Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism" tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written n…
Primo Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor whose literary work has had a profound impact on how the world understands the Holocaust and its aftermath. Born in Turin in 19…
English-born American Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist who portrayed Berlin in the early 1930s in his best known works, such…
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 …
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Ian Kershaw is a British historian, noted for his biographies of Adolf Hitler. Ian Kershaw studied at Liverpool (BA) and Oxford (D. Phil). He was a lecturer first in medieval, then in modern, history …
Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews.
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two si…
MIGUEL CARVALHO nasceu em 1970, no Porto. É Grande Repórter da revista Visão desde dezembro de 1999. Em 1989, concluiu o Curso de Radiojornalismo do Centro de Formação de Jornalistas do Porto. Trabalh…
David Safier is a German writer and novelist. He wrote the television series Berlin, Berlin for which he was awarded the Adolf Grimme Award in 2003. Berlin, Berlin also won an International Emmy Award…
I am London born, having spent half my life in Britain and half in the United States. For thirty years I have worked on 12 books of investigative historical nonfiction with my husband, bestselling aut…
Domingos Freitas do Amaral nasceu a 12 de Outubro de 1967, em Lisboa. Depois de se ter formado em Economia, pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa, e de ter feito um mestrado em Relações Internacionais…
Aurora Venturini was born in 1922 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She graduated in Philosophy and Education Sciences at the National University of La Plata. She was an adviser to the Institute o…
valter hugo mãe é o nome artístico do escritor português Valter Hugo Lemos. Além de escritor é editor, artista plástico e cantor. Nasceu em Saurimo, Angola em 1971. Passou a infância em Paços de Ferrei…
Tânia Ganho was born in Coimbra, in 1973, and starting writing at an early age. When she was 12, she won a national literary competition, "Ler Melhor para Viver Melhor", but it was only in 2005 that s…
Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for thirteen years where he performed many roles. Starting out as a front-line response officer, he was also a member of a specialist tactical team an…
Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied law. He spent childhood summers in New England, particularly in Stonington and Bar Harbor, Maine. The Truth About the Harry Queber…
八木沢 里志 (Satoshi Yagisawa) was born in Chiba, Japan, in 1977. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, his debut novel, was originally published in 2009 and won the Chiyoda Literature Prize.
I am a Native of New Zealand now resident in Australia, working in a large public hospital in Melbourne. For several years I studied and wrote screenplays, one of which was optioned by an academy awar…
Luísa Sobral é uma das cantautoras mais importantes no panorama musical português, tendo lançado vários álbuns em nome próprio: The Cherry on My Cake (2011), There’s A Flower In My Bedroom (2013), Lu-…
Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and the Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester. Research Fellow at CEPR, London.
Sally J Taylor has a PhD in Media Law and holds fellowships at both Illinois and the National Endowment of the Humanities in Washington DC. She has lived and worked in North London for 15 years and is…
