushkin Industrial Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Industrial Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Mary Shelley Industrial Frankenstein, The Last Man
James Joyce Modern Ulysses, Dubliners
Emily Dickinson Modern A Bird Came Down the Walk, Success is Counted Sweetest
Leo Tolstoy Modern War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Mark Twain Modern The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
F. Scott Fitzgerald Modern This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned
Rabindranath Tagore Atomic The Home and the World, The Gardener
H. G. Wells Atomic The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine
Karel Capek Information Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R), War with the Newts

Also note that the Great Work of Writing The Art of War is created by Great General Sun Tzu, using his special ability.

Strategy

Great Writers will be among your earliest and most reliable sources of Culture Culture, as the Great Works they produce can start filling slots in Amphitheaters from the Classical Era onward. The only wonders with slots specifically for Great Work of Writing Great Works of Writing are the Bolshoi Theatre, Broadway, the Great Library, and Oxford University, so if you build these wonders, try to attract some Great Writers to fill their slots, as well.

Historical Context

Great writers are those men and women who express our desires, insights, fancies, foibles, fears, and joys in the written word. History has been marked by their voices; indeed, “history” is one of their voices. Whether in poetry, in novels and stories, for the stage or screen, these are the artists who have defined their civilizations and cultures. Some write prose and poetry about imaginary worlds; others write tracts of philosophy, politics, religion, and science about how our world is or should be. And let’s not forget those who put down facts on paper. Whatever their muse, whatever their intent, their words echo through time, binding us all together ... or sometimes setting us all apart.

Civilization VI Great People [edit]
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Great Works
1 Requires DLC

R&F-Only Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.

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