Γόνος αστικής οικογένειας, ολοκλήρωσε τις εγκύκλιες σπουδές του σε σχολή Ιησουιτών στο Παρίσι, ενώ σπούδαζε φωνητική μουσική ήδη από 14 ετών. Γρήγορα καθιερώθηκε ως βαρύτονος. Τραγούδησε μαζί με τον Κ…
Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family moved to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and returned home after the war. After studying French literature …
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and one of the most distinctive contemporary writers in English. Born in Toronto in 1950, she studied Classics at the University of To…
“What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness.” This sentence from …
After World War I, French poet and literary theorist André Breton began to link at first with Dadaism but broke with that movement to write the first manifesto of surrealism in 1924.
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she w…
Sebastian Fitzek was born in Berlin in 1971. After going to law school and being promoted to LL.D., he decided against a juridical profession for a creative occupation in the media. After the trainees…
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Hi…
Fleur Jaeggy is a Swiss author, who writes in Italian. The Times Literary Supplement named Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year upon its US publication, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premi…
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province.
Paul Lynch is the internationally-acclaimed, prize-winning author of five novels: PROPHET SONG, BEYOND THE SEA, GRACE, THE BLACK SNOW and RED SKY IN MORNING, and the winner of the Kerry Group Irish No…
Greek writer. Described as a 'landmark of post-war literature in Greece, Taktsis (Κώστας Ταχτσής) wrote The Third Wedding (Greek: Tο τρίτο στεφάνι) partly in Australia. The book unfolds in the years b…
Florence Leontine Mary Welch (born 28 August 1986) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist of indie rock band Florence and the Machine.
Benjamin Labatut was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He spent his childhood in The Hague and Buenos Aires and when he was twelve years old he moved to Santiago de Chile, where he lives today.
Branimir Šćepanović (Бранимир Шћепановић) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer. He was born in Podgorica, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father was a teacher and a published author. Young Šćepanović sta…
Fiston Nasser Mwanza Mujila is a Congolese writer.. He now lives in Graz, Austria and is pursuing a PhD in Romance Languages. His writing has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Gold Medal at …
Seán Hewitt's debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire (2020), won the Laurel Prize in 2021. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide (2022), won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2022. He lives i…
De ascendencia conquense, nació en 1987 en Madrid. Se licenció en Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y posteriormente realizó un máster en Sexología en la Universidad de Alcalá…
Ο Δημοσθένης Παπαμάρκος γεννήθηκε το 1983 στη Μαλεσσίνα Λοκρίδος. Έχει εκδώσει μυθιστορήματα, διηγήματα και κόμικ. Το 2014 η συλλογή διηγημάτων Γκιακ βραβεύτηκε από την Ακαδημία Αθηνών-Ίδρυμα Πέτρ…
See also: Рене Карабаш Rene Karabash (b. Irena Ivanova, 1989) is a writer, screenwriter, playwright and actress. She was the recipient of several Best Actress awards for her leading role in the film Go…
