Edith Wharton emerged as one of America’s most insightful novelists, deftly exposing the tensions between societal expectation and personal desire through her vivid portrayals of upper-class life. Dra…
Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written w…
Dame Rose Tremain is an acclaimed English novelist and short story writer, celebrated for her distinctive approach to historical fiction and her focus on characters who exist on the margins of society…
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present day Gdańsk, Poland) and was a German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will …
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He practiced dentistry for five years and later turned …
Catherine Chidgey is a novelist and short story writer whose work has been published to international acclaim. In a Fishbone Church won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Common…
Mehmet Rauf, Türk edebiyatçı. İstanbul'da doğmuş ve küçük yaşta edebiyat ile ilgilenmeye başlamıştır. Bahriye Okulu'na gitmiş, İngilizce ve Fransızca öğrenmiştir. Yakından takip ettiği Halit Ziya'nın …
Yazar. Bursa'da doğdu. Tam adı Havva Pınar Kür. Yazar İsmet Kür'ün kızıdır. İlk ve orta okulu Ankara'da , liseyi New York'ta okudu. Üniversiteye New York'ta başladı ve İstanbul'da Robert Kolej'in yüks…
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 - 24 January 1962) was one of the most important modern novelists and essayists of Turkish literature. He was also a member of the Turkish parliament (the Grand Nati…
محمد عبد الوهاب مطاوع، كاتب صحفي مصري، تخرج في قسم الصحافة بكلية الآداب جامعة القاهرة عام 1961، ثم التحق محررا صحفيا بقسم التحقيقات بالأهرام في السنة نفسها ثم سكرتيرا لتحرير الأهرام من عام 1982 حت…
Alexandre Dumas (fils) (son) was born in Paris, France, the illegitimate child of Marie-Laure-Catherine Labay (1794-1868), a dressmaker, and novelist Alexandre Dumas. During 1831 his father legally re…
Youssef Ziedan (Arabic: يوسف زيدان) (born June 30, 1958) is an Egyptian writer and scholar who specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies. He is a public lecturer, columnist, and prolific author of mor…
Sophie, Countess of Ségur (née Countess Софья Фёдоровна Ростопчина; Saint Petersburg, 1 August 1799 - Paris, 9 February 1874) was a French writer of Russian birth.
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
كاتبة وروائية مصرية، عمِلت كمضيفة طيران لسنوات طويلة، كتبت فى جريدة "الدستور" ومجلة "عين"، وتكتب بشكل دائم فى عدة مواقع إلكترونية، درست الإخراج السينمائي بقصر السينما بالقاهرة، وشاركت فى العديد من الأ…
Sheikh Mohammed Al-Ghazali al-Saqqa (Arabic: محمد الغزالي) was an Islamic scholar whose writings "have influenced generations of Egyptians". The author of 94 books, he attracted a broad following with…
دكتور أسامة عبد الرؤف الشاذلي – طبيب وكاتب وروائي مصري من مواليد عام ١٩٧٤. حصل على درجة الدكتوراة في جراحة العظام من جامعة عين شمس عام ٢٠٠٧. كما حصل على زمالة علاج الكسور من ألمانيا عام ٢٠٠٥. يعمل حال…
Saou Ichikawa graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel, Hunchback, won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, and she is the first author with a physi…
