Jean Bart este pseudonimul literar al scriitorului Eugeniu P. Botez, împrumutat de la un faimos corsar flamand al secolului al XVII-lea. A fost membru corespondent (din 1922) al Academiei Române.
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (195…
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of t…
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master…
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in the last century. Eliade was an i…
Matt Haig is the author of novels such as The Midnight Library, How to Stop Time, The Humans, The Life Impossible and now The Midnight Train. He has also written books for children, such as A Boy Call…
Mihail Sadoveanu was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the communist republic (1947–1948 and 1958). He is the most …
Camil Petrescu was a Romanian playwright, novelist, poet and philosopher. He marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era in Romanian literature.
Ioan Slavici was a Transylvanian-born Romanian writer and journalist. He made his debut in Convorbiri literare ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy Fata de birău ("The Mayor's Daughter")…
Cella Serghi (n. 4 noiembrie S.V. 22 octombrie 1907, Constanța, d. 19 septembrie 1992, București) a fost o scriitoare, publicistă și traducătoare română, una dintre cele mai importante prozatoare româ…
Hector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais …
Grigore Popescu-Băjenaru was a Romanian writer. His best known novel is "Cişmigiu et Comp.", that presents his adventures as a student of Gheorghe Lazăr High School, situated near the Cişmigiu Gardens…
Mihail Drumeş (n. Mihail V. Dumitrescu, 26 noiembrie 1901, Ohrida, Macedonia - d. 7 februarie 1982, Bucureşti) a fost un romancier român, foarte popular in perioada interbelică.
George Călinescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe̯ord͡ʒe kəliˈnesku]) was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies…
Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, sin…
Lavinia Braniște s-a născut la Brăila în 1983. A studiat limbi străine la universitățile din Cluj și București. A debutat în literatură în 2006 cu volumul de poezii „Povești cu mine” (Paralela 45), du…
Fredrik Backman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove (soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks), My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was…
Guzel Yakhina is a Russian author and screenwriter. She is a winner of the Big Book literary prize and the Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award. Guzel Shamilevna Yakhina was born in Kazan. Her mother is a do…
Ruth Kvarnström-Jones (född 1962) är född och uppvuxen i Storbritannien, men bor i Stockholm sedan 30 år tillbaka. Lika länge har hon arbetat som copywriter, med allt ifrån tryckt media till webbsidor…