Alberto Prunetti was born in Piombino (Italy), a Tuscan steel town in 1973. A former pizza chef, cleaner, and handyman, he is also the author of a working class trilogy of novels and has translated wo…
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". …
David Foster Wallace was an acclaimed American writer known for his fiction, nonfiction, and critical essays that explored the complexities of consciousness, irony, and the human condition. Widely reg…
Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, novelist, essayist, memoirist, and feminist whose writings profoundly shaped twentieth-century philosophy, literature, and modern feminist t…
Patrick McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital where his father was Medical Superintendent. He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He is a British novelist whose work has been …
Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short storie…
Suad Amiry (Arabic: سعاد العامري) is a Palestinian writer and architect has been living in Ramallah since 1981. Born in Damascus, Amiry grew up between Amman, Damascus, Beirut and Cairo. She studied ar…
Roberto Saviano is an Italian writer and journalist. In his writings, articles and books he employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra (a powerful Neapolitan mafia-like …
Alessandro Robecchi (Milano, 16 giugno 1960) è un giornalista, autore televisivo e scrittore italiano. L'esordio nella narrativa risale al 2014, con il noir Questa non è una canzone d'amore (Sellerio,…
Michele Mari è nato a Milano nel 1955. Figlio del designer e artista Enzo Mari, insegna Letteratura Italiana all'Università Statale di Milano. Dal 1992 risiede a Roma.
Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto u…
Marcello Musto is Professor of Sociology at York University (Toronto – Canada) and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made significant contributions to the revival of Marx studies …
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson, often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of th…
Renata Viganò (1900–1976) was an Italian writer best known for her neo-realist novel L'Agnese va a morire, published in 1949. Viganò was an active participant in the Italian Resistance movement during…
Violaine Bérot est une femme de lettres française. Elle est la fille de Marcellin Bérot, montagnard enraciné dans les Pyrénées et auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur les Pyrénées, et de Marie-Claude Béro…
Nata a Pisa nel 1963, da madre spagnola (di Barcellona) e padre toscano, è cresciuta a Livorno. In questa città studia al Liceo Classico Niccolini Guerrazzi; successivamente consegue la laurea all'Uni…
Dario Ferrari è nato a Viareggio e si è laureato in filosofia a Pisa dove ha conseguito anche un dottorato di ricerca. Insegna Storia e Filosofia a Roma e si è occupato per oltre 10 anni di traduzioni…
She is a writer, teacher, actress, and director. She started her writing career in the 70's with poetry, followed in the 90's with theater texts. At the beginning of the new millennium, she started pub…
