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…
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about…
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…
Elena Ferrante is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Her four-book series of Neapolitan Novels are her most w…
Bernard Werber's "Ants" trilogy made him one of France's most popular science fiction novelists in the 90s. Werber began studying journalism in 1982 in Paris, where he discovered the work of sci-fi wr…
Galal Ahmad Amin (Arabic: جلال أمين) was a professor of economics at the American University in Cairo and an Egyptian economist and commentator.He was critical of the economic and cultural dependency …
Alain Deneault est titulaire d'un doctorat de philosophie de l'Université de Paris-VIII et enseigne aujourd'hui la sociologie à l'UQAM. Il est l'auteur d'une dizaine d'ouvrages qui ont fait débat.
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t…
أبو بكر محمد بن عبد الملك بن طفيل القيسي الأندلسي، هو فيلسوف وفيزيائي وقاضي أندلسي مسلم، ولد في وادي آش، وهي تبعد 55 كم عن غرناطة، ثم تعلم الطب في غرناطة وخدم حاكمها. توفي في 581 هـ بمراكش وحضر السلطا…
محمد صلاح الدين عبدالصبور. ولد في مدينة الزقازيق (مركز محافظة الشرقية - شرقي الدلتا المصرية) وتوفي في القاهرة. عاش حياته في القاهرة، وزار عدة عواصم عربية، ومدن غربية. تلقى تعليمه قبل الجامعي بمدارس الزقا…
كان ناقد أدبي وصحفي مصري. تخرج من جامعة القاهرة قسم اللغة العربية عام 1956 واشتغل بعدها محرراً في مجلة روز اليوسف المصرية بين عامي 1959 إلى غاية 1961 ثم محرراً أدبيا في جريدة أخبار اليوم وجريدة الأخب…
Ibrahim Aslan (Arabic: إبراهيم أصلان) was born in Tanta, Egypt in 1937. He is culture editor for the Cairo bureau of the London-based daily newspaper al-Hayat.
سكينة فؤاد كاتبة صحفية وروائية مصرية، والنائب الأول لرئيس حزب الجبهة الديمقراطية المعارض في مصر ونائبة في مجلس الشورى المصري. ولدت سكينة فؤاد في 1 سبتمبر 1945 بمدينة بورسعيد (شمال شرق القاهرة)، نالت لي…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
Raphael Montes, born in 1990 in Rio de Janeiro, is Brazil’s most prominent thriller writer. He is best known for The Secret Dinner, a dark and provocative thriller set in Rio de Janeiro that has sold …
إبراهيم عبد القادر المازني، شاعر وناقد وصحفي وكاتب روائي مصري من شعراء العصر الحديث، عرف كواحد من كبار الكتاب في عصره كما عرف بأسلوبه الساخر سواء في الكتابة الأدبية أو الشعر واستطاع أن يلمع على الرغم …
Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Arabic: توفيق الحكيم Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm) was a prominent Egyptian writer. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. He was the…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Svetlana Alexievich was born in Ivano Frankivsk, Soviet Union. Her father was Belarusian and her mother Ukrainian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus, where both her parents were teachers. She studied to b…
