Istoric român, membru al Academiei Române și profesor la Universitatea din București. Este fiul lui Constantin Giurescu și tatăl istoricului Dinu C. Giurescu. În 1931 a fondat Revista istorică română. …
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is oft…
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Paul Kriwaczek was a British historian and television producer. In 1970 he joined the BBC full-time and wrote, produced and directed for twenty-five years. A former head of Central Asian Affairs at th…
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Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known as "Litwos"; May 5, 1846–November 15, 1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers …
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Roger Crowley was born in 1951 and spent part of his childhood in Malta. He read English at Cambridge University and taught English in Istanbul, where he developed a strong interest in the history of …
Marin Preda was one of the best-known post-World War II Romanian writers. He was born in the Teleorman county, at Silistea-Gumesti, in the family of Tudor Calarasu. He finished the first 7 classes in t…
Mihai Eminescu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj emiˈnesku]; born Mihail Eminovici) was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet.
NEAGU M. DJUVARA s-a născut la Bucureşti în 1916, într-o familie de origine aromână aşezată în ţările române la sfârşitul secolului al XVIII-lea, care a dat ţării mai mulţi oameni politici, diplomaţi …
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…