Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
J. M. Coetzee is a South African writer, essayist, and translator, widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of contemporary literature. His works, often characterized by their austere pr…
Henry Charles Bukowski (born as Heinrich Karl Bukowski) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of hi…
Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people throug…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by t…
Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Wicklow. She completed her undergraduate studies at Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana and subsequently earned an MA at The University of Wales and an M.Ph…
One could say that our outstanding author Alki Zei (Greek: Άλκη Ζέη) has raised with her books lots of children, apart from bringing up two of her own. Today’s children in Greece have additionally the …
Katerina Gogou (Greek: Κατερίνα Γώγου) was a Greek anarchist poet, author and actress. Before her suicide by pill overdose at the age of 53, Gogou appeared in over thirty Greek films.
See Lena Divani. Η Λένα Διβάνη γεννήθηκε το 1955 στον Βόλο και είναι αναπληρώτρια καθηγήτρια Ιστορίας της Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής στη Νομική Σχολή Αθηνών. Εκτός από τις ιστορικές μελέτες της, έχει δημοσιεύ…
Γεννήθηκε στο Ηράκλειο της Κρήτης, όπου πέρασε τα παιδικά της χρόνια. Ο πατέρας της ήταν εκδότης εφημερίδας με ιδιαίτερα φιλελεύθερες ιδέες για την εποχή του και πάθος για τη δημοσιογραφία. Φοίτησε στ…
Η Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη (English: Maro Vamvounaki) γεννήθηκε στα Χανιά όπου έζησε τα παιδικά της χρόνια. Από εννέα χρονών ήρθε με την οικογένειά της στην Αθήνα. Σπούδασε νομικά και ψυχολογία. Από το 1972 κα…
Giannis Makridakis (gr: Γιάννης Μακριδάκης) was born in Chios in 1971 and studied mathematics. He organizes research and educational programmes and edits publications for the Chios Studies Centre, whi…
Branimir Šćepanović (Бранимир Шћепановић) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer. He was born in Podgorica, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His father was a teacher and a published author. Young Šćepanović sta…
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
Ο Δημοσθένης Παπαμάρκος γεννήθηκε το 1983 στη Μαλεσσίνα Λοκρίδος. Έχει εκδώσει μυθιστορήματα, διηγήματα και κόμικ. Το 2014 η συλλογή διηγημάτων Γκιακ βραβεύτηκε από την Ακαδημία Αθηνών-Ίδρυμα Πέτρ…
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Japan to work as a magazine e…
Ο The Trivialist γεννήθηκε στην Αλεξανδρούπολη, μεγάλωσε στην Αθήνα και αργότερα αυτοεξορίστηκε στην Αγγλία για να σπουδάσει Πολιτικές Επιστήμες. Σε ένα κρεσέντο αυτοτιμωρίας, συνέχισε σπουδάζοντας Ευ…
