William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, rea…
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981; he also wrote The Neon…
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing pro…
Touraj Atabaki is a professor of the "Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia" at the Department of History of the University of Amsterdam and a senior research fellow at the International …
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walkin…
Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy…
Afsāneh Najmābādi (Persian: افسانه نجم آبادی) (born 1946) is an Iranian-American historian and gender theorist. She is professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard U…
Theodor Fontane, novelist, critic, poet, and travel writer, was one of the most celebrated nineteenth-century German men of letters. He was born into a French Huguenot family in the Prussian town of N…
Asef Bayat (Ph.D. University of Kent 1984) (Persian: آصف بیات) is Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was Professor of Sociology and Mid…
Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is a fellow of Newnham College. She is the Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and a…
Farhad Daftary (born 1938) (Persian: فرهاد دفترى) is co-director and head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Daftary received his Ph.D. in 197…
Ebrahim Golestan (also spelt Ibrahim Golestan, Persian: ابراهیم گلستان , born 1922 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has been livin…
Lena Andersson (born 18 April 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard. In the same year, the same book, won her the L…
رضا براهنی در ۲۱ آذر ۱۳۱۴ خورشیدی در تبریز به دنیا آمد. خانواده‌اش زندگی فقیرانه‌ای داشتند و وی در ضمن آموزش‌های دبستانی و دبیرستانی به ناگزیر کار می‌کرد. در ۲۲ سالگی ازدانشگاه …
شاهرخ مسکوب، روشنفکر، نویسنده، مترجم و شاهنامه‌شناس، در سال ۱۳۰۴ در بابل به دنیا آمد. دوره‌ی ابتدایی را در مدرسه‌ی علمیه‌ی تهران گذراند و ادامه‌ی تحصیلاتش را در اصفهان پی گرفت. در سال ۱۳۲۴ به تهران با…
Anson Laytner is a happily retired rabbi, living in Seattle, whose career focused on building positive interfaith and interethnic relations in our community.
بهرام بیضایی: مروری بر زندگی و آثار یک اسطوره زنده
بهرام بیضایی، نویسنده، کارگردان، پژوهشگر و اسطوره‌شناس برجسته ایرانی، در ۵ دی ۱۳۱۷ در تهران چشم به جهان گشود. او به عنوان یکی از پیشگامان موج نوی سینم…
