Julian Patrick Barnes is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, an…
Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic come…
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migration…
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, …
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts …
Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American fantasy and science fiction writer known for his short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula Award three times (out of 14 n…
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted…
Elizabeth Moon was born March 7, 1945, and grew up in McAllen, Texas, graduating from McAllen High School in 1963. She has a B.A. in History from Rice University (1968) and another in Biology from the…
Vladimir Sorokin (Владимир Сорокин, Vlagyimir Szorokin) was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writ…
Russian-Israeli prose writer. Her most famous work is Dual Surname (Двойная фамилия) which was recently turned into a film screened on Russia's Channel One.
Claudia Piñeiro is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province.
Marina Stepnova (Марина Степнова) now lives in Moscow but was raised in Kishinev. She graduated from The Gorky Literary Institute and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature. Ste…
Alexei Ivanov (Russian: Алексей Иванов) is a Russian award-winning writer. He is known for his books about the Urals. Ivanov’s novels have been nominated three times for the National Bestseller prize, …
Aleksey Nikolaevich Varlamov (born June 23, 1963 , Moscow, USSR ) is a Russian writer and publicist , researcher of the history of Russian literature of the 20th century. Doctor of Philology (2003), p…
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 …
Mikhail Elizarov, born 1973 in Ukraine, studied philology and film direction in Kharkiv and worked as a cameraman in the '90s. He then moved to Hanover, Germany to study cinema. In 2001, his first nov…
Nagi Shimeno (Author) Nagi Shimeno is a writer and café owner based in Tokyo. She was a 1st Delicious Literature Award finalist and is the author of the Café Dodo and Messenger Cat series.
