Dan Simmons was an American science fiction and horror writer. He was the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fanta…
Ken Follett is one of the world’s most successful authors. Over 170 million copies of the 36 books he has written have been sold in over 80 countries and in 33 languages.
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…
Genevan philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau held that society usually corrupts the essentially good individual; his works include The Social Contract and Émile (both 1762).
Richard Flanagan (born 1961) is an author, historian and film director from Tasmania, Australia. He was president of the Tasmania University Union and a Rhodes Scholar. Each of his novels has attracte…
Thomas Hobbes was a British philosopher and a seminal thinker of modern political philosophy. His ideas were marked by a mechanistic materialist foundation, a characterization of human nature based on…
Joseph Campbell was an American author and teacher best known for his work in the field of comparative mythology. He was born in New York City in 1904, and from early childhood he became interested in…
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 count…
Роден е в село Червена вода, Русенско на 7 август 1936 г. В Русе завършва Математическа гимназия през 1954 г. През 1959 г. завършва журналистика в Софийския университет, следва 2 години право, през 19…
Роден е на 12 юли 1958 г. в село Пейчиново, община Бяла, област Русе в семейство на учители. От 1962 г. живее в Русе, където завършва средното си образование. През 1978-1982 г. завършва история във Ве…
Георги Владимиров е български историк, доктор по история, магистър по теория и история на културата. Работи по проблеми на средновековната история и култура на Дунавска и Волжка България, културните м…
Søren Sveistrup is an internationally acclaimed scriptwriter of the Danish television phenomenon The Killing which won various international awards and sold in more than a hundred countries. More rece…
Димитър Цолов е роден в град Враца на 01.06.1977, а този факт обяснява упоритото му отказване да порасне. По професия е хуманен лекар, с придобита специалност „Образна диагностика”, но в глобалното пр…
Георги Бърдаров е доцент в Геолого-географския факултет на Софийския университет „Св. Климент Охридски“. Той е зам.-декан на факултета и ръководител на катедрата по Социално-икономическа география. Ав…
Emilian Stanev Емилиян Станев was the pseudonym Nikola Stoyanov Stanev (Никола Стоянов Станев), a 20th-century Bulgarian prose writer. Also spelled as Emiliian Stanev or Emiliyan Stanev.
Емил Минчев е роден в София. Завършил е Първа английска гимназия и Софийския университет. Превел е над 50 книги от английски език, сред които творби на Артър Конан Дойл, Оскар Уайлд, Брам Стокър, Джей…
