Taken from Lowry's website: "I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to …
Sherman Alexie is a Native American author, poet, and filmmaker known for his powerful portrayals of contemporary Indigenous life, often infused with wit, humor, and emotional depth. Drawing heavily o…
Collections of short stories of noted Canadian writer Alice Munro of life in rural Ontario include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Moons of Jupiter (1982); for these and vivid novels, she…
Noted American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker Woody Allen, originally Allen Stewart Konigsberg explored the neuroses of the urban middle class in comedies of manners, such as Annie Hall (1977)…
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish American author of Jewish descent, noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in L…
Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people throug…
Simin Dāneshvar was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator, largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Daneshvar had a number of firsts to her credit.
Nina Nikolayevna Berberova was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of Russian exiles in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia and died in Philadelphia.
ساعدی در ۱۳ دی ۱۳۱۴ در تبریز متولد شد. دکتر علی اکبر ساعدی جراح برادر دکتر غلامحسین ساعدی نویسنده و شاعر شهیر و برجسته در باره برادرش و مدرسه طالقانی (منصور سابق) تبریز میگوید
Zoya Pirzad is a renowned Iranian-Armenian writer and novelist. She is the author of the international bestseller Things We Left Unsaid, and her most recent collection of stories, The Bitter Taste of …
پیمان اسماعیلی (۱۳۵۶ در تهران)، نویسندهٔ کرد اهل ایران است. او برای مجموعه داستان «برف و سمفونی ابری» جایزهٔ روزی روزگاری، مهرگان، گلشیری و منتقدان و نویسندگان مطبوعات را دریافت کرد. مجموعه داستان «هم…
امیرمهدی حقیقت (متولد ۱۳۵۳) یک مترجم ایرانی است که از سال ۱۳۸۰ با ترجمهٔ مترجم دردها نوشته جومپا لاهیری وارد عرصهٔ حرفه ای ترجمه ادبی شد. تمرکز اصلی وی ادبیات امریکای شمالی، بخصوص داستان کوتاه، بوده ا…
مریم حسینیان همسر مهدی یزدانی خرم در سال ۱۳۵۴ در مشهد متولد شد. او تحصیلاتش را در دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد در رشته مهندسی خاکشناسی به پایان رساند و کارشناسی زبان و ادبیات فارسی را از دانشگاه پیام نور مشهد…
Hirai Tarō (平井 太郎), better known by the pseudonym Rampo Edogawa ( 江戸川 乱歩), sometimes romanized as "Ranpo Edogawa", was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japane…
