Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, The Island of Sea Women, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, The Island of Sea Women, Peo…
Works of Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, existentialist, and feminist, include The Second Sex in 1949 and The Coming of Age, a study in 1970 of views of different cultures on the old.
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but …
Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty lan…
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…
Hella S. Haasse (1918 - 2011) was born in Batavia, modern-day Jakarta. She moved to the Netherlands after secondary school. In 1945 she debuted with a collection of poems, entitled Stroomversnelling (…
Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad…
ولد الشاعر والمفكر الراحل حسين البرغوثي في قرية كوبر شمال غرب مدينة [[رام الله]]، في الخامس من أيار عام (1954)، وقد أمضى سني طفولته بين مسقط رأسه كوبر حيث أقامت والدته، وبيروت حيث عمل والده. أثر تخرجه…
محمد عفيفي هو كاتب مصري ساخر، ولد في قرية الزوامل بمحافظة الشرقية بمصر، وحصل على ليسانس الحقوق عام 1943، ودبلوم الصحافة عام 1945، وتزوج في نفس يوم عيد ميلاده عام 1950 من السيدة اعتدال الصافى وأنجب ثلا…
Nasceu em 1971, na Figueira da Foz e estudou nas Belas Artes de Lisboa, no Instituto Superior de Artes Plásticas da Madeira e na António Arroio. É escritor, músico, cineasta e ilustrador. Escreveu seis…
صدر لإيمان مرسال 1995 ممرّ معتم يصلح لتعلّم الرقص، دار شرقيّات، القاهرة. طبعة أولى ١٩٩٥ 2004 طبعة ثانية بينما صدرت الطبعة الثالثة عن مكتبة الأُسرة في 2013 المشي أطول وقت مُمكن، دار شرقيّات، القاهرة 1997…
فاطمة قنديل (ولدت في السويس عام 1958) شاعرة وكاتبة وأكاديمية مصرية، صدر لها العديد من الدواوين الشعرية، ومن أبرز مؤلفاتها رواية (أقفاص فارغة) الحاصلة على جائزة نجيب محفوظ للأدب عام 2022.
جلال برجس شاعر وكاتب أردني، حائز على جائزة البوكر العربية2021 عن روايته (دفاتر الوراق) وجائزة كتارا للرواية العربية 2015 عن روايته أفاعي النار/ حكاية العاشق علي بن محمود القصاد، وجائزة رفقة دودين للإب…
Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My…
Raphael Montes, born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro, is Brazil’s most prominent thriller writer. He is best known for The Secret Dinner, a dark and provocative thriller set in Rio de Janeiro that has sold …
He was a Saudi Arabian politician, diplomat, technocrat, poet, and novelist. He was an intellectual and a member of the Al Gosaibi family that is one of the oldest and riche…
Bothayna El Essa (Arabic: بثينة العيسى) is a novelist from Kuwait. A well-known author in modern Arabic literature, her novel The Book Censor's Library was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award …
Dominic Amerena is a writer from Melbourne. His work has appeared in places like Australian Book Review, Overland, the Australian, the Lifted Brow, the Age, Meanjin and Kill Your Darlings. His work has…
