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Alba de Céspedes
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Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.

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Mo Yan
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Modern Chinese author, in the western world most known for his novel Red Sorghum (which was turned into a movie by the same title). Often described as the Chinese Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

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ابراهیم گلستان
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Ebrahim Golestan (also spelt Ibrahim Golestan, Persian: ابراهیم گلستان , born 1922 in Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has been livin…
Sadegh Chubak
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J.D. Salinger
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Samuel Beckett
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Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's …
عمر طاهر
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مواليد صعيد مصر فى منتصف السبعينيات. صدر له عدة كتب من بينها( أثر النبى – قصص قصيرة …
علاء الديب
علاء الدين حب الله الديب
اسم الشهرة : علاء الديب.
تاريخ ومحل الميلاد: عام 1939 ، مصر القديمة ، القاهرة.
المؤهلات: ليسانس كلية الحقوق ، جامعة القاهرة ، عام 1960 .
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فرج فودة
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

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Youssef Ziedan
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(Arabic: يوسف زيدان)

Director of the Manuscript Center/Museum, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
Professor of Philosophy and History of Science.

Awards and Grants:
- 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction…
Sadegh Hedayat
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Iranian author who introduced modernist techniques into Persian fiction. He is considered one of the greatest Iranian writers of the 20th century.

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