B. A. Chamberlain was a professor of Japanese at the Tokyo Imperial University and was one of the greatest European Japanologists, along with Ernest Mason Satow, Lafcadio Hearn, and William G. Ashton.…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philol…
Hayao Miyazaki (Japanese: 宮崎 駿) is a celebrated Japanese animator, filmmaker, screenwriter, and manga artist, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of animation. He is …
Murasaki Shikibu (Japanese: 紫式部), born around 978 in Heian-kyō (modern-day Kyoto), is widely celebrated as one of the most important and pioneering figures in Japanese literature. Though her real name…
Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga. Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young…
清少納言 in Japanese Sei Shonagon (c. 966 -1017) was a Japanese author and a court lady who served the Empress Teishi (Sadako) around the year 1000 during the middle Heian period. She is best known as the…
Okakura Kakuzō (岡倉覚三), also known as Okakura Tenshin (岡倉 天心), was a Japanese scholar who contributed the development of arts in Japan. Outside Japan, he is chiefly remembered today as the author of
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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yea…
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 an…
László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist and screenwriter who is known for critically difficult and demanding novels, often labelled as postmodern, with dystopian and bleak melancholic themes. He …
Joseph Jacobs was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English Folklore. His work went on to popularize…
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen (1879–1933) was a Greenlandic/Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Pass…
A social psychologist, sociologist, and amateur physicist. He was the author of several works in which he expounded theories of national traits, racial superiority, herd behavior and crowd psychology.…
Max Kidruk (Ukranian: Макс Кідрук; born April 1, 1984 in Volodymyrets, Rivne region, Ukraine) - popular Ukrainian writer and science popularizer, holds a master’s degree in Energy Engineering. Studied…
Mori Ōgai, pseudonym of Mori Rintarō (born February 17, 1862, Tsuwano, Japan—died July 9, 1922, Tokyo), one of the creators of modern Japanese literature.
Mark Manson (born 1984) is a professional blogger, entrepreneur, and former dating coach. Since 2007, he's been helping people with their emotional and relationship problems. He has worked with thousa…
Absolwentka filologii angielskiej na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. Od kilku lat pisze opowiadania do prasy kobiecej. Interesuje się polską literaturą fantastyczną i przygodową, a także twórczością Terry’ego…
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…
– uznana dziennikarka, która od lat bada chińskie wpływy w Europie – prowadzi pierwsze takie śledztwo dotyczące sposobu, w jaki Chiny przejmują naszą część świata, w tym Polskę. Ujawnia nieznane fakty…
Ernesto Sabato (1911-2011) fue un destacado escritor, ensayista y físico argentino. Nacido en Rojas, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, estudió física en la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y posteriorm…
