Nicolae Manolescu, născut Nicolae Apolzan, este un academician, critic literar, editorialist, profesor universitar, eseist, istoric literar si politician roman. Este considerat a fi unul din cei mai i…
Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid, an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aene…
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, rea…
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…
George Steiner was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator whose work explored the relationship between language, literature, and society, with a particula…
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).
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…
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Ci…
Marcel Proust was a French novelist, best known for his 3000 page masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time), a pseudo-autobiographical novel told…
Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria A…
S-a născut la Hodora-Cotnari, județul Iași, fiu al inginerului Dimitrie Petrescu, profesor la Școala agricolă Trifești lângă Roman, unde viitorul scriitor a și învățat între 1901-1903. Urmează liceul …
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.
Mateiu Ion Caragiale (Romanian: [maˈtej iˈon karaˈd͡ʒjale]) was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel Craii de Curtea-Veche, which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before …
Scriitor, conferenţiar la Catedra de Sociologie, Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, Iaşi. Studii postdoctorale la Sorbona. Redactor al revistei „Au Sud de l’Est” (Paris). În 1996, iniţiază grupul li…
Blecher's father was a successful Jewish merchant and the owner of a porcelain shop. Blecher attended primary and secondary school in Roman, Romania. After receiving his baccalaureat, Blecher left for…
Marius Chivu (n. 1978) este cronicar literar, scriitor, traducător şi redactor‑editor al revistei Dilema veche. A absolvit Facultatea de Litere a Universităţii din Bucureşti şi a debutat publicistic c…
Bogdan Răileanu a absolvit Facultatea de Jurnalism din cadrul Universității din București. În 2015 a debutat cu o povestire în revista Iocan. A publicat volumul de povestiri Tot spațiul dintre gînduri…
Tudor Ganea este arhitect. A debutat în 2016 cu romanul Cazemata (Polirom; tradus în 2020 în limba franceză), pentru care a primit premiul „Tînărul prozator al anului 2016” în cadrul Galei Tinerilor S…
