Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Ci…
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…
James Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and a pivotal figure in 20th-century modernist literature, renowned for his highly experimental approach to language and narrative structure, particularly his …
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considere…
Julio Llamazares was born in Vegamián, a small village in the region of León. At the age of twelve he left the mountain area, attended a boarding school in Madrid and then studied law. Today Llamazare…
Antonio Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He currently resides in New York City, United States. In 2004-2005 he served as the directo…
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov was awarded the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the artistic power and integrity with which, in his epic of the Don, he has given expression to a historic phase in…
Hoda Barakat هدى بركات is an acclaimed Lebanese novelist who lived much of her life in Beirut and later moved to Paris, where she now resides. Her works, written in Arabic, have been translated into m…
Vercors was the pen name of Jean Marcel Bruller, taken from a French province where Bruller fought during the early stages of the Second World War. During the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s, V…
Juan Villoro is Mexico's preeminent novelist. Born in Mexico City in 1956, he is the author of half a dozen prize-winning novels and is also a journalist. In 2004, he received the Herralde Prize for h…
إحسان عبد القدوس (1 يناير 1919 - 12 يناير 1990)، هو كاتب وروائي مصري. يعتبر من أوائل الروائيين العرب الذين تناولوا في قصصهم الحب البعيد عن العذرية وتحولت أغلب قصصه إلى أفلام سينمائية. ويمثل أدب إحسان …
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…
إميل حبيبي هو أديب وصحافي وسياسي فلسطيني من الفلسطينين الذين بقوا في أرضهم بعد النكبة 1948. ولد في حيفا في 29 آب (أغسطس) 1921 حيث ترعرع وعاش حتى عام 1956 حين انتقل للسكن في الناصرة حيث مكث…
رضا ابونصر' (1945 - 2001 م) قاص وروائي يعد من أشهر القاصين المغاربة على الصعيد العربي. ولد سنة 1945 م بسوق الأربعاء الغرب. امتهن التدريس بالتعليم الثانوي بالدار البيضاء. توفي يوم الجمعة 13 يوليو سنة 2…
Ibrahim al-Koni (Arabic: إبراهيم الكوني) is a Libyan writer and one of the most prolific Arabic novelists. Born in 1948 in Fezzan Region, Ibrahim al-Koni was brought up on the tradition of the Tuareg,…
Russian writer Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков) supported the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and helped to develop socialist realism as the officially accepted literary a…
ولد في البصرة (العراق) عام 1940. مقيم في الكويت- فهو منها أصلاً. تلقى تعليمه في الكويت وفي العراق، وعمل في حقل التدريس مدة (11) سنة (بين العراق والكويت) وتعاون مع الإذاعة (إعداد وإخراج) مدة ثلاث سنوات و…
Sonallah Ibrahim (Arabic: صنع الله إبراهيم) was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Ibrahim was one of the "sixties Generation" who was known for his leftist and nationalist views which are e…
Anna Grigoryevna Dostoyevskaya (Russian: Анна Григорьевна Достоевская; 12 September 1846, Saint Petersburg – 9 June 1918, Yalta) was a Russian memoirist, stenographer, assistant, and the second wife o…
Abdelfattah Kilito is a well known Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1945. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for …
فنان لبناني اشتهر بموسيقاه الحديثة وتمثلياته السياسية الناقدة التي تضخم الواقع اللبناني الحزين بفكاهة عالية الدقة. تميز أسلوب زياد الرحباني بالسخرية والعمق في معالجة الموضوع، كما أنه يعتبر طليعيا وشيو…
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…
ولد عبد الرحمن منيف في عام 1933 في عمان، لأب من نجد وأم عراقية. قضى المراحل الاولى مع العائلة المتنقلة بين دمشق وعمان وبعض المدن السعودية. أنهى دراسته الثانوية في العاصمة الاردنية مع بدء نشاطه السياسي و…
Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Arabic: توفيق الحكيم Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm) was a prominent Egyptian writer. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. He was the…
أحمد الشطري - كاتب عراقي من مواليد 1961 ذي قار – الشطرة. حاصل على ماجستير لغة عربية ودبلوم إدارة مخازن. وهو عضو الاتحاد العام للأدباء والكتاب في العراق. نشر أحمد الشطري العديد من القصائد والمقالات وال…
