Wilhelm Reich (24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was a Jewish Austrian-American doctor of medicine, psychiatrist/psychoanalyst and a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. Aut…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such ph…
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, pen name of Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, is best known for his works Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night), and Mort à crédit (Death on the Installment…
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 …
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
The Prince, book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in 1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturg…
Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia Ph.D. was a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. He was a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High Sch…
Juan-David Nasio (or J.-D. Nasio) is a psychoanalyst in Paris and former member of the Ecole Freudienne of Jacques Lacan. Nasio was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. After qualifying as a doctor N…
Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the …
Dario Fo was an Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, and composer. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. In 2007 he was ranked Joint Seventh with Stephen Hawking in The…
Julius Evola, born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esoteric scholar. Born in Rome to a family of the Sicilian landed gentry, Evola was raised a strict Catholic. Despite this…
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col…
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 …
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
José de Sousa Saramago (16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese novelist and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony…
Lao Tzu (Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ; Wade-Giles: Laosi; also Laozi, Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Lao Zi, Laocius, Lao Ce, and other variations) was a mystic philosopher of ancient China, b…
M. Karagatsis (Greek: Μ. Καραγάτσης) is the pen name of the Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens, lived in Larissa and studied law in France. Th…
Ο Χρόνης Μίσσιος γεννήθηκε στην Καβάλα το 1930, από γονείς καπνεργάτες, και έζησε τα πρώτα παιδικά του χρόνια στα Ποταμούδια, μια γειτονιά γεμάτη πρόσφυγες, καπνεργάτες από τη Θάσο και παράνομους κομμ…
Alexandros Papadiamantis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Παπαδιαμάντης) was an influential Greek novelist and short-story writer. He was born in Greece, on the island of Skiathos, in the western part of the Aegean …
Branimir Šćepanović (Бранимир Шћепановић) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer. He was born in Podgorica, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father was a teacher and a published author. Young Šćepanović sta…
Ο Δημοσθένης Παπαμάρκος γεννήθηκε το 1983 στη Μαλεσσίνα Λοκρίδος. Έχει εκδώσει μυθιστορήματα, διηγήματα και κόμικ. Το 2014 η συλλογή διηγημάτων Γκιακ βραβεύτηκε από την Ακαδημία Αθηνών-Ίδρυμα Πέτρ…
Brigitte Vasallo (Barcelona, 1972). Hija de campesinas y sin estudios universitarios, ha trabajado de limpiadora y de marinera, ha ocupado la cátedra Mercè Rodoreda en la Universidad de Nueva York (CU…
(Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης) Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize…
