Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianis…
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t…
Special and general theories of relativity of German-born American theoretical physicist Albert Einstein revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a base for the exploit…
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
In Bulgarian Цветан Тодоров. Todorov was a Franco-Bulgarian historian, philosopher and literary theoretician. Among his most influential works is his theory on the fantastic, the uncanny and marvellou…
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a Kenyan author and academic, who was described as East Africa's leading novelist. He began writing in English before later switching to write primarily in Gikuyu, becoming a stro…
"Christopher Phillips is the greatest living embodiment of the Socratic spirit in our catastrophic times. His global grassroots movement of Socrates Cafés and Democracy Cafés have transformed the live…
Horace Stanley McCoy (1897–1955) was an American novelist whose gritty, hardboiled novels documented the hardships Americans faced during the Depression and post-war periods. McCoy grew up in Tennesse…
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой; most appropriately used Liev Tolstoy; commonly Leo Tolstoy in Anglophone countries) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short…
French writer Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac), a founder of the realist school of fiction, portrayed the panorama of society in a body of works, known collectively as La comédie humaine.
Sjón (Sigurjón B. Sigurðsson) was born in Reykjavik on the 27th of August, 1962. He started his writing career early, publishing his first book of poetry, Sýnir (Visions), in 1978. Sjón was a founding…
Muhsin Al-Ramli is an Iraqi writer, poet, academic and translator, born in the village of Sudara in northern Iraq in 1967. He has lived in Madrid since 1995. The President's Gardens was longlisted for…
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now called Chennai), and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His arti…
مصطفى صادق الرافعي 1298 هـ - 1356 هـ ولد في بيت جده لأمه في قرية "بهتيم" بمحافظة القليوبية عاش حياته في طنطا وبذلك يكون الرافعي قد عاش سبعة وخمسين عاماً كانت كلها ألواناً متعددة من الكفاح المتواصل في …
Pilar Quintana is a Colombian writer. She was born in Cali and studied at the Javeriana University in Bogota. She is best known for her novels La Perra, which won the IV Award Biblioteca de Narrativa …
هو شاعر عراقي مناضل، عبّر بقلمه عن خواطر وآلالام وطنه العربي الكبير، فدخل قلوب الناس رغم الحواجز والقيود .. ولد سنة 1954 ابناً رابعاً بين عشرة أخوة من البنين والبنات، في قرية التنومة، إحدى نواحي شط ا…
Nora Ikstena (1969-2026) was a prose writer and essayist. Ikstena is considered one of the most visible and influential prose writers in Latvia, known for elaborate style and detailed approach to lang…
حُزَامَة حَبَايِبْ هي روائية وقاصّة وكاتبة مقالات ومُتَرجِمة وشاعرة فلسطينية حائزة على جوائز، من بينها جائزة محمود سيف الدين الإيراني للقصة القصيرة وجائزة مهرجان القدس للابداع الشبابي في القصة. بعد أن…
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary a…
Amish is an IIM (Kolkata) educated, banker turned award-winning author. The success of his debut book, The Immortals of Meluha (Book 1 of the Shiva Trilogy), encouraged him to give up a fourteen-year-…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
Jesús Marchamalo García (Madrid, 1960) es periodista y escritor, y cuenta con una amplia experiencia en medios de comunicación. Comenzó a trabajar en el diario Pueblo a principios de los ochenta, de d…
Robertson Frizero é escritor e tradutor, mestre em Teoria da Literatura pela PUCRS. Seu romance de estreia, Longe das aldeias, foi finalista do Prêmio São Paulo e teve os direitos de tradução vendidos…
محمد سمير ندا، مصريّ الجنسية، ولد في مدينة بغداد عام ١٩٧٨، وقضى سنوات الطفولة الأولى في بلاد الرافدين، لتتشكّل طفولته على إيقاعات الحرب العراقيّة الإيرانيّة. عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر في القت…
