Frederick Busch (1941–2006) was the recipient of many honors, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, a National Jewish Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award. The prolific aut…
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses; support of ecofeminism, organized labour, and leftism; and criticism of corporate globalization, fasc…
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She graduated at nineteen from Duke University and went on to do graduate work in Russian studies at Colu…
Jung Chang (Chinese: 張戎) is a Chinese-British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Repub…
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migration…
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bac…
Poet, playwright and author Denis Johnson was born in Munich, West Germany, in 1949 and was raised in Tokyo, Manila and Washington. He earned a masters' degree from the University of Iowa and received…
Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book The Overstory won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He lives in the Great Smoky Mount…
Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was a prolific Scottish novelist, short story writer and poet whose darkly comedic voice made her one of the most distinctive writers of the twentieth century. In 2008 The Times…
Gerald "Gerry" Malcolm Durrell was born in India in 1925. His elder siblings are Lawrence Durrell, Leslie Durrell, and Margaret Durrell. His family settled on Corfu when Gerald was a boy and he spent …
As a center for the Los Angeles Lakers from 1975 to 1989, American basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, originally Lew Alcindor, led the all-time scores in history of national basketball association…
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Ph…
Born in Bombay to English parents, Terence Hanbury White was educated at Cambridge and taught for some time at Stowe before deciding to write full-time. White moved to Ireland in 1939 as a conscientio…
Kevin Barry is an Irish writer. He is the author of two collections of short stories, and the novel City of Bohane, which was the winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily…
Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.
Petra Soukupová je česká spisovatelka a scenáristka, laureátka literárních cen Magnesia Litera 2010 v kategorii Kniha roku za prózu Zmizet a Ceny Jiřího Ortena 2008 pro mladé literáty za knihu K moři.…
Pavla Horáková je autorkou detektivní trilogie pro mladé čtenáře: Tajemství Hrobaříků, Olympia 2010, Hrobaříci v podzámčí, Apostrof 2011, a Hrobaříci a Hrobaři, Apostrof 2012.
Dominik Dán je slovenský spisovateľ detektívnych románov. Píše pod pseudonymom, v skutočnosti nemá 56 rokov (aj keď tento údaj bol vytvorený celkom náhodne pri chybnom zadaní spisovateľovho dátumu nar…
Patrik Hartl je uměleckým šéfem pražského divadla Studio DVA. Vystudoval filmovou a televizní režii na pražské FAMU. V divadle režíroval řadu divácky velmi úspěšných inscenací (Otevřené manželství, Ca…
Mori Ōgai, pseudonym of Mori Rintarō (born February 17, 1862, Tsuwano, Japan—died July 9, 1922, Tokyo), one of the creators of modern Japanese literature.
Nicol Hochholczerová študuje na katedre grafiky Akadémie umení v Banskej Bystrici. Ocenenia za prozaickú tvorbu získala v literárnych súťažiach Poviedka, Medziriadky, Literárny Kežmarok, Kukučínova Re…
Miroslav Hlaučo (1967) vystudoval klinickou farmacii v Bratislavě, po ní také režii na DAMU a filmovou vědu na Filozofické fakultě v Praze. Po krátkém období, ve kterém se živil uměním, pracuje už řad…
