Andrej Sládkovič (vlastným menom Andrej Braxatoris, pseudonymy Andrej Braxatoris-Sládkovič, Andrej Sládkovič, Ondřej Krasyslav Sládkovič) bol slovenský evanjelický kňaz, básnik, kritik literárnych a d…
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (195…
The Brazilian author PAULO COELHO was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Before dedicating his life completely to literature, he worked as theatre director and actor, lyricist and journalist.…
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. He went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but …
Works of Russian writer Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin include the verse novel Eugene Onegin (1831), the play Boris Godunov (1831), and many narrative and lyrical poems and short stories.
Varied works of French writer Romain Rolland include Jean Christophe (1904-1912), a series of satirical novels; he won the Nobel Prize of 1915 for literature.
Winston Francis Groom Jr. was an American novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for his book Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a film in 1994. Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up …
Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked…
Narodila sa v rodine evanjelického farára Pavla Slančíka, ktorý bol spoluzakladateľom Matice slovenskej. Mala desať súrodencov (jej brat Bohuslav, evanjelický farár, b…
Pochádzal z tesárskej rodiny, a tak počiatočné klasické i hudobné vzdelanie dostal od rodičov. V klasickom vzdelávaní pokračoval v Prešove, Kecskeméte, teológiu študova…
