Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington from 1970, where he wrote nine of his…
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". …
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction fina…
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the …
David John Lodge was an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing…
Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. He married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit', a c…
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Span…
Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, e…
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the author of seven novels, two volumes of st…
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told…
Bruno Jasienski, born Wiktor Zysman, was a Polish poet and leader of the Polish futurist movement, executed during the Polish operation of the NKVD in the Soviet Union. He was born to a Polish family o…
Nasce a Roma e si laurea in Filosofia all'Università degli studi di Milano con Paolo Valore (con una tesi riguardo agli argomenti ontologici a sostegno dell'esistenza di Dio). Lavora come traduttore a…
Ο Νίκος Γ. Δαββέτας εμφανίστηκε στα γράμματα το 1981 από το περιοδικό "Διαγώνιος" της Θεσσαλονίκης. Μέχρι σήμερα έχει εκδώσει δώδεκα βιβλία (έξι ποιητικά, μία συλλογή διηγημάτων και πέντε μυθιστορήματ…
Ο Χρήστος Βακαλόπουλος σπούδασε οικονομικά στην ΑΣΟΕΕ και κινηματογράφο στο Παρίσι. Εργάστηκε ως κριτικός κινηματογράφου στην εφημερίδα "Αυγή" (1975-1985) και στα περιοδικά "Σύγχρ…
Giannis Makridakis (gr: Γιάννης Μακριδάκης) was born in Chios in 1971 and studied mathematics. He organizes research and educational programmes and edits publications for the Chios Studies Centre, whi…
Selva Almada (Entre Ríos, Argentina, 1973) is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentinian and Latin American literature and one of the most influential feminist intellectual…
Rumena Bužarovska is a fiction writer, literary translator, and social commentator born in 1981 in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Her book My Husband has received critical acclaim in Europe and has been adapted …
CHRISTOS IKONOMOU was born in Athens in 1970. He has published three collections of short stories, The Woman on the Rails (2003), Something Will Happen, You'll See (2010), and All Good Things Will Com…
De ascendencia conquense, nació en 1987 en Madrid. Se licenció en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y posteriormente realizó un máster en Sexología en la Universidad de Alcalá…
Thanassis Valtinos (Greek: Θανάσης Βαλτινός) was born in an Arcadian village in the Peloponnesus in 1932. He first achieved national recognition with the publication of his widely read novellas The De…
Ο Χρυσόστομος Τσαπραΐλης γεννήθηκε στη Λάρισα το 1984 και μεγάλωσε στην Καρδίτσα. Τα τελευταία τρία χρόνια ζει στην Ολλανδία. Έχει εκδώσει τα βιβλία Παγανιστικές δοξασίες της θεσσαλικής επαρχίας (αντί…
Jean-Baptiste Andrea, né le 4 avril 1971 à Saint-Germain-en-Laye, est un écrivain, scénariste et réalisateur français. Il reçoit le prix Femina des lycéens et le prix du premier roman pour son premier…
See also: Рене Карабаш Rene Karabash (b. Irena Ivanova, 1989) is a writer, screenwriter, playwright and actress. She was the recipient of several Best Actress awards for her leading role in the film Go…
