Nora Iuga, poeta, prozatoare si traducatoare, membra a Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania. Autoare a mai multor volume de poezie – Vina nu e a mea (1968), Captivitatea cercului (1970), Scrisori neexpedi…
Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, an…
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 …
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations…
Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a wr…
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and pu…
Norman Manea is a Jewish Romanian writer and author of short fiction, novels, and essays about the Holocaust, daily life in a communist state, and exile. He lives in the United States, where he is the…
Mihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the communist republic (1947–1948 and 1958). He is the most …
Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is consid…
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t…
Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. Blecher attended primary and secondary school in Roman, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureat, Blecher left for…
Grigore Popescu-Băjenaru was a Romanian writer. His best known novel is "Cişmigiu et Comp.", that presents his adventures as a student of Gheorghe Lazăr High School, situated near the Cişmigiu Gardens…
Mihail Drumeş (n. Mihail V. Dumitrescu, 26 noiembrie 1901, Ohrida, Macedonia - d. 7 februarie 1982, Bucureşti) a fost un romancier român, foarte popular in perioada interbelică.
George Călinescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe kəliˈnesku]) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies…
Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family o…
Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, sin…
Lavinia Braniște s-a născut la Brăila în 1983. A studiat limbi străine la universitățile din Cluj și București. A debutat în literatură în 2006 cu volumul de poezii „Povești cu mine” (Paralela 45), du…
Ștefan Manasia a inițiat în 2008, la Cluj, alături de Szántai János și François Bréda, clubul de lectură „Nepotu’ lui Thoreau”. Este redactor al revistei „Tribuna” din 2003, an în care a debutat cu vo…
Radu Vancu (n. 1978, Sibiu) este lector universitar la Facultatea de Litere din Sibiu. Lucrarea sa de doctorat a devenit una dintre exegezele critice esențiale asupra operei lui Mircea Ivănescu: Mirce…
She was born in Chișinău and studied journalism and communications at Moldova State University. She first gained renown for her "True Stories" column which appeared in the Flux newspaper in the mid-19…
