He was born in Paris, son of a wealthy merchant, jeweller of the Place Dauphine, and followed his father's business. In 1664, he started for the East Indies with M. Raisin, a Lyons merchant. They jour…
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he wa…
Simin Dāneshvar was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.
Aziz Nesin was a Turkish humorist and author of more than 100 books. Nesin was born in 1915 on Heybeliada, one of the Princes' Islands of Istanbul, in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After serving as a…
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn ِAbdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن عبد الله اللواتي الطنجي ابن بطوطة) was a Muslim Marinid Berber scholar and …
Aḥmad Kasravī Born in Hokmabad (Hohmavar), Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azari. Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Later, he joined the Persian Constitutional Revolution. He experienced …
Giosafat Barbaro (also Giosaphat or Josaphat) (1413–1494) was a member of the Venetian Barbaro family. He was a diplomat, merchant, explorer and travel writer. He was unusually well-travelled for some…
Houshang Moradi Kermani هوشنگ مرادی کرمانی در سال ۱۳۲۳ در روستای سیرچ از توابع بخش شهداد استان کرمان متولد شد. تا کلاس پنجم ابتدایی در آن روستا درس خواند و همراه پدربزرگ و مادربزرگش زندگی کرد. مادرش از…
Arda Viraf is chosen for his piety to undertake a journey to the next world in order to prove the truth of Zoroastrian beliefs, after a period when the land of Iran had been troubled by the presence o…
Abdolhossein Zarinkoob He was born on March 19, 1923, in Borujerd, Iran, received his PhD from Tehran University in 1955 under the supervision of Badiozzaman Forouzanfar, and held faculty positions at …
Among Iranian writers who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.
احمد اعطا با نام ادبی احمد محمود (۴ دی ۱۳۱۰، اهواز – ۱۲ مهر ۱۳۸۱، تهران) نویسندهٔ معاصر ایرانی بود. او را پیرو مکتب رئالیسم اجتماعی میدانند. معروفترین رمان او، همسایهها، در زمرهٔ آثار برجستهٔ ادبیا…
(Greek: Νίκος Καζαντζάκης) Nikos Kazantzakis was a Greek writer, journalist, politician, poet and philosopher. Widely considered a giant of modern Greek literature, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize…
