Mohamed Choukri (Arabic: محمد شكري), born on July 15, 1935 and died on November 15, 2003, was a Moroccan author and novelist who is best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiography …
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He began his career as a classical philol…
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (Matanzas, Cuba, 1950) es reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los escritores más talentosos de la actual narrativa latinoamericana. Su Ciclo de Centro Habana ha sido publica…
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…
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…
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she w…
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller…
Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.
Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults. Her breakthrough work was the book No et moi (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des Libraires (Th…
Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer born in Salé in 1973. He grew up in a neighborhood called “Hay Salam” located between Salé and Rabat, where his father Mohammed works at the General Library of the c…
Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the So…
Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) was an Egyptian writer and scholar. Ashour had published 7 novels, an autobiographical work, 2 collections of short stories and 5 criticism books. Part I of her Gran…
فرج فوده كاتب و مفكر مصري ولد في ببلدة الزرقا بمحافظة دمياط في مصر، حاصل على ماجستير العلوم الزراعية و دكتوراه الفلسفة في الاقتصاد الزراعي من جامعة عين شمس، متزوج ورزق بلدين وإبنتين، توفي في 8 يونيو 1…
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…
ولد العام 1948 في قرية شبطين شمال لبنان وعمل في الصحافة العربية في بيروت ولندن وباريس قبل هجرته الى استراليا في أواخر عام 1988 وما زال يعمل في مجال الصحافة في استراليا كما أنه يكتب لعدد من الصحف في ال…
Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My…
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger); ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tuto…
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
محمد سمير ندا، مصريّ الجنسية، ولد في مدينة بغداد عام ١٩٧٨، وقضى سنوات الطفولة الأولى في بلاد الرافدين، لتتشكّل طفولته على إيقاعات الحرب العراقيّة الإيرانيّة. عادت أسرته لتستقرّ في مصر في القت…
Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize …
