Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece Under the Volcano is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Born near Liverpool, England, Lowry grew up i…
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and nonfiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including hi…
Carson McCullers was an American novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet. Her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and out…
Erica Jong—novelist, poet, and essayist—has consistently used her craft to help provide women with a powerful and rational voice in forging a feminist consciousness. She has published 21 books, includ…
William Styron (1925–2006), born in Newport News, Virginia, was one of the greatest American writers of his generation. Styron published his first book, Lie Down in Darkness, at age twenty-six and wen…
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and…
People best know American writer Thomas Clayton Wolfe for his autobiographical novels, including Look Homeward, Angel (1929) and the posthumously published You Can't Go Home Again (1940).
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish American author of Jewish descent, noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in L…
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 an…
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her n…
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…
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He …
Jean-Paul Dubois (b. 1950) is a French journalist and author. He is the author of several novels and travel pieces, and reports for Le Nouvel Observateur. His novel, Une vie française, published in Fr…
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short…
Silvio D’Arzo (pseudonym of Ezio Comparoni) was born in Reggio nell'Emilia in 1920. He wrote of the loneliness of the human being, the unpredictability of destiny, the search for a consolation that gi…
Tim Wu is an author, a professor at Columbia Law School, and a contributing writer for the New York Times.. He has written about technology in numerous publications, and coined the phrase "net neutral…
Bruno Jasienski, born Wiktor Zysman, was a Polish poet and leader of the Polish futurist movement, executed during the Polish operation of the NKVD in the Soviet Union. He was born to a Polish family o…
Raymond Radiguet was born in Saint-Maur, Val-de-Marne close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist. In 1917 he moved to the city. Soon he would drop out of the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied, in ord…
M. Karagatsis (Greek: Μ. Καραγάτσης) is the pen name of the Greek novelist, journalist, critic and playwright Dimitris Rodopoulos. He was born in Athens, lived in Larissa and studied law in France. Th…
Nasce a Roma e si laurea in Filosofia all'Università degli studi di Milano con Paolo Valore (con una tesi riguardo agli argomenti ontologici a sostegno dell'esistenza di Dio). Lavora come traduttore a…
Ο Χρυσόστομος Τσαπραΐλης γεννήθηκε στη Λάρισα το 1984 και μεγάλωσε στην Καρδίτσα. Τα τελευταία τρία χρόνια ζει στην Ολλανδία. Έχει εκδώσει τα βιβλία Παγανιστικές δοξασίες της θεσσαλικής επαρχίας (αντί…
Ο Δημήτρης Καρακίτσος γεννήθηκε στον Βόλο το 1979. Έχει εκδώσει τα βιβλία: Οι γάτες του ποιητή Δ.Ι. Αντωνίου (Το Ροδακιό, 2012), Βένουσμπεργκ (Αντίποδες, 2015), Παλαιστές (Ποταμός, 2016), Ιστορίες του…
Minos Efstathiadis (Greek: Μίνως Ευσταθιάδης) studied Law in Athens and in Hannover. He gave up (probably not soon enough) being a lawyer for windsurfing and writing.
