Peter Bieri is a Swiss writer and philosopher, who is better known by his pseudonym, Pascal Mercier. Bieri studied philosophy, English studies and Indian studies in both London and Heidelberg.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess …
Kent Haruf was born in eastern Colorado. He received his Bachelors of Arts in literature from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1965 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the U…
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 21 years as a risk taker (quantitative trader) before becoming a flaneur and researcher in philosophical, mathematical and (mostly) practical problems with probability.
George Kateb is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University. A staunch individualist, he has written scholarly works on Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Stuart Mill, and …
Osamu DAZAI (native name: 太宰治, real name Shūji Tsushima) was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such as …
English Charlotte Link (born 5 October 1963 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German writer. She is among the most successful contemporary authors writing in German. Charlotte Link is the daughter of a well-kn…
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…
Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ F…
Pascal Mercier is the pseudonym of Peter Bieri, a Swiss writer and philosopher. Bieri studied philosophy, English studies and Indian studies in both London and Heidelberg.
Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto u…
Benedict Wells was born in Munich in 1984. At the age of six he was sent to a state boarding school due to family and other problems at home. Following his graduation from high school in 2003, he deci…
Dr. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Ec…
Ferzan Özpetek (b. February 3, 1959, Turkey) is a Turkish screenwriter and film director who currently resides in Italy. Özpetek was born in Istanbul in 1958. He moved to Italy in 1977 to study at the…
Odin'in uyuyarak geçirdiği yılda (1986) İzmir'de doğdu. Kars'ın soğuğuyla başa çıkamadığı için Kafkas Üniversitesi Tarih bölümünü bıraktı. Odin uyanıktı. Akabinde, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanat…
Tam adı Ömer Zülfü Livaneli’dir. 1946 yılında Konya-Ilgın’da doğan Livaneli, yazarlık kimliğinin yanında saygın bir müzisyendir. Müziği ile birçok ulusal ve ulusl…
Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಷ್ತಾಕ್, born 1948) is an activist, lawyer and writer from the southern Indian state of Karnataka. She writes in the Kannada language and her works have also been published in Urdu…
