Françoise Choay was a French architectural and urban historian and theorist. Since 1973, she has been a professor at the University of Paris. She has also been a visiting professor at numerous univers…
Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is o…
Marguerite Yourcenar, original name Marguerite de Crayencour, was a french novelist, essayist, poet and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Ac…
Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com
Oriana Fallaci was born in Florence, Italy. During World War II, she joined the resistance despite her youth, in the democratic armed group "Giustizia e Libertà". Her father Edoardo Fallaci, a cabinet…
Kevin Andrew Lynch was an American urban planner and author. His most influential books include The Image of the City (1960) and What Time is This Place? (1972).
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col…
A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust, published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scie…
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.
Rick Rubin is an American record executive and record producer. He is the co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records.
Nora Iuga, poeta, prozatoare si traducatoare, membra a Uniunii Scriitorilor din Romania. Autoare a mai multor volume de poezie – Vina nu e a mea (1968), Captivitatea cercului (1970), Scrisori neexpedi…
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (芥川 龍之介) was one of the first prewar Japanese writers to achieve a wide foreign readership, partly because of his technical virtuosity, partly because his work seemed to represent …
Radu Vancu (n. 1978, Sibiu) este lector universitar la Facultatea de Litere din Sibiu. Lucrarea sa de doctorat a devenit una dintre exegezele critice esențiale asupra operei lui Mircea Ivănescu: Mirce…
Moni Stanila s-a nascut in Tomesti, judetul Timis, in 1978. A studiat teologia ortodoxa la Timisoara si Sibiu. Din 2010 traieste la Chisinau, unde lucreaza in presa ca editorialist la cel mai citit zi…
LIGIA KEȘIȘIAN is a poet and translator, member of PEN Club Romania. She published her first poetry collection, Mici cutremure / Little Earthquakes in 2017, followed by Miss Houdini, in 2019, at the C…
Ioana Vintilă (n. 1997, Sibiu) a fost mezina grupului „Zona nouă” din Sibiu. În 2016 a reprezentat România, ajungând în finala PEN International New Voices Award. Este studentă la Facultatea de Biolog…
