Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and emotionally powerful authors of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts,…
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University o…
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel Paul et Virginie, now largely forgotten, but in the 19th century a very popular children's…
Semezdin Mehmedinović is a well known Bosnian writer, filmmaker, and magazine editor. His book "Sarajevo Blues" was praised by Washington Post as one of the best books which document war in Bosnia.
Mikha'il Na'ima (also spelled Mikhail Naimy; Arabic: ميخائيل نعيمة) (b.1889 in Mount Sannine in modern day Lebanon, d. 1988) was a Lebanese author and poet of the New York Pen League.
Taha Hussein (Arabic: طه حسين) was among the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a leading figure of the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab world…
هو مصطفى لطفي بن محمد لطفي بن محمد حسن لطفي أديب مصري من أم تركية قام بالكثير من الترجمة والاقتباس من بعض روايات الأدب الفرنسي الشهيرة بأسلوب أدبي فذ ,و صياغة عربية في غاية الجمال و الروعة.لم يحظ بإج…
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…
Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) was an Egyptian writer and scholar. Ashour had published 7 novels, an autobiographical work, 2 collections of short stories and 5 criticism books. Part I of her Gran…
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr was a French critic, journalist, and novelist. His brother Eugène was a talented engineer, and his aunt Carme Karr was a writer, journalist and suffragist in La Roche-Mabil…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
ولد عبد الرحمن منيف في عام 1933 في عمان، لأب من نجد وأم عراقية. قضى المراحل الاولى مع العائلة المتنقلة بين دمشق وعمان وبعض المدن السعودية. أنهى دراسته الثانوية في العاصمة الاردنية مع بدء نشاطه السياسي و…
Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look Aft…
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…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Ibn Hazm (Arabic: ابن حزم) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain. Described as one of the s…
دكتور أسامة عبد الرؤف الشاذلي – طبيب وكاتب وروائي مصري من مواليد عام ١٩٧٤. حصل على درجة الدكتوراة في جراحة العظام من جامعة عين شمس عام ٢٠٠٧. كما حصل على زمالة علاج الكسور من ألمانيا عام ٢٠٠٥. يعمل حال…
Mustafa Kamal Mahmoud Hussein (Arabic: مصطفى محمود) was an Egyptian doctor, philosopher, and author. Mustafa was born in Shibin el-Kom, Monufia province. He was trained as a doctor, but later chose a …
