Aleksandr Vladimirović Kojre, published as Alexandre Koyré was a philosopher and historian of science. He contributed to the development of the history of science in France and to its diffusion in the…
Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of t…
Aristotle (Greek: Αριστοτέλης; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economic…
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals…
Works of Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, existentialist, and feminist, include The Second Sex in 1949 and The Coming of Age, a study in 1970 of views of different cultures on the old.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, pl…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Stig Dagerman was one of the most prominent Swedish authors during the 1940s. In the course of five years, 1945-49, he enjoyed phenomenal success with four novels, a collection of short stories, a boo…
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told…
طه حسين عميد الأدب العربي هو أديب ومفكر مصري تمكن من النبوغ والتفوق في إثبات ذاته على الرغم من الصعوبات الكثيرة التي واجهها في حياته، والتي يأتي في مقدمتها فقدانه لبصره، وهو ما يزال طفلاً صغيراً ولكنه…
مصطفى صادق الرافعي 1298 هـ - 1356 هـ ولد في بيت جده لأمه في قرية "بهتيم" بمحافظة القليوبية عاش حياته في طنطا وبذلك يكون الرافعي قد عاش سبعة وخمسين عاماً كانت كلها ألواناً متعددة من الكفاح المتواصل في …
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…
عنترة بن عمرو بن شداد بن معاوية بن قراد العبسي هو أحد أشهر شعراء العرب في فترة ما قبل الإسلام، اشتهر بشعر الفروسية، وله معلقة مشهورة. وهو أشهر فرسان العرب وأشعرهم وشاعر المعلقات والمعروف بشعره الجميل …
عمرو بن كلثوم بن مالك بن عتّاب، أبو الأسود (توفي 39 ق.هـ/584م)، من بني وائل. شاعر جاهلي من أصحاب المعلقات، من الطبقة الأولى، ولد في شمالي جزيرة العرب في بلاد ربيعة وتجوّل فيها وفي الشام والعراق ونجد. …
American historian and philosopher of science, a leading contributor to the change of focus in the philosophy and sociology of science in the 1960s. Thomas Samuel Kuhn was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He…
امرؤ القيس بن حُجر الكِندي واسمه حُندج (520 م - 565 م) شاعر و فارس عربي، إذ روى الأصمعي أن أبا عبيد سئل في خير الشعراء فقال: "امرؤ القيس إذا ركب والأعشى إذا طرب وزهير إذا رغب والنابغة إذا رهب". أحد أش…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
لَبيد بن ربيعة بن مالك أبو عقيل العامِري عامر بن صعصعة من هوازن (توفي 41 هـ/661 م) أحد الشعراء الفرسان الأشراف في الجاهلية،عمه ملاعب الأسنة وأبوه ربيعة بن مالك والمكنى *بربيعة المقترن* لكرمه. من أهل ع…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
