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…
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…
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is a Polish-American journalist and writer. She has written extensively about Marxism–Leninism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She has work…
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…
Jaroslav Hašek was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk (Czech: Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války), an unfinished collection of f…
Slovenský experimentálny spisovateľ a publicista. Vyštudoval históriu a filozofiu na Univerzite Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici. Na širšiu scénu vstúpil v roku 2001 ako kmeňový autor internetových strán…
Narodil se v roce 1961 v Bratislavě. Knižně debutoval v roce 1997 Pohádkami pro neposlušné děti a jejich starostlivé rodiče. Kniha vyšla v krátké době ve třech vydáních, byla přeložena do polštiny a č…
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…
