Pišťanek was a prose writer who managed to come out with a new type of prose at the beginning of the 1990's. He began publishing at the end of the 1980's in Slovenské pohľady, the best literary magazi…
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and wor…
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 …
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction author whose work has had a lasting impact on literature, cinema, and popular culture. Known for his imaginative narratives and profound phi…
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times,…
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her n…
David Lagercrantz, born in 1962, is a journalist and author, living in Stockholm. His first book was published in 1997, a biography of the Swedish adventurer and mountaineer Göran Kropp. In 2000 his b…
Narodil sa v rodine predavača a vzdelanie získaval v Dolnom Kubíne a v Bratislave, kde začal v roku 1954 študovať na filozofickej fakulte Univerzity Komenského estetiku a …
Pavel Vilikovský sa narodil 27. júna v Palúdzke (dnes súčasť Liptovského Mikuláša), vyrastal v Bratislave. Matka Júlia, rod. Bárdošová (1909 – 1984), bola učiteľkou angličtiny a slovenčiny, otec Jan V…
Do literárneho života sa Dušan Mitana zapojil otvoreným listom básnickej skupine Osamelí bežci, publikovaným v Mladej tvorbe. Debutoval poviedkou Oáza s jabloňami v Mladej tvorbe v roku 1965 a od roku…
Monika Kompaníková vyštudovala na Vysokej škole výtvarných umení grafiku (1998 – 2002) a maľbu (2002 – 2004). Prvé poviedky publikovala v literárnych časopisoch a zborníkoch. Pracovala v kníhkupectve …
Stanislav Rakús sa narodil 20. januára 1940 v Šúrovciach. Po maturite na strednej škole v Trnave roku 1957 študoval slovenčinu a ruštinu na Vysokej škole pedagogickej v Prešove. V rokoch 1963 – 1964 b…
BALLA (vlastným menom Vladimír Balla) sa narodil 8. mája 1967 v Nových Zámkoch. Absolvoval Vysokú školu ekonomickú v Bratislave (1990), odvtedy pracuje na Okresnom úrade v Nových Zámkoch. Poviedky zač…
Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut …
Ľudovít Ódor je viceguvernérom Národnej banky Slovenska, vyštudoval špecializáciu matematika-management na Matematicko-fyzikálnej fakulte Univerzity Komenského. Pracoval ako analytik finančných trhov,…
Pochádza z Nových Zámkov (1990), mediálne štúdiá absolvoval na Masarykovej univerzite v Brne. Bol redaktorom denníka SME, v súčasnosti pracuje v Múzeu mesta Bratislavy a podieľa sa na organizácii fest…
Veronika Cosculluela je slovenská novinárka. Vyrastala v Podkoniciach pri Banskej Bystrici. Vyštudovala žurnalistiku v Bratislave a politické vedy v Grenobli a v Belehrade. Desať rokov bola hlavne pol…
