John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t…
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић; born Ivan Andrić) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in …
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…
Franz Kafka was a German-speaking writer from Prague whose work became one of the foundations of modern literature, even though he published only a small part of his writing during his lifetime. Born …
Erich Kästner (1899–1974) was a German author, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known for his humorous, socially astute poetry and children's literature. A stout pacifist and democrat, he was expelled …
Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga. Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young…
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов), a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pu…
George Raymond Richard "R.R." Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two si…
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel …
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won t…
Novels of Samuel Barclay Beckett, Irish writer, include Murphy in 1938 and Malone Dies in 1951; a wider audience know his absurdist plays, such as Waiting for Godot in 1952 and Krapp's …
Петре Мито Андреевски (Слоештица, Демирхисарско, 25 јуни 1934 - Скопје, 25 септември 2006) бил македонски поет, романсиер, раскажувач и драмски автор. Се вбројува меѓу најдаровитите, а воедно и најпоп…
Оливера Николова е родена на 11 март 1936 година во Скопје. Дипломирала на Филозофски факултет при Универзитетот "Св. Кирил и Методиј" во Скопје. Целиот работен век го поминала во Македонската радио-т…
Стале Попов (25 мај 1902 - 10 март 1965) бил македонски раскажувач и романсиер. Роден е во селото Мелница, Мариово. Произлегува од селска средина. Неговите стари, по традиција, биле земјоделци, но меѓ…
Živko Čingo (1935 – 1987) was a Macedonian writer, born in Velgosti, near Ohrid, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He studied literature at the University of Sts Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and later worked as…
Уште како дете со неговите родители, за време на Првата балканска војна, се преселил во Горна Џумаја (Благоевград). Таму завршил основно образование и гимназија. Студирал на Правниот факултет во Софиј…
Tsugumi Ōba (Profile in Japanese: 大場 つぐみ), born in Tokyo, Japan, is a writer best known for the manga Death Note. His/her real identity is a closely guarded secret. As stated by the profile placed at …
Ташко Георгиевски (15 март 1935 - 13 април 2012) бил македонски раскажувач, романсиер и филмски сценарист, по потекло од Егејска Македонија. Бил член на МАНУ од 1983 година. Георгиевски е роден на 15 м…
Васил Иљоски (Крушево, Македонија, 20 декември 1902 - Скопје, Македонија, 1 ноември 1995) бил македонски драмски писател, есеист, критичар, книжевен историчар, истакнат педагошки работник и автор на д…
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – June 13, 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was an expert Japanese swordsman and rōnin. Musashi, as he w…
