Alessandro Vanoli è nato a Bologna nel 1969. Si è laureato in storia della filosofia medievale presso l'Università di Bologna dove successivamente si è specializzato in storia con Valerio Marchetti. H…
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on h…
David Foster Wallace was an acclaimed American writer known for his fiction, nonfiction, and critical essays that explored the complexities of consciousness, irony, and the human condition. Widely reg…
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional d…
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as S…
Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He w…
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy and the USA, and currently works in France. His work is mainly in the field of quantum gravity, where he is among t…
Born in Rome in the year 1914, Anna Maria Ortese grew up in southern Italy (primarily Naples) and in Lybia, the fifth of nine children of a soldier's family often short on money. Like many poor girls …
Tiziano Terzani was an Italian journalist and writer, best known for his extensive knowledge of 20th century East Asia and for being one of the very few western reporters to witness both the fall of S…
Si laurea in lettere nel 1981 con una tesi in storia medievale all'Università di Torino. Successivamente perfeziona i suoi studi alla Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa e nel 1984 vince il concorso per …
Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the storie…
Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di…
Michel Jean est un écrivain innu de la communauté de Mashteuiatsh, au Québec. Il a publié onze romans. Kukum, publié chez Libre Expression au Canada, Depaysage et Points en France, a remporté le Prix …
Docente e ricercatore all'Università Statale di Bergamo, coordina il Centro studi sui linguaggi della guerra e della violenza. Sempre presso l'Università Statale di Bergamo insegna Teorie e tecniche d…
Michela Murgia è nata a Cabras nel 1972 ed è stata a lungo animatrice in Azione Cattolica. Ha fatto studi teologici ed è socia onoraria del Coordinamento teologhe italiane. Ha pubblicato nel 2006 Il m…
Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (…
È nata nel 1987, vive in provincia di Modena e lavora come architetto. Coltiva la passione della scrittura dall’età di dodici anni, va dove la fantasia la porta e non è raro che si perda nei suoi pens…
Philippe Collin est un producteur de radio, auteur et journaliste. Il effectue des études d'histoire à l'Université de Bretagne occidentale, à Brest. Il est titulaire d'une maîtrise d'histoire contemp…
Iida Turpeinen is a Helsinki-based literary scholar currently writing a dissertation on the intersection of the natural sciences and literature. As an author, she is intrigued by the literary potentia…
Olivia Atwater writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her fantastic, prose-inspiring husband and her two cats. When she told her second-grade his…
