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…
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…
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…
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short…
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…
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 ور در روز ۵ دی ۱۴۰۴ در سن ۸۷ سالگی، دور ا…
