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…
Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.
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…
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
Marga Minco (pseudoniem van Sara Minco) debuteerde in 1957 met Het bittere kruid, bekroond met de Vijverbergprijs (nu F. Bordewijkprijs). Ook haar latere werk, De andere kant (1959), Een leeg huis (19…
Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received m…
An American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist who was raised in now nearly vanished oral and ethnic traditions. She is a first-generation American who grew up in a rural village, populati…
Mehmet Ziya Gökalp (d. 23 Mart 1875, Çermik – ö. 25 Ekim 1924, İstanbul), yapıtları ve görüşleriyle Türkçülüğü ve Türk milliyetçiliğini önemli ölçüde etkileyen Türk toplumbilimci, yazar, şair ve siyas…
Ahmet Ümit was born in 1960 in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. He moved to Istanbul in 1978 to attend university. In 1983 he both graduated from the Public Administration Faculty of Marmara …
İlber Ortaylı (born 21 May 1947), is a leading Turkish historian, professor of history at the Galatasaray University in Istanbul and at Bilkent University in Ankara. Since 2005 he has been the head of…
Nanae Aoyama is a Japanese fiction writer. She has won the Akutagawa Prize, the Bungei Prize, and the Yasunari Kawabata Literary Prize. Her work has been translated into Chinese, Korean, Vietname…
Mîna Urgan, İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi’nden emekli oldu. Thomas Malory, Henry Fielding, Balzac, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene, William Golding, John Galsworthy ve Shakespeare’den çevirile…
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
İstanbul doğumlu ve bir Üsküdar’lı olan Erhan Altunay, Saint Joseph Fransız Lisesini bitirdikten sonra Hacettepe Üniversitesinde Nükleer Enerji Mühendisliği okumuş, üniversite sırasında Fraktaller üze…
Saou Ichikawa graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel, Hunchback, won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, and she is the first author with a physi…
