Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, rea…
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890…
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.
The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won…
For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain…
Pavel Vilikovský sa narodil 27. júna v Palúdzke (dnes súčasť Liptovského Mikuláša), vyrastal v Bratislave. Matka Júlia, rod. Bárdošová (1909 – 1984), bola učiteľkou angličtiny a slovenčiny, otec Jan V…
Jana Bodnárová sa narodila v Jakubovanoch. V rokoch 1965 – 1968 študovala na Strednej všeobecnovzdelávacej škole v Liptovskom Mikuláši, v rokoch 1968 – 1976 dejiny umenia (začas aj knihovedu a latinči…
Petra Soukupová je česká spisovatelka a scenáristka, laureátka literárních cen Magnesia Litera 2010 v kategorii Kniha roku za prózu Zmizet a Ceny Jiřího Ortena 2008 pro mladé literáty za knihu K moři.…
Ocean Vuong is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Night Sky with Exit Wounds and Time is a Mother, as well as the New York Times bestselling novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeou…
Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, sin…
Mária Modrovich pochádza z Bratislavy, kde absolvovala Filozofickú fakultu Univerzity Komenského v kombinácii marketingová komunikácia - neslovanská filológia. V ostatných rokoch žije najmä v New York…
Veronika Šikulová je prozaička, autorka kníh pre deti a mládež.Pôsobila ako novinárka a popritom sa venovala písaniu próz. Prvé prózy publikovala v literárnej prílohe denníka Smena, v literárnych časo…
Uršuľa Kovalyk is a fiction writer and playwright. She is the co-founder and director of Theatre Without a Home, which works with the homeless and the disabled. She is a leading voice in the contempor…
Ivana Gibová vyštudovala odbor slovenský jazyk a literatúra na FF PU. Debutovala zbierkou poviedok Usadenina (2013), ktorá ako rukopis vyhrala v súťaži Debut 2011 a po vydaní zvíťazila v ankete Debut …
Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. Fr…
Nicol Hochholczerová študuje na katedre grafiky Akadémie umení v Banskej Bystrici. Ocenenia za prozaickú tvorbu získala v literárnych súťažiach Poviedka, Medziriadky, Literárny Kežmarok, Kukučínova Re…
