John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t…
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890…
Alasdair James Gray was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and…
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1532-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance. Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his ef…
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…
Jon Olav Fosse was born in Haugesund, Norway and currently lives in Bergen. He debuted in 1983 with the novel Raudt, svart (Red, black). His first play, Og aldri skal vi skiljast, was performed and pu…
Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as …
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
Erenköy Kız Lisesi'nin ardından İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi'nden mezun oldu. Üniversite yıllarında çeşitli edebiyat ve kültür dergilerine yazılar yazmaya başladı. Edebiyat üzerine…
1967'de İstanbul'da doğdu. Kabataş Erkek Lisesi'ni bitirdi. Yüksek öğrenimini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği bölümünde tamamladı (1989). Aynı üniversitenin Psikoloji Bölümü'nde…
Hakan Bıçakcı was born in Istanbul in 1978. After completing his primary and secondary education in Istanbul, he went to university in Ankara in 1996. In 2001 he graduated in economics from Bilkent Un…
Russian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (/ˈɡɒntʃəˌrɔːf, -ˌrɒf/; Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в), best known for his novels A Common Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Pre…
1959 yılında doğdu. Sankt Georg Avusturya Lisesi'ni bitirdikten sonra Viyana Üniversitesi'nde Siyaset Bilimi, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi'nde İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı okudu. 1987'de Sabah Dergi Grubu'nda b…
Sankt Georg Avusturya Lisesi’ni bitirdikten sonra Boğaziçi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı ile İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı bölümlerinden mezun oldu. Yüksek lisansını Berlin Freie Üniversitesi’ndeki İngilizce Çal…
Baek Se-hee (Korean: 백세희) was a South Korean author best known for her memoir, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki (2018), and its sequel, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki (2019…
Bora Chung has written three novels and three collections of short stories. She has an MA in Russian and East European area studies from Yale University and a PhD in Slavic literature from Indiana Uni…
Çağla Çinili (1992) Sakarya’da doğdu. 2015 yılında Kocaeli Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi’ni bitirdikten sonra avukatlık stajını İstanbul’da tamamladı. İlk öyküsü Varlık dergisinde ve ilk şiiri Çevrimdı…
