Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
Georges Perec was a highly-regarded French novelist, filmmaker, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Many of his novels and essays abound with experimental wordplay, lists, and attempts …
Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensit…
Joseph Roth, journalist and novelist, was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now …
Maurice Blanchot was a French philosopher, literary theorist and writer of fiction. Blanchot was a distinctly modern writer who broke down generic boundaries, particularly between literature and philo…
Born Kathrine Kressmann, she married Elliott Taylor in 1928. Her first and most famous book, "Address unknown", was initially published by Story magazine. As both the editor and her husband deemed the…
While still in his twenties, the Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh filled houses in New York and London, was showered with the theatre world's most prestigious accolades, and electrified audience…
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col…
محمد مختاری در روز ۱ اردیبهشت سال ۱۳۲۱ به دنیا آمد و در ۱۲ آذر ۱۳۷۷ خورشیدی در ماجرای قتلهای زنجیرهای ترور شد. وی از شاعران، نویسندگان، مترجمان و منتقدان معاصر ایران بود. وی چندین سال در بنیاد شاهنا…
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
Taghi Modarressi was born in 1932 (۱۳۱۱) in Tehran, Iran, the son of a lawyer. Two years after the young Taghi had begun elementary school, his father passed away, leaving behind a widow and three son…
ساعدی در ۱۳ دی ۱۳۱۴ در تبریز متولد شد. دکتر علی اکبر ساعدی جراح برادر دکتر غلامحسین ساعدی نویسنده و شاعر شهیر و برجسته در باره برادرش و مدرسه طالقانی (منصور سابق) تبریز میگوید
رضا قاسمی در ۱۰ دی ماه ۱۳۲۸ در اصفهان به دنیا آمد اما اصلیت جنوبی دارد. اولین اثر او نمایشنامه کسوف بود که در ۱۸ سالگی نوشت و دو سال بعد در دانشگاه تهران به روی صحنه برد. در سال …
English: Ghadah Samman. غادة أحمد السمان (مواليد 1942) كاتبة وأديبة سورية. ولدت في دمشق لأسرة شامية عريقة، ولها صلة قربى بالشاعر السوري نزار قباني. والدها الدكتور أحمد السمان حاصل على شهادة الدكتوراه م…
Hassan Blasim (born 1973) is an Iraqi-born film director and writer who lives in Finland. He writes in Arabic.He is co-editor of the Arabic literary website http://www.iraqstory.com/
From an early age, Matei Vişniec discovered literature as a space dedicated to freedom. He draws his strengths from Kafka, Dostoevsky, Poe, Lautréamont. He loves the Surrealists, the Dadaists, absurd …
Hirai Tarō (平井 太郎), better known by the pseudonym Rampo Edogawa ( 江戸川 乱歩), sometimes romanized as "Ranpo Edogawa", was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japane…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
نغمه ثمینی، نمایشنامهنویس، متولد ۱۳۵۲ در ایران، دارای دکترای پژوهش هنر (اسطوره و درام) است. از او تاکنون هفت نمایشنامه و دو کتاب پژوهشی منتشر شدهاست. همچنین بیش از ده نمایشنامه از جمله «شکلک» و …
محمد رضاییراد فیلمنامهنویس، نمایشنامهنویس، کارگردان و پژوهشگر در سال ۱۳۴۵ در محلۀ بیستون رشت متولد شد. فیلمنامههای او برنده جوایز متعددی از جشن خانه سینما و جشنواره فیلم فجر و جشنواره آسیا پاسفیک…
