Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known…
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxle…
Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American fantasy and science fiction writer known for his short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 n…
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…
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a re…
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, pl…
Julio Cortázar, born Julio Florencio Cortázar Descotte, was an Argentine author of novels and short stories. He influenced an entire generation of Latin American writers from Mexico to Argentina, and …
Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the …
The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire is among most the influential educational thinkers of the late 20th century. Born in Recife, Brazil, on September 19, 1921, Freire died of heart failure in Sao Paul…
Steven Strogatz is the Schurman Professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher and one of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians, he has been a frequent guest on Nati…
Jorge Amado was a modernist Brazilian writer. He remains one of the most read and translated Brazilian authors, second only to Paulo Coelho. In his style of fictional novelist, however, there is no pa…
Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and …
Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu. Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of ei…
Sean Carroll is a physicist and philosopher at Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1993. His research focuses on spacetime, quantum mechanics, complexity, and emergence. Hi…
Contardo Calligaris é psicanalista e cronista italiano. Doutor em psicologia clínica pela Universidade de Provence, iniciou seus estudos nas áreas das letras e da filosofia. Em 1975, foi aceito como m…
Rubem Alves é um psicanalista, educador, teólogo e escritor brasileiro, é autor de livros e artigos abordando temas religiosos, educacionais e existenciais, além de uma série de livros infantis. Durant…
Marçal Aquino nasceu em Amparo, no interior paulista. É jornalista, escritor e roteirista de cinema e de televisão. Publicou, entre outros livros, o volume de contos O amor e outros objetos pontiagudo…
Andrea Wulf is a biographer. She is the author of The Brother Gardeners, published in April 2008. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and received a CBHL Annual Literature Award in 2010. Sh…
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges…
Maria José Dupré, ou Sra. Leandro Dupré como assinava em seus livros (Ribeirão Claro, PR, 1 de maio de 1898 - Guarujá, SP, 15 de maio de 1984) foi uma escritora brasileira.
valter hugo mãe é o nome artístico do escritor português Valter Hugo Lemos. Além de escritor é editor, artista plástico e cantor. Nasceu em Saurimo, Angola em 1971. Passou a infância em Paços de Ferrei…
Erico Verissimo (December 17, 1905 - November 28, 1975) is an important Brazilian writer, who was born in Rio Grande do Sul. His father, Sebastião Veríssimo da Fonseca, heir of a rich family in Cruz A…
A Brazilian journalist, novelist and children's author, Socorro Acioli (1975- ) holds a masters in Brazilian literature, and began her literary career in 2001, going on to publish in a number of genre…
Aos 23 anos, Tamara concluiu sua primeira viagem solo pelo Mar do Norte no pequeno veleiro de 26 pés comprado pelo preço de uma bicicleta, a Sardinha. Em 2021, durante três meses, Tamara cruzou o Ocea…
Aline Bei nasceu em São Paulo, em 1987. É formada em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo e em Artes Cênicas pelo Teatro Escola Célia-Helena. É editora e colunista do site cultura…
