Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philol…
Genevan philosopher and writer Jean Jacques Rousseau held that society usually corrupts the essentially good individual; his works include The Social Contract and Émile (both 1762).
Robert Walser, a German-Swiss prose writer and novelist, enjoyed high repute among a select group of authors and critics in Berlin early in his career, only to become nearly forgotten by the time he c…
French writer Martin Page is the author of the bestselling novel, How I Became Stupid, which won the Euroregional schools’ literature prize, an award given by Belgian, Dutch and German students. His n…
Hisham Matar was born in New York City, where his father was working for the Libyan delegation to the United Nations. When he was three years old, his family went back to Tripoli, Libya, where he spen…
Through poetry, prose, and drama, American writer James Langston Hughes made important contributions to the Harlem renaissance; his best-known works include Weary Blues (1926) and The Ways of W…
سنان أنطون شاعر وروائي وأكاديمي ولد في بغداد عام ١٩٦٧. حصل على بكالوريوس في الأدب الإنكليزي من جامعة بغداد. هاجر بعد حرب الخليج ١٩٩١ إلى الولايات المتحدة حيث أكمل دراساته وحصل على الماجستير من جامعة جو…
Roque Dalton was born on May 14, 1935, in San Salvador, El Salvador. His father was one of the members of the outlaw Dalton brothers and his mother was a registered nurse whose salary supported the fa…
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias…
Florbela Espanca (birth name Flor Bela de Alma da Conceição), a poet precursor of the feminist movement in Portugal, she had a tumultuous and eventful life that shaped her erotic and feminine writings…
شاعر مصري.. وُلد في 26 فبراير 1966م بمدينة أسيوط بمحافظة أسيوط.. عاش طفولته وتلقّى تعليمه في القاهرة.. تخرّج من كلية "دار العلوم"، جامعة القاهرة، عام 1989م.. عمل معيدًا بقسم النقد والبلاغة والأدب المقارَن…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
ولد الشاعر علي محمود خضيّر (١٩٨٣) ببغداد ويعدُ أبرز الشعراء العراقيين الشباب الذين ظهروا بعد حرب "2003" التي انتهت بأحتلال العراق. تمتاز قصائده بعناية خاصّة باللغة وتضمين النثر زخماً شعريّاً، "شعر صافٍ…
Kyung-Sook Shin is a South Korean writer. She is the first South Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2012 for 'Please Look Aft…
سعيد خطيبي كاتب وصحافي جزائري، من مواليد 29 ديسمبر1984. عمل في جريدة الجزائر نيوز حيث ساهم لمدة سنتين في تحرير الملحق الثقافي "الأثر" ثم انتقل إلى جريدة الخبر. درس في الجزائر، وفرنسا. يكتب باللغتين ا…
