Astrophysicien français. Il est connu du grand public pour avoir découvert les anneaux de Neptune et trois des quatre arcs composant le dernier — qu'il a nommés respectivement « Liberté », « Égalité »…
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and wor…
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t…
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The…
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); …
Ian McEwan studied at the University of Sussex, where he received a BA degree in English Literature in 1970 and later received his MA degree in English Literature at the University of East Anglia.
Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short…
Jean Bottéro (30 August 1914 – 15 December 2007) was a French historian born in Vallauris. He was a major Assyriologist and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East.
Rosales was a Cuban novelist. A double exile, writing in reaction both to Cuba's totalitarian regime and to the indifference of Cuban-American exiles bent on achieving the American Dream, Rosales crea…
Prehistoriador francés. Nació en el Pirineo francés en 19331 y comenzó a estudiar Arqueología en 1959, durante la enseñanza secundaria. Inicialmente se centró en los dólmenes neolíticos, que eran el …
French anthropolohist, graduated from the University of Rennes. He is best known as the co-discoverer of Lucy, since he was the director of the Hadar expedition. Awarded with several national awards. …
Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received m…
10 Haziran 1914'de Trabzon'da doğdu. Babası, o doğduğu sırada Trabzon valisi olan şair ve dilbilimci Samih Rıfat, annesi Hasan Enver Paşa’nın kızı Münevver Hanım’dır. Pek çok sanatçı ve yazar içeren b…
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremos…
Yusuf Atılgan (27 June 1921, Manisa - 9 October 1989, İstanbul) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) and Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel). H…
Ahmet Ümit was born in 1960 in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. He moved to Istanbul in 1978 to attend university. In 1983 he both graduated from the Public Administration Faculty of Marmara …
Pascal Picq est un paléoanthropologue français, maître de conférences au Collège de France où il collabore avec le professeur Yves Coppens. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages et articles scientifiq…
Feride Çiçekoğlu, 1951 yılında Ankara'da doğdu. Maarif Koleji ve Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'nde okudu. Mimar olarak Fullbright bursu ile, Pennsylvania Üniversitesi'nde doktora tezini yazdı. İstanbu…