Donald Richard DeLillo is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, the complexities of la…
Leonora Carrington was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surreali…
Born to a Jewish family in Frankfurt am Main, Kracauer studied architecture from 1907 to 1913, eventually obtaining a doctorate in engineering in 1914 and working as an architect in Osnabrück, Munich,…
Augusto Monterroso Bonilla (1921-2003) es la máxima figura hispánica del género más breve de la literatura, el microrrelato, y una de las personalidades más entrañables, no sólo por su modestia y senc…
Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland. As a Finnish citizen whose mother tongue was Swedish, she was part of the Swedish-speaking Finns minority. Thus, all her books were originally writ…
McGahern began his career as a schoolteacher at Scoil Eoin Báiste (Belgrove) primary school in Clontarf, Ireland, where, for a period, he taught the eminent academic Declan Kiberd before turning to wr…
George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his only science fiction novel Earth Abides (19…
After World War I, French poet and literary theorist André Breton began to link at first with Dadaism but broke with that movement to write the first manifesto of surrealism in 1924.
Oğuz Atay (1934–1977) was a pioneer of the modern novel in Turkey. His first novel, Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected), appeared 1971-72. Never reprinted in his lifetime and controversial among critics…
Martín Caparrós es un periodista y escritor argentino. Comenzó su carrera periodística en el diario Noticias en 1973, en la sección policial, a cargo de Rodolfo Walsh. En la dictadura, abandonó el pa…
Janet Michelle Kerouac was the only child of Jack Kerouac and his second wife, Joan Haverty Kerouac. Jan only met her father twice, the first time at age 10 when he took a paternity test in an attempt…
Jean Echenoz is a prominent French novelist, many of whose works have been translated into English, among them Chopin’s Move (1989), Big Blondes (1995), and most recently Ravel (2008) and Running (200…
Markus Werner (December 27, 1944 in Eschlikon, canton of Thurgau) was a German-speaking Swiss writer, the author of Zündels Abgang (Zündel’s Departure).
Szczepan Twardoch, ur. 1979, pisarz i publicysta. Z wykształcenia socjolog, studiował socjologię i filozofię na Międzywydziałowych Indywidualnych Studiach Humanistycznych na Uniwersytecie Śląskim w Ka…
Marcin Kącki (ur. 1976) – reporter, redaktor „Dużego Formatu”, zajmuje się reportażem społecznym i historycznym. Zdobywca tytułu Dziennikarza Roku w konkursie Grand Press 2007, dwóch nagród „Watergate…
– uznana dziennikarka, która od lat bada chińskie wpływy w Europie – prowadzi pierwsze takie śledztwo dotyczące sposobu, w jaki Chiny przejmują naszą część świata, w tym Polskę. Ujawnia nieznane fakty…
Socjolożka z doktoratem z Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Absolwentka Polskiej Szkoły Reportażu i założycielka Grupy Reporterskiej Głośniej. W 2017 zainicjowała projekt badawczo-reporterski Światła Małego Mia…
Tomas Forro is a Slovak reporter covering crises and conflicts mostly in the regions of Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia. He is publishing mostly long-form reportages with investi…
