PETER SÍS is an internationally acclaimed illustrator, filmmaker, painter and author. Born in 1949 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and grew up in Prague. He studied painting and filmmaking at the Academy of …
Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her short story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and her novel Stern Men was a New York Tim…
Adele Faber graduated from Queens College with a B.A. in theater and drama, earned her master's degree in education from New York University, and taught in the New York City high schools for eight yea…
Margery Williams Bianco was an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. A professional writer since the age of nineteen, she achieved lasting fame at forty-one with the 1922 pub…
Cristina Henríquez is the author of four books, including, most recently, The Great Divide, a novel about the building of the Panama Canal that explores those rarely acknowledged by history even as th…
Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, née Ericsson, (1907 - 2002) was a Swedish children's book author and screenwriter, whose many titles were translated into 85 languages and published in more than 100 count…
Danish writer and essayist Austro-German origin. Educated as a macroeconomist, Janne Teller worked for the United Nations and the European Union in resolving conflicts and humanitarian issues around th…
Jirí Dvorák is an award-winning Czech author and plant biologist who combines his passion for biology and adventure in writing books. He has worked as a proofreader and editor of periodicals and curre…
Charlie Macksey was born during a snowy winter in Northumberland. He has been a cartoonist for The Spectator and a book illustrator for Oxford University Press. He has collaborated with Richard Curtis…
Petra Soukupová je česká spisovatelka a scenáristka, laureátka literárních cen Magnesia Litera 2010 v kategorii Kniha roku za prózu Zmizet a Ceny Jiřího Ortena 2008 pro mladé literáty za knihu K moři.…
Bianca Bellová se narodila roku 1970 v Praze. Vystudovala Vysokou školu ekonomickou v Praze, přispívala do časopisů, pracovala v nadnárodních společnostech.
Petra Dvořáková je spisovatelka a scenáristka. Vystudovala střední zdravotnickou školu a absolvovala obor filozofie na FF MU. Do povědomí veřejnosti vstoupila svým debutem, knihou rozhovorů o víře Pro…
Alena Mornštajnová vystudovala angličtinu a češtinu na Filozofické fakultě Ostravské univerzity. V současné době pracuje jako lektorka anglického jazyka a překladatelka. Žije ve Valašském Meziříčí. V …
Markéta Lukášková pochází z Českých Budějovic. Před maturitou jezdila rok do Prahy na žurnalistickou přípravku a pak nastoupila na brněnskou Masarykovu univerzitu. Studium ji ale zklamalo, chtěla prax…
