Algerian poet and novelist. Born in Tlemcen, Dib held various jobs as a teacher, accountant, weaver and rug designer, interpreter, and journalist before turning to full-time writing. In 1959 he moved …
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in …
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886).…
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but …
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitat…
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء, literally "green jasmine") is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul. Moulessehoul, an officer in the Algerian army, adopted a woman's pseudon…
أحمد خيري العمري باحث وكاتب وروائي مهتم بفكر التجديد والتنوير مع الحفاظ على الثوابت، ولد في بغداد عام 1970 لأسرة موصلية الجذور تخرَّج من كلية طب الأسنان جامعة بغداد عام 1993 متزوِّج وله من الأولاد "زي…
Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) was an Egyptian writer and scholar. Ashour had published 7 novels, an autobiographical work, 2 collections of short stories and 5 criticism books. Part I of her Gran…
كاتب جزائري ولد في بيئة ريفية وأسرة أمازيغية تنتمي إلى عرش الحراكتة الذي يتمركز في إقليم يمتدّ من باتنة غربا (حركتة المعذر) إلى خنشلة جنوبا إلى ما وراء سدراتة شمالا وتتوسّطه مدينة الحراكتة : عين البيض…
أحمد رضا حوحو: كاتب جزائري ولد يوم 15 ديسمبر 1910 بقرية سيدي عقبة ببسكرة. يعتبر من رواد الكلمة الشجاعة التي كانت تغتال آنذاك لكونها دعوة إلى ثورة الشعب ويقظة الجماهير. وقد عُرِف عن حوحو الجرأة والصراح…
Leigh Bardugo is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House and the creator of the Grishaverse (now a Netflix original series) which spans the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows du…
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
Valérie Perrin est une romancière française. Elle est aussi photographe de plateau et scénariste auprès de son compagnon Claude Lelouch. Son premier roman, "Les oubliés du dimanche" (2015), a reçu de n…
Les éditions du Remue-ménage ont appris avec un immense chagrin le décès de Caroline Dawson. Autrice formidable, humaine engagée, au sens de l’humour et de la justice sociale redoutables, elle lègue l…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
Ibn Hazm (Arabic: ابن حزم) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain. Described as one of the s…
Sladjana Nina Perkovic (1981) is a Franco-Bosnian journalist and a fiction writer. After finishing her studies in Political Sciences at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, she mainly worked a…
Abdelhamid ben Hadouga or Abdelhamid Benhedouga (Arabic: عبد الحميد بن هدوقة) was an Algerian writer, born on 9 January 1925 in Mansourah near Bordj Bou Arréridj to an Arab Algerian father and a Berbe…
Vanessa Springora est une éditrice, écrivaine et réalisatrice française. Elle publie, début janvier 2020, l'ouvrage Le Consentement, témoignage de sa relation avec Gabriel Matzneff lorsqu'elle était a…
Emi Yagi is an editor at a Japanese women’s magazine. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Dazai Osamu Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work…
