Sasha Filipenko, geboren 1984 in Minsk, ist ein belarussischer Schriftsteller, der auf Russisch schreibt. Nach einer abgebrochenen klassischen Musikausbildung studierte er Literatur in St. Petersburg …
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted…
Vladimir Sorokin (Владимир Сорокин, Vlagyimir Szorokin) was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writ…
Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally writ…
Eugenia Ginzburg (Russian: Евгения Гинзбург) was a Russian historian and writer. Soon after Eugenia Ginzburg was born into the family of a Jewish pharmacist in Moscow, her family moved to Kazan. In 19…
Sergei Dovlatov (Russian: Сергей Довлатов) was born in Ufa, Bashkiria (U.S.S.R.), in 1941. He dropped out of the University of Leningrad after two years and was drafted into the army, serving as a gua…
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis is a Greek-Australian economist and politician. A former academic, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European …
By the outbreak of the First World War, Robert ”Bob” Cedric Sherriff had left school and begun work as a clerk at the Sun Fire Office, the same company as his father. Although his employers preferred …
Anna Starobinets (Russian: Анна Старобинец) is a young Russian journalist whose first book “An Awkward age” was nominated for the National Bestseller prestigious Russian prize as a manuscript – even b…
Саша Филипенко родился в Минске в 1984 году. Окончил филологический факультет СПбГУ, магистратуру. Получил диплом «Бард Колледжа» в Нью-Йорке. Работал сценаристом б…
Karatkievič was born in 1930 in Vorša, Viciebsk region. In 1954, he graduated from the Philological Department of Kyiv University and taught first in a village school in the Kyiv region of Ukraine and…
Ivan Mielež (Belarusian: Іван Паўлавіч Мележ, Russian: Ива́н Па́влович Ме́леж ; 8 February 1921, Hlinischy, Homiel Voblast — August 9, 1976, Minsk) was a Belarusian writer.
Viktar Martinowich (Belarusian: Віктар Вале́р'евіч Марціновіч, Russian: Ви́ктор Вале́рьевич Мартино́вич; born September 9, 1977) is a Belarusian writer, journalist, and art critic. Martinowich was born…
Born on 9 January 1972 in the village of Zahallie (Liuban district), where she spent her childhood. She was often ill as a child, experienced clinical death, and, by her own recollection, was saved by…
