Bogdan Suceavă studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest and Michigan State University. Since 2002, he lives in California. He is the author of several novels: "Coming from an Off Key Time" (…
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction fina…
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing pro…
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Panait Istrati was a Romanian working-class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Dame Carol Ann Duffy, DBE, FRSL is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009.…
Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as …
Herta Müller was born in Niţchidorf, Timiş County, Romania, the daughter of Swabian farmers. Her family was part of Romania's German minority and her mother was deported to a labour camp in the Soviet…
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
Prozator si scenarist iesean. Absolvent al Facultatii de Litere, Universitatea „Al.I. Cuza”, Iasi (1998). A publicat romanele Ce se stie despre ursul panda (2003), Trimisul nostru special (2005; tradu…
Scriitor, conferenţiar la Catedra de Sociologie, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Iaşi. Studii postdoctorale la Sorbona. Redactor al revistei „Au Sud de l’Est” (Paris). În 1996, iniţiază grupul li…
Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, sin…
Primul om de cultură pe care l-a admirat a fost N. Grigorescu. Haşdeu şi fantoma Iuliei l-au îngrozit. Jebeleanu l-a lăsat rece. În liceu a cântat thrash metal pe versuri de Bacovia. A lucrat ca desen…
Andrei Ungureanu a debutat cu volumul Povestiri și întâmplări din țara fumului (2021). Romanul Nașterea eroului a câștigat Premiul I la concursul „Primul roman” (2022), organizat de Editura Litera. În…
Liliana Nechita is a Romanian writer who has been living and working in Italy for more than fifteen years. After the publication of 20,000 copies of her novel „Cireşe amare”, the author received in Ro…
Alex Olteanu (n. 1 septembrie 1993, Târgu Jiu) este prozator şi scenarist. A debutat în 2019 în Revista de Povestiri cu proza scurtă „A Professional Loser”, cu care a câştigat concursul de povestiri a…