Beliau dilahirkan pada 18 April 1924 di Singapura. Anak ke-8 daripada 16 adik-beradik. Bapanya Ismail Shairazi dan ibunya Aida Abdul Majid, keturunan Jawa, Indonesia. Bapanya merupakan guru besar di s…
Noel Barber was a British novelist and journalist. Many of his novels, set in exotic countries, are about his experiences as leading foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail. He was the son of John Ba…
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…
Lawrence Block has been writing crime, mystery, and suspense fiction for more than half a century. He has published in excess (oh, wretched excess!) of 100 books, and no end of short stories.
Martin Lings was an English writer and scholar, a student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and Shakespearean scholar. He is best known as the author of a very popular and positively reviewed biography…
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University o…
Ratih Kumala, lahir di Jakarta, tahun 1980. Buku pertamanya, novel berjudul Tabula Rasa (Grasindo 2004, GPU 2014), memenangkan Sayembara Menulis Novel Dewan Kesenian Jakarta 2003. Novel keduanya, Gene…
Leila Salikha Chudori adalah penulis Indonesia yang menghasilkan berbagai karya cerita pendek, novel, dan skenario drama televisi.Leila S. Chudori bercerita tentang kejujuran, keyakinan, dan tekad, pr…
Alexandre Dumas (fils) (son) was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his father legally re…
AZIZ AFKAR (1942 - 2007), penulis. Dia lahir pada 12 Disember 1942 di Kampung Pasir Panjang, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu. Nama sebenarnya ialah Abd. Aziz @ Hussin bin Ismail tetapi lebih dikenali den…
Zainal Rashid Ahmad (ZRA) mencipta nama pada tahun 1990-an dengan cerpen-cerpen bernuansa eksperimental yang menjurus kepada menggabungkan sastera Melayu moden dan sastera Melayu lama. Zainal memenang…
Rozlan Mohd Noor served as a police officer in the Royal Malaysia Police for 11 years as a crime investigator and court prosecutor before joining the private sector. He has published several crime/thr…
Mohamad Basil Hazman Baharom is a graduate in Economics and Social Studies from the Universit of Manchester, UK. He is also one of the co-founders of Universiti Terbuka Anak Muda (Open University for …
Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石), born Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目 金之助), was a Japanese novelist. He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a …
'National Laureate, Dato' Abdullah bin Hussain, was born on 25 March 1920 at Sungai Limau Dalam, Yan Kedah. In 1926, he received his early education at the Malay School until he passed his standard f…
Yun Jung-eun is the author of more than ten books, including Live the Way You Want, Even If I Don't Know How to Be an Adult and To Travel or to Love. She believes that writing is self-reflection, a cl…
