Marina Stepnova (Марина Степнова) now lives in Moscow but was raised in Kishinev. She graduated from The Gorky Literary Institute and did postgraduate studies at the Institute of World Literature. Ste…
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…
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of t…
Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park K…
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…
JOSÉ CARDOSO PIRES nasceu na em São João do Peso, concelho de Vila de Rei, distrito de Castelo Branco, a 2 de Outubro de 1925. Estudante na Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, trocou as matemáticas super…
Ali Shariati was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been cal…
يُعد رائداً لفن القصة القصيرة العربية؛ فهو أحد الرواد الأوائل لهذا الفن، وخرج من تحت عباءته كثير من الكُتاب والمبدعين في العصر الحديث، وكانت له بصمات واضحة في أدب وإبداع العديد من أدباء الأجيال التالي…
محمد صلاح الدين عبدالصبور. ولد في مدينة الزقازيق (مركز محافظة الشرقية - شرقي الدلتا المصرية) وتوفي في القاهرة. عاش حياته في القاهرة، وزار عدة عواصم عربية، ومدن غربية. تلقى تعليمه قبل الجامعي بمدارس الزقا…
Anna Starobinets (Russian: Анна Старобинец) is a young Russian journalist whose first book “An Awkward age” was nominated for the National Bestseller prestigious Russian prize as a manuscript – even b…
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…
Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.
Iraj Pezeshkzad (1928 in Tehran - 12 January 2022 in Los Angeles) was an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel "Dā'i Jān Napoleon" (دایی جان ناپلئون) (Uncle Napoleon, translated as "My…
Narine Yuryevna Abgaryan (Наринэ Абгарян) is a Russian writer of Armenian origin, a blogger. Graduated from Yerevan State Linguistic University V. Ya. Bryusova, sin…
Various is the correct author for any book with multiple unknown authors, and is acceptable for books with multiple known authors, especially if not all are known or the list is very long (over 50).
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
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…
كاتب ومترجم مغربي يدرس حاليا في معهد إعداد المعلمين بالرباط صدر له : عندما يطير الفلاسفة ( / مجموعة قصصية ٢٠٠٧ الرغبة والفلسفة مدخل لقراءة دولوز وغواتاري ٢٠١٠ ترجم للعربية : حصة الغريب / شعرية الترجمة…
هو كاتب فلسطيني عمل في مهنتي التعليم والإعلام. ومعظم كتبه قريبة من هذين المجالين، عمل في القسم العربي بهيئة الإذاعة البريطانية عشر سنوات، كان في الأربع الأخيرة منها مديراً للبرامج. ثم انتقل إلى العمل …
