ابوعلی حسن بن علی بن اسحاق طوسی شناخته شده به خواجه نظام‌الملک طوسی (۲۸ مهر ۳۹۷ تا ۲۲ مهر ۴۷۱) (متولد ۴۰۸ هـ.ق، طوس، کشته شده در صحنه کرمانشاه به دست یک باطنی ۴۸۵ هـ.ق) وزیر نیرومند دو تن از شاهان بزر…
Diaries and novels, such as The Immoralist (1902) and Lafcadio's Adventures (1914), of noted French writer André Gide examine alienation and the drive for individuality in an often disapprovin…
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born in Moscow to talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Though his parents were both Jewis…
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet…
Simin Dāneshvar was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.
Mika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian. Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five. As a boy, he …
رضا امیرخانی (زاده ۱۳۵۲، تهران) نویسنده و منتقد ادبی ایرانی است که مدتی نیز رئیس هیئت مدیره انجمن قلم ایران بود. وی به غیر از نگارش رمان و داستان بلند و یک مجموعه داستان کوتاه، به تألیف سفرنامه و مقال…
او با مدرک لیسانس علوم سیاسی از دانشگاه تهران، برای تحصیل در رشتهٔ فلسفه و سینما در دانشگاه سوربن به فرانسه رفت. وی پیشهٔ ادبی خود را از دههٔ ۱۳۴۰ و با چاپ داستان‌های خود در مشهد آغاز کرد. وی که از بیم…
Aḥmad Kasravī Born in Hokmabad (Hohmavar), Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azari. Initially, Kasravi enrolled in a seminary. Later, he joined the Persian Constitutional Revolution. He experienced …
Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My…
Goli Taraghi (also transliterated as Goli Taraqqi or Gulī Taraqqī) was born in Tehran in 1939. She has been honored as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, and her work has been widely antho…
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal experience…
جلال‌الدین سادات آل‌احمد، معروف به جلال آل‌احمد، فرزند سیداحمد حسینی طالقانی در محله سیدنصرالدین از محله‌های قدیمی شهر تهران به دنیا آمد. او در سال ۱۳۰۲ پس از هفت دختر متولد شد و نهمین فرزند پدر و دوم…
بهرام بیضایی: مروری بر زندگی و آثار یک اسطوره زنده
بهرام بیضایی، نویسنده، کارگردان، پژوهشگر و اسطوره‌شناس برجسته ایرانی، در ۵ دی ۱۳۱۷ در تهران چشم به جهان گشود. او به عنوان یکی از پیشگامان موج نوی سینم…
