diff --git a/lib/decentralised_book_index/sync/sync_tasks/sync_authors_task.ex b/lib/decentralised_book_index/sync/sync_tasks/sync_authors_task.ex
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+defmodule DecentralisedBookIndex.SyncTasks.SyncAuthorsTask do
+  alias DecentralisedBookIndex.Sync.ApiClients.FetchJsons
+  alias DecentralisedBookIndex.Sync.DataTransformers.AuthorTransformer
+  alias DecentralisedBookIndex.Sync.AuthorSync
+
+  def sync(endpoint) do
+    url = "#{endpoint}/api/v1/json/author"
+    FetchJsons.get(url, &sync_author_chunk/1)
+    endpoint
+  end
+
+  def sync_author_chunk(json_chunk) do
+    for json <- json_chunk do
+      with {:ok, attrs} <- AuthorTransformer.from_json(json),
+           :ok <- AuthorSync.create_update(attrs) do
+        :ok
+      else
+        {:error, reason} ->
+          Logger.error("Pipeline error: #{inspect(reason)}")
+      end
+    end
+
+    []
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/decentralised_book_index/sync/sync_tasks/sync_authors_task_test.exs b/test/decentralised_book_index/sync/sync_tasks/sync_authors_task_test.exs
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+defmodule DecentralisedBookIndex.SyncTasks.SyncAuthorsTaskTest do
+  use DecentralisedBookIndex.DataCase
+
+  alias DecentralisedBookIndex.SyncTasks.SyncAuthorsTask
+  alias DecentralisedBookIndex.Metadata
+
+  alias DecentralisedBookIndex.TestEndpoints
+  @test_server_endpoint TestEndpoints.test_api_endpoint()
+
+  describe "sync authors tasks" do
+    test "sync authors" do
+      {:ok, author} = Metadata.create_author("Author", "An description")
+      {:ok, author} = Metadata.create_author("Author2", "An description")
+
+      endpoint = @test_server_endpoint
+
+      assert endpoint = SyncAuthorsTask.sync(endpoint)
+    end
+  end
+end