Elena Chizhova, a former economist, teacher and entrepreneur, finally turned to writing in 1996 after being rescued from a burning cruise ship. Since that time she has been consumed by the need to wri…
Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria in 1943. She grew …
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…
François Charles Mauriac was a French writer and a member of the Académie française. He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the deep spiritual insight and the artistic intensity with w…
Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatter, som hentede inspiration i sit eget liv som kvinde. I sin digtning og som yndet brevkasseredaktør i Familie Journalen udfoldede hun en dyb psykologisk indsigt i m…
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Ph…
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman is a Swedish novelist. She began her career with a string of successful detective novels (among others De tre små mästarna ("The Three Little Masters") and Dödsklockan ("The Deat…
Lauren Groff was born in Cooperstown, N.Y. and grew up one block from the Baseball Hall of Fame. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. …
Kaari Utrio on neljän vuosikymmenen ajan ollut yksi Suomen suosituimpia kirjailijoita. Hänen historiallisia romaanejaan ja tietokirjojaan lukee koko kansa jo kolmessa polvessa. Utrio korostaa teoksiss…
Minna Canth, born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnsson, 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow …
Victor Olegovich Pelevin is a Russian fiction writer. His books usually carry the outward conventions of the science fiction genre, but are used to construct involved, multi-layered postmodernist text…
Shamil Idiatullin was born in 1971 in Ulyanovsk. He graduated from Kazan State University with a degree in journalism. Since 1988 he’s professionally engaged in journalism. Idiatullin has been among s…
Sasha Filipenko, geboren 1984 in Minsk, ist ein belarussischer Schriftsteller, der auf Russisch schreibt. Nach einer abgebrochenen klassischen Musikausbildung studierte er Literatur in St. Petersburg …
Viktar Martinowich (Belarusian: Віктар Вале́р'евіч Марціновіч, Russian: Ви́ктор Вале́рьевич Мартино́вич; born September 9, 1977) is a Belarusian writer, journalist, and art critic. Martinowich was born…
