Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer …
Sophocles (497/496 BC-406/405 BC), (Greek: Σοφοκλής; German: Sophokles, Russian: Софокл, French: Sophocle, Catalan: Sòfocles) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three …
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…
Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist best known for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a landmark anti-war novel based on his experiences in World War I. The book became an international bes…
Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales. Despite his short formal education, Tutuola wrote his novels in English. His wri…
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own Eng…
Bimal Mitra (bengali: বিমল মিত্র) was a prominent Bengali writer who wrote several novels. Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and has more than one hundred novels…
Helene Hanff (April 15, 1916–April 9, 1997) was an American writer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she is best known as the author of the book 84 Charing Cross Road, which became the basis for a …
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Hi…
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (Bengali: শরদিন্দু বন্দোপাধ্যায়; 30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was a well-known literary figure of Bengal. He was also actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as B…
দেব্রীপ্রসাদ চট্টোপাধ্যায় (English: Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya) ভারতের কলকাতায় ১৯১৮ সালে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। তিনি ছিলেন ভারতের একজন প্রখ্যাত মার্ক্সবাদী দার্শনিক। তিনি প্রাচীন ভারতের দর্শনের বস্তুবাদকে উদ্…
Herbert George Wells was born to a working class family in Kent, England. Young Wells received a spotty education, interrupted by several illnesses and family difficulties, and became a draper's appre…
MOHAMMAD NAZIM UDDIN (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ নাজিম উদ্দিন) is a writer and Translator of more than 26 novels..His original works are NEMESIS, CONTRACT, NEXUS, CONFESSION,JAAL, 1952: nichok kono number noy,…
নরেন্দ্রনাথ মিত্র-র জন্ম ১৬ মাঘ, ১৩২৩ বঙ্গাব্দ (৩০ জানুয়ারি, ১৯১৬) অধুনা বাংলাদেশের ফরিদপুরে। পিতা মহেন্দ্রনাথ, মাতা বিরাজবালা। ভাঙ্গা হাইস্কুল থেকে ম্যাট্রিকুলেশন, ফরিদপুরের রাজেন্দ্র কলেজ থেকে আই-এ…
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
Ahmed Sofa (Bangla: আহমদ ছফা) was a well-known Bangladeshi philosopher, poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator. Sofa was renowned for his intellectual righteousness as well as his holistic approac…
Shawkat Ali (Bangla: শওকত আলী) is a major contemporary writer of Bangladesh, and has been contributing to Bangla fiction for the last four decades. Both in novels and short stories he has established …
Abu Ishaque (Abu Bashar Mohammad Ishaque; Bangla: আবু ইসহাক) was a renowned modern Bangladeshi author and a famous novelist. Ishaque is often categorized with those who wrote the least and showed the …
Hisashi Kashiwai was born in 1952 and was raised in Kyoto. He graduated from Osaka Dental University. After graduating, he returned to Kyoto and worked as a dentist. He has written extensively about h…
Deborah "Debbie" Tung is a comic artist and illustrator from Birmingham, England. Her work is based on simple (and sometimes awkward) everyday life moments and her love for books and tea. She lives wi…
