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.…
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered for novels such as L’Écume des jours and L'Arrache-cœur (trans…
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (often referred to as "the wise") was Emperor of the Roman Empire from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered o…
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 …
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…
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (29 September 1810 – 12 November 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her…
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…
1961’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Ankara’da büyüdü. ODTÜ Endüstri Mühendisliği mezunu ve halen Frankfurt’ta yaşıyor. Romanları Ankara Mon Amour 2003, Bir Akdeniz Kedisinin Hatıraları 2004, Çatıkatı Aşıkları …
Russian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (/ˈɡɒntʃəˌrɔːf, -ˌrɒf/; Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в), best known for his novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Pre…
İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Gazetecilik Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. 2004 yılında Leman Dergi Grubu'na bağlı kültür sanat dergisi Kaçak Yayın'da muhabirlik yaptı. CNN Türk televizyon kanalında…
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (芥川 龍之介) was one of the first prewar Japanese writers to achieve a wide foreign readership, partly because of his technical virtuosity, partly because his work seemed to represent …
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…
Nermin Yıldırım, Türk edebiyatçı, yazar. 2002 yılında Anadolu Üniversitesi İletişim Bilimleri Fakültesi Basın Yayın Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. Üniversite yıllarında Alem-i Nisvan adlı feminist bir fanzin…
Eylül 1980’de İstanbul’da doğdu. Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi’nde Sosyoloji okudu. Yazarlık, gazetecilik ve fotoğrafçılık alanında eğitim aldı. Yazılı basında kültür sanat yazıları, söyleşi…
"Oyuncu Anne" lakabıyla bilinen ve yazdığı ebeveynlik kitaplarıyla büyük bir ilgi kazanan Şermin Çarkacı, 2017 yılında medeni durum değişikliği sebebiyle babasının soyadı olan …
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…
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.
Hwang Bo-reum studied Computer Science and worked as a software engineer. She wrote several essay collections: I Read Every Day, I Tried Kickboxing for the First Time and This Distance is Perfect. Wel…
