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.…
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". …
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); …
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Noted American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker Woody Allen, originally Allen Stewart Konigsberg explored the neuroses of the urban middle class in comedies of manners, such as Annie Hall (1977)…
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet…
Simin Dāneshvar was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.
نادر ابراهیمی در ۱۴ فروردین سال ۱۳۱۵ در تهران به دنیا آمد. تحصیلات مقدماتی را در این شهر گذراند و پس از گرفتن دیپلم ادبی از دبیرستان دارالفنون، به دانشکدهٔ حقوق وارد شد. اما این دانشکده را پس از دو سا…
سیّد مجتبیٰ آقابُزرگِ علوی شهرتیافته به آقا بزرگ علوی و بزرگ علوی بهمن ۱۲۸۲، تهران -۲۸ بهمن ۱۳۷۵، برلین) نویسندهٔ واقعگرا، سیاستمدار چپگرا، روزنامهنگار نوگرا و استاد زبان فارسی ایرانی بود که بیش …
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist and politician. A former academic, he has been Secretary-General of MeRA25, a left-wing political party, since he founded it in 2018. A forme…
Muriel Barbery is a French novelist and professor of philosophy. Barbery entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her agrégation in philosophy in 1993. She the…
Darren Hardy is today’s preeminent Success Mentor having been a central business leader in the personal growth and success industry now for more than 20 years. He has led three success television netw…
Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My…
Raphäelle Giordano is a group coach and a qualified Myers-Briggs Type Indicator consultant. Founder of Emotone, she collaborates with creativity/innovation, communication, team cohesion, and stress ma…
احمد شاملو، الف. بامداد یا الف. صبح (۲۱ آذر ۱۳۰۴ - ۲ مرداد ۱۳۷۹)، شاعر، نویسنده، روزنامهنگار، مترجم و از بنیانگذاران و دبیران کانون نویسندگان ایران در پیش و پس از انقلاب بود. شاملو تحصیلات کلاسیک نا…
Krystal Sutherland is an internationally published author. Her latest novel for young adults, House of Hollow, was released by Penguin in April 2021. Sutherland's first novel, Chemical Hearts, was pub…
Rouzbeh Moein is a writer, novelist, playwright and cartoonist from Iran. He began his career by writing drama and then turned to writing novels. His first book is The Cold Coffee of Mr. Writer which wa…
Kim Young-ha is the author of seven novels, including the acclaimed I Have the Right to Destroy Myself and Black Flower - and five short story collections.