Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French ph…
Ibrahim Nasrallah (Arabic: إبراهيم نصرالله), the winner of the Arabic Booker Prize (2018), was born in 1954 to Palestinian parents who were forcibly displaced from their land in Al-Burayj, Palestine i…
Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of hi…
1947 —Born in Barcelona, July 26th. 1955 —Serious accident. First literary incursions. 1959 —First full-length novel, 500 pages. Firm intention to become a writer. 1964 —Graduates from high school. Attends t…
Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. He has lived in Spain, Japan, Ireland and France, and currently lives in Somerset. His first novel, INGENIOUS PAIN, was published by Sceptre in 1997 and won …
Taha Hussein was one of the most influential 20th century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab World. …
Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani was a Syrian diplomat, poet and publisher. His poetic style combines simplicity and elegance in exploring themes of love, eroticism,…
Carlos Arniches y Barrera (Alicante, 11 de octubre de 1866-Madrid, 16 de abril de 1943) fue un comediógrafo español de la generación del 98. Fecundo autor de sainetes y comedias, se recuerda sobre tod…
ولد العقاد في أسوان في 29 شوال 1306 هـ - 28 يونيو 1889 وتخرج من المدرسة الإبتدائية سنة 1903. أسس بالتعاون مع إبراهيم المازني وعبد الرحمن شكري "مدرسة الديوان"، وكانت هذه المدرسة من أنصار التجديد في الش…
د. عزالدين شكري فشير، كاتب مصري. صدرت له تسع روايات: "جريمة في الجامعة" (٢٠٢٣)، "حكاية فرح" (٢٠٢١)، "كل هذا الهراء" (2016)، "باب الخروج: رسالة علي المفعمة ببهجة غير متوقعة" (2012)، "عناق عند جسر بروكل…
محمد عبد الوهاب مطاوع، كاتب صحفي مصري، تخرج في قسم الصحافة بكلية الآداب جامعة القاهرة عام 1961، ثم التحق محررا صحفيا بقسم التحقيقات بالأهرام في السنة نفسها ثم سكرتيرا لتحرير الأهرام من عام 1982 حت…
اللواء أركان حرب جمال حماد من مواليد 1921 م مصري، تخرج من الكلية الحربية في منتصف أبريل عام 1939 حيث بدأ خدمته العسكرية في السودان ثم انتقل لمنطقة القناة ثم إلى الإسكندرية أثناء الحرب العالمية الثانية…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Arabic: توفيق الحكيم Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm) was a prominent Egyptian writer. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. He was the…
Because of the caliphs' patronage and his eagerness to establish himself and reach a wider audience, al-Jāḥiẓ stayed in Baghdad (and later Samarra), where he wrot…
(Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης) Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize…
