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 …
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will …
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…
Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the fir…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
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…
One could say that our outstanding author Alki Zei (Greek: Άλκη Ζέη) has raised with her books lots of children, apart from bringing up two of her own. Today’s children in Greece have additionally the …
Ο Θανάσης Βαλτινός (English: Thanassis Valtinos) γεννήθηκε το 1932 στο Καστρί Κυνουρίας. Στα χρόνια της κατοχής και του εμφυλίου η οικογένειά του μετακινήθηκε σε διάφορες πόλεις και ο Βαλτινός φοίτησε…
Γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1965 και σπούδασε βιολογία στο Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών. Έζησε εννέα χρόνια στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Πλέον κατοικεί στη Λευκάδα με τη σύζυγό του και με τα δυο τους παιδιά, και περνά μεγάλα …
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…
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…
(Greek: Γιώργος Σκαμπαρδώνης) Ο Γιώργος Σκαμπαρδώνης γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη το 1953. Σπούδασε Γαλλική Φιλολογία στο Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο της Θεσσαλονίκης. Συνεργάστηκε με τα περιοδικά Εντευκτήρ…
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…
See also: Rene Karabash Рене Карабаш е литературният псевдоним на Ирена Иванова – поет, театрален режисьор и актриса. Тя е един от създателите на Творческа академия „Валери Петров“ към НДК – съвместен …
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…
Meryem El Mehdati studied Translation and Interpretation. She has been a private tutor, secretary, shop assistant, nanny, assistant director and internal comms specialist. Her debut novel Supersaurus …
