Edith Wharton emerged as one of America’s most insightful novelists, deftly exposing the tensions between societal expectation and personal desire through her vivid portrayals of upper-class life. Dra…
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about…
Katherine Neville is an American author. Her novels include The Eight, A Calculated Risk, and The Magic Circle. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and she previously worked as a photographer, a mode…
Carmen Laforet Y Díaz was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her f…
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York between 1973 and 1982, working as interpreter for the United Nations.
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina (l'Aranyó, la Segarra, 1 d'abril de 1918 - Barcelona, 26 de juny de 1990) fou un escriptor català. Conreà tots els gèneres literaris: poesia, teatre —classificat dins del te…
She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', transl…
Carme Riera i Guilera (Palma, 12 de gener de 1948) és una catedràtica de literatura espanyola i escriptora mallorquina en llengua catalana. Es donà a conèixer l'any 1975 amb la publicació del llibre T…
Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in …
Maggie O'Farrell (born 1972, Coleraine Northern Ireland) is a British author of contemporary fiction, who features in Waterstones' 25 Authors for the Future. It is possible to identify several common …
Maite Carranza Gil-Dolz studied Anthropology and worked as a teacher. In 1992 she began to write full time. She has received several awards, including the EDEBA children’s literature prize and has wri…
Pierre Lemaitre is a French novelist and screenwriter. He is internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.
Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the So…
Àngel Guimerà i Jorge (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 6 de maig de 1845 - Barcelona, 18 de juliol de 1924) fou dramaturg, polític i poeta en llengua catalana. La seva extensa obra, notable per unir a una apa…
Mikel Santiago nació en Portugalete (Vizcaya) en 1975. Consagró su juventud a tocar en bandas de rock y más tarde comenzó publicando relatos y novelas cortas por internet, con las que consiguió llegar…
Sally Rooney was born in 1991 and lives in Dublin, where she graduated from Trinity College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The White Review, The Stinging Fly, and the Winter Page…
Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz and Antonio Mercero had published novels and worked as scriptwriters under their real names before coming together to write under the pseudonym Carmen Mola, which rough…
Ramón del Valle-Inclán was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in a rural village in Galicia, Spain. Obedient to his father’s wishes, he studied law in Compostela, but after his father’s dea…
Primer fascicle: Un petit poble a les muntanyes. Monges i pregàries matinals. Saltar a goma, pixi i futbol. Amigues eternes. Estratègies fins a la sala de professors. Positius extra. Carrers solitaris…
