Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who is also an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Thin…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', transl…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Josep Carner (Barcelona, 1884 - Brussel·les, 1970) és conegut com "el príncep dels poetes catalans". Renovador de la poesia, de la llengua i de la prosa. Crea un nou estil de periodisme polític. Llice…
Catalan poet and writer. He translated into Catalan classical works from Homer, Sophocles, Plutarch and Euripides as well as authors such Cavafy, Hölderlin, Poe, Rilke and Kafka.
Robèrt August Cesar Lafont (Robert Lafont en francés) (Nimes, 16 de març de 1923 - Florença (Itàlia), 24 de junh de 2009) èra un intellectuau occitan e pus particularament un lingüista, un escrivan, u…
Bernat Metge (Barcelona, entre 1340 i 1346 – 1413) fou un escriptor, traductor i primer representant de l'humanisme a les lletres catalanes. És considerat un dels millors prosistes del tombant del seg…
Narcís Oller (Valls, 1846 - Barcelona, 1930). Primer gran novel·lista català de la Renaixença, és considerat el creador de la novel·la catalana moderna. Ocupa un lloc destacat en el marc global de la …
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
Elisa Victoria nació 1985 y se rompió la paleta izquierda en 1992 jugando a pollito inglés. Por este orden y entre otras cosas, se ha dedicado a coleccionar muñecas Chabel, a vender pizzas y hamburgue…
Michelle McNamara was a screenwriter, journalist, and true crime writer. She was the founder of the blog "True Crime Diary," which covers lesser-known crimes and cold cases. In 2005, she married comed…
Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize …
