Norbertas Vėlius – lietuvių etnografas ir religijotyrininkas, dirbo VDU. Vienas žymiausių Lietuvos etnografijos rinkėjų, folkloristų ir baltų mitologų, pasaulyje pripažintas etninės kultūros tyrinėtoj…
Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. She was born as Eleanor Emily Hodgman in Littleton, New Hampshire on December 19, 1868, the daughter of Llewel…
Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (lovingly known to most as Ajahn Brahm) was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom in August 7, 1951. He came from a working-class background, and won a scholarship to …
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…
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Ox…
Sofi Oksanen was born in Finland to a Finnish father and an Estonian mother. In 2010 she won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for her third novel (originally a play), Puhdistus (Purge).
Николай Альбертович Кун (21 мая 1877, Москвa — 28 октября 1940, Черкизово, Пушкинский район, Московская область) — русский историк, писатель, педагог; автор популярной книги «Легенды и мифы Древней Гр…
