William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's…
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th-century French ph…
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2005 he won the prestigious John Bates Clark medal, awarded to the best econom…
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (often referred to as "the wise") was Emperor of the Roman Empire from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors", and is also considered o…
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he wa…
Barbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher. She was elected to the Académie française on 4 May 2018. Cassin is the recipient of the Grand Prize of Philosophy of the Académie française. She…
Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler rejected emphasis of Sigmund Freud on sexuality; his theories that personality arises in subconscious efforts and that from overcompensation for perceived inferiorit…
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…
Jonathan was born and raised in London and his schoolboy nature watching was done while taking furtive short-cuts on cross-country runs across Hampstead Heath. He made much faster progress when runnin…
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…
Ahmet Ümit was born in 1960 in the city of Gaziantep in southern Turkey. He moved to Istanbul in 1978 to attend university. In 1983 he both graduated from the Public Administration Faculty of Marmara …
Ayşe Kulin is a Turkish contemporary novelist and columnist. Kulin graduated in literature from the American College for Girls in Arnavutköy. She released a collection of short stories titled Güneşe Dö…
Yaşar Kemal, asıl adı Kemal Sadık Gökçeli. Van Gölü’ne yakın Ernis (bugün Ünseli) köyünden olan ailesinin Birinci Dünya Savaşı’ndaki Rus işgali yüzünden uzun bir göç süreci sonunda yerleştiği Osmaniye…
2007’de Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi’nden, 2011’de Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Mimarlık Bölümünden mezun oldu. Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümünde Çevrimiçi Çocuklukta Özneleşme konulu doktora tezini …
31 ağustos 1939'da Akhisar'da (Manisa) doğdu. Fevzipaşa İlkokulu'nu (Gaziantep), Adana Tepebağ Ortaokulu'nu bitirdi. Adana Erkek Lisesi'nde başladığı lise öğrenimini İstanbul Erkek Lisesi'nde tamamlad…
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü öğretim üyesi olan Prof. Dr. Cem Say, önce yapay zekanın “nitel uslamlama” ve Türkçe doğal dil anlama alanlarında, sonra da kuantum hesaplama, olas…
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than fifty-five languages. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Priz…