The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.…
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The…
Ferit Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 …
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…
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…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University o…
Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) was a pioneer of the modern novel in Turkey. His first novel, Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected), appeared 1971-72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics…
Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned …
Auteur prolifique, Jean-Louis Fournier a toujours su mêler humour, culture et sincérité. Entre un frère polytechnicien et une soeur éducatrice spécialisée, il choisit la voie de l'humour et devient le…
Babasının mesleği nedeniyle çocukluğu boyunca Türkiye’nin farklı bölgelerinde yaşayan yazar, 1994 yılında üniversiteyi bitirdikten sonra İstanbul’a taşındı.
Erenköy Kız Lisesi'nin ardından İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nden mezun oldu. Üniversite yıllarında çeşitli edebiyat ve kültür dergilerine yazılar yazmaya başladı. Edebiyat üzerine…
Barış Bıçakçı 1966'da Adana'da doğdu. Hüseyin Kıyar ve Yavuz Sarıalioğlu ile birlikte, Ocak 1994 ve Ekim 1997 tarihlerinde iki şiir kitabı yayımladı. İlk romanı Herkes Herkesle Dostmuş Gibi (2000) yıl…
Mine Söğüt (1968, İstanbul), Türk gazeteci, yazar.
Babası bir deniz subayı olan Mine Söğüt, ortaöğrenimini Kadıköy Kız Lisesi’inde tamamladığı 1985 yılında babasını kaybetti. Aynı yıl İstanbul Üniversi…
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…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of humans to communicate.
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
MELİSA KESMEZ, Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Bir dönem Londra’da yaşadı. Çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yazıları ve söyleşileri yayımlandı. Çeviriler yap…
1980 yılında İzmit’te doğdu. Öğrencilik yıllarını Ankara’da geçirdi. Çeşitli dergilerde yazıları yayımlandı. Halen İstanbul’da yaşıyor. Balık adında bir köpeği var.
Baek Se-hee (Korean: 백세희) was a South Korean author best known for her memoir, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki (2018), and its sequel, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki (2019…
