Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about …
José Mauro was born in Rio de Janeiro on February 26 of 1920. His family was very poor, and when he was still very young, he migrated to Natal where relatives took care of him. Entering the Medical Fa…
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian. Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he …
Fujiko F. Fujio (藤子・F・不二雄) was a penname of Japanese significant cartoonist Hiroshi Fujimoto. After leaving his native home for Tokyo, he started his drawing career collaborating with his partner and…
Under a bright sunny sky, the three-day Byron Bay Writers’ Festival welcomed Andrea Hirata who charmed audiences with his modesty and gracious behavior during two sessions.
(Ovalle, Chile, 1949 – Oviedo, España, 2020) Luis Sepúlveda was a Chilean writer, film director, journalist and political activist. Exiled during the Pinochet regime, most of his work was written in G…
Aya Kitō (木藤亜也, July 19, 1962 – May 23, 1988) was a Japanese diarist. She wrote about her personal experiences living with spinocerebellar ataxia which was later published in the book 1 Litre no Namid…
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh là tên và cũng là bút danh của một nhà văn Việt Nam chuyên viết cho tuổi mới lớn. Ông sinh ngày 7 tháng 5 năm 1955 tại huyện Thăng Bình, Quảng Nam.
Nhà văn Tô Hoài (1920-2014) là một trong những cây bút văn xuôi tiêu biểu của văn học Việt Nam hiện đại. Ông là tác giả của hàng trăm cuốn sách thuộc nhiều thể loại: Truyện ngắn, tiểu thuyết, bút ký, …
Rosie Nguyễn, the pen name of Nguyen Hoang Nguyen, is a Vietnamese author known for her focus on creative non-fiction books. Her works explore themes related to youth culture, self-directed education,…
Hello! I’m Sarah and I’m a cartoonist and illustrator. I graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. My comics are semi-autobiographical and follow the adventures of myself, my frien…
Chan Ho-Kei 陳浩基 was born and raised in Hong Kong. He has worked as software engineer, scriptwriter, game designer and editor of comic magazines. His writing career started in 2008 at the age of thirty…
Giddens Ko (simplified Chinese: 柯景腾; traditional Chinese: 柯景騰; pinyin: Kē Jǐngténg; born 25 August 1978) is a Taiwanese novelist and filmmaker. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Management from Nat…
