Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the …
J. M. Coetzee is a South African writer, essayist, and translator, widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of contemporary literature. His works, often characterized by their austere pr…
Cormac McCarthy was a highly acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter celebrated for his distinctive literary style, philosophical depth, and exploration of violence, morality, and the human condi…
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals…
At the beginning of Stephen King's career, the general view among publishers was that an author was limited to one book per year, since publishing more would be unacce…
Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascina…
John Katzenbach is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, John worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News, an…
Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a wr…
Luther Blissett is a "multiple name" adopted by many people all over the world since 1994, as part of a transnational activist project. This practice started in Italy when a vast network of cultural w…
Friedrich Ani, 1959 in Kochel am See geboren, lebt heute als freier Schriftsteller und Drehbuchautor in München. Neben Kriminalromanen schreibt er Lyrik, Erzählungen, Jugendromane und Drehbücher. Für …
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. Regarded as one of the most important Latin American novelists working today, he is the author of seven novels, two volumes of st…
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…
Hans Fallada, born Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen in Greifswald, was one of the most famous German writers of the 20th century. His novel, Little Man, What Now? is generally considered his most famous wo…
Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland. She was awarded the 2018 No…
Margarita Karapanou (Μαργαρίτα Καραπάνου) was a Greek novelist. She was born in Athens in 1946, the daughter of Greek novelist Margarita Liberaki. She was raised and educated in Greece and France. Her…
Kevin Barry is an Irish writer. He is the author of two collections of short stories, and the novel City of Bohane, which was the winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.
Η Ιωάννα Καρυστιάνη (English: Ioanna Karystiani) γεννήθηκε στα Χανιά της Κρήτης από γονείς Μικρασιάτες. Σπούδασε νομικά. Επαγγελματικά ασχολήθηκε με το σκίτσο και την εικονογράφηση (με το όνομα "Ιωάνν…
Ο Χρήστος Βακαλόπουλος σπούδασε οικονομικά στην ΑΣΟΕΕ και κινηματογράφο στο Παρίσι. Εργάστηκε ως κριτικός κινηματογράφου στην εφημερίδα "Αυγή" (1975-1985) και στα περιοδικά "Σύγχρ…
Branimir Šćepanović (Бранимир Шћепановић) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer. He was born in Podgorica, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father was a teacher and a published author. Young Šćepanović sta…
Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. His works are largely concerned with the themes of memory, loss of memory, and identity (both personal and collective) and decay (of …
Ο Σέργιος Γκάκας (English: Sergios Gakas) γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1957 και σπούδασε Θέατρο στο Πανεπιστήμιο PARIS VIII. Από το 1979 εργαζόταν ως σκηνοθέτης και είχε σκηνοθετήσει δεκάδες θεατρικά έργα,…
Η Μάρω Κακαβέλα γεννήθηκε το 1967 στην Αθήνα, και συγκεκριμένα στον Βοτανικό. Εξακολουθεί να κατοικεί εκεί, κάτω από την Ομόνοια, στο μαλακό υπογάστριο της πόλης, που υπεραγαπά. Σπούδασε μηχανολόγος μη…
Peter Flamm, bürgerlich Erich Mosse, 1891 in Berlin geboren, begann schon während seines Medizinstudiums, in den Zeitungen seines Onkels Rudolf Mosse Feuilletons und kleinere Erzählungen zu veröffentl…
