Henry Valentine Miller was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character s…
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…
Thomas Eugene Robbins was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). Robbins lived in La Conner, Washington from 1970, where he wrote nine of his…
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian…
Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Ionescu, was a Romanian playwright and dramatist; one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays …
The Prince, book of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian political theorist, in 1513 describes an indifferent ruler to moral considerations with determination to achieve and to maintain power.
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece. Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally …
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).
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
Jo Nesbø is a bestselling Norwegian author and musician. He was born in Oslo and grew up in Molde. Nesbø graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in economics. Nesbø is primarily…
Irvin David Yalom, M.D., is an author of fiction and nonfiction, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an existentialist, and accomplished psychotherapist.
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t…
Η Σώτη Τριανταφύλλου γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1957. Σπούδασε Φαρμακευτική στη Φυσικομαθητική Αθηνών, Ιστορία και Πολιτισμούς στην Εcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales στο Παρί…
Ο Λένος Χρηστίδης (English: Lenos Christidis) γεννήθηκε το 1968 στη Φραγκφούρτη της τότε Δυτικής Γερμανίας, γιος του κριτικού θεάτρου Μηνά Χρηστίδη και της συγγραφέως Ντόρας Γιαννακοπούλου. Έχει γράψε…
Branimir Šćepanović (Бранимир Шћепановић) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer. He was born in Podgorica, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father was a teacher and a published author. Young Šćepanović sta…
Ο Δημοσθένης Παπαμάρκος γεννήθηκε το 1983 στη Μαλεσσίνα Λοκρίδος. Έχει εκδώσει μυθιστορήματα, διηγήματα και κόμικ. Το 2014 η συλλογή διηγημάτων Γκιακ βραβεύτηκε από την Ακαδημία Αθηνών-Ίδρυμα Πέτρ…
Ο Τίτος Πατρίκιος γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1928, γιος των ηθοποιών Σπύρου και Λέλας Πατρικίου. Το 1946 ολοκλήρωσε τα γυμνασιακά του μαθήματα στο Βαρβάκειο και γράφτηκε στη Νομική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίο…
Ο Μενέλαος Χαραλαμπίδης (γεν. στην Αθήνα το 1970) έλαβε πτυχίο οικονομικών επιστημών από το Πανεπιστήμιο Πειραιά και στη συνέχεια εκπόνησε τη διδακτορική του διατριβή στο τομέα της Σύγχρονης Ελληνικής…
Ο Τάσος Θεοφίλου γεννήθηκε στις 17 Δεκεμβρίου 1982 στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Το 2008 αποφοίτησε από τη Θεολογική Σχολή Αθηνών. Δραστηριοποιήθηκε στο μπλογκόσφαιρα με το ψευδώνυμο Τάσσιος Θήτα, ως υπεύθυνος ιστ…
Itamar Vieira Junior (Salvador, 1979) é um escritor brasileiro. Formou-se em Geografia na Universidade Federal da Bahia, onde também concluiu mestrado. É doutor em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos pela Uni…
