William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spe…
Pablo Neruda, born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto in 1904 in Parral, Chile, was a poet, diplomat, and politician, widely considered one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th cen…
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 …
Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature ("for impassioned writing wi…
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…
Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Aw…
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems …
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…
(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…
Idea Vilariño (Montevideo, 1920-2009) fue una poeta, ensayista y crítica literaria uruguaya perteneciente al grupo de escritores denominado Generación del 45. Dentro de sus facetas menos conocidas se …
Ο Χρόνης Μίσσιος γεννήθηκε στην Καβάλα το 1930, από γονείς καπνεργάτες, και έζησε τα πρώτα παιδικά του χρόνια στα Ποταμούδια, μια γειτονιά γεμάτη πρόσφυγες, καπνεργάτες από τη Θάσο και παράνομους κομμ…
Η Μαρία Λαϊνά γεννήθηκε στην Πάτρα το 1947. Σπούδασε νομικά στο Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών. Εργάστηκε ως κειμενογράφος, μεταφράστρια, επιμελήτρια εκδόσεων, script writer σε τηλεοπτικές εκπομπές και ταινίες. …
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…
Η Κρυστάλλη Γλυνιαδάκη γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1979. Σπούδασε φιλοσοφία και πολιτική θεωρία στο London School of Economics και στο King's College του Πανεπιστημίου του Λονδίνου και δημιουργική γραφή σ…
Ο Γιάννης Στίγκας γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1977. Σπούδασε ιατρική. Το 2004 κυκλοφόρησε η πρώτη του ποιητική συλλογή με τίτλο "Η αλητεία του αίματος". Έχει συνεργαστεί με διάφορα περιοδικά. Ποιήματά του…
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
Alia Trabucco Zerán (born 1983) is a Chilean writer. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and has a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies …
