1956'da Aydın'da doğdu. Liseyi Robert Kolej’de bitirdi. Şiir bursu alarak Floransa’ya gitti. Türkiye’ye dönerek birer yıl ODTÜ Elektronik ve Ekonomi bölümlerine devam etti. 1977’de İngiltere’ye gitti:…
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in…
Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots …
Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written w…
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals…
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original…
A mystic lyricism and precise imagery often marked verse of German poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose collections profoundly influenced 20th-century German literature and include The Book of Hours (19…
Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933, grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and attended high school in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. from the College of the University of Chicago and…
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (often referred to as "the wise") was Emperor of the Roman Empire from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered o…
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC s…
Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) was a pioneer of the modern novel in Turkey. His first novel, Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected), appeared 1971-72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics…
People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).
Johann Hari is an award-winning British journalist and playwright. He was a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post, and has won awards for his war reporting. His work has also appeared …
Auteur prolifique, Jean-Louis Fournier a toujours su mêler humour, culture et sincérité. Entre un frère polytechnicien et une soeur éducatrice spécialisée, il choisit la voie de l'humour et devient le…
Sevgi Soysal was born in Istanbul in 1936. She grew up in Ankara with her father, an architect-bureaucrat originally from Salonica, and her German mother. She studied archaeology in Ankara, continuing…
Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.
Leylâ Erbil is one of the leading female contemporary writers of Turkey, author of four novels and three collections of short stories, a book of essays and a biographical text about one of the best wo…
Sevim Burak (İstanbul, 29 Haziran 1931-İstanbul, 30 Aralık 1983) Alman Lisesi’nin orta bölümünden sonra çalışmaya başladı. Mankenlik yaptı, kendi açtığı modaevini yönetti. İki kez evlenip ayrıldı; ilk…
Edip Cansever (1928, İstanbul 1986, a.y.) İstanbul Erkek Lisesi’ni bitirdi. Yüksek Ticaret Okulu’ndaki öğrenimini yarıda bırakarak babasının Kapalıçarşı’daki dükkânında ticarete başladı ve 1976’ya kad…
Yaşar Kemal, asıl adı Kemal Sadık Gökçeli. Van Gölü’ne yakın Ernis (bugün Ünseli) köyünden olan ailesinin Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndaki Rus işgali yüzünden uzun bir göç süreci sonunda yerleştiği Osmaniye…
Mithat Cemal Kuntay (1885, İstanbul - 30 Mart 1956, İstanbul), Türk yazar, şair ve hukukçu. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun yıkılış dönemini konu edinen, Üç İstanbul (1938) adlı ilk ve tek romanı ile ünlend…
Claire’s first book, Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in January, 2011. It will be published simultaneously in the UK by Bloomsbury.
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…
İzmir doğumlu (1970-23 Temmuz 2011). Liseyi İzmir'de tamamladı. Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi'ni bitirdi. İlk şiirleri Sombahar ve Ludingirra dergilerinde yayımlandı. İlk kitabı Grapon Kâğı…
