Gombrowicz was born in Małoszyce, in Congress Poland, Russian Empire to a wealthy gentry family. He was the youngest of four children of Jan and Antonina (née Kotkowska.) In 1911 his family moved to W…
Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her n…
Tradition ranks Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwig Zygmunt Krasiński, a Polish count, with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of three national bards of great Romantic poets, who influenced natio…
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel …
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for…
Ulf Ellervik (born 1969) is a Swedish professor of bioorganic chemistry at Lund University. Ellervik's main research area is carbohydrates, such as eye drops against the viral disease epidemic keratoc…
Były dziennikarz sportowy, a potem śledczy w „Gazecie Lubuskiej”. Absolwent Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, studiujący również w Hiszpanii i USA. Kocha podróże i nowe wyzwania. Pasjonat sportu, podróży…
Adwokat, praktykował prawo w Polsce i we Włoszech. Niczym w dowcipie lubi stare wino, spleśniałe sery i samochody bez dachu. W prozie - seryjny morderca. „Grzech” to jego pierwsza zbrodnia.
Autorka gorących romansów, takich jak “Miss Independent”, “Korepetytor”, “Uległa zakonnica” czy “Wciąż jesteś moja”. Swoją przygodę na Wattpadzie rozpoczęła w 2015 roku pod pseudonimem “nahbabe”. Jej t…
Skyla Arndt has always loved the creepy, crawly side of life. When she was younger, she thought that love might translate to hunting Bigfoot, but luckily for him, writing proved easier.