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…
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) bro…
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (Russian: Михаил Булгаков) was a Russian writer, medical doctor, and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of th…
Cormac McCarthy was a highly acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter celebrated for his distinctive literary style, philosophical depth, and exploration of violence, morality, and the human condi…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (19…
Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece. Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally …
Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the trainees…
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Kostas Karyotakis (Greek: Κώστας Καρυωτάκης) is considered one of the most representative Greek poets of the 1920s and one of the first poets to use iconoclastic themes in Greece.
Nikiforos Vrettakos was a Greek writer and poet. Nikephoros Vrettakos was born in the village of Kokees, near Sparta, and published his first collection of poems, Under Shadows and Lights, in 1929, at…
Ο Μίλτος Σαχτούρης (Αθήνα, 29 Ιουλίου 1919 – Αθήνα, 29 Μαρτίου 2005) ήταν ένας από τους σημαντικότερους μεταπολεμικούς Έλληνες ποιητές τιμημένος με τρία κρατικά βραβεία. Ο Σαχτούρης αν και επηρεάστηκε …
Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeou…
(English: Manolis Anagnostakis ) Γεννήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη όπου σπούδασε ιατρική. Κατά τη διάρκεια της Κατοχής συμμετείχε στην ΕΠΟΝ. Κατά τη διετία 1943-1944 ήταν αρχισυντάκτης του περιοδικού "Ξεκίνημα…
Ο Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος ήταν σύγχρονος βραβευμένος Έλληνας ποιητής, διηγηματογράφος, δοκιμιογράφος, μεταφραστής, ερευνητής, λαογράφος, εκδότης και βιβλιοκριτικός. Το πραγματικό όνομα του πολυγραφότατ…
Ανήκει στη δεύτερη μεταπολεμική γενιά. Εμφανίστηκε στα γράμματα το 1952 με το πολυγραφημένο ποιητικό μονόπρακτο Θάλασσα και συγχρονισμός, ενώ συνεργαζόταν ήδη με περιοδικά της πόλης. Η πρώτη συλλογή τ…
Asako Yuzuki (柚木 麻子, Yuzuki Asako) is a Japanese writer. She won the All Yomimono Prize for New Writers and the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize. Asako has been nominated multiple times for the Naoki Prize, and…
Ferdia Lennon was born and raised in Dublin. He holds a BA in History and Classics from University College Dublin and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. His short stories have …
Tasos Leivaditis (Greek: Τάσος Λειβαδίτης; 1922–1988) was a Greek poet, short story writer and literary critic who belonged to the postwar generation that was deeply marked by the struggles and failur…
